New Sida funding for water, health, agriculture, environmental and social research on antimicrobial resistance in Africa and Asia

AMR is already a global threat with potentially devastating effects on human beings, livestock, and the global economy. Responses to AMR are often hampered by lack of detailed evidence on how, why and where it is having an impact. This is nowhere more evident than in low income countries and amongst vulnerable populations living in poverty.

Announcing a new funding opportunity for scientists in Africa and Asia.

Sida is supporting the 2019 JPIAMR Call with up to SEK 35 million for researchers from 30 African countries*. African researchers are invited to form or join transnational teams together with counterparts in Asia, Europe or North America to produce tools, technologies and methods for Diagnostics and Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance. The call specifically promotes projects with partners and impact in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Asia and Africa. Researchers from all fields of science, including social sciences, are welcome to apply. Deadline for applications is 15 Feb 2019. Researchers from Asia are supported by funding from IDRC-Canada. More information is available at https://www.jpiamr.eu/9thcall/ 

The Call for Research proposal is now open and closes on 15 Feb 2019.

* Researchers based in the following African countries will be eligible for support from Sida through the JPIAMR Call: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Eritrea, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. This list is based on the World Bank list of low-income countries in Africa and the list of African countries where Sida has bilateral development cooperation."