RGHI Collaboration Accelerator Award 2024

Founded in 2020, RGHI aims to support high-quality scientific research addressing the links between hygiene and health. RGHI funds research which generates practical, high-quality scientific evidence and behavioral insights that will lead to the adoption of global sustainable hygienic practices and achieve enduring behavior change.

Thematic Areas

• The focus of the Collaboration Accelerator Awards is on locally identified policy and/or practice needs; these should guide the focus of the research. Applications are welcome that respond to hygiene research relevant to one or more of the following thematic areas:
  • Hygiene behaviors and behavior change
  • Planetary heath and climate change
  • One Health including Zoonosis and Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Gender equity and social inclusion
  • Research specific to the economic and policy dimensions of hygiene

Award Information

• Awards of up to $200,000 over a period of up to 24 months will support the development of collaborative teams to deliver research that aims to advance hygiene evidence, policy and practice and improve health and wellbeing for the world’s most vulnerable communities.

Who can apply?

• The RGHI CAA is an open call for academics looking to either establish or further develop a consortium of institutions from across research, policy and/or practice to engage in policy or practice-relevant hygiene research.
• Applications must be submitted by an academic institution, and the consortium must include at least one academic partner and a nationally or internationally active policy institution and/or institution responsible for the delivery of hygiene interventions at scale (district level or above).

Eligibility Criteria

• Applications must be submitted by an academic institution. The institution that submits the application will be referred to as the prime institution.
• The consortium must include at least one academic partner and a nationally or internationally active policy institution and/or institution responsible for the delivery of hygiene interventions at scale (district level or above).
• Applications addressing hygiene challenges in any low resource setting (within a HIC, UMIC, LMIC or LIC) are welcome.
• Applications must include at least one research institution from the country in which the policy or practice need has been identified, additional collaborators (academic or otherwise) from other countries are welcome if the unique value add in terms of knowledge/skills can be justified in relation to the proposed work.

For more information, visit RGHI.