Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Global Infectious Disease Research Administration Development Awards for Low-to Middle-Income Country Institutions (G11)


Notice Number:

NOT-AI-15-011

Key Dates

Release Date: December 17, 2014

Estimated Publication Date of Announcement: January 2015

First Estimated Application Due Date: July 2015

Earliest Estimated Award Date: May 2016

Earliest Estimated Start Date: July 2016

Related Announcements

None

Issued by

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Purpose

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases intends to promote a new initiative by publishing a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to solicit applications for Global Infectious Disease Research Administration Development Awards for Low-to Middle-Income Country Institutions (G11).

This Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants sufficient time to develop responsive projects and to plan and coordinate collaborations with in-country grants management/business offices and U.S. grants management offices that manage NIH awards.

The FOA is expected to be published in January 2015 with an expected application due date in July 2015.

This FOA will utilize the G11 activity code. Details of the planned FOA are provided below.

Initiative Details

This Notice encourages investigators and senior grants management officials with expertise and insights into this area of Global Infectious Disease Research Administration to begin to consider applying for this new FOA and establish collaborations with US grants management offices.

A major goal of the initiative is to support grants management training, which will result in improving oversight of NIAID grant awards and compliance with NIH funding policies and Federal research funding requirements for NIAID-supported foreign institutions including foreign subcomponents of U.S. grantees in low- to middle-income countries (LMIC), as defined by The World Bank. Inadequate or incorrect oversight of research awards outside of the U.S. is often due to the lack of knowledge about good business practices and/or a clear understanding of U.S. research grant funding policies by business officials and/or grants administrators at foreign institutions.

The initiative will provide senior administrators from LMIC foreign institutions with advanced training in the management of NIH grants. The overall intent of the initiative is to support the training of senior administrators and empower them to serve as institutional grants management leaders in their country; provide them with access to good business practices for managing awards; and assist the administrative staff in developing and implementing standard operating procedures for tracking grant expenditures, complying with NIH funding policies, and assisting or training other administrators in the local area.

The initiative will provide support for travel of senior administrator(s) from the LMIC institution to a partner US host institution where they would receive hands-on training in grants administration. The foreign administrator(s) are expected to train others at their home institutions and, as needed, institute grants management changes, as well as serve as a resource for training other local or regional institutions receiving NIAID funds.

An additional goal of the initiative is to support “sustainability initiatives” for NIH research grants administration. Sustainability initiatives include any activities that ensure sustainable research grants administration after the funding has ended. The purpose of this program component is to enable the PD/PI to collect data to demonstrate the importance of such activities in helping to maintain institutional competitiveness and/or the efficiency and productivity of research administration operations.

APPLICATIONS ARE NOT BEING SOLICITED AT THIS TIME.

Inquiries

Please direct all inquiries to:

Paula S. Strickland, Ph.D., MPH
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Telephone: 240-669-2922
Email: pstrickland@nih.gov