Open Call for Gender Equity Project Applications: New Round of Funding is now Open!

Deadline: 7-Jul-24

The Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative Global Grants Program (GGP) is launching a new round of funding for projects that specifically focus on gender inequities in public health.

This funding call supports projects that will improve the use and dissemination of sex and gender data for decision making and policy change. Applications should focus on integrating gender equity in one of the following core areas: civil registration and vital statistics, data use for decision-making, and cancer registration.

The Global Grants Program (GGP) supports focused, results-oriented projects that improve public health data in the priority areas of the Data for Health Initiative so that governments are equipped with the tools and systems to collect and use data effectively.

Priorities 

• Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS)
  • Enhancing CRVS Governance and Coordination
  • Improving Notification and Registration of Vital Events
  • Improving Medical Certification of Cause‐of‐Death
  • Instituting or improving ICD coding
  • Implementing Verbal Autopsy
  • Improving Vital Statistics analysis, publication, dissemination
  • CRVS Legal and Regulatory Review and Reform
• Data Impact 
  • Indicator development
  • Data dashboards
  • Decision process design/reform – prioritization, budgeting, planning
  • Capacity development – data analytics for public health practice
  • Data report development or enhancement
  • National health bulletin development or enhancement
  • Online data access
  • Scientific communications development
• Equity
  • Equity continues to be a priority thematic area of the Global Grants Program. Within this framework, applicants can propose projects that:
    • use data to describe, document, monitor and propose solutions to inequities in health and determinants of health;
    • focus on equity in data systems themselves; for example, reducing disparities among populations reached by civil registration systems. The equity lens for proposals could focus on geography, gender, ethnicity, disability or other population characteristics.
• COVID-19
  • CRVS
    • Rapid Mortality Surveillance
    • Certification and Coding of COVID-19 & Iris Recommendations for COVID-19
    • Verbal Autopsy in the Context of COVID-19
    • Measuring Excess Mortality due to COVID-19
    • Maintaining Civil Registration during COVID-19
    • Assessing mortality data quality using ANACONDA during COVID-19
  • Data Impact
    • COVID-19 Data Analysis for Public Health Action

Funding Information

• The GGP will support grant periods of up to 15 months with a maximum award amount of $100,000; shorter-term grants with lower award amounts are also encouraged. Applicants should plan to start their projects on or about October 1st.

Elements of an Effective Proposal

• A good project must identify:
  • Discrete and measurable deliverables aligned to the objectives of the Data for Health Initiative.
  • Risks that may interfere with completing project deliverables.
  • Sustainability mechanisms to integrate and/or continue the work past the designated funding period.
  • A thoughtful budget with limited personnel costs and a justification for all costs.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Global Grants Program (GGP) is targeted to ministries of health, statistical and other relevant agencies at the national, subnational or municipal levels in low-and middle-income countries that have not received funding from the Data for Health (D4H) Initiative. In certain instances, applications from national NGOs that have strong relationships with government will also be considered. Please note that international NGOs and multilateral agencies are not eligible to apply, but are urged to encourage government partners to apply directly for funding.
• Former focus countries within the Data for Health Initiative will not be eligible for additional grants after they have reached the funding cap.
• Vital Strategies, Inc. does not provide funding to countries subject to the U.S. Treasury Office of Foreign Asset Control (“OFAC”) sanctions.

Ineligible

• Projects that focus exclusively on data collection and not data use
• Service delivery or health care
• Procurement of medicine or other health care products
• Projects related to contact tracing or the delivery of COVID-19 relief or other services
• Personal protective goods
• Laboratory equipment
• Biological analysis
• Individual study or training
• Increasing/”topping up” the salaries of existing MOH personnel (salary offset is acceptable)
• Lobbying
• Capital Expenses
  • Vehicles
  • Computer or other electronic equipment (unless intrinsic to project)
  • New Construction

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