The African Culture Fund (ACF) is a pan-African fund that aims to support the sectors of arts education and cultural and creative industries on the African Continent.

The Fund seeks to professionalize of the creative sector, promote cultural entrepreneurs, artists, culture professionals and socio-economic and cultural organizations producing cultural goods and culture service providers.

For this first call, the Fund supports activities and projects in the Visual Arts field.

This call, therefore, concerns activities and projects for the creation, production, and dissemination of works of visual arts. This call concerns traditional visual arts, contemporary visual arts, photography, video art, digital art, decorative arts (textile art, design, marquetry …), etc.

This call covers all countries of the African continent.

For any project made in relation with this call, the maximum budget is US $ 10,000. Projects must be completed over a period not exceeding 18 months.

Applications should include the following attachments:

– The completed application form (in Word or PDF format)

– CV (in Word or PDF format) or references of the candidate

– Cover letter

Applications must be submitted in English or French.

Deadline for submission: Friday, 05 December 2018

The guidelines and the application form can be downloaded from the Fund’s website at by CLICKING.

For clarification or information please send an email to application@africanculturefund.net no later than October 31, 2018.

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THE 7TH EAST AFRICAN HEALTH AND SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE

Sub-themes will be presented and discussed during the first two days of the conference. Each sub-theme will start with a state-of-the-art presentation, after which evidence-based scientific material will be presented. The sub-themes will be presented by experts in the areas. They build on the main theme and provide detailed evidence-based information on specific key areas. These presentations will be discussed by the audience and experts. The presentations will result into outlines of recommendations.

1. Technologies supporting data for health system decision-making Pre-amble: the presentations and papers will focus on how technologies are strengthening public health governance, leadership, policy-making, performance of health programmes, etc. They will provide insight on the status of various electronic platforms (DHIS2, HIMS, LIMS, etc.) that have been employed by ministries, and allied organisations and institutions responsible for health.

2. Technologies for Disease Surveillance, Disease Outbreak Detection and Response, and Cross border mobility and disease tracking Pre-amble: papers and presentations will focus on innovative technologies that strengthen health information system, community health, and capacity to control diseases (e.g. outbreaks, epidemics, pandemics, and disease surveillance in general). Presentations will describe architectures of a technology-driven disease surveillance system; field practice and experience on utilisation of (digital) technologies to strengthen health systems

3. Innovative technologies and solutions for application in, and improvement of healthcare service delivery and health outcomes Pre-amble: the papers and presentations will focus on the use of technologies for healthcare services. The papers and presentations will demonstrate how technologies have improved care and outcomes. They will provide evidence on the role of technologies to provide accurate, comprehensive, and efficient health data, including point-of-care diagnostics, treatment, and adherence to treatment. The papers and presentations will demonstrate how primary health care can benefit from use of Digital Health, and the role of telemedicine.

4. Costing and Financing Health: the role of Digital Health, International Remittances, Universal Health Care, and EAC status on the UN SDGs Pre-amble: papers and presentation will showcase the value of technologies in resource management; the economies of scale associated with the use of technologies in health. The role of mobile financial services in improving health services, innovative technologies for health insurance, etc.

5. Health knowledge management through digital technologies and solutions in East Africa: health research, training, and care Pre-amble: papers and presentations will focus, on and showcase how technologies and solutions are leveraging knowledge management and the effective use of knowledge. The value-added of real-time data flow, training health workforce including community health workers into technologysavvy health workforce. Scaling up technology-driven research and big data aggregation and analytics

DATE: 27th – 29th March 2019 VENUE: Nyerere International Convention Centre (NICC) Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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This call for proposals seeks fundamentally new strategies for manufacturing gut microbial biotherapeutics to achieve manufacturing efficiency and cost reductions necessary for global health applications. We are particularly open to high risk, unproven concepts that could yield novel systems. We also encourage approaches that may be carried out in low- and middle- income countries (LMIC) and proposers currently working in these settings.

Strategies could include (but are certainly not limited to or constrained by) the following ideas:

• Different reactor designs including continuous stirred-tank, multistage and/or multiphasic bioreactors with small footprints
• Disposable or low capital cost bioreactor designs
• Spatial structuring or immobilization at varying length scales, spatial gradients, media viscosity (i.e. liquid or solid state)
• Dynamically changing growth conditions and inoculation strategies reducing batch-to-batch variability
• Various growth conditions including temperature, gas composition, mixing and dilution rate
• Novel, low-cost media components

Proposals should specifically detail how they will demonstrate a prototype process operating at lab-scale or greater enabling the manufacture of a diverse health-associated gut microbiota as may be expected in a live biotherapeutic product, specifically 1) production of at least 10 distinct strains derived from the healthy human gut 2) including at least two strains from the Firmicutes phylum of which at least one strain is highly oxygen-sensitive, at least two strains from the Bacteroidetes phylum and at least two strains from the Actinobacteria phylum. These strains could be obtained from commercial culture collections (i.e. ATCC or DSMZ) or may be novel isolates. It is likely that the growth of multiple strains together simultaneously may be required for efficiency although other strategies can be pursued.

