Deadline: 03-Dec-2024

The UK Research and Innovation is seeking grant applications for the stage one of Global Health Research Program.

They invest in people, places, ideas, innovation and impacts, empowering researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs to turn the many challenges they all face into opportunities, driving up prosperity and wellbeing across the UK and globally.

Aims

• The MRC partners with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to support global health research projects. Some of the projects funded through AGHRB in specific strategic areas of mutual interest such as climate and health, women and girls’ reproductive health, early childhood development and epidemic preparedness will be funded under this partnership.
• Through the investments in global health research, they aim to:
  • support a portfolio of high quality, high priority, diverse investments to improve health, encouraging:
    • Innovation in study design
    • Multi-disciplinarily to address global challenges
    • Diverse health topics: prioritize local relevance with potential for global impact
  • Prioritize equitable partnerships
  • Invest in research capacity strengthening
  • Promote co-design and co-production with communities, policy-makers and
  • Health practitioners.

Types of Research

• They’re looking to fund research projects that will lead to tangible change in health policy and practice in the near future through practical, impact focused research.
• They aim to support a diverse portfolio and examples of the types of research they will support, include:
  • Feasibility studies which include evaluation of impact and stakeholder engagement
  • Late-stage intervention development and testing, which can include global health trials from phase 2b (efficacy) onwards
  • Implementation and scale-up research
  • Health economic research as part of a broader health intervention project
  • The impact of policy changes or other similar interventions on health, particularly with a multisectoral lens
  • Environmental (including climate change), cultural and social approaches within health focused projects
  • Applied modelling

Funding information

• They will accept applications of all sizes from £150,000 up to approximately £2 million MRC contribution.
• Duration: They will fund projects lasting up to five years, although projects typically last three to four years.

Eligible Cost

• You can request funding for costs such as:
  • a contribution to the salary of the project lead and project co-leads (UK)
  • 100% salary costs for project leads and project co-leads (international), based within an LMIC
  • support for other posts such as research and technical
  • research consumables
  • equipment
  • travel costs
  • data preservation, data sharing and dissemination costs
  • estates and indirect costs
  • research capacity strengthening activities (excluding Masters/PhD fees and stipends)
  • LMIC publication costs can be requested, where all the authors are from LMICs

Ineligible Cost

• They will not fund:
  • Master’s and PhD studentships
  • UK publication costs
  • funding to use as a ‘bridge’ between grants

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible to apply for this funding opportunity you must:
  • be eligible as an individual
  • be based at either an eligible UK research organisation, or based in a:
    • research organisation in a low or middle-income country (LMIC), with degreeawarding powers recognised by the government in which the organisation is based
    • research-focused institute based in an LMIC either funded by the government of the country in which the organisation is based, or by a not-for-profit organisation
    • research-focused not-for-profit organisation based in an LMIC with dedicated research capacity
  • Medical Research Council (MRC) particularly encourages applications from:
    • Researchers based in LMICs
    • UK-based researchers who are eligible to apply for MRC funding and work in equitable partnership with LMIC researchers
    • LMIC countries.

Ineligibility Criteria

• You are not eligible to apply if:
  • You are based in a high-income country (does not include UK project leads, who are eligible), or in India, you are not eligible to be project lead, but may be eligible to be project co-lead (international).
  • You are based in China. You are not eligible to be project lead, but may be eligible to be either a project partner or project co-lead (International) with £0 cost.

For more information, visit UK Research and Innovation.

Deadline: 01-Nov-2024

The Wild Animal Initiative’s Challenge Grants support researchers exploring critical research questions that will unlock new avenues of wild animal welfare research and are not prioritized by other funders.

Research Topics 

• Welfare indicator validation: Testing whether proposed welfare indicators and metrics respond in the biologically expected direction under conditions that are established to be positive or negative for welfare.
• Interspecific interactions: Trade-offs and synergies in the welfare of members of different wild animal species, including via predation, competition, or facilitation.
• Population dynamics: Welfare implications of population size relative to limiting factors at all scales, from resource limitation, to sibling competition, to cooperative defense, to disease transmission.
• Cause-specific mortality: How wild animals die, and what factors may directly and indirectly lead to their deaths.
• Landscape ecology: Variation in wild animal welfare across land cover types and in relation to geographical features, such as habitat edges.
• Cascade effects: Conceptual analysis of community dynamics to understand indirect effects of species and habitat parameters on others’ welfare.
• Welfare interventions: Intervening in ecological systems to improve wild animal welfare, including characterizing direct impacts and potential indirect impacts on non-target species. Promising examples include wildlife contraception and vaccination.
• Juvenile welfare: Investigating how welfare varies across life stages in wild animals, with a particular focus on early life stages, as these tend to be the most abundant.
• Invertebrate welfare: Assessing welfare in wild invertebrates.
• Fish welfare: Assessing welfare in wild fish.

Funding Information

• Grant amount: up to $50,000 — $100,000 USD
• Duration: Up to 5 years

Eligibility Criteria

• Challenge Grant projects must be led by an experienced principal investigator, but can include financial support for students or other early-career collaborators. When submitting an expression of interest for a Challenge Grant, applicants may request to be considered for a WAI Fellowship, which offers mentorship and a supplementary stipend to postdoctoral researchers and PhD students pursuing a long-term career in wild animal welfare research. The process and parameters for 2024 fellowships will be shared with those invited to apply at the full proposal stage.
• Eligible projects include those that are standalone, or those that add a wild animal welfare component to an existing non-Wild Animal Initiative funded project to broaden its scope.
• Projects must be led by a principal investigator who is affiliated with a university or other research institution (e.g. a government agency).
• Projects must be led by or include collaborators who are residents of all countries where field work will take place. If a project is managed by an NGO, that NGO must be registered in the country where field work will take place.
• They prioritize funding for direct research costs (e.g. supplies, materials), though they do fund other expense areas (e.g. stipends, salaries, capital equipment) if they are fully justified relative to the project goals. They will not reject a proposal based solely on budget without first asking applicants to consider modifications, but applicants should limit their requests to what is reasonably needed to complete the project.

Ineligibility Criteria

• They do not provide funding for indirect costs or institutional overhead.
• They are unable to sponsor visas, so they generally cannot fund work that would be carried out in the United States by a non-US resident.
• They are unable to fund research carried out in nations subject to sanctions by the United States (e.g. Iran, North Korea, Russia) or researchers who are residents of those nations.
• They generally do not fund more than one active project being led by the same Principal Investigator at the same time.
• Projects that do not characterize the subjective experience (welfare) of animals or do not treat it as their objective.
• Projects focused exclusively on wildlife conservation.

Selection Criteria

• Scope: The approximate number of animals who could potentially benefit from the results of a project. They aim to understand and improve the welfare of as many individual animals as possible.
• Impact: The likelihood that a project will lead to an improvement in wild animal welfare now or in the future, and the magnitude of that potential improvement.
• Engagement: The extent to which a project is likely to accelerate or inspire other research or action in support of wild animal welfare.
• Neglectedness: The distinctiveness of a project’s relevance to wild animal welfare, such that it would be unlikely to attract funding from another organization.
• Feasibility: The likelihood that a project could be carried out as described and accomplish its objectives.
• Research ethics: The risk of a project causing harm to human or non-human animals through its methods. Projects that propose using invasive methods must explain why those methods are required and non-invasive alternatives are insufficient.
• Cost-effectiveness: Given two projects of approximately equal overall merit (considering the above criteria), they will give preference to the one with the lower budget. Limiting activities in your project that do not contribute to understanding welfare or obtaining co-funding for them can improve your likelihood of receiving funding from WAI.

Guidelines

• Proposals must clearly explain how the project is relevant to wild animals’ welfare, as defined by Wild Animal Initiative.
• Proposals must clearly identify and explain the project’s relevance to one or more of the themes featured in the call.
• Proposals should clearly explain the project’s relevance to multiple domains of welfare.
• Projects must adhere to Wild Animal Initiative’s guidance for animals involved in research, if your project will involve any work with animals, in the field or the lab. Please be aware we are less likely to select a proposed project that would cause any harm to animals. If distressing methods are to be used, welfare concerns should be elaborated in the animal methods form and the methods should be justified with evidence showing why the use of alternatives would not be possible. We generally will not fund projects that use destructive sampling methods. If you believe that the objectives of your study cannot be accomplished without killing or physically harming animals and you cannot identify alternative methods, please reach out and we can discuss what options may be available to you.
• Proposals must clearly justify the study approach chosen, including identifying the resources available for the study and the expertise of team members.
• Proposals must clearly describe the amount of time required from each project team member and confirm that they are able to make that commitment.

For more information, visit Wild Animal Initiative.

Deadline: 01-Nov-2024

The Wild Animal Initiative’s Discovery Grants program provides funding for projects that expand the evidence base of wild animal welfare.

Research Topics

• Welfare indicator validation: Testing whether proposed welfare indicators and metrics respond in the biologically expected direction under conditions that are established to be positive or negative for welfare.
• Interspecific interactions: Trade-offs and synergies in the welfare of members of different wild animal species, including via predation, competition, or facilitation.
• Population dynamics: Welfare implications of population size relative to limiting factors at all scales, from resource limitation, to sibling competition, to cooperative defense, to disease transmission.
• Cause-specific mortality: How wild animals die, and what factors may directly and indirectly lead to their deaths.
• Landscape ecology: Variation in wild animal welfare across land cover types and in relation to geographical features, such as habitat edges.
• Cascade effects: Conceptual analysis of community dynamics to understand indirect effects of species and habitat parameters on others’ welfare.
• Welfare interventions: Intervening in ecological systems to improve wild animal welfare, including characterizing direct impacts and potential indirect impacts on non-target species. Promising examples include wildlife contraception and vaccination.
• Juvenile welfare: Investigating how welfare varies across life stages in wild animals, with a particular focus on early life stages, as these tend to be the most abundant.
• Invertebrate welfare: Assessing welfare in wild invertebrates.
• Fish welfare: Assessing welfare in wild fish.

Funding Information

• Grant amount: up to $10,000–$50,000 USD
• Duration: Up to 3 years

Eligibility Criteria

• Discovery Grants are available to anyone, but they are especially interested in supporting early career researchers (postdocs and PhD students) pursuing a long-term research career in wild animal welfare, or established researchers who seek to expand their research portfolio to include wild animal welfare.
• Eligible projects include those that are standalone, or those that add a wild animal welfare component to an existing non-Wild Animal Initiative funded project to broaden its scope.
• Projects must be led by a principal investigator who is affiliated with a university or other research institution (e.g. a government agency).
• Projects must be led by or include collaborators who are residents of all countries where field work will take place. If a project is managed by an NGO, that NGO must be registered in the country where field work will take place.
• They prioritize funding for direct research costs (e.g. supplies, materials), though they do fund other expense areas (e.g. stipends, salaries, capital equipment) if they are fully justified relative to the project goals. They will not reject a proposal based solely on budget without first asking applicants to consider modifications, but applicants should limit their requests to what is reasonably needed to complete the project.

Ineligibility Criteria

• They do not provide funding for indirect costs or institutional overhead.
• They are unable to sponsor visas, so they generally cannot fund work that would be carried out in the United States by a non-US resident.
• They are unable to fund research carried out in nations subject to sanctions by the United States (e.g. Iran, North Korea, Russia) or researchers who are residents of those nations.
• They generally do not fund more than one active project being led by the same Principal Investigator at the same time.
• Projects that do not characterize the subjective experience (welfare) of animals or do not treat it as their objective.
• Projects focused exclusively on wildlife conservation.

Selection Criteria

• Scope: The approximate number of animals who could potentially benefit from the results of a project. They aim to understand and improve the welfare of as many individual animals as possible.
• Impact: The likelihood that a project will lead to an improvement in wild animal welfare now or in the future, and the magnitude of that potential improvement.
• Engagement: The extent to which a project is likely to accelerate or inspire other research or action in support of wild animal welfare.
• Neglectedness: The distinctiveness of a project’s relevance to wild animal welfare, such that it would be unlikely to attract funding from another organization.
• Feasibility: The likelihood that a project could be carried out as described and accomplish its objectives.
• Research ethics: The risk of a project causing harm to human or non-human animals through its methods. Projects that propose using invasive methods must explain why those methods are required and non-invasive alternatives are insufficient.
• Cost-effectiveness: Given two projects of approximately equal overall merit (considering the above criteria), they will give preference to the one with the lower budget. Limiting activities in your project that do not contribute to understanding welfare or obtaining co-funding for them can improve your likelihood of receiving funding from WAI.

Guidelines

• Proposals must clearly explain how the project is relevant to wild animals’ welfare, as defined by Wild Animal Initiative.
• Proposals must clearly identify and explain the project’s relevance to one or more of the themes featured in the call.
• Proposals should clearly explain the project’s relevance to multiple domains of welfare.
• Projects must adhere to Wild Animal Initiative’s guidance for animals involved in research, if your project will involve any work with animals, in the field or the lab. Please be aware we are less likely to select a proposed project that would cause any harm to animals. If distressing methods are to be used, welfare concerns should be elaborated in the animal methods form and the methods should be justified with evidence showing why the use of alternatives would not be possible. We generally will not fund projects that use destructive sampling methods. If you believe that the objectives of your study cannot be accomplished without killing or physically harming animals and you cannot identify alternative methods, please reach out and we can discuss what options may be available to you.
• Proposals must clearly justify the study approach chosen, including identifying the resources available for the study and the expertise of team members.
• Proposals must clearly describe the amount of time required from each project team member and confirm that they are able to make that commitment.

For more information, visit Wild Animal Initiative.

Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity

The Defenders in Development (DID) campaign is awarding a limited number of small grants to support groups from the Global South to carry out work to prevent and address risks human rights defenders face, when raising their voices about projects financed by development banks.

In addition to the financial support, the Campaign is also ready to offer technical support and guidance on research and advocacy on reprisals related to activities supported by development banks.

Goals

• The grants can support projects which align with the goals of the DID campaign, including but not limited to the following:
  • supporting human rights defenders in conducting advocacy with development banks on their reprisal-related and civic space concerns, pushing development banks to have better policies and practices to prevent and respond to reprisals, or to address civic space issues;
  • supporting advocacy actions and campaigns to hold development banks accountable to their commitments on reprisals;
  • supporting human rights defenders in researching and documenting reprisals against defenders in the context of development projects;
  • supporting human rights defenders in researching and documenting the bank’s lack of due diligence on reprisal risks in the context of their projects.

Funding Information

• Small Grants (up to USD 5,000)

Eligibility Criteria

• All countries are eligible, but proposals must meet the following criteria:
  • have a component related to civic space, the security of defenders or reprisals (such as threats, attacks, judicial harassment, etc) against human rights defenders;
  • involve at least one development finance institution or have the potential to involve at least one development finance institution.
  • Examples of the types of projects which the policy grants could support include (this is a non-exhaustive list):
    • supply chain research: support for salary for a staff person or external consultants to identify linkages between cases of reprisals and projects funded by development banks;
    • advocacy: Support for a staff person to raise cases of reprisals or civic space issues with the development banks;
    • convening: funds for meeting and logistical costs associated with facilitating a meeting, conference or consultation on a topic related to the development banks and reprisals and/or the campaign’s objectives;
    • research and documentation: Conducting research which supports the goals of the campaign such as into what failures by the development banks have led to a specific reprisal, or into trends in a region related to reprisals linked to development projects.

For more information, visit Coalition for Human Rights in Development.

Deadline: 01-Nov-2024

The Wild Animal Initiative’s Seed Grants program provides small amounts of funding to help researchers develop new ideas or build wild animal welfare questions into existing projects.

Research Topics 

• Welfare indicator validation: Testing whether proposed welfare indicators and metrics respond in the biologically expected direction under conditions that are established to be positive or negative for welfare.
• Interspecific interactions: Trade-offs and synergies in the welfare of members of different wild animal species, including via predation, competition, or facilitation.
• Population dynamics: Welfare implications of population size relative to limiting factors at all scales, from resource limitation, to sibling competition, to cooperative defense, to disease transmission.
• Cause-specific mortality: How wild animals die, and what factors may directly and indirectly lead to their deaths.
• Landscape ecology: Variation in wild animal welfare across land cover types and in relation to geographical features, such as habitat edges.
• Cascade effects: Conceptual analysis of community dynamics to understand indirect effects of species and habitat parameters on others’ welfare.
• Welfare interventions: Intervening in ecological systems to improve wild animal welfare, including characterizing direct impacts and potential indirect impacts on non-target species. Promising examples include wildlife contraception and vaccination.
• Juvenile welfare: Investigating how welfare varies across life stages in wild animals, with a particular focus on early life stages, as these tend to be the most abundant.
• Invertebrate welfare: Assessing welfare in wild invertebrates.
• Fish welfare: Assessing welfare in wild fish.

Funding Information

• Grant amount: up to $10,000 USD
• Duration: Up to 2 years

Eligibility Criteria

• Seed Grants are available to anyone, but they are especially interested in supporting early career researchers (postdocs and PhD students) pursuing a long-term research career in wild animal welfare, or established researchers who seek to expand their research portfolio to include wild animal welfare.
• Eligible projects include those that are standalone, or those that add a wild animal welfare component to an existing non-Wild Animal Initiative funded project to broaden its scope.
• Projects must be led by a principal investigator who is affiliated with a university or other research institution (e.g. a government agency).
• Projects must be led by or include collaborators who are residents of all countries where field work will take place. If a project is managed by an NGO, that NGO must be registered in the country where field work will take place.
• They prioritize funding for direct research costs (e.g. supplies, materials), though they do fund other expense areas (e.g. stipends, salaries, capital equipment) if they are fully justified relative to the project goals. They will not reject a proposal based solely on budget without first asking applicants to consider modifications, but applicants should limit their requests to what is reasonably needed to complete the project.

Ineligibility Criteria

• They do not provide funding for indirect costs or institutional overhead.
• They are unable to sponsor visas, so they generally cannot fund work that would be carried out in the United States by a non-US resident.
• They are unable to fund research carried out in nations subject to sanctions by the United States (e.g. Iran, North Korea, Russia) or researchers who are residents of those nations.
• They generally do not fund more than one active project being led by the same Principal Investigator at the same time.
• Projects that do not characterize the subjective experience (welfare) of animals or do not treat it as their objective.
• Projects focused exclusively on wildlife conservation.

Selection Criteria

• Scope: The approximate number of animals who could potentially benefit from the results of a project. They aim to understand and improve the welfare of as many individual animals as possible.
• Impact: The likelihood that a project will lead to an improvement in wild animal welfare now or in the future, and the magnitude of that potential improvement.
• Engagement: The extent to which a project is likely to accelerate or inspire other research or action in support of wild animal welfare.
• Neglectedness: The distinctiveness of a project’s relevance to wild animal welfare, such that it would be unlikely to attract funding from another organization.
• Feasibility: The likelihood that a project could be carried out as described and accomplish its objectives.
• Research ethics: The risk of a project causing harm to human or non-human animals through its methods. Projects that propose using invasive methods must explain why those methods are required and non-invasive alternatives are insufficient.
• Cost-effectiveness: Given two projects of approximately equal overall merit (considering the above criteria), they will give preference to the one with the lower budget. Limiting activities in your project that do not contribute to understanding welfare or obtaining co-funding for them can improve your likelihood of receiving funding from WAI.

Guidelines

• Proposals must clearly explain how the project is relevant to wild animals’ welfare, as defined by Wild Animal Initiative.
• Proposals must clearly identify and explain the project’s relevance to one or more of the themes featured in the call.
• Proposals should clearly explain the project’s relevance to multiple domains of welfare.
• Projects must adhere to Wild Animal Initiative’s guidance for animals involved in research, if your project will involve any work with animals, in the field or the lab. Please be aware we are less likely to select a proposed project that would cause any harm to animals. If distressing methods are to be used, welfare concerns should be elaborated in the animal methods form and the methods should be justified with evidence showing why the use of alternatives would not be possible. We generally will not fund projects that use destructive sampling methods. If you believe that the objectives of your study cannot be accomplished without killing or physically harming animals and you cannot identify alternative methods, please reach out and we can discuss what options may be available to you.
• Proposals must clearly justify the study approach chosen, including identifying the resources available for the study and the expertise of team members.
• Proposals must clearly describe the amount of time required from each project team member and confirm that they are able to make that commitment.

For more information, visit Wild Animal Initiative.