Deadline: 12 November 2017
The Tropical Health and Educational Trust (THET) has announced a second round of grants under the Africa Grants Programme (AGP) with support from Johnson & Johnson.
The AGP supports the training of health workers in low- and middle-income countries, through engaging partnerships between health organisations in the UK and Ireland and their counterparts in Africa.
Themes
THET welcomes grant applications to strengthen the healthcare workforce in one of the following two areas:
- Surgical and Anaesthetic Care: This stream will focus on reducing morbidity and mortality from conditions requiring surgical intervention and/or enhancing patient safety as a result of improved anaesthetic care through the training of relevant health workers. The aim of this stream is to improve the access to, and availability of, quality surgery and/or anaesthetic care (particularly for maternal, neonatal or paediatric surgical conditions).
- Community Healthcare: This stream will focus on increasing the availability and quality of essential healthcare (including attended births) and health information to underserved populations, including women and children, by training those who work and serve in the community. The stream will focus on the training of cadres working in the community (Clinical Officers, Community Health Workers, etc.), which is in line with the national strategy and policies in-country. Partners will work at the rural and district level, outside the central hospital systems.
Grant Information
- Grants are available from £15,000 up to a maximum of £50,000.
- All funded projects are expected to last between 6 and 16 months.
- Project activities can be implemented from January 2018 until April 2019.
Eligibility Criteria
- The UK/Irish Lead Partner must be either a UK or Irish registered charity that is involved in health education or health delivery activities, OR a recognised UK or Irish health delivery institution, health education institution or professional association (including regulatory bodies).
- UK or Irish lead partner will be responsible for signing the grant contract and overall delivery and reporting of the project. The full responsibilities of the lead UK/Irish partner include:
- Signing the AGP contract with THET
- Receiving the grant funds and managing them in accordance with the contract
- Delivering project activities
- Maintaining financial records
- Reporting on finance and grant activity to THET (activity reports are expected to be written by the partnership as a whole but coordinated by the UK lead partner)
- Ensuring grant finances are audited as part of the institution’s annual audit
- Taking responsibility (as laid out in the contract) for all security, insurance and registration matters related to those travelling/working on behalf of the project.
- The UK or Irish Lead Partner must work in partnership with a LMIC organisation based in Africa. The LMIC Lead Partner must be a not for profit institution based in an eligible African country, that is involved in health education or health delivery, OR a recognised national health delivery institution, health education institution or professional association. Applications from a single organisation will not be eligible.
- Projects must fit within the parameters of either stream 1 or stream 2, as mentioned above.
- Projects must operate within LMICs in Africa.
How to Apply
The Grant Application form and Budget template should be completed and submitted via email at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit Africa Grants Programme.
