Deadline: 15 July 2019
The World Health Organization regional offices for Africa, the Americas, Europe and South-East Asia and TDR, the UNICEF / UNDP / World Bank / WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, are pleased to announce the 2019-2020 call for applications for the Joint Small Grants Scheme for implementation research in Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).
The Small Grants Scheme supports implementation research on infectious diseases of poverty that leads to health improvement and strengthening research capacity of individuals and institutions in low- and middle-income countries.
The Small Grants Scheme is a joint initiative of TDR and WHO regional offices under the current TDR Strategy. TDR is sponsored by the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank and the World Health Organization, and is hosted at WHO.
The scope of the call is to cover a spectrum of studies that utilize operational or implementation research methodology, focusing on a One Health approach including human, animal and/or environmental health as one of the core principles of an effective response against the AMR problem.
Aims
- To support operational or implementation research that:
- Improves surveillance and monitoring of the AMR magnitude and burden and antibiotic use in eligible countries.
- Identifies local drivers of antimicrobial drug resistance in human and animal populations.
- Improves effective interventions to minimize the impact of AMR, including infection prevention and control, antimicrobial stewardship and other procedural interventions.
- To build adequate and sustainable structures and processes for evidence-informed decision making in national policies and programmes.
- To foster mechanisms for knowledge sharing and translation to maximize the potential for broader research impact.
Objectives
- Strengthen the research capacity of relevant individuals and institutions in countries.
- Generate new knowledge, solutions and implementation strategies that can be applied by countries for the control and elimination of infectious diseases.
- Encourage inter sectoral dialogue and one health approach.
Funding Information
- Up to US$ 15 000 per project, including an estimate of open access publication costs.
- Timeframe: Projects should be able to be completed within a period of 12-18 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants submitting proposals must be researchers or health professionals working in ministries of health, national public universities or research institutions, and who are citizens of one of the following countries:
- WHO European Region: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Montenegro, Moldova, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan
- WHO South-East Asian Region: Myanmar, Nepal
- WHO African Region: Ghana, Sierra Leone, Uganda
- WHO Americas Region: Colombia, Ecuador
- Proposals may be submitted in either English, Spanish or Russian.
Evaluation Criteria and Steps
- Each application will be screened for compliance with the eligibility criteria. Following this, each eligible application will be assessed independently by at least two reviewers, and scores will be assigned based on the sets of criteria. The highest scoring applications will be recommended for funding.
- They encourage applicants to review their own application against the criteria above before submitting.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply via given website.
For more information, please visit https://www.who.int/tdr/grants/calls/small-grants-2019-2020/en/