Strengthening Modeling and Analytics Capacity and Ecosystem for Women’s Health

"This RFP 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"
 

"Collaborative proposals that are led by investigators in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) - we particularly encourage applications from women-led organizations and applications involving projects led by women
Proposals that have the potential to have impact on addressing women's health issues within the proposed budget and timeframe of 1-to-3-years
Proposals that are gender intentional or transformative:
Gender intentional investments will, through novel modeling and analytical approaches, increase understanding of impact that gender gaps/barriers have across relevant global health fields
Gender transformative investments will, through novel modeling and analytical approaches, increase the understanding of empowerment on reduction of gender gaps/barriers across relevant global health fields
Should demonstrate that their approach will increase knowledge and understanding of gender barriers in modeling OR Should display how their methodologies would show impact alleviating a known gender gap/issue would have across relevant global health fields
Proposals should also highlight existing expertise around gender and modeling and how it will contribute to both novel methods and expanding the ecosystem
Proposals that demonstrate enhancement of the data value chain for gender intentional modelling
Proposals that have timely access to necessary data. Focus on improving gender modeling capacity in women's health in LMICs
Proposals that articulate how the project will lead to impact in the near-term and how those benefits will be sustained past the lifetime of the project
Proposals that demonstrate engagement with local and/or regional decision makers
Proposals that are driven by a shared commitment to open science, data sharing, and building collaboration and analysis infrastructure to enable discoveries that will benefit people everywhere
Note: Global partners may be included. However, priority will be given to proposals that demonstrate at least 80% of the funding is going to LMIC institutions and where the PI is a part of an LMIC institution."