Funding Information

• Awards of $100,000 USD are made in Phase I.
• Phase I awardees have one opportunity to apply for a follow-on Phase II award of up to $1,000,000 USD.

Eligibility Criteria

GCE is open to both foreign and domestic organizations, including non-profit organizations, for-profit companies, international organizations, government agencies, and academic institutions.

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Voice is currently accepting proposals from nationally registered organizations, networks, coalitions and consortia for projects between 18 months to 24 months, for a grant of between EUR 25,000 to EUR 200,000.

Target Groups

• Women facing exploitation, abuse and/or violence
• Persons with disabilities
• Age discriminated especially the youth and elderly
• Indigenous people and ethnic minorities

Themes

All projects MUST focus on at least one of the following impact themes:

• Improved access to (productive) resources such as land, extractives, and employment,
• Improved access to social services, particularly health and education, and
• Fostering space for political participation and citizen engagement

Eligibility Criteria

• Applications are accepted from ONLY locally registered not-for-profit Tanzanian organizations working in Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Zanzibar, Tanga, and Morogoro.
• International organizations are NOT eligible to apply as lead organizations but can be co-applicants in case of consortium applications.

Deadline: 19 Oct 2018

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The African World Heritage Fund (AWHF) is an intergovernmental organization created in 2006 to support the effective conservation and protection of

cultural

and natural heritage of outstanding universal value in Africa. The main objective of the AWHF is to address the challenges faced by African State Parties in the implementation of the 1972 Convention, specifically, the underrepresentation of African sites on the World Heritage List and the insufficient conservation and management of these sites.

Eligibility

i. African State Party to the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage

ii. Projects activities are restricted to World Heritage Sites as declared by UNESCO.

iii. Project proposals MUST address challenges affecting the State of Conservation of selected World Heritage property.

iv. Who can apply? Government institutions involved in the management and protection of World Heritage Sites.

v. The application must be approved by Head/ Director of heritage institution/organization accompanied by a cover letter endorsing the project.

Duration

The projects MUST be implemented within 12 months. 5.

Budget

a) AWHF grant will only cover direct costs related to the project activities.

b) Applicants should provide detailed budget in US$ for every activity to be implemented;

c) Applicants should indicate the State Parties’ contribution to the project.

Deadline for submission

The deadline for submission - 12.00 pm (CAT) on 14th October 2018. However, applicants are highly encouraged to submit their proposals prior to the deadline. Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

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The United States Government, as represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. Global Development Lab (Lab), is seeking applications for the Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) program.

Through a year-round grant competition, Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) sources innovative ideas, pilots and rigorously tests them and supports the scale-up of solutions that demonstrate proven impact and cost-effectiveness. DIV’s tiered funding model; inspired by venture capital funds, invests comparatively small amounts of funding in a variety of unproven ideas and provides more substantial support only to those that demonstrate rigorous evidence of impact, cost-effectiveness, and potential to scale. Taking a portfolio approach to its impact enables DIV to embrace risk – and occasional failure – as it generates an evidence base for open innovation. DIV’s aim is to create a portfolio of innovations across all sectors and geographies in which USAID works, to improve the lives of millions around the world.

DIV funds development innovations, which can include:

• New technologies.
• New ways of delivering or financing goods and services.
• More cost-effective adaptations to existing solutions.
• New ways of increasing uptake of existing proven solutions,
• Policy changes, shifts, or nudges based on insights from behavioral economics.
• Social or behavioral innovations.

Eligibility Criteria

• Public, private, for-profit, and nonprofit organizations, as well as institutions of higher education, public international organizations, non-governmental organizations, the USA and non-USA governmental organizations, multilateral and international donor organizations, are eligible under this APS.
• All organizations must be determined to be responsive to the APS and sufficiently responsible to perform or participate in the final award.
• This award is also contingent on USAID obtaining concurrence from the responsible Mission.
• All applicants must be legally recognized organizational entities under applicable law. Local organizations are eligible and encouraged to apply, as well as consortia of local organizations.
• Participation of foreign government organizations under this APS is possible only through an approved sub-award agreement with a prime recipient.
• USAID encourages applications from new partners. Resultant awards to new partners may require
• USAID to undertake necessary pre-award reviews of these organizations to determine “responsibility” in regards to fiduciary and other oversight responsibilities of the award.

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