IHLFS Support for Health Links between developing countries and the UK
The UK International Health Links Funding Scheme (IHLFS) has announced the availability of new funding under its Round 3 of funding project grants.
IHKFS will provide grants of up to £15,000 for a period of one year to support to support health links between developing countries and the UK. “A Health Link (also known as a Link) is a formalised partnership between a health institution in a developing country and a counterpart in the UK.”
The purpose of a Link is to strengthen health systems and improve health service delivery in both developing and developed countries by allowing for a reciprocal transfer of skills and knowledge between people working in the healthcare sector.” Activities such as training health staff and enhancing the capacity of health systems in developing countries can be supported under the scheme.
The scheme is supported by DFID and the Department of Health and it is jointly managed by THET and the British Council.
The deadline to submitting proposals for the Round 3 is 31 December 2010. For more information, visit this link.
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The Gates Award for Global Health 2011: Nominations invited from organizations working for improving health
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-established Gates Award for Global Health is seeking nominations “to reward and exemplify organizations which have developed processes for improving health, especially in resource poor settings with measurable results.”
Organizations such as NGOs, charities, nonprofits, private companies, government agencies, universities and multilateral organizations that have been in operation for a minimum of ten years can apply for the Award. Preference will be given to NGOs and nonprofits.
“Any organization from any country in the world that has had a systemic and lasting impact on global health may be nominated for the Gates Award; the organization may be a charitable institution, a private company or a public entity.
In submitting nominations for the Gates Award for Global Health, emphasis should be placed on an organization’s accomplishments to date. Applications should include a brief history of how the organization has made a sustained contribution in the field of global health. Nominators may wish to consider the following criteria in describing the Nominee’s work:
Extraordinary contributions toward progress in the knowledge and practice of health in low-income societies, with a substantial and sustainable impact on the principal issues that contribute to global health.
* An established record of achievement.
* Innovation in program design.
* Organizational capacity; i.e. evidence of financial and program stability.
* Collaboration with others.
Evidence that contributions have had significant influence or have been adopted across geographic and organizational boundaries.
Nominations will be considered by a Jury consisting of health professionals from developing countries as well as the Global Health Council’s Board of Directors. A winner will be selected by the Jury from the nominations submitted.
The deadline to submit nominations is 29 October 2010. For more information, visit this link.
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GDN’s Global Development Awards and Medals 2010
Global Development Network – an international organization of developing and transition country researchers, policy and research institutes promoting the generation, sharing and application of policy of multidisciplinary knowledge for the purpose of development – has now launched the 2010 Global Development Awards and Medals Competition with the generous support of the Government of Japan and other donors. This annual competition recognizes and supports original contributions to socio-economic development from young, promising researchers and development practitioners residing in developing countries and also those countries in transition.
NGOs, development practitioners and researchers from developing and transition countries can apply for the awards and medals. The Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (for research proposals) and the Medals for Research on Development (for research papers) have a specific topic to be covered during this year’s competition: “Development Finance.” “Reflecting the global nature of GDN’s activities, the 2010 themes seek to promote inquiry into improving government systems’ and markets’ capacity to channel finance into sustainable, holistic development. The three research themes are:
Theme 1: External Capital Flows and Financing for Development
Theme 2: Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Sector Development: Another Angle to Look at the MDGs in a post-crisis world?
Theme 3: Innovative Sources of Development Finance
To know more about the awards and medals, click on the links below:
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Tony Blair Faith Foundation accepting applications for the Faiths Act Fellowship 2011-12
The Tony Blair Faith Foundation is open to accepting applications for the Faiths Act Fellowship 2011-12. This fellowship opportunity is available for eligible candidates in the US, UK, Canada and India. However, for those persons whose countries are not eligible for the fellowship, they can still be part of the programme by signing up the Faiths Act Declaration.
The Faiths Act Fellowship is “a year-long, paid international Fellowship that brings together exceptional future leaders inspired by faith to serve as interfaith ambassadors for the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Faiths Act Fellows build partnerships across faith lines in their home countries to show the world how faith can be a positive global force in the 21st century. Faiths Act Fellows work in local NGOs to mobilize communities to take part in MDG-focused, multi-faith action. Fellows receive a stipend and health benefits throughout the Fellowship year.”
The deadline to submit applications for the fellowship is 31 December 2010. For more, visit this link.
