Request Fo Proposal 2013 - SiB: to Support Innovation in eye Health
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Date: July 22,2013.
Seeing is Believing is a collaboration between
Standard Chartered and the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness (IAPB)
to tackle avoidable blindness. We believe that there is a role for funders in
enabling and incentivising innovation.
The SiB Innovation Fund aims to fund projects that
develop and test ideas, new technology or operating models for delivering eye
care with the potential for high impact or even systemic change. The fund is
prepared to target projects with a higher degree of uncertainty around the
outcome than traditional grant funding in order to allow space for
organizations or individuals to experiment with new ideas and approaches that
have the potential to become viable new, cost-effective approaches to helping
tackle avoidable blindness.
The SiB Innovation Fund will seek applications on
an annual basis over the next three years, starting in 2013.
The SiB
Innovation Fund will be award grant funding to those projects that can clearly
demonstrate one or more of the following areas of innovation:
1) Technology - The use of new
technology, or existing technology in a new way, to improve delivery or access
to eye care, or that is focused on enabling blind/visually impaired people
to be more independent;
2) Information education
communication - New approaches to stimulating demand for eye
care services and building awareness of avoidable blindness and eye care in
communities and improving eye health seeking behaviour
3) Value for money - Initiatives to
dramatically reduce the cost of eye care delivery (e.g. service mechanisms or
equipment);
4) Sustainability - Experimentation
in developing more sustainable models of eye care provision, including
entrepreneurial modes of delivery or new forms of partnership between actors
that have not traditionally worked together;
5) Primary Eye Care and
Community Care - Innovative ways of incorporating actors operating
in the informal health system into the formal eye care system in order to
expand the reach of eye care delivery and /or improve quality of care for
patients, especially at the primary eye care level;
6) Capacity Building - Development of
new training or capacity-building techniques/products (e.g. for human
resources) with potential to bring about major improvements to cost-efficacy,
improved clinical/patient outcomes or increased sustainability;
7) Reaching remote
populations - New delivery models/approaches capable of
dramatically increasing access to eye care for remote populations;
8) Action research - Research that
has clear, actionable conclusions or recommendations with the potential to make
significant improvements to the practical delivery of VISION2020.
The SiB Innovation Fund is open to applications from:
- Non-governmental, not-for-profit groups (NGOs)
- Blindness/Disability Organisations (focused on the technology
category stated above)
- Academic institutions and Universities
- Research organisations
- Private sector companies (e.g. technology companies)
- Independent individuals (subject to the provision of two references
from a reputed institution or organisation and a 5% funding commitment).
Successful “Individual” applicants may be subject to a credit check.
- Applicants do not have to be registered charities.
Grant Limits:
The SiB Innovation Fund will seek applications on
an annual basis over the next three years, starting in 2013. Total available
funding available in each tranche will be US$ 1,000,000.00. The 2013 Tranche is
open for applications.
Project funding will vary depending on stage of
development (see Section 2 above for full description).
Stage 1 applications: Maximum grant will be
US$ 50,000.00
Stage 2 applications: Maximum grant will be US$
200,000.00
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