Funding Announcement

	Funding Opportunites - Research Further details regarding this announcement can be found at: https://www.idrc.ca/en/news/canada-launches-new-funding-opportunity-support-canadian-african-research-teams-studying-ebo
Sponsor/Award:	INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTR - RRF FOR EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE OUTBREAKS - 2018 COMPETITION

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Deadline:	Dean's: Contact your Faculty Research Office for deadline details. Internal: Jul 06, 2018 Sponsor's: Jul 13, 2018

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Description:	The Government of Canada, through three of its dedicated funding agencies, has launched a new partnership aimed at sustainably improving Ebola response capacities in and around the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and surrounding region. The Rapid Research Fund (RRF) for Ebola Virus Disease Outbreaks will fund social science, population and public health, and health systems research relevant to the emerging crisis. A minimum of four successful teams will be eligible to receive research grants up to CA$360,000 over two years (2018?2020). The focus of the supported research will be to inform the response to the current Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in the DRC with the aim of improving prevention and preparedness efforts to future Ebola or similarly significant infectious threats in the region. As the fund is designed for rapid research support, the focus will remain broad enough to receive and adapt to identified priorities and will avoid being prescriptive in nature. Projects should aim to apply social science, humanities, population and public health and/or health systems research approaches that build on previous learnings and/or respond to documented knowledge and practice gaps of integrating these research approaches for more effective outbreak response, containment and mitigation efforts.

Application Details:	Partnerships between African and Canadian researchers are mandatory, including the following: Application from one Canadian lead applicant and an African co-lead applicant. OR Application from one African lead applicant and a Canadian co-lead applicant. Eligible organizations are legal entities, such as accredited universities, non-governmental or government-funded research organizations. All applications must be submitted through an online application system. Please click here to access the online application system and all the documents related to this Call. IDRC will allow indirect costs up to 13%. Where your institution has a policy of recovering its indirect costs through the application of a percentage, it shall be able to satisfy IDRC or its auditors that the levy is fair and reasonable. IDRC WILL ALLOW INDIRECT COSTS UP TO 13%
NOTE: All Letters of Intent and Full Applications must be processed through Research Development & Services for institutional approval. Requests for Institutional approvals should be received no less than 3 days prior to the posted Sponsor deadline. A ROLA Proposal (bearing applicant, Chair and Dean electronic approvals) is required for each submission.
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Sponsor Contacts:	250 ALBERT STREET P.O. BOX 8500 OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada (613) 236-6163