The Challenge
This request for proposal seeks innovative approaches to modeling of women’s health issues or of broader health topics that incorporate a gender lens. We are looking for projects with a 1-to-3-year timeline that will achieve at least one of the objectives below:

• Increase the number of trained modelers, especially women with gender expertise based in low-income and middle-income countries
• Achieve a better understanding of issues that disproportionately affect women through modeling
• Improve engagement with modeling approaches to support strategic planning and/or evaluation work

Ideally, proposals should also:

• Bring together discrete modeling units across low-income and middle-income countries to share expertise
• Enable South-South data-centered collaborations, knowledge transfer, and build on & strengthen existing initiatives and ecosystems
• Foster innovation with data in the interest of their respective local communities and achieving equality in access to health care
• Improve data collection, sharing, governance, regulatory compliance, and analysis processes to enable data-centered and gender aware public health research and interventions
• Explore and improve how to build and strengthen the interface of modeling with policy engagement leading to increased adoption of insights to yield impact

Priority will be given to proposals that 1) advance broad access to data to support gender intentional modelling to improve women’s health and 2) enable strong evidence-based practices to guide policy decisions.

The desired outcome of this request for proposals is to build a modeling and analytics ecosystem focusing on applying a gender intentional lens to achieve gender equality in women’s health and to facilitate South- South collaborations. Grantees should be able to, over time, answer questions on how their proposal to increase empowerment of modelers, in particular women modelers, at a local level would reduce the impact of issues that disproportionately impact women’s health over the next 10 years in each geography.Funding level

The funding level for the Building Data Modeling Capacity for Gender Equality Project is a grant of up to $500,000 USD, provided to the organization, with a term of up to 1-to-3-years. Application budgets should be commensurate with the scope of work proposed. Any indirect costs should be included in the USD $500,000 (subject to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s indirect cost policy).

Selected proposals will become part of a coordinated program aiming at Strengthening Data Science Capacity and the Ecosystem to Enable Data-Centered and Gender Aware Public Health Interventions. We seek to build a network of researchers working together in close collaboration with the existing Data Science Grand Challenges network and its partners to build on lessons learned in different regions and further develop processes, tools and governance that maximize the impact of data-focused research studies, as well as identify and address the global data-related challenges.

We are pleased to announce the call for proposals from the Department of Science and Technology – Technology Application and Promotion Institute (DOST-TAPI)

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST), through the Technology Application and Promotion Institute (TAPI, implements the Technology Innovation for Commercialization (TECHNiCOM) Program to provide development support to commercially viable innovations. Through financial and technical assistance to the pre-commercialization stage of technology development, the program aims to fast-track the market readiness of innovations for their eventual transfer and commercialization.

PRIORITY AREAS
The Program shall provide priority funding to pre-commercialization activities of
projects aligned to national S&T priorities and the project proposal’s strategic relevance to
national development, based on the priority areas of the DOST’s Harmonized National
R&D Agenda (HNRDA) for 2017-2022 . These areas are the following:
A. Agriculture, Aquatic, and Natural Resources

1. Crops
2. Livestock
3. Aquatic
4. Environment
5. Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction
   B. Health*
6. Diagnostics
7. Drug discovery and development
8. Functional Food
9. Hospital equipment and biomedical devices
10. Information and communication technology for health
11. Dengue
12. Nutrition and food quality and safety
13. Disaster risk reduction
14. Climate Change Adaptation
15. Omic technologies for health (platform technology across research priorities)

WHO CAN APPLY?

The following may apply for the Program, provided that (1) their previous R&D was not funded, managed, nor monitored by any of the DOST Sectoral Councils or other DOST GIA Programs1, and (2) that they secure and present a favorable endorsement from a DOST Regional Office: 1. Research and Development Institutions (RDIs); 2. State Universities and Colleges (SUCs); 3. Private Higher Education Institutions (HEIs); and 4. Startup companies/firms, provided additionally that they secure and present an endorsement from the appropriate DOST Sectoral Council2.

