Deadline: 20 May 2014
Innovating for Maternal and Child Health (IMCH) in Africa Program is inviting letters of intent from eligible parties for the selection of Implementation Research Teams. Program intending to improve maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes by strengthening equitable health systems, using primary health care as an entry point, Implementation Research Teams will generate evidence on interventions and their effective implementation as well as scale-up to improve health and health equity outcomes. The interventions can be policies, programs and services that involve multiple strategies and require implementation both within and outside the health sector.
Program Priorities for Proposed Research –
- High-impact Community Based Interventions
- Quality Facility Based Interventions
- Policy Environment to Improve Care services and Outcomes
- Human Resources
- Selected letters will be invited to submit full proposals.
Eligibility Criteria –
- Applicant team must include –
- Principal applicant must be an African researcher (citizen or permanent resident of an African country) with a position in an institution based in a targeted country.
- Co-principal applicant must be a Canadian researcher based in a Canadian institution.
- A relevant local, district, or national level decision maker as a co-principal applicant, from the same country as the principal applicant’s institution.
- Other co-applicant(s) may be based in countries other than the targeted ones.
- Targeted Countries are – Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, and South Sudan.
For more information, please visit Call for Letters of Intent.
