The Global Grants Programme (GGP) was launched to support focussed and results-oriented projects that improve data from health public in the priority areas of the Data for Health Initiative so that governments are equipped with the tools and systems to collect and use data effectively.

Priority areas

• Civil Registration and Vital Statistics
  • Improving the Governance and Coordination of CRVS;
  • Improving the Notification and Registration of Vital Events;
  • Improving medical certification of cause of death;
  • Instituting or improving ICD coding;
  • Implementation of Verbal Autopsy;
  • Improving the analysis, publication and dissemination of Vital Statistics;
  • CRVS Legal and Regulatory Review and Reform.
• Data impact
  • Development of indicators;
  • Data dashboards;
  • Design/reform of the decision-making process - prioritisation, budgeting, planning;
  • Capacity building - analysing data for public health practice;
  • Development or improvement of the data report;
  • Development or improvement of national health bulletins;
  • Online data access;
  • Development of scientific communications.
• Non-Communicable Disease Surveys
  • Research design and planning;
  • Research implementation;
  • Analysing the research;
  • Publicising the research.
• Cancer Registry
  • Improving the governance and coordination of the cancer registry;
  • Improving cancer registration;
  • Improving the quality of cancer registry data;
  • Improving cancer registry analyses, publication, dissemination.
• Covid-19
  • CRVS
    • Rapid mortality surveillance;
    • Certification and Coding of COVID-19 and Iris Recommendations for COVID-19;
    • Verbal Autopsy in the Context of COVID-19;
    • Measuring excess mortality due to COVID-19;
    • Maintenance of the Civil Registry during COVID-19;
    • Evaluation of the quality of mortality data using ANACONDA during COVID-19.
  • Data impact
    • Analysing COVID-19 Data for Action in Public Health.
  • Research
    • Development of surveys to collect population data on COVID-19.

Financing Information

• For the current funding round, up to US$ 150,000 will be awarded for projects to be completed over a period of 18 months.
• Short-term, highly focussed projects with lower budgets are strongly encouraged.

Financing exclusions

• Projects related to contact tracing or the delivery of COVID-19 aid or other services
• Personal protective equipment, laboratory equipment, biological analysis
• Individual study or training
• Raising/"increasing" the salaries of existing MOH employees (salary compensation is acceptable)
• Lobby
• Capital Expenditure
  • New Construction
  • Vehicles
  • Computer or other electronic equipment (unless intrinsic to the project)

Eligibility criteria

• The Global Grants Programme is aimed at ministries of health, statistics and other relevant bodies at national, sub-national or municipal level in low- and middle-income countries that have not received funding from the University of Data for Health. In certain cases, applications from NGOs that have strong relationships with the government will also be considered.

For more information, visit https://www.d4hglobalgrantsprogram.org/process