The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-established Gates Award for Global Health is seeking nominations “to reward and exemplify organizations which have developed processes for improving health, especially in resource poor settings with measurable results.”
Organizations such as NGOs, charities, nonprofits, private companies, government agencies, universities and multilateral organizations that have been in operation for a minimum of ten years can apply for the Award. Preference will be given to NGOs and nonprofits.
“Any organization from any country in the world that has had a systemic and lasting impact on global health may be nominated for the Gates Award; the organization may be a charitable institution, a private company or a public entity.
In submitting nominations for the Gates Award for Global Health, emphasis should be placed on an organization’s accomplishments to date. Applications should include a brief history of how the organization has made a sustained contribution in the field of global health. Nominators may wish to consider the following criteria in describing the Nominee’s work:
Extraordinary contributions toward progress in the knowledge and practice of health in low-income societies, with a substantial and sustainable impact on the principal issues that contribute to global health.
* An established record of achievement.
* Innovation in program design.
* Organizational capacity; i.e. evidence of financial and program stability.
* Collaboration with others.
Evidence that contributions have had significant influence or have been adopted across geographic and organizational boundaries.
Nominations will be considered by a Jury consisting of health professionals from developing countries as well as the Global Health Council’s Board of Directors. A winner will be selected by the Jury from the nominations submitted.
The deadline to submit nominations is 29 October 2010. For more information, visit this link.
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Bill Gates Foundation inviting applications for the $ 1 million Access to Learning Award
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is currently seeking applications for its Access to Learning Award (ATLA). The Award is part of the Foundation’s Global Libraries initiative and honors institutions like public libraries and similar organizations that provide communities, especially the poor and the disadvantaged in developing countries with free access to computers and the internet. Only organizations outside of the United States can apply. The Award will specially recognize those efforts which are innovative in providing the following key services to the needy people:
* Free public access to computers and the Internet.
* Public training to assist users in accessing online information that can help improve their lives.
* Technology training for library staff.
* Outreach to underserved communities.
If your NGO is involved in providing free access to computers and internet for the poor and vulnerable communities, they you can apply for this award. Some previous awardees include cases such as “helping farmers use technology to learn about crop prices and improved practices, teaching job seekers how to increase their technology skills and find employment over the Internet, and showing students how to use web-based resources in their coursework”
The Award provides the winning organization with a cash amount of US $1 million. This amount is one-time prize and it can be used by the organization “towards furtherance of the charitable, educational, scientific, or literary purposes.”
Applications have to be submitted online in English. The deadline to submit applications is 30 September 2010. For more information, visit this link.
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Trust Fund’s Call for Proposals for Small Grants Programme
The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNFPII) is the advisory body to the United Nations Economic and Social Council for discussing indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights. It has a Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues relating to the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People. This Fund was established “to promote, support and implement the objectives of the Decade,” such as:
* Promoting non-discrimination and inclusion of indigenous peoples in the design,implementation and evaluation of international, regional and national processes regarding laws, policies, resources, programmes and projects;
* Promoting full and effective participation of indigenous peoples in decisions which directly or indirectly affect their lifestyles, traditional lands and territories, their cultural integrity as indigenous peoples with collective rights or any other aspect of their lives, considering the principle of free, prior and informed consent;
* Redefining development policies that depart from a vision of equity and that are culturally appropriate, including respect for the cultural and linguistic diversity of indigenous peoples;
* Adopting targeted policies, programmes, projects and budgets for the development of indigenous peoples, including concrete benchmarks, and particular emphasis on indigenous women, children and youth;
* Developing strong monitoring mechanisms and enhancing accountability at the international, regional and particularly the national level, regarding the implementation of legal, policy and operational frameworks for the protection of indigenous peoples and the improvement of their lives.
Grants of up to $10,000 for over a period of one year can be requested from the Trust Fund. Although the Fund does not support multi-year projects, but successful applicants can submit proposal requests for following years for a funding of $5000 per year over the decade. Even proposals requesting grants over $10,000 may also be accepted provided that there is enough project justification, organizational capacity to absorb the funds etc.
