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NIHR Global Health Research Group on Global Health Econometrics and Economics (GHE2) A UK and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) partnership that aims to address the evidence gap in population- and health system-level interventions by applying and developing methods to (1) estimate their average and distributional impact and (2) assess their value-for-money. 1) To employ state-of-the-art empirical methods applied to existing but under-exploited data sources to assess average population health impact and distributional effects, thereby establishing both whether interventions work overall and whether health outcomes of the poorest and most vulnerable improve more than those of the rich. 2) To complement the evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions with an assessment of the value-for-money they offer (economic evaluation), which constitutes a critical, and currently underdeveloped, link between evidence and decision-making in the context of budget constrained choices.
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Addressing Smokeless Tobacco and Building Research Capacity in South Asia (ASTRA) A UK and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) partnership that aims to use Medical Research Council (MRC) frameworks on natural experiments and complex interventions to guide the development and evaluation of interventions on smokeless tobacco (ST) and to assess policies in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, where 85% of the world’s 300 million ST users live and use the most lethal ST forms. 1) Enhance the ability to monitor and evaluate the impact of existing WHO-FCTC policies on smokeless tobacco (ST) uptake, particularly among adolescents, by providing a strong evidence-base for future policy development. 2) Design/adapt behavioural and pharmacological interventions to help adult ST users quit, test their feasibility and acceptability, and assess whether definitive trials to assess their (cost-) effectiveness can be carried out. 3) Engage stakeholders in the research plans, co-creation and knowledge transfer activities and advocacy efforts, thereby enhancing the translation and impact of the findings. 4) Build research capacity in participating institutions in South Asia by offering bespoke training in tobacco prevention and control science and applied health research, sharing examples of good practice, offering mentorship and helping them to secure research fellowships/studentships. 5) Sustain and scale up research activities through a strong research team, establishing institutional links with academic, governmental and advocacy organisations, seeking additional funding and involving more countries.
NIHR GHR Short Placement Award for Research and Collaboration (SPARC)
NIHR GHR SPARC-R3-018 Title: Developing research skills for improved understanding of tobacco harm
reduction among people with multimorbidity. Kousar Ishaq NIHR Global Health Research Short Placement Award for Research Collaboration
(GHR SPARC) Award The Awardee: Kousar Ishaq (GHR SPARC-R3-018)
NIHR GHR SPARC: Early career researcher Safat Ullah NIHR Global Health Research Short Placement Award for Research Collaboration (GHR SPARC) Pilot Award.

The Awardee: Safat Ullah (NIHR GHR SPARC PILOT 01-19-14)
Centre for Improving Mental and Physical Health Together  (IMPACT) The long-term aim of the centre is to prevent premature deaths, disabilities, and economic loss due to cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and common mental disorders in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Our strategy to strengthen research capacity will be embedded within our
research plan to develop and evaluate individual- and population-level interventions to address afore-mentioned NCDs.
Uniquely, we will give mental health parity alongside physical health.
Adwuma Pa: Empowering Women and Girls in Supply Chains The Adwuma Pa project works to reduce the risk of child and forced labor, and other exploitative labor practices by improving the economic participation and empowerment of women and girls within cocoa-producing communities in Ghana.
MATE MASIE Making Advances to Eliminate Child Labor in More Areas with Sustainable Integrated Efforts The MATE MASIE project seeks to strengthen capacity, connections, and accountability across child labor enforcement and monitoring within cocoa cooperatives and will work to build capacity of cocoa cooperatives to support vulnerable member households directly and by linking their members with other service providers.
Combating Forced Labor and Labor Trafficking of Adults and Children in Ghana This project will build the capacity of the government and businesses to expand and better coordinate ongoing labor trafficking enforcement efforts in Ghana. By putting the right tools in the hands of labor inspectors, business owners, organizations providing social services and workers, the project will help promote supply chains free of exploitative labor and a fair playing field for workers in the United States around the world.
Mobilizing Community Action and Promoting Opportunities for Youth in Ghana's Cocoa-Growing Communities To empower 40 cocoa-growing communities in the Ashanti and Western Regions to design and implement Community Action Plans (CAPs) to address child labor at the community level.
Combating Forced Labor and Labor Trafficking of Adults and Children This project will build the capacity of the government and businesses to expand and better coordinate ongoing labor trafficking enforcement efforts in Ghana. By putting the right tools in the hands of labor inspectors, business owners, organizations providing social services and workers, the project will help promote supply chains free of exploitative labor and a fair playing field for workers in the United States around the world.
