From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Cheryl Jacob</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:CJacob@oxfam.org.uk">CJacob@oxfam.org.uk</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><br><font face="sans-serif">Find herebelow the advert for
the Health Policy Action Fund's Call for Proposals Round II.</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif">Please circulate among your health CSOs,
Networks and Coalitions.</font>
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<p class="Default"><span style> </span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Health Policy Action Fund (HPAF) - Call for Proposals </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Health Policy Action
Fund (HPAF) invites Civil Society Organisations from 30 IHP+ countries to
submit proposals for funding of health policy work at national level. The
grants will fund work over an 18-month period starting in April 2012, and have
a maximum of US$ 30,000 per grantee. Interested applicants are requested to
visit the HPAF website at <a href="http://www.healthpolicyactionfund.org">www.healthpolicyactionfund.org</a> for the detailed
Criteria for Selection and the proposal application forms. </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The call for proposals opens
25 January 2012. The closing date for receiving applications is 17h00 (Pretoria Time) on 28
February 2012. Forms can be downloaded from the HPAF website. Proposals can be
sent to <a href="mailto:cjacob@oxfam.org.uk">cjacob@oxfam.org.uk</a>. </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We strongly encourage CSO
Health Coalitions and Networks working on a broad range of health policy issues
at national level to apply. The HPAF does not fund implementation of health
interventions. </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Background: IHP+ and Civil
Society Engagement in Health Policy </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">IHP+ is currently comprised of
55 partners, of which 30 are developing countries, who have committed
themselves to accelerate better health results in low and middle income
countries by putting the Paris
principles on aid effectiveness into practice in health. Partner signatories to
the Global Compact committed to achieve this through supporting strong and
comprehensive country and government-led national health plans in a
well-coordinated way. Civil society plays an important role in the IHP+ and in
the new Phase III workplan 2012-13. </span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">IHP+ has funded a small grants
scheme since in 2010, which has been managed by Oxfam under the name Health
Policy Action Fund (HPAF). The HPAF aims to support southern civil society
organizations, networks and coalitions to become more effectively engaged in
national health policy processes. Supported by the grants, recipients engage in
health policy and implementation monitoring and analysis, policy dialogue with
key national health stakeholders, and hold governments and aid donors
accountable to work towards achieving universal and equitable access to health
care and the health-related Millennium Development Goals. </span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This fund is now open to
support health organisations, networks and coalitions for health policy work in
30 IHP+ countries, in 2012-13. The IHP+ countries are: Benin, Burkina
Faso, Burundi,
Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape
Verde, Chad,
DRC, Djibouti, El Salvador, Ethiopia,
Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya,
Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania,
Mozambique, Nepal, Niger,
Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda,
Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan,
Togo, Uganda, Vietnam,
and Zambia.
</span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Health Policy Action Fund
(HPAF) will ensure a confidential, fair and equitable assessment of all
proposals. The assessment will be supported by a Project Technical Committee
including health policy experts from inside and outside of Oxfam. </span></p>
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Proposal Guidelines and
Application forms are available at: </span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><a href="http://www.healthpolicyactionfund.org">www.healthpolicyactionfund.org</a></span></b></p>