The deadline to submit the project proposals is 1 October 2010. Submissions are to be submitted by email. For more information, visit this link.
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Gates Foundation: Latest Round of Grant Challenges Explorations now open for applications
The Round 6 of the Grand Challenges Explorations of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now open to accept applications, providing grants of up to $100,000.
The Grand Challenges Explorations is an opportunity for researchers around the world to submit proposals providing innovative solutions for improving global health. The program is a $100 million grant initiative from the Foundation to encourage bold and unconventional global health solutions.
The initiative focuses on areas where creative, unorthodox thinking is most urgently needed. For this round, applicants are asked to focus their proposals on these five topic areas:
* Design New Approaches to Cure HIV Infection;
* Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies;
* Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Global Health Conditions;
* Create New Technologies for the Health of Mothers and Newborns;
* The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Ways to Accelerate, Sustain and Monitor Eradication.
The topic focusing on sanitation technologies highlights the integrated approach the foundation is taking toward health in developing countries. Improved sanitation is essential to reducing water-borne illnesses and has profound economic, educational, and social benefits.
The selected proposals are awarded with an initial grant of $100,000. Projects which show success will be provided with an additional grant of $1 million. Applications submitted should not be more than two pages and the preliminary data about the proposed research is not required.
The deadline to submit the proposal is 2 November 2010. For more information, visit this link.
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Grants for Research on Microinsurance Issues
The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Microinsurance Innovation Facility (MIF) has announced the availability of third round of research grants “on a competitive basis for academics, particularly from developing countries, to analyze various microinsurance issues. Besides answering key questions in the Facility’s research agenda” MIF has teamed up with the European Development Research Network (EUDN) in this request for proposals and is inviting “academic researchers to submit proposals for research that will contribute to new knowledge and support microinsurance development in developing countries.”
This third round of research grants has a focus on the following issues and projects proposed should reflect them. However, MIF also welcomes proposals on other topics as well:
1. Value from existing microinsurance products for low-income clients
2. Impact of health microinsurance on health-seeking behaviours, access, utilization and quality of health care
3. Understanding factors behind low take up and renewals in conjunction with effectiveness of various sales, marketing, loyalty building and branding approaches
4. Public-Private Partnerships in health and agriculture microinsurance
5. Efficiency and profitability of comprehensive health microinsurance products
6. Efficiency of various distribution channels and methods
7. Incentive systems for agents and other front-line staff promoting and selling insurance
8. Affordable pricing and the role of subsidies
Proposals should reach MIF by 30 September 2010. For more information, visit this link.
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Call for Nominations for the 2011 Ginetta Sagan Award for Women’s and Children’s Rights
amnesty international USA has launched the call for nominations for its 2011 Ginetta Sagan Award for Women’s and Children’s Rights. The award is “is to recognize and assist women who are working to protect the liberty and lives of women and children in areas where human rights violations are widespread. The 2011 award will be given to a woman who works on behalf of the human rights of women and children.” It not only provides recognition but also serves as a beacon of hope for other women working for the promotion and protection of human rights around the world.
The Ginetta Sagan Award recognizes outstanding achievement, often at great personal risk; enhances the recipient’s ability to live and work freely, and protects the recipient’s capacity to continue her work, by bringing a new level of international attention to her accomplishments and the obstacles she faces; and brings increased international scrutiny to the crisis, region or issue for which the recipient works.
The nominee should be the founder and/or executive director of an organization; she should be under threat due to her activism; she should have been proven to be effective at addressing human rights issues; should have brought about significant change in her country, region or issue through her work; and she should not be a political party leader or government official/employee.
The Award carries a cash amount of $10,000 which will be presented at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Amnesty International USA.
The deadline to submit nominations is 1 October 2011. Nomination guidelines and the nomination form can be downloaded from this link.