Opening date: 10 October 2022 | 8 AM (3rd Wave of Call for Proposals)

Closing date: 17 October 2022 | 5 PM  (3rd Wave of Call for Proposals)

For further details please download attachment below:

We are pleased to announce that research proposals for funding for the fiscal year 2023 are now being accepted by the Office of the Executive Director, National Institutes of Health. A research grant of up to P500,000.00 each shall be given to deserving research projects to fund personnel services and operating expenses. The proposals shall be evaluated based on relevance and scientific merit subject to appropriate ethical clearance.

The priority areas for research are based on the NUHRA 2017-2022, as follows:

1. Responsive health systems: Health governance, health financing, access to essential medical products/vaccines and technologies, health information systems, health service delivery, health human resources, health economics, health research management;
2. Research to enhance and extend health lives: adolescent health, communicable diseases, environmental health, maternal, newborn and child health, mental health, non-communicable diseases, nutrition, oral health, reproductive health;
3. Holistic approaches to health and wellness: Filipino traditional and complementary medicine, determinants of health, halal in health, health behaviors;
4. Health resiliency: accidents and injuries, climate change, disaster risk reduction and health emergencies, emerging and re-emerging diseases, environmental threats to health, occupational health and migration;
5. Global competitiveness and innovation in health: diagnostics, drug discovery and development, functional foods, information and communication technologies for health, biomedical products and engineering, OMIC technologies; and
6. Research in equity and health: disability, gender, geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas, geriatric case, HIV/AIDS and other STIs, indigenous peoples, substance abuse, violence, other vulnerable populations.

The research proposals from these projects should aim for publication in an ISI or peer-reviewed journal. In addition, proposals from researchers with outstanding obligations related to their previous NIH research projects will not be accepted.

To apply for the grant, kindly comply with the requirements:

1. Register your research with the Research Grants Administration Office by completing the online form at http://rgao.upm.edu.ph/registration/ (if not yet registered).
2. Send electronic copies (Word and PDF files) of the full proposal (formatted according to the accompanying guideline) with a detailed line item budget (personnel services and maintenance, operating and other expenses only) to src.nih.upm@up.edu.ph
3. Endorsement letter from the unit head, institute director, department chair, or dean of the academic unit.

Please submit your application on or before 15 November 2022.

For inquiry, please coordinate with Ms. Katrina Mañago of the Office of the Deputy Director for Research Operations at Room 109, NIH Bldg., UP Manila or call at 8526-4349 or email src.nih.upm@up.edu.ph. 

The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) carries out bilateral cooperative programs between Japan and counterpart countries based on agreements concluded with academies, research councils and other science-promotion institutions in those countries.
The aim of these programs is to form sustained networks of bilateral research teams (etc.) evolved from individual scientist exchanges. JSPS provides financial support to excellent Japanese scientists, including young scientists, implementing such bilateral joint research projects and seminars between research teams from Japan and counterpart countries.

Bilateral Joint Research Projects/Seminars comprise two components: (A) Bilateral Joint Research Projects/Seminars with JSPS’s Counterpart Agencies and (B) Open Partnership Joint Research Projects/Seminars. The latter provides Japanese researchers an opportunity to conduct research or hold a seminar with researchers around the world who reside in a country that has diplomatic relations with Japan. (JSPS also treats researchers who reside in Taiwan and Palestine in this manner.)

JSPS launched a new scheme for proposals named “Open Partnership Joint Seminars (Interuniversity Cooperation)” in FY 2020. It is meant to strengthen bilateral research cooperation by supporting organizational initiatives carried out via university consortiums and other collaborations among institutions.

Download: Call for Proposals: 2023 DOST-Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Joint Research Projects/Seminars

We are pleased to announce the call for proposals from the Global Partnership for Social Accountability

GPSA’s Fifth Global Call for Proposals was launched in November 2021 to support civil society organizations (CSOs) and CSO Networks in implementing collaborative social accountability approaches that address critical governance and development challenges.

