CFPs: Enhance Tobacco Control Institutional Capacity in Africa

The Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa (CTCA) received funding from the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) for the 2024-2026 to implement a project on institutional capacity.

Aims

• Specifically, the project aims to:
  • Enhance training opportunities for African governments and relevant actors in tobacco control in the continent
  • Increase access to knowledge for guiding tobacco use prevention and control in Africa
  • Reinforce the institutional development of CTCA for an optimal performance of its functions and processes.

Thematic Areas

• Patterns and trends of tobacco use and exposure for all tobacco products including the new products at country and regional levels (sex, age, region, types of products, new products).
• Effects of tobacco use and exposure on sustainable development (poverty, education, culture, food security, environment, HIV, TB, reproductive health, NCDs).
• Tobacco use and populations at risk (youth, young adults, women/gender, elderly, residents of urban areas, miltary, prisoners, mental health patients, populations in low socio-economic dwellings like slums).
• Tobacco control policy research and analysis (smoke free, TAPS, GHWs, ceasation) of cost effectiveness, impact, drivers, enablers, innovation, challenges, communication and advocacy for tobacco control.
• Sociocultural context of tobacco use
• Tobacco industry and tobacco control policy
• Tobacco production, alternative livelihoods and environment (distribution, value chain, environmental impact, historical and determinants of tobacco production)
• The economics of tobacco and tobacco control (product, pricing, illicit tobacco trade, taxation)

Funding Information

• CTCA with support from ACBF is seeking researchers across the African continent to be awarded 6 small grants of USD 5000 to implement research that aligns with the TCRA thematic areas.

Requirements

• These grants will fund work that relates to the CTCA Research Agenda. Activities will include proposal development, data collection and analysis, report writing and dissemination. All research to be implemented will be approved by the institutional review board and published in peer reviewed journals. These grants are intended for;
  • Researchers based in Tobacco Control Programs/Response;
  • post graduate students who would like to complete their research projects aligned to this call and
  • early and middle career researchers.
• It is required that this research is executed, and the report completed within 12 months. The applicant should have a mentor in an established institution.

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligibility is restricted to Africa-based researchers. This refers to individuals who are (a) currently studying at a university or research institute in Africa, and/or b) currently working within a university, research institute, or in tobacco control in Africa. All persons associated with tobacco industry will not be funded and therefore should not apply. Successful applicants will be required to sign a declaration of interest that they do not have any relationship with tobacco industry.

For more information, visit CTCA.