Deadline: 20 May 2014
The Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa program invites Letter of Intent from Research Teams for the implementation of the program.
The Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa program aims to improve maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes by strengthening equitable health systems, using primary health care as an entry point. The program is funded by Canada’s Global Health Research Initiative.
The selected Implementation Research teams will generate evidence on interventions and their effective implementation as well as scale-up to improve health and health equity outcomes. These interventions can include policies, programs, and services that involve multiple strategies and require implementation both within and outside the health sector. The selected teams will be associated with a Health Policy and Research Organization whose role will be to link research findings to policymaking in the sub-Saharan region. Project implementation duration is 54 months. Approximately 20 grants of a maximum of CA$1.0 million each will be awarded under this call.
Program Priorities –
- High-impact community based interventions
- Quality facility based interventions
- Policy environment to improve care services and outcomes
- Human resources
Eligibility Criteria –
- The proposed research project must take place in at least one of the targeted African countries – Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Sudan, and Tanzania.
- Teams must include –
- An African researcher as a principal applicant (with citizenship or permanent residency from an African country), based in an institution located in one of the targeted countries.
- A Canadian researcher as a co-principal applicant based in a Canadian institution, and
- 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.
- The research project must include the country in which the principal applicant’s institution is located and must focus on at least two of the four priorities.
- The affiliated institution of the principal applicant must be African, have independent legal status, and capacity to administer funds.
- United Nations agencies and international organizations based in Africa or overseas are not eligible.
Selected Letters of Intent will be invited to submit full proposals.
For more information, please visit Call for Letters of Intent Page.
