Saving lives in low-resource settings
The Foundation has earmarked a significant share of its annual funding for practically oriented research that can help save lives in low-resource settings.
This includes projects that strengthen emergency care, resuscitation, trauma care, and maternal and newborn survival on the day of birth (including stillbirths), with a continued emphasis on interventions that can be implemented and scaled in resource-constrained environments.
Priority will be given to applications that:
- Address important causes of preventable mortality in low-resource settings;
- Demonstrate potential for practical implementation and scale-up;
- Extend beyond local impact and may inspire improvements in other regions or countries;
- Include innovative approaches to education, implementation, or quality improvement;
- Build strong local partnerships and relevant implementation capacity;
- Take place in the Foundation’s focus countries: Tanzania, Ethiopia, Malawi, Bangladesh, India, and Nepal.
Application considerations
- Make sure to present a realistic budget.
- If your total project budget should exceed the grant, the Board will consider the likelihood that the project can be carried out with additional funding from other sources.
- Institutional overhead/administration cost related to the project (up to 10%) may be covered and should be included in your budget.
- Practical experience of the applicant(s) to deal with the special challenges typically found in low-resource settings, and a strong commitment for participation also from local partners, are other factors that will be considered.
- We only accept 2 applications per institution/organization.
- Application deadlines are April 1 and October 1 each year. All applications must be submitted through the Foundation’s application platform.
Funding resources
We expect to fund up to 20 projects per year in this category, with a maximum amount of USD 50,000 per project and an average award of approximately USD 30,000.