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Gates Foundation: Latest Round of Grant Challenges Explorations now open for applications
The Round 6 of the Grand Challenges Explorations of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now open to accept applications, providing grants of up to $100,000.
The Grand Challenges Explorations is an opportunity for researchers around the world to submit proposals providing innovative solutions for improving global health. The program is a $100 million grant initiative from the Foundation to encourage bold and unconventional global health solutions.
The initiative focuses on areas where creative, unorthodox thinking is most urgently needed. For this round, applicants are asked to focus their proposals on these five topic areas:
* Design New Approaches to Cure HIV Infection;
* Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies;
* Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Global Health Conditions;
* Create New Technologies for the Health of Mothers and Newborns;
* The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Ways to Accelerate, Sustain and Monitor Eradication.
The topic focusing on sanitation technologies highlights the integrated approach the foundation is taking toward health in developing countries. Improved sanitation is essential to reducing water-borne illnesses and has profound economic, educational, and social benefits.
The selected proposals are awarded with an initial grant of $100,000. Projects which show success will be provided with an additional grant of $1 million. Applications submitted should not be more than two pages and the preliminary data about the proposed research is not required.
The deadline to submit the proposal is 2 November 2010. For more information, visit this link.
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Changemakers’ competition seeking groundbreaking models to strengthen property rights
Ashoka’s Changemakers has launched the Property Rights: Identity, Dignity & Opportunity for All competition to identify and support the leaders who are making an impact through property rights,
Omidyar Network and Ashoka’s Changemakers have jointly launched this competition to seek diverse approaches and groundbreaking models to strengthening property rights. “Secure rights to land can provide life-altering benefits to the poor, including economic opportunity, enhanced identity, and personal dignity. If you are a changemaker who is increasing access to property rights—for individuals or communities, in rural or urban areas, through non-profit or for-profit innovation—we want to hear from you.”
There are three winners to be selected under this competition and each will receive a cash prize of $50,000.
Individuals or organizations from around the world working to provide land to the landless, help to formalize, document or improve property rights or work on legal education to help understand and benefit from the laws that protect their assets in an innovative manner can get nominated or submit entries for the competition. The organizers are particularly interested to receive entries from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
The deadline to submit the entries is 3 November 2010. For more information, visit this link.
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Call for Nominations for the 2011 Ginetta Sagan Award for Women’s and Children’s Rights
amnesty international USA has launched the call for nominations for its 2011 Ginetta Sagan Award for Women’s and Children’s Rights. The award is “is to recognize and assist women who are working to protect the liberty and lives of women and children in areas where human rights violations are widespread. The 2011 award will be given to a woman who works on behalf of the human rights of women and children.” It not only provides recognition but also serves as a beacon of hope for other women working for the promotion and protection of human rights around the world.
The Ginetta Sagan Award recognizes outstanding achievement, often at great personal risk; enhances the recipient’s ability to live and work freely, and protects the recipient’s capacity to continue her work, by bringing a new level of international attention to her accomplishments and the obstacles she faces; and brings increased international scrutiny to the crisis, region or issue for which the recipient works.
The nominee should be the founder and/or executive director of an organization; she should be under threat due to her activism; she should have been proven to be effective at addressing human rights issues; should have brought about significant change in her country, region or issue through her work; and she should not be a political party leader or government official/employee.
The Award carries a cash amount of $10,000 which will be presented at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Amnesty International USA.
The deadline to submit nominations is 1 October 2011. Nomination guidelines and the nomination form can be downloaded from this link.
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The Sophie Prize 2011: A $100,000 annual international prize
Nominations are invited from individuals and organizations working in the field of sustainable development and environment for the Sophie Prize 2011.
The Sophie Prize is an annual international environmental prize of US $100,000 and is “awarded to an individual or an organization that, in a pioneering or a particularly creative way, has pointed to alternatives to the present development and put such alternatives into practice.
* What kind of change of consciousness is needed?
* What is sustainable wisdom?
* What qualities of life are the most important?
* What important alternative measures must be implemented now?
* What kind of mobilization of people is needed in the “global village”?
The recipient of The Sophie Prize will have found an answer to one or several of the challenging questions above, thereby contributing to setting them on the international agenda. Concerning fair distribution of resources and global environmental and development issues, we will distinguish between what is perceived as attainable in the short run and what is absolutely necessary in the long run. The Sophie Prize will honor efforts to promote changes in the world that are necessary in a long-term perspective.”
