Deadline: 26 October 2018
The 5% Initiative has launched a Call for Proposals with the objective of selecting operational research projects that aim to strengthen the fight against tuberculosis in the context of Global Fund grants in the following fields:
- Improvement in tuberculosis screening and treatment (all forms) in the general population and risk groups, including the optimal use of new tools for the diagnosis and setting up of a course of treatment;
- Optimisation of the setting up and use of short-term multi-drug resistant tuberculosis regimens;
- Definition of the best strategies for screening latent tuberculosis infection in the families of TB patients and risk groups (children, people living with HIV) by linking them to a complete and effective course of prophylaxis;
- In the general context of health services, the development of innovative strategies aiming at improving the integration of early screening, tuberculosis treatment and prevention in HIV/AIDS programmes and maternal, child and adolescent health programmes
Funding Information
The total amount of the grant financed by the 5% Initiative will cover between 50% and 100% of the total project budget and may not exceed EUR 1,000,000.
Duration
The duration of projects shall not exceed 36 months.
Eligible Projects
- Improvement in tuberculosis screening and treatment (all forms) in the general population and risk groups, including the optimal use of new tools for the diagnosis and setting up of a course of treatment.
- Optimisation of the setting up and use of short-term multi-drug resistant tuberculosis regimens.
- Definition of the best strategies for screening latent tuberculosis infection in the families of TB patients and risk groups (children, people living with HIV) by linking them to a complete and effective course of prophylaxis.
- In the general context of health services, the development of innovative strategies aiming at improving the integration of early screening, tuberculosis treatment and prevention in HIV/AIDS programmes and maternal, child and adolescent health programmes.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for a grant, the bidder must:
- Be a legal person whose headquarters is in an eligible country or in France (i.e. have statutes registered in an eligible country or in France) and
- Implement the project in partnership (several structures involved) and
- Include at least one partner from each beneficiary country and
- Not have statutory provisions that would not authorise Expertise France or any external auditor appointed by Expertise France to conduct on-the-spot controls and verifications and have an appropriate right of access to the sites and premises where the project will be conducted, including their computer systems, as well as to all the computerised documents and data concerning the technical and financial management of the project.
Eligible Countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Benin, Bulgaria, Burma, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Costa-Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kosovo, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Moldavia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Palestinian Territories, Republic of the Congo, Republic of Mauritius, Romania, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saint Lucia, Senegal, Serbia, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Ukraine, Vanuatu, Vietnam.
How to Apply
The complete proposals shall be uploaded to the Cloud of Expertise France.
For more information, please visit Call for Proposals.