About the Call for Proposals

Grant Selection

The Call prioritizes CSO-led collaborative social accountability approaches that entail coalition efforts that engage local communities and citizens including vulnerable groups, and work with public sectors, at local, state and federal levels. The goal is to co-create solutions to jointly identified problems in the selected thematic areas. Information generated from social accountability processes can enable for corrective measures to be taken, and improvement of policy implementation and delivery of services.

What are the priority themes of this CfP?

The focus of the CfP will be: transformative use of social accountability to solve pressing development challenges. Short-listed countries will define a theme within the following menu based on the GPSA’s mission and track record:

1. Health systems strengthening in the context of the COVID-19 recovery
2. Citizen voices and oversight for climate action (just transition and locally-led climate dialogues)
3. Cross-cutting themes: Inclusion, CivicTech

The country priority theme must clearly spell out a governance or development challenge that can be addressed through collective action of local communities, civil society and government and garner government accountability and responsiveness, and that can be taken up in the government’s delivery systems or reforms.

Eligibility

Only applications from CSOs in the shortlisted countries within the descripted national theme will be eligible.

For more details, visit the website: 5th Call for Proposals – gpsa (thegpsa.org)

Questions

Contact the GPSA Help Desk by email: GPSAcall4proposals@worldbank.org

We are pleased to announce the call for proposals for the 2023 Joint Research Program under the DOST- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) cooperation.

This bilateral exchange program provides support for research to be conducted jointly by Filipino and Japanese researchers in line with their mutual agreement on international scientific collaboration.

Interested participants are requested to coordinate with prospective collaborators/counterparts in Japan to craft their proposals. The Filipino researcher must submit the proposal to DOST through the DOST Project Management Information System (DPMIS) while the Japanese counterpart should submit the same to JSPS for separate review and evaluation. Matching of the projects will be done after the evaluation of both countries. Only projects matched by both DOST and JSPS will be implemented under this program.

For the application guidelines and procedure, please refer to the enclosed document. The call for proposals will close on 06 September 2022. 5:00 PM.

For further inquiries, you may contact Ms. Jinah Ruth Jomao-as of the International Technology Cooperation Unit {ITCU) at Tel. No. +63-02-838-8376 or email at isps@dost.qov.ph.

We are pleased to announce that the Department of Science and Technology – Technology Application and Promotion Institute (DOST-TAPI) has a call for a proposal entitled “TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION FOR COMMERCIALIZATION (TECHNICOM)”

Call Description: The Technology Innovation for Commercialization Program (TECHNiCOM) aims to fast-track the transfer, utilization, and commercialization of R&D outputs to contribute to the country’s sustainable development thru relevant technological platforms.

Through TECHNiCOM, we provide technopreneurs with an easily accessible multimillion pre-commercialization grant and linkage to DOST-TAPI’s technology and innovation support programs.

Priority Areas: The Program shall provide priority funding to pre-commercialization activities of projects aligned to national S&T priorities and project proposal’s strategic relevance to national development, based on the priority areas of the DOST’s Harmonized National R&D Agenda (HNRDA) for 2017-2022 . These areas are the following:

Agriculture, Aquatic, and Natural Resources

1. Crops
2. Livestock
3. Aquatic
4. Environment
5. Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction

Health

1. Diagnostics
2. Drug discovery and development
3. Functional Food
4. Hospital equipment and biomedical devices
5. Information and communication technology for health
6. Dengue
7. Nutrition and food quality and safety
8. Disaster risk reduction
9. Climate Change Adaptation
10. Omic technologies for health (platform technology across research priorities)

*NOTE: For drug discovery and development proposals, to be qualified under the Program and to ensure safety and effectiveness, the technology must be at TRL 7 (completed at least Phase II trials). For medical devices, the technology must be at TRL 6.

Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology

1. Food and Nutrition Security
2. Countryside development
3. Competitive industries
4. Delivery of social services
5. Intelligent transportation solutions
6. Renewable energy and energy storage solutions
7. Materials science
8. Human security

Who can apply:

The following may apply for the Program, provided that (1) their previous R&D was not funded, managed, nor monitored by any of the DOST Sectoral Councils or other DOST GIA Programs¹,  and (2) that they secure and present a favorable endorsement from a DOST Regional Office:

1. Research and Development Institutions (RDIs);
2. State Universities and Colleges (SUCs);
3. Private Higher Education Institutions (HEIs); and
4. Startup companies/firms, provided additionally that they secure and present an endorsement from the appropriate DOST Sectoral Council.

