Deadline: 29 February 2016
USAID (United States Agency for International Development), in partnership with the Government of Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, DFID (UK Department for International Development) and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), has launched the sixth round of ‘Saving Lives of Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development.’
Under this program, a call is made for for groundbreaking prevention and treatment approaches for pregnant women and newborns in poor, hard-to-reach communities around the time of childbirth.
The program is interested in supporting approaches that integrate the latest behavior change approaches with scientific and/or technological advances and service delivery platforms into radical solutions for widespread impact on maternal and newborn health.
Through a rigorous review process, the program will identify and support transformational, scalable approaches that advance equity and quality of care to dramatically – and sustainably – reduce deaths and poor birth outcomes for millions of vulnerable women and newborns in the hardest to reach communities of the world. These audacious but achievable ideas with the potential for high-return will be swiftly funded through one of three streams:
(1) Seed Funds to develop and assess the feasibility of innovative ideas,
(2) Validation Funds to introduce and validate the effectiveness of innovations to reach proof-of-concept, and
(3) Transition Funds to transition innovations with demonstrated proof-of concept
toward scale up.
For more information, visit grants.gov.
