Deadline: 30-Jun-21
The Tropical Health and Education Trust is inviting applications for its Health Partnership Capacity Development programme that will work with Health Partnerships across the UK who are working in partnership with health institutions and those delivering health related projects in UK Aid Direct eligible countries.
This two–year programme has been funded by the UK Aid Direct Small Charities Challenge Fund (SCCF).
The programme will strengthen the capacity and improve resilience of small international-focussed Health Partnerships in the UK to deliver their strategic objectives through a comprehensive capacity development programme which will include participatory workshops and online tools and resources.
Through this approach, the programme will aim to enable eligible organisations to better demonstrate their impact and successfully mobilise funds, thereby supporting increased sustainability and scale up of reach and impact. The project will benefit partners and beneficiaries.
Thematic Areas
Selected applicants will engage in several thematic areas. The thematic areas below will be covered through training tools and workstreams throughout the programme.
Each of the areas are described below. This will be facilitated through online materials, online participatory workshops, peer to peer support, and a mentorship scheme.
- Strategic planning
- Guide HPs through the strategic planning process.
- Principle of Partnership Strategic – HPs have a shared vision with their partners, have long-term aims and measurable plans for achieving them and work within a jointly agreed framework of priorities and direction.
- Principle of Partnership Harmonised and Aligned – HPs work is consistent with local and national plans and complements the activities of other development partners.
- Governance and financial competency
- Support HPs to strengthening their governance arrangements and their financial systems and controls.
- Principle of Partnership Organised and Accountable – HPs work is consistent with local and national plans and complements the activities of other development partners.
- Duty of care and safeguarding
- Support HPs to develop and utilise their own risk registers and address safeguarding and how it is relevant to their work.
- Principle of Partnership Responsible – HPs conduct their activities with integrity and cultivate trust in their interactions with stakeholders.
- Digital transformation
- Support HPs think through how to adapt their work in an age of climate crisis and in a time when the pandemic is forcing changes to the way they all work.
- Principle of Partnership Flexible, Resourceful and Innovative – HPs proactively adapt and respond to altered circumstances and embrace change.
- Project Design and Management
- Assist HPs to think through the project life cycle from partnership development, needs assessment and gap analysis to action planning, action, evaluation, and review.
- Principle of Partnership Effective and Sustainable – Health partnerships operate in a way that delivers high-quality projects that meet targets and achieves long term results.
- Monitoring, evaluation, & learning (MEL)
- Support HPs to develop their skills in the key components of monitoring, evaluation and learning and to consider how to nurture a culture of reflection and learning.
- Principle of Partnership Committed to Joint Learning – HPs monitor, evaluate and reflect on their activities and results, articulate lessons learned and share knowledge with others.
- Gender Equality and Social Inclusion
- Guide HPs on how to conduct GESI activities and analysis to ensure GESI is mainstreamed into their planning and activities.
- Principle of Partnership Incorporating GESI Approach – HPs consider unequal power relations and inequalities experienced by individuals as a result of their social identities and conduct GESI activities and analysis to ensure GESI is mainstreamed into organizations, programmes, interventions and activities.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must be:
- Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) registered in the UK that work through a health partnership approach with an LMIC, registered with the relevant UK Charity Commission or Companies House,
- Or be part of an NHS Trust that supports partnership activity,
- Or be part of an Higher Education Institute that supports partnership activity.
- The Partnership must have an annual income of under £400,000 (They are now able to include Health Partnerships that are hosted in large NHS Trusts where the partnership activity has an annual income under £400,000).
For more information, visit https://www.thet.org/resources/sccf-call-for-applic