EDCTP Call for Proposals: Funds of 15M Euros to Address Poverty Related Diseases in Sub Saharan Africa

Deadline: 2 March 2015

The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) is currently accepting proposals from Sub Saharan Africa to diagnose tools for poverty related diseases. The purpose of this call is to provide funding to projects focusing on validation of the clinical performance and/or implementation of new or improved diagnostic tools and technologies for detection of any of the poverty-related diseases (PRDs) and neglected infectious diseases (NIDs).

Through this programme, the EDCTP aims to accelerate the development of new or improved drugs, vaccines, microbicides and diagnostics against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as well as other poverty-related and neglected infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on clinical trials.

The call budget is 15M Euros and the number of grants available is 4 to 8.

Focus Diseases

Poverty-related diseases (PRDs) that include HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis.
Neglected infectious diseases (NIDs) that include dengue/severe dengue; rabies; human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness); Leishmaniases; cysticercosis/taeniasis; dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease); echinococcosise; foodborne trematodiases; lymphatic filariasis; onchocerciasis (river blindness); schistosomiasis; soil-transmitted helminthiases; Buruli ulcer; leprosy (Hansen disease); trachoma; yaws; as well as emerging infectious diseases of particular relevance for Africa, such as Ebola.

Focus Countries

Legal entities in the following Sub-Saharan African countries are eligible to apply:

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé & Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Timeline

Deadline for letters of intent- March 2015
Deadline for full applications- 7 July 2015

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must be from mentioned Sub-Saharan African countries.
Before applying, applicants are required to register under EDCTP grants system.
Proposals must be between 36 and 60 months duration allowing this specific challenge (PRDs) to be addressed appropriately.
All participants in the project must sign a consortium agreement prior to the conclusion of the EDCTP2 grant agreement.
Consortia can be comprised of a minimum of three different legal entities independent of each other. (Two of the legal entities must be established in two different European Participating States of the EDCTP Association and one of the legal entities must be established in a sub-Saharan African country)

Application Procedure

This is a two-stage application procedure comprising the following steps:

First stage: A letter of intent must be submitted by the applicants before mentioned deadline. The evaluation results for the first stage will be available by 30 April 2015.
Second stage: Successful applicants in the first stage will be invited to submit a full proposal by 7 July 2015. The evaluation results for the second stage will be available by 30 September 2015.
The application must be submitted online via EDCTP grants.

For more information and application form, visit EDCTP Call for Proposals.

PACF Small & Large Grants for NGOs Worldwide (Special Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa)

Deadline: 10 March 2015

The Positive Action for Children Fund (PACF) invites Concept Notes on large and small grants from non-governmental and community-based organizations that can deliver change at a community level. The Fund aims to support global efforts towards Countdown to Zero: The Global Plan Towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections Among Children by 2015 and Keeping their Mothers Alive. It also aims to alleviate the impact of HIV and AIDS on women and children’s health by supporting interventions that engage affected communities, developing their capacity to participate and lead.

80% of the total funding under this call will go to projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. Organizations in other developing countries will be funded with the rest 20% grants.

Funding Level

Large Grants – £60,000 to £300,000 over three years
Small Grants – £6,000 to £40,000 over two years
Technical Assistance (TA) is provided to eligible organizations across three priority areas for the PACF: developing organizational capacity, improving PMTCT and HIV knowledge and understanding and supporting development of partnership skills.

Priority Areas

Community interventions addressing loss to follow-up in PMTCT: working with communities to address and overcome causes of loss to follow-up of HIV, ANC, PMTCT and pediatric services.
Community advocacy for gender equity in education and health, including but not limited to, for positive mothers and their affected families
Preventing unintended pregnancies: improving women’s knowledge of and access to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services and enabling women living with HIV to exercise their right to comprehensive SRH services.
Community intervention to keep adolescent and young women HIV negative: targeted primary prevention in community, home and schools to ensure young girls, adolescents and young women who are HIV negative stay negative; with special emphasis through all phases of adolescence.
Early infant diagnosis: using community developed interventions and testing to promote continuing care of infants and young children of HIV+ parents.
Eligibility Criteria

Proposed project must be new, innovative work, not the simple continuation of previously funded activity.
Proposals from the following priority countries are highly encouraged – Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Angola, Burundi, Chad, Tanzania, Kenya and India.
Smaller Community Based Organizations (CBOs) can apply on behalf of consortia. Larger NGOs are encouraged to name smaller CBO implementing partners.
The application must demonstrate the need in the local community the applicant is proposing to work in.
Proposed projects must be targeted at adolescents up to the age of 19.Those services or projects may reach older age groups, but their primary focus should be 19 and younger.
Project must have an objective that is achievable and measurable within the period of funding requested.
Project must be identifiable as a discrete program of work alongside or within any larger program the organization runs. It should have a name that can be used by the implementer and the funder to describe the project.
Grant request can be made for at most 25% of an organization’s income for the grant request year.
Projects must begin after the decision made in September 2015 and before the end of the year 2015.
Note: Applications must be made via online application system. Applicants will need to register their organization on the system before they are able to submit the application.  Organizations that registered previous year can use the same login details to access the online system and submit application in this round.

For more information, please visit PACF Call for Proposal.

Funds for IDP's of North Waziristan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa).

The purpose of this Call for Proposals is to fund humanitarian organizations working in Pakistan to implement short-term relief and early recovery projects in response to the complex emergency created by recent displacement to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and on-going return to Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).  Based on the principles of humanitarian imperative,  priority will be given to life saving immediate needs created by recent displacements from North Waziristan Agency (NWA)

All Interested humanitarian organizations are invited to submit applications for projects through this Call for Proposals, in accordance with the procedures and guidelines available on Concern’s RAPID Fund website: http://www.concern.net/where-we-work/asia/pakistan/rapid-fund

Based on advice from relevant Government authorities, presence in the affected areas and security concerns, local and national NGOs are strongly encouraged to submit their applications.

If you have any query, please don’t hesitate to contact at rapid.applications@concern.net .

Kindly forward the email circulated to respective KP cluster members/humanitarian organization and forward the emails to me for our record.

Please note that there is no deadline for the submission of the applications as per RF procedures and we will notify an update on Concern website as soon as we allocate all available funds with RF.