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Call for Proposals
Meeting to Launch New Programme |
A new £1.2 million Knowledge and Research (KaR) Programme that will help identify and make better use of appropriate technologies will be launched on 18 December 2000 at the Institute of Child Health in London.
This innovative programme will encourage the development and use of appropriate disability and healthcare technologies. It is managed by a unique partnership between a management consulting firm - GIC Ltd - and a UK-based health, development and disability communications charity - Healthlink Worldwide. Funding for the programme is being provided by the Department for International Development (DFID).
The KaR Programme on Disability and Healthcare Technologies will make a total of £1.2 million available over the next two years to support a range of projects under the themes of:
- improving healthcare technologies and infrastructure for poor people;
- minimising the detrimental effects of disability on the lives of poor people.
The Programme sees technologies as including processes and management practices, organisational and supportive systems and dissemination practices that make them more accessible. The Programme will support projects that fall within one of three broad indicative categories:
- Development of a new technology
- Adoption of a newly developed technology
- Contribution to the wider use of a successful technology.
An annual competition will be used to select the projects that will be awarded funding. The first funding round will be launched on 18 December 2000, with a deadline for receipt of Concept Notes by 28 January 2001. Full details of the application process are available on the Programme's website http://www.kar-dht.org and the process will be fully explained at the launch meeting. Final decisions on the first group of successful projects will be made by 1 May 2001. Projects can be awarded funding for up to 100 per cent of their costs.
In selecting projects, the Programme will seek to provide a good balance between small and large projects, between disability and healthcare technologies, among the three categories identified, and ensure broad geographic coverage.
RSVP: Please contact: Anne-Laure Ropars at GIC to confirm that you can attend the launch meeting. Telephone: 020 7253 7000 or e-mail: kar@giclimited.com.
The KaR Programme on Disability and Healthcare Technology is jointly managed by Healthlink Worldwide, 40 Adler Street, London E1 1EE (Tel: +44 20 7539 1570; fax: +44 20 7539 1580; e-mail: kar@healthlink.org.uk) and GIC Ltd., 2 Benjamin Square, London EC1M 5QL (Tel: +44 20 7253 7000; fax:+44 20 7251 3100; email: kar@giclimited.com).