Self-nominations or staff nominating their own organizations will not be accepted. The deadline to submit nominations is 1 November 2010. For more information, visit this link.
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International Climate Protection Fellowships to undertake research-related project in Germany
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is offering the International Climate Protection Fellowships to enable prospective leaders to conduct research-related project of their own choice during a one-year stay in Germany. The fellowship programme is funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety through its International Climate Protection Initiative. Individuals involved in working on societal issues relating to climate change are encouraged to apply.
Applicants should be prospective leaders from a non-European threshold or a developing country working in the field of climate protection and resource conservation in academia, business or administration in their countries. They must have completed their first university degree (Bachelor’s or equivalent academic degree) less than 12 years prior to the start of the fellowship (1 September 2011) with outstanding results. they must also hold a further academic or professional qualification (Master’s, PhD, LL.M., MBA etc.) or have extensive professional experience in a leadership role (at least 48 months at the time of application). Furthermore, they are expected to have gained initial practical experience through involvement in projects related to climate protection and resource conservation. The fellowship will enable the recipients to conduct a research-related project of their own choice with hosts in Germany whom they are free to choose themselves.
Applicants who have been trained in the natural and engineering sciences, candidates who have been engaged in legal, economic and societal issues relating to climate change are encouraged to apply for this programme.
The programme includes a preparatory intensive language course in Germany, a several-week introductory seminar, a two-week training course and a final meeting in Berlin. These activities will enable you to gain additional insights into academic, social, cultural, economic and political life in Germany.
Applications should be submitted before the closing date: 15 December 2010. For more information, visit this link.
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Request for Proposals from USAID for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the Asia Region
A request for proposals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the Asia Region has been issued by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). US and non-US NGOs and/or consortia are invited to apply for this opportunity.
Under the US Government’s Global Climate Change Initiative, the Regional Development Mission for Asia (USAID/RDMA) has established the new Asia Regional Sustainable Landscapes Program to “strengthen capacities of developing countries in the Asia region to produce meaningful and sustainable reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the forestry-land use sector and to participate in and benefit from the emerging international Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)-plus framework.”
The closing date to submit applications is 14 October 2010. For more information, visit grants.gov and search for the funding opportunity number: USAID-RDMA-486-10-035-RFA.
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Third Annual Open Enterprise Solutions to Poverty Request for Proposals
The SEVEN Fund’s Request for Proposals under the Third Annual Solutions to Poverty” will award “two (2) research grants of no more than $100,000 each.”
“The aim of SEVEN Fund sponsored research is to challenge the prevailing state of mind in this field. We want to answer the question of whether wealth-creation may be the most effective solution to alleviate poverty. We invest our efforts and resources to find, research, and document examples where entrepreneurial success is shown to have led to poverty alleviation. In the process, we will seek to inspire entrepreneurs in developing countries with advice, investments, role models, and services.
At SEVEN, we believe that enterprise solutions to poverty already exist, but are not sufficiently studied, analyzed, and exhibited as examples. There are specific questions that have no formulated answers – it is our aim to sponsor research to explore and find these answers. For example:
1. What are the most significant qualities of a successful entrepreneur, especially in the uncertain environment of a developing economy?
2. Can entrepreneurship be taught, inspired, and diffused through a society?
3. Could support for the entrepreneurial spirit serve as role models of sustainable solutions to poverty?
4. What is the relationship between prosperity and progressive human values?
5. How can enterprises contribute to making stronger societies?
Questions like these lie at the heart of enterprise-based solutions to poverty, and at the foundation of our understanding of how to help an economy grow and, ultimately, help bring about a high and rising standard of living for the vast majority of citizens. Answers to these questions will have implications for governments, multilateral donors, corporations, financial institutions, investors, and citizens in general.”
“Evaluation Criteria & Project Eligibility
In this RFP competition, SEVEN will award grants of varying value (no single grant will exceed $100,000 and twelve months) to exceptional research proposals meeting the criteria. Researchers in academic and other institutions may apply for projects up to one year in duration, beginning March 15, 2011. Grant applications will be subject to a competitive process of confidential expert review similar to that employed by similar grant funding agencies.”
The last date to submit initial proposals is 15 October 2010. For more information, visit this link.
source from:fundsforngos.org
