The R2HC Second Call has a budget of up to £4m. Grant request can be made in wider scales of grant sizes including large grants with potential to generate significant impact. Applicants whose Expression of Interest is selected to submit Full Application can receive up to £10,000 seed funding each, to develop strong research partnerships and undertake preliminary data collection. The applicants will be mentioning whether they need seed funding or not at the stage of Expression of Interest. Those who need the seed fund will be submitting an outline seed funding budget and outline proposal.
Grant request can be made to support personal costs, travel costs, reasonable equipment costs, and other items so as to cover full research costs in relevant setting. Costs for interventions will not be paid except in limited cases where a small trial pilot is needed.
Eligibility Criteria
- Application can be submitted by consortia of variety of organizations (research institutions, operational organizations, governmental organizations, individual experts, and local implementing partners). The research consortia must include both a research institution and an operational humanitarian organization.
- The lead applicant may be a research institute, a non-profit institution or NGO, a UN agency, or a public or government institution (including a military organization of the state). It must be legally registered in the country in which it is based.
- The Expression of Interest must be accompanied with evidence of legal registration.
- Applicants from lower and middle income countries are particularly encouraged to submit Expressions of Interest, forming partnerships with others as necessary. They can contact the R2HC program if they need additional partners with specific skills or expertise.
- Applicants from higher income countries are strongly encouraged to seek partners to join their consortium from lower and middle income countries where possible and as relevant to their research proposals, and strongly encouraged to involve in-country research institution.
- Proposals should be concerned with health outcomes in the acute, post-emergency, or early recovery phases of a humanitarian crisis.
- Research proposals may focus on any of the various humanitarian crisis settings, whether urban or rural, camp or general population, natural disaster, conflict or other crisis.
- Proposed research methodologies should be of a standard such that final papers would be publishable in peer‐reviewed academic journals. Primary and/or secondary data collection approaches will be considered.