MGCubed - Making Ghanaian Girls Great! MGCubed is a two and a half year project which delivers lessons. It is being delivered by GEMS Education Solutions in Ghana alongside key partners Aleutia, Everonn, Gem Technologies, and our independent evaluator, Innovations for Poverty Action. It will target 6,000 marginalised elementary school girls in the Volta Region (Nkwanta and Kadjebi districts) and in the Greater Accra Region (Ada West, Ada East, Shai Osudoku and Ningo Prampram districts). The pioneering first-of-its-kind project focuses on ‘interactive distance learning’ providing classrooms in seventy schools with solar-powered computers and projectors to broadcast live sessions from teaching studios in Accra.;
OCHA Field activities, Afghanistan OCHA Field activities, Afghanistan Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) resumed its operation in Afghanistan in 2009, providing humanitarian assistance in a complex environment where separate – and not always complementary – military, political and security objectives pose challenges to the implementation of humanitarian principles, the ability of responders to reach people in need and the safety and security of aid workers. Afghanistan has been in protracted conflict for forty years, which has seriously hampered poverty reduction and development, strained the fabric of society and depleted its coping mechanisms.  OCHA’s work in Afghanistan focuses on assisting the most vulnerable by coordinating the delivery of effective humanitarian aid and principled humanitarian action. To this end, OCHA ensures that: humanitarian decision making is based on a common situational awareness; humanitarian action is guided by joint strategic response planning based on prioritized needs; coordination mechanisms are adapted to the context and support the effective and coherent delivery of humanitarian assistance; humanitarian financing is predictable, timely and allocated based on priority needs, people in emergencies are protected from harm and have access to assistance as a result of advocacy and coordination; preparedness helps respond to humanitarian emergencies without delay and with the rights assistance. [د ملګرو ملتونو] د بشري چارو لپاره د همغږۍ دفتر (اوچا) په افغانستان کې خپل فعالیتونه په ۲۰۰۹ کال کې له سره پیل کړل. د بشري مرستو رسول په یو پېچلي ماحول او د بېلو او کله هم د غیر متممو نظامي، سیاسي او امنیتي موخو په شتون کې، د بشري اصولو پلي کول، اړمنو خلکو ته د مرسته کوونکو د ځان رسولو وړتیا او د مرسته کوونکو امنیت او خوندیتوب ته ننګوونې رامنځته کوي. افغانستان کې اوږدې څلوېښت کلنې جګړې د بېوزلۍ راټیټولو او پرمختګ له خنډ سره مخ کړی، د ټولنې جوړښت یې تر فشار لاندې راوستی او ستونزو سره د خلکو د مقابلې وړتیاوې یې کمزورې کړي دي. افغانستان کې د اوچا دفتر کارونه د اغېزمنو او پر اصولو ولاړ بشري مرستو د همغږۍ له لارې تر ټولو ډېرو بېوزلو خلکو ته د مرستو په رسولو تمرکز کوي. نو د دغې موخې ترلاسه کولو لپاره، د اوچا دفتر دا ډاډمنوي چې: د بشري چارو تصمیمونه د وضعې د ګډې ارزونې پر بنسټ ولاړ وي؛ بشري فعالیتونه د غبرګون ګډو ستراتیژیکو پلانونو په رڼا کې د اولویت بندي شویو اړتیاوو پر بنسټ پر مخ یوړل شي؛ د همغږۍ مېکانیزمونه له وضعیت سره برابر وي او د اغېزمنو او منظمو بشري مرستو رسولو سره مرسته وکړي؛ بشري مالي منابع د اټکل وړ او پر وخت وي او د اړتیاوو پر بنسټ ووېشل شي؛ ناورینونو نه اغېزمن شوي خلک له زیانونو نه خوندي وي او د پوهاوي او غږ پورته کولو او همغږۍ په پایله کې خلک مرستو ته لاسرسی پیدا کړي؛ احتیاطي تیاريو نیول بشري بېړنیو حالاتو ته بې له ځنډ او د مناسبو مرستو په رسولو کې مرسته وکړي
COMMUNITY-BASED HABITAT CONSERVATION III COMMUNITY-BASED HABITAT CONSERVATION III
Reducing the Expansion of the Agricultural Frontier in the Coniferous and Broadleaf Forests of the Chiquibul Mayan Mountains Landscape, by supporting a Guatemala-Belize bi-national cooperation Project will reduce agricultural encroachment on broadleaf forest ecosystems of the Maya Mountains Chiquibul in Guatemala by 1) identifying areas of greatest pressure on the landscape, 2) developing sustainable livelihood pilot projects in hotspot border communities, and 3) working with the Agency for Protected Areas to strengthen monitoring and enforcement actions under the Environmental Security Strategy for the area and 4) implementing a communications campaign directed at local communities via radio to discourage illegal and unsustainable forest use and wildlife extraction and trade activities. The project has a strong complimentary bi-national linkage to LAC 1517 in Belize.
