Deadline: 11 June 2014
Proposals are invited for the selection of Health Policy and Research Organizations of Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa program. Major aim of the program is to improve maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes by strengthening equitable health systems, using primary health care as an entry point.
The Health Policy and Research Organizations’ goal will be to function as catalysts and enablers for moving research evidence generated by the selected teams to policy and practice within the sub-Saharan region, therefore enabling connections between research and decision-making.
The project will be of 68 months with Sub-Saharan Africa as the main focus region. Targeted countries are – Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Sudan, and Tanzania.
Eligibility Criteria –
- Applicant organizations must be non-partisan, not-for-profit organization legally founded and registered as an independent entity in the country of operation.
- Lead applicant must be an African Organization.
- Applicant organization must support a health policy development and implementation mandate through knowledge brokering, analysis, and research.
- Applicant organization must work in at least one of the targeted countries and demonstrate willingness and capacity to expand their work in all the other targeted countries in the selected HPRO region (East or West).
For more information, please visit Call for Proposals.