Closing date: 2nd Wave of Call for Proposals | 31 August 2022 | 5 PM

For more information regarding submission click this link: http://tapi.dost.gov.ph/call-for-proposals/technicom

We are pleased to announce the 2nd Call for Research or Thesis Proposals for Funding by the UPM National Institutes of Health, UPM Student Researcher Grant 2022. This grant provides funding support for thesis/research of UP Manila undergraduate students, and masteral students without any scholarship.

Deadline of submission is on 15 September 2022 (Thursday)

Kindly see the following requirements for submission:

1. One (1) printed copy of the full thesis/research proposal
2. Electronic copy (Word file) of the full thesis/research proposal
3. Endorsement letter signed by the Thesis/Research Adviser, Department Chair and
   College Dean
4. Thesis panel certificate of approval
5. Certificate of approval or proof of submission of the research proposal to the
   appropriate review panel (UPMREB, IACUC, IBBC, etc.). (note : review panel
   approval is expected within 2 months of the grant approval)
6. Registration with RGAO at http://rgao.upm.edu.ph/registration/.

Submissions should be sent to Ms. Katrina Mañago of the Office of the Deputy Director for
Research Operations at Room 109, NIH Bldg., UP Manila. For inquiries, you may call (02)
85264349 or email src.nih.upm@up.edu.ph.

For further details, you may may download this announcement: 

We are pleased to announce that the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has a new call for proposals with the title Innovation Grants FY 2022.

The Innovation Grant is in pursuant to RA No. 11293 (Philippine Innovation Act) and the Special Provision No. 1 of the RA No. 11518 (General Appropriation Act of 2021) which authorize NEDA to issue grants programs, projects, and activities that work on promoting all potential types and sources of innovation proposed by National Government Agencies (NGA) and its attached agencies, Local Government Units (LGUs), State Universities and Colleges (SUCs), and Government-Owned and Controlled Corporations (GOCCs). Specifically, programs, projects, and activities eligible for the grant include the following:

• MSME Innovation program
• Regional innovation and cluster policy
• Strategic research, development, and extension
• Innovation Instruments
• Diaspora for innovation and development
• Advocacy and community education

In addition, the following activities may qualify for the Innovation Grant:

• Development and Implementation of Innovative Projects
• Enhancement of Innovation Facilities and Services
• Support to Innovation Policy Research
• Building Capacities and Expanding Opportunities for Innovation

It also includes activities that strengthen the innovation ecosystem through the establishment of innovation centers and business incubators under Section 13 of the Philippine Innovation Act and employment of innovation instruments under Section 16 of the same law.

Interested applicants may submit their proposals, duly endorsed and approved through appropriate channels, to innovationfund@neda.gov.ph until 30 June 2022, 5PM. You may also share this information to other interested public institutions that may be qualified for the grant. For detailed information on the call for proposals, kindly visit https://neda.gov.ph/FY2022InnovationGrants

Should you have any inquiries, you may directly reach the Innovation Fund Management Division through email at innovationfund@neda.gov.ph or contact number 8-631-0960 local 21615

DOST-PCHRD and DOH, in collaboration with SIHI-Philippines and the Foundation for the Advancement of Clinical Epidemiology, Inc., are proud to announce the second call of applications for the Gelia Castillo Award for Research on Social Innovations in Health (GCARSIH).

This 2022, we are once again searching for innovative solutions that address key health challenges and improve healthcare delivery in the Philippines. We want to recognize these innovations developed by Filipinos for Filipinos, and to help with further development and scale up!

You can read more about the award here. You will also find the Submission Entry Form (with guidelines) attached to this email. Submissions will be accepted until May 31, 2022.

For any further inquiries, email gcarsih@gmail.com. You can also check out this video for more information: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1581000792293419