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International Climate Protection Fellowships to undertake research-related project in Germany
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is offering the International Climate Protection Fellowships to enable prospective leaders to conduct research-related project of their own choice during a one-year stay in Germany. The fellowship programme is funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety through its International Climate Protection Initiative. Individuals involved in working on societal issues relating to climate change are encouraged to apply.
Applicants should be prospective leaders from a non-European threshold or a developing country working in the field of climate protection and resource conservation in academia, business or administration in their countries. They must have completed their first university degree (Bachelor’s or equivalent academic degree) less than 12 years prior to the start of the fellowship (1 September 2011) with outstanding results. they must also hold a further academic or professional qualification (Master’s, PhD, LL.M., MBA etc.) or have extensive professional experience in a leadership role (at least 48 months at the time of application). Furthermore, they are expected to have gained initial practical experience through involvement in projects related to climate protection and resource conservation. The fellowship will enable the recipients to conduct a research-related project of their own choice with hosts in Germany whom they are free to choose themselves.
Applicants who have been trained in the natural and engineering sciences, candidates who have been engaged in legal, economic and societal issues relating to climate change are encouraged to apply for this programme.
The programme includes a preparatory intensive language course in Germany, a several-week introductory seminar, a two-week training course and a final meeting in Berlin. These activities will enable you to gain additional insights into academic, social, cultural, economic and political life in Germany.
Applications should be submitted before the closing date: 15 December 2010. For more information, visit this link.
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Request for Proposals from USAID for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the Asia Region
A request for proposals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the Asia Region has been issued by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). US and non-US NGOs and/or consortia are invited to apply for this opportunity.
Under the US Government’s Global Climate Change Initiative, the Regional Development Mission for Asia (USAID/RDMA) has established the new Asia Regional Sustainable Landscapes Program to “strengthen capacities of developing countries in the Asia region to produce meaningful and sustainable reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the forestry-land use sector and to participate in and benefit from the emerging international Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)-plus framework.”
The closing date to submit applications is 14 October 2010. For more information, visit grants.gov and search for the funding opportunity number: USAID-RDMA-486-10-035-RFA.
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Third Annual Open Enterprise Solutions to Poverty Request for Proposals
The SEVEN Fund’s Request for Proposals under the Third Annual Solutions to Poverty” will award “two (2) research grants of no more than $100,000 each.”
“The aim of SEVEN Fund sponsored research is to challenge the prevailing state of mind in this field. We want to answer the question of whether wealth-creation may be the most effective solution to alleviate poverty. We invest our efforts and resources to find, research, and document examples where entrepreneurial success is shown to have led to poverty alleviation. In the process, we will seek to inspire entrepreneurs in developing countries with advice, investments, role models, and services.
At SEVEN, we believe that enterprise solutions to poverty already exist, but are not sufficiently studied, analyzed, and exhibited as examples. There are specific questions that have no formulated answers – it is our aim to sponsor research to explore and find these answers. For example:
1. What are the most significant qualities of a successful entrepreneur, especially in the uncertain environment of a developing economy?
2. Can entrepreneurship be taught, inspired, and diffused through a society?
3. Could support for the entrepreneurial spirit serve as role models of sustainable solutions to poverty?
4. What is the relationship between prosperity and progressive human values?
5. How can enterprises contribute to making stronger societies?
Questions like these lie at the heart of enterprise-based solutions to poverty, and at the foundation of our understanding of how to help an economy grow and, ultimately, help bring about a high and rising standard of living for the vast majority of citizens. Answers to these questions will have implications for governments, multilateral donors, corporations, financial institutions, investors, and citizens in general.”
“Evaluation Criteria & Project Eligibility
In this RFP competition, SEVEN will award grants of varying value (no single grant will exceed $100,000 and twelve months) to exceptional research proposals meeting the criteria. Researchers in academic and other institutions may apply for projects up to one year in duration, beginning March 15, 2011. Grant applications will be subject to a competitive process of confidential expert review similar to that employed by similar grant funding agencies.”
The last date to submit initial proposals is 15 October 2010. For more information, visit this link.
source from:fundsforngos.org
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