Deadline: 16-May-22
Transparency International’s Global Health programme has opened a call for research partners in order to better understand transparency, integrity, corruption and accountability in the global financing or deployment of COVID-19 vaccines.
Research Project Objectives
The concept must explain how the project will carry out the following:
Each funded grant should result in at least one tangible output – e.g. research report and policy recommendations, an interactive dashboard, or evidence based tool that can be used to further transparency.
Focus on the either or both the deployment and financing of COVID-19 vaccines from the perspective of at least one of the below.
- Accountability,
- Integrity,
- Transparency
- Anti-corruption
Have regional or global relevance- concept notes should look consider either global/regional deployment or financing, or consider how, or more than one nation to come to globally significant recommendations.
Additional consideration will be given to those proposals that:
- Demonstrate consideration as to how proposed research will contribute towards advancing the policy agenda in order to help ensure the research is used. Provide information on if the partner could co-work with TIGH to promote the work and to achieve policy change.
- Provide evidence that can lead to improved anti-corruption and transparency policy during future pandemics / in pandemic preparedness.
- Relate to one of the four TI priority areas. This should however not discourage researchers from proposing their own novel idea.
Priority Areas
- Transparency and Anti-corruption measures in funding from International Financing Institutions (IFIs)
- Mapping of Freedom of Information Requests (FOIRs) for the publication of COVID-19 vaccine contracts.
- Assessment of integrity and transparency in the procurement of ancillary products to the vaccine roll out.
- Assessment of national buying
Funding Information
They invite proposals of between £3,500 and a maximum of £14,000.
Criteria
The successful applicant can be either an individual or an organisation with a proven track record of conducting detailed research and producing reports in relevant contexts. The core requirements are as follows:
- 7 years’ experience conducting research on international issues
- A researcher with a masters or PHD degree to take the lead
- 3 years’ experience conducting research on community groups, procurement, open data, corruption and /or governance in LMICs (this can be cumulative)
- Fluency in English
- Proven experience designing and implementing multi-country research methodologies
- The group providing concepts must be Not for Profit or from an academic institute.
For more information, visit https://ti-health.org/work-with-us/invitation-to-submit-concepts-for-research-grants-transparency-integrity-corruption-or-accountability-in-the-global-financing-or-deployment-of-covid-19-vaccines/