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Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and other funding partners are investing up to CAD19.1 million to fund up to 16 implementation research teams to support gender-transformative implementation research in sub-Saharan Africa.

Focused on investments to transform service design and delivery and to strengthen the development and implementation of equitable and sustainable movements, the ANSRHRA Initiative will contribute to improved sexual and reproductive health and realization of rights while also building systems and structures that enable and support underserved populations, including women and girls, to demand and benefit from the full spectrum of SRHR.

The Initiative’s overall aim is to support greater realization of neglected SRHR by underserved populations, including women and girls, in sub-Saharan Africa.

The ANSRHRA initiative will prioritize projects that address the following five priority areas of SRHR:

• improving access to family planning and contraceptive services
• expanding access to safe abortion where legally permitted and post-abortion care
• upholding SRHR rights and ensuring access to services for adolescents.
• preventing and improving services for people experiencing sexual and gender-based violence
• strengthening advocacy for SRHR

Successful projects will address at least one of the priority areas of SRHR.

Grant funding up to CAD 1.2 million implementation research team, for up to 36 months.

Project teams can not be led by Canadian-based researchers but must include a Canadian-based researcher as a co-principal investigator.

Full details about this call are available here.

Internal deadline: April 29, 2024 at 4:30pm. Contact email is ird@dal.ca

Funder deadline: May 13, 2024 at 11:59pm. Contact is SRHR-SDSR@idrc.ca