Wildlife Without Borders - Western Hemisphere Building a Constituency for Jaguar Conservation, Reducing Human-Jaguar Conflict and Increasing Jaguar Survival in the East Section of the Maya Biosphere Reserve
CONSERVING MIGRANT ARCTIC SHOREBIRDS IN The project addresses four critical needs for more effectively accomplishing Neotropical migratory shorebird conservation. First, partners will address specific needs identified in flyway-level strategic planning (Pacific Americas Shorebird Conservation Strategy); Second, explicitly incorporate coastal wetland and shoreline habitats identified as important to shorebirds in Guatemala into wider Marine Protected Area planning efforts; Third, increase local research capacity through mentorship of a Guatemalan field team by both local and wider flyway experts; and Fourth, use creative outreach approaches to cultivate and empower conservation constituencies across the migratory flyway for the necessary habitat protections. Partners will draw on the place-based presence of Wildlife Conservation Society across migratory flyways to foster international partnerships, including shorebird expertise from the Arctic and local avian and habitat-conservation partners within Guatemala. Field surveys will be conducted in fall, winter, and spring to identify resident and stopping-over birds within the Pacific coastal wetlands of Guatemala. The applicant will work with local partners and its broader network of flyway and marine protected area partners to produce outreach materials to foster local and regional constituencies for the necessary habitat protections, based on the importance of coastal habitats for human well-being and the global value and stature of visiting birds.
5 Year Cooperative Agreement for the Conservation of Mesoamerica's Last Wild Places This is funding year 4 of a 5-year cooperative agreement. The purpose of this project is to secure core habitat and maintain a wildlife corridor across the land bridge of Central America for jaguars and other wide-ranging species such as the Bairds tapir, white-lipped peccary, and macaws. This years proposal will focus on ensuring connectivity across Central Americas Wildlife Corridor. Project activities will focus on the Maya Forest in Guatemala and the Moskitia in Honduras and Nicaragua. These border forests are the largest strongholds for jaguars in the region with estimated populations of 375 and 279 jaguars respectively. They have the highest rates of forest loss and are corridors for trafficking wildlife, timber, drugs, people, arms, and other illicit goods northward. This years funds will be used to: (1)improve governance and strengthen wildlife law enforcement through ground patrols, (2) provide in-situ trainings to managers, rangers, and indigenous authorities on SMART (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool) to carry out intelligence based patrolling strategies, (3) develop a National Jaguar Plan for Guatemala, and (4) scale-up technical services to ranchers in protected area buffer zones that have proven to reduce cattle-jaguar conflict and improve the local economy.
Strengthening regional sea turtle conservation through the support of InterAmerican Convention.for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles (IAC) The purpose of this project is to support the implementation of the Inter-American Sea Turtle Convention with 15 member Parties including the U.S. The intent is to promote regional collaboration and cooperation of sea turtle conservation within the Western Hemisphere. Activities include: 1) convening of Conference of the Parties in June 2019 and support for associated travel and translation expenses, 2) travel support to meet with high level governmental decision makers in range state countries of the highly endangered East Pacific leatherback sea turtle to discuss measures to minimize accidental capture of leatherbacks in artisanal and industrial fisheries, and 3) bringing fisherman from foraging ground countries to nesting beaches in Mexico to develop better understanding of the range wide conservation efforts underway and the critical importance of fisherman community engagement in solutions to recover the East Pacific leatherback.
FILLING THE GAPS FOR BIRD CONSERVATION I ? 2014-3: Objectives include fee title acquisition of 383 acres (253 acres of wetlands and 130
EXPANDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY-BASED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION IN THE THREATENED LA CORONA-EL MORGAN BIOLOGICAL CORRIDOR, MAYA BIOSPHERE RESERVE, GUATEMALA THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP CAPACITY AMONG MEMBERS OF A NEWLY-FORMED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION IN THE MAYA BIOSPHERE RESERVE MBR IN GUATEMALA TO PREPARE THE ASSOCIATION TO SUSTAINABLY MANAGE A FORESTRY CONCESSION FROM THE GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT. THE PROJECT IS INTENDED TO MONITOR, CONSERVE, AND MANAGE KEY SPECIES SUCH AS THE JAGUAR PANTHERA ONCA , SCARLET MACAW ARA MACAO , BAIRD S TAPIR TAPIRUS BAIRDII , AND WHITE-LIPPED PECCARY TAYASSU PECARI BY OBTAINING FORMAL RIGHTS TO CONSERVE HABITAT AND MANAGE NATURAL RESOURCES IN THE CORONA-MORGAN BIOLOGICAL CORRIDOR IN THE MBR. SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES INCLUDE 1 DESIGNING A COMMUNITY BIOLOGICAL MONITORING PROGRAM TO EVALUATE THE STATE OF THE SPECIES AND THEIR HABIT IN THE CORRIDOR 2 CONDUCTING PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOPS WITH THE ASSOCIATION MEMBERS TO STRENGTHEN THEIR CAPACITY TO MONITOR THREATS AND PROTECT BIODIVERSITY WITHIN THE CORRIDOR AND 3 FACILIITATING EXCHANGES AND TRAINING WITH OTHER CONCESSIONAIRES TO IMPROVE THEIR MANAGEMENT CAPACITY AND ENSