Wales4Africa Health Links grant scheme

Sue BowkerJon Townley

Neil RileyTaj Hasan

Funding 2011-12

• £100,000

• 27 valid bids

• Assessed by panel

• 11 projects supported

• Funding released on receipt of confirmation of flight booking

• Mid year report due now – update on aims and objectives

Funding 2012-15

• £100,000 per annum• Proportion for 3 year bids (25K)• Opens Monday 12th December 2011• Closing date Monday 5th March 2012• 4 sections to form:

Section A – all to completeSection B – complete for 1-year fundingSection C – complete for 3-year fundingSection D – all to complete

Assessment

• Assessment panel – membership to be confirmed – panel members must have no personal links with any of the applicants

• Aim to send grant offers by Thursday 5th April

Eligibility

This will be assessed first, before any scoring of the proposed intervention:

• Contributes to MDGs 4,5 and/or 6

• Primarily non-capital

• Applicant is project lead, based in Wales and working in the health field

MDG 4 Reduce Child MortalityReduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the

mortality rate of children under 5

• Little or no progress in much of sub-Saharan Africa

• Causes: Malnutrition Lack of access to primary health care, water

and sanitation Pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria and AIDS

• Improvement in measles vaccination needs to be sustained

MDG 5 Improve Maternal HealthReduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the

maternal mortality rateAchieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health

• Maternal mortality risk in sub-Saharan Africa is 1 in 30

• Most maternal deaths could be avoided with access to adequate reproductive health services, equipment, supplies and skilled healthcare workers

• Risk highest for adolescent girls

MDG 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases

• Halt and begin to reverse, by 2015, the spread of HIV/AIDS

• Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it

• Halt and begin to reverse, by 2015, the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

MDG 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases

• HIV is leading cause of death among reproductive-age women worldwide

• 2/3 of those living with HIV in 2008 lived in sub-Saharan Africa

• 14.1million children in sub-Saharan Africa have lost one or both parents to AIDS

• Knowledge is first step to avoiding transmission, but few young people know basic facts

MDG 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases

• Over 216 million case of malaria in Africa in 2008

• Malaria is chief contributor to anaemia among children and pregnant women

• TB second leading killer after HIV

• Measles and polio also mentioned in UN documents

Section A (i)– all to complete• Name address etc• Are you the lead for the intervention? Y / N Is the lead based in

Wales? Y / N

• Which of the following Millennium Development Goals (four, five and/or six)* does your intervention** contribute to:

• four - to reduce Child Mortality; Y / N• five - to improve Maternal Health; Y /

N• six - to combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases? Y / N

• How does your intervention contribute towards Millennium Development Goal four, five, six, or a combination of them?

• Details of link

Section A (ii)– all to complete• (1) Requirement.

Why is this intervention needed? Please consider how the need has been identified (i.e. locally, in Africa)

• (2) Background and Evidence.What is the background to your intervention? What is the evidence base for the work you are proposing? If this is an existing health link, please consider what has been achieved so far.

Section B (i)– complete for 1-year funding

• How much funding are you applying for?• How much funding are you obtaining from other

sources?

• (B3) Aims and Objectives. What are the aims of your intervention and what specific things are you going to do to achieve these?

• (B4) Outcome. What do you expect to be the result of your work?

• (B5) Evaluation.How will you measure the success of your work?

Section B (ii)– complete for 1-year funding

• (B6) Delivery.Who will be involved in the delivery of the intervention (eg. trainer, midwife, GP, lecturer, other professional)?

• (B7) SustainabilityHow will your intervention continue to run beyond the period of grant funding?

• (B8) Budget.What do you intend to spend the grant money on?

Section C – complete for 3-year funding

• You can complete both Sections B and C

• We will assess Section C first, and those unsuccessful will then be considered for 1-year funding IF Section B has been completed.

Section C – complete for 3-year funding

• How much funding are you applying for, for each year?2012-13; 2013-14; 2014-15

• How much funding are you obtaining from other sources?2012-13; 2013-14; 2014-15

• Then same questions 3-7 as for Section B• (C8) Budget.

What do you intend to spend the grant money on? Please state for each year.2012-13; 2013-14; 2014-15

Section D – all to complete

• Statement of declaration (to be completed by the applicant)

• Put a cross by each section included

SECTION A □ (pg 1-2)

SECTION B □ (pg 3-4) AND/OR

SECTION C □ (pg 5-7)

SECTION D □ (pg 8)

Application Deadline

• If your application doesn’t reach us by Monday 5th March it won’t be considered (dropping it at reception at 7pm on 5th March isn’t good enough – it needs to be date stamped no later than 5th March)

General hints

• Sell your intervention

• Don’t assume that we know about your work

• Answer the questions fully but don’t include reams of unnecessary information

• Be realistic about budget

• Make sure we have a means of contacting you during the assessment period