Deadline: 13 August 2020
The European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) is seeking proposals for Strategic actions to maximise the impact of research on reducing disease burden, in collaboration with development cooperation initiatives.
The purpose of this call for proposals is to support distinct strategic actions which are part of a large-scale programme of development cooperation actions. Projects should focus on research to maximise the uptake of products and health interventions in sub-Saharan Africa. This may include actions to: enhance the uptake of research findings or products and interventions; provide evidence to translate findings into policy guidelines and clinical practice; improve implementation, delivery and roll-out of interventions to increase population coverage, acceptability and adherence; improve the monitoring of product safety post-marketing and surveillance; pragmatic clinical trials evaluating interventions under real-world clinical care settings. The projects should be implemented in conjunction with development cooperation initiatives that are supported by national and/or international development cooperation initiatives and/or other funders, including relevant WHO initiatives where appropriate.
Due to the extraordinary global crisis of COVID-19 that is also affecting African countries, this topic should also be considered by applicants.
Proposals should leverage major support from other funders and must present the large-scale programme of actions in its entirety and clearly describe: the actions in the large-scale programme for which EDCTP2 funding is requested; the actions to be supported by other funders; and how the financing from other funders is ensured. The large-scale programme of actions must be of a sufficient scale and ambition to justify EDCTP2 support in combination with financial (cash or in-kind) support from other funders. Ideally, at least half the cost of the large-scale programme of actions should be supported by funders other than the EDCTP Association, such as national and/or international development cooperation initiatives and/or other funders (such as EDCTP2 Participating States, relevant WHO initiatives or other third parties), in order to ensure complementarity and increase the impact of the results of EDCTP2-funded activities. The action should start no later than 1 October 2021 and must be completed before the end of 2024.
Funding Information
- The call budget is €23.4 million.
- The Funding level is 100% of eligible costs.
Expected Impact
Projects funded under this call for proposals should:
- Enhance the sustainable implementation, coverage, availability, accessibility, acceptability and effectiveness of products and interventions in endemic areas in sub-Saharan Africa
- Contribute to change in policy and clinical practice at the national, regional and/or international level
- Increase collaboration with development partners, including increasing leverage of funding from development cooperation initiatives
- Contribute to the achievement of SDG3 ‘Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages’
- Contribute towards the reduction of the burden of PRDs in sub-Saharan Africa.
Proposals that leverage major support from other funders, in particular financial contributions from national and/or international development cooperation initiatives will be considered to have a higher impact.
Eligibility Criteria
A proposal/application will only be considered eligible if:
- its content corresponds, wholly or in part, to the topic/contest description for which it is submitted
- it complies with the eligibility conditions for participation set out below, depending on the type of action:
- At least three legal entities. Two of the legal entities shall be established in two different Participating States (European Partner States) and one of the legal entities must be established in a sub-Saharan African country. All three legal entities must be independent of each other.
- ‘Sole participants’ formed by several legal entities (e.g. European Research Infrastructure Consortia, European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation, central purchasing bodies) are eligible if the above-mentioned minimum conditions are satisfied by the legal entities forming together the sole participant.
Eligible Countries
European Partner States: Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Sub-Saharan African countries: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Democratic People’s Republic), Congo (Republic), Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
For more information, visit https://www.edctp.org/call/strategic-actions-to-maximise-the-impact-of-research-on-reducing-disease-burden-in-collaboration-with-development-cooperation-initiatives/