The Round 6 of the Grand Challenges Explorations of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now open to accept applications, providing grants of up to $100,000.
The Grand Challenges Explorations is an opportunity for researchers around the world to submit proposals providing innovative solutions for improving global health. The program is a $100 million grant initiative from the Foundation to encourage bold and unconventional global health solutions.
The initiative focuses on areas where creative, unorthodox thinking is most urgently needed. For this round, applicants are asked to focus their proposals on these five topic areas:
- Design New Approaches to Cure HIV Infection;
- Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies;
- Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Global Health Conditions;
- Create New Technologies for the Health of Mothers and Newborns;
- The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Ways to Accelerate, Sustain and Monitor Eradication.
The topic focusing on sanitation technologies highlights the integrated approach the foundation is taking toward health in developing countries. Improved sanitation is essential to reducing water-borne illnesses and has profound economic, educational, and social benefits.
The selected proposals are awarded with an initial grant of $100,000. Projects which show success will be provided with an additional grant of $1 million. Applications submitted should not be more than two pages and the preliminary data about the proposed research is not required.
The deadline to submit the proposal is 2 November 2010. For more information, visit this link.
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Iam a health worker teaching in a health training institution at Centre for Education in Health Arusha(CEDHA)in northen prt of Tanzania. We are facing challenges on reducing martenal mortality rates.Due to the facts that the area has a population of migrants Maasai people holding cultural issues strongly
We therefore need to initiate community reproductive health committees and work together to reduce its impact including HIV&AIDS and other STIs although other interventions are inplace still the need for this program is highly demanded
Best regards
Evelyn Ndowo koka
we wnat to help from your side , we are working towards education of poor children who can not appear into school from own cost or his gurdian cost.
Hi Sir!
I’m interested to know as to when will the call for proposal in the area of Microfinance funding be. Our organization works on microfinance and microenterprise promotion.
persons with intellectual disabilities have been left out,struggling to design reasonable accommodation for them to enjoy their right,do we benefit?
Sir,
I take this great opportunity to introduce HD Foundation, Manipur an NGO working with primary focus for the upliftment of the disabled persons as a whole in the state of Manipur.
We have been rendering our relentless service for the cause of uplifting the disabled persons in the state of Manipur where even the laws enacted for the disabled persons are at the rudimentary state of implementations. Inspire of various hurdles and hardship like non availability of financial resources, lack of awareness of the general public, etc. our such endeavor is still pursuing.
Our achievement in the last 10yrs. Have revealed that we need to intensify such activities as we have been able to create a substantial awareness in the community in eliminating stigmas and discrimination of the disabled persons.
Now, there is substantial development of disabled persons in the state of Manipur as they have started coming out of their cocoon and entered main stream life. So, the requirement of our service is increasing day after day. And for the survival of our organization we need support form parental organization like your esteemed organization.
Some of the activities which we are carrying on in our organization are imparting computer educations, legal awareness, handicrafts, community awareness, careers counseling, psychological counseling etc. I shall be very happy to submit a detail of our activities on a future date if you esteemed organization so please.
Inspite of our fervent effort we have not been able to get any financial assistance from any quarter. And as a result of which it has become difficult for our endeavor to carry on.
Therefore, I on behalf of our organization humbly seek you kind attention so that we get necessary support from your respected organization and any advices/suggestion for the betterment and existence of our organization.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Yours
S.JASOWANTA SINGH(VI)
HADICAPPED DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION,MANIPUR