Deadline: 13-Dec-24

The International Community Access to Child Health program is a grant program of the American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) Section on Global Health (SOGH).

ICATCH grants are designed for paediatricians and other health workers in low-and lower-middle income countries who need financial and advisory support to plan and implement a project or program that provide:

• provides clinical care to children or adolescents,
• provides health education for children, adolescents or parents, or
• provides training for infant, child, and adolescent healthcare providers

Areas 

• Your proposal must be in one of these five areas:
  • Physical or Developmental Disabilities in Children (infants to 21 years): Includes developmental delay, early childhood development, or physical disabilities that are congenital or acquired (e.g., blindness, deafness, cerebral palsy, impairment following conditions such as cerebral malaria or head trauma, or seizure disorder, etc.).
  • Childhood or Adolescent Mental Health (3 years to 21 years).
  • Newborn Health: Projects must focus on the newborn period and can follow infants up to 6 months of age.
  • Nutrition/Malnutrition (For infants 6 months and older through people aged 21 years). This can include both community- and hospital-based programs.
  • Care of Hospitalized Children (infants to 21 years)
  • Congenital and Acquired Cardiac Conditions (including infants, children, and young adults up to 21 years of age).

Funding Information

• $2500 per year for 3 years, total $7500

Eligibility Criteria

• They will accept only one Preliminary Application per NGO (non-governmental organization) or community group. They can accept more than one application from academic institutions and hospitals if the projects are different and are submitted by different persons.
• Projects must be carried out in a low-or lower-middle income country.
•  They will fund projects related to the care of and education about infants and children with congenital or acquired cardiac disease.
• The project director must live and work in or near the community where the project activities take place and take primary responsibility for direction and completion of the project. The project codirector may live elsewhere, including in a different country, as long as they will be actively involved in the project for all 3 years of funding.
• Projects must provide healthcare services for children or provide health education or training in one of the 5 areas described. The proposal cannot be primarily for research, although quality improvement projects can be an appropriate use of ICATCH funds.

Ineligibility Criteria

• ICATCH does not fund research projects, surveys or assessments. The focus is on providing clinical services and health training.
• They will not fund proposals that only carry out screening for disabilities; projects that include screening must also include treatment or therapy for the disability.
• They will not fund proposals in this area that target only pregnant women or infants older than 6 months of age.

For more information, visit AAP.