Deadline: 30-Nov-21
The Data for Health (D4H) Initiative is pleased to announce the Global Grants Program to improve public health data systems.
The Global Grants Program (GGP) supports focused, results-oriented projects that improve public health data in the thematic areas of the Data for Health (D4H) Initiative so that governments are equipped with the tools and systems to collect and use data effectively.
The Initiative, supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Government of Australia, supports technical exchanges in to low- and middle-income countries worldwide to improve public health data systems.
Thematic Areas
- Data Use
- Equity: Equity continues to be a priority thematic area of the Global Grants Program. Within this framework, applicants can propose projects that 1) use data to describe, document, monitor and propose solutions to inequities in health and determinants of health; or 2) 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.
- Indicator development: Define and specify appropriate indicators for monitoring health programs and population health status, develop applications, such as data dashboards, that deliver indicator data quickly and in visually clear and logical formats to decision makers.
- Data analysis for public health practice: Increase staff technical capacity in policy-relevant data analysis and use, focusing on health equity measurement; health impact predictions; cost-effectiveness analysis, etc.
- Data report development or enhancement: Develop and disseminate policy-relevant data reports to various audiences.
- Digital solutions for decision-making: Develop platforms for data visualization, for example through an integrated data dashboard, that present key data that decision makers or the public need to understand a public health issue or specific disease.
- Decision process design/reform: Develop data-driven prioritization, budgeting and planning practices.
- National health bulletin development or enhancement: Develop an authoritative, timely, and influential source of information and recommendations for actions to protect the public’s health.
- Scientific communications development: Increase staff technical capacity to write and publish scientific manuscripts.
- Civil Registration and Vital Statistics
- Equity: This round of funding introduces equity as a new thematic area for priority funding consideration. Within this framework, applicants can propose projects that 1) use data to describe, document, monitor and propose solutions to inequities in health and determinants of health; or 2) 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.
- Enhancing CRVS governance and coordination: Establish or enhance coordination of multiple CRVS stakeholders; capacity development to undertake comprehensive system-wide CRVS improvement efforts.
- Improving notification and registration of vital events: Design and implement improved digital notification and registration of births and deaths including establishment of active notification systems.
- Improving medical certification of cause-of-death: Training, resources, and capacity development using multiple instructional modalities (face-to-face, eLearning, job aids) to teach and reinforce proper cause of death certification practices using the WHO standard medical certificate of cause of death. Design and support for quality assurance and feedback loops.
- Instituting or improving ICD coding: Training, resources, and capacity development to establish or improve manual or automated coding of medical certificates of cause of death.
- Implementing verbal autopsy: Capacity development to establish or improve the scaled application of the WHO standard verbal autopsy, used to determine community patterns of mortality.
- Improving vital statistics analysis, publication, dissemination: Analyze, publish, disseminate and use vital statistics from registration records.
- Strengthening CRVS legal frameworks: Conduct comprehensive legal reviews to identify gaps in CRVS legal systems; provide technical assistance with drafting legislation and regulations to address those gaps in order to lay the groundwork for comprehensive CRVS reform.
Funding Information
- Up to $150,000 will be awarded for projects to be completed by March 31, 2023. Projects should be thoughtfully budgeted and only request the maximum funding amount if it is justified.
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.
- The following countries are already part of the D4H Initiative and not eligible to apply: Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Exclusions
- 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.
For more information, visit https://www.d4hglobalgrantsprogram.org/process