You may compare the situations in your society to those funding projects, and if you could find out similar situations and the project has not been granted in your society, you could apply similar project ideas and designs to your areas and start working on your proposal. The following topics are special interests or targets announced by the USAID, and you should pick one topic out of these choices as the target of your application to make sure that your idea and design meet the requirements of the USAID. More details of these topics will be given in the later descriptions of this guide.
- Approaches to prevent stillbirth and preterm birth, such as reducing prolonged or obstructed labor, pre-eclampsia and infections;
- Mass communication and other approaches targeting individual and collective behaviors and social norms (particularly gender inequity) to increase access, uptake and retention in antenatal care, facility based delivery labor and delivery and postnatal care, including healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies through family planning and postpartum family planning;
- Simple, low-cost technologies adapted or designed for use in hard-toreach, low-resource settings (e.g., simpler or portable technologies for newborn resuscitation, identification and care of preterm and low birth weight newborns, infection management, prevention and treatment of preeclampsia/eclampsia, etc);
- Mechanisms to improve referral and transportation of mothers with complications and sick newborns;
- Ways that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be used to improve health, healthcare delivery, and accountability for maternal and newborn health in low-resource areas in new, measurable, and integrated ways (e.g. use of laptops, cell phones, smart phones, broadband internet, USB connected devices);
- Interventions that reduce barriers to accessing or receiving appropriate treatment and evidence-based care;
- Solutions that recognize the critical roles of the end-user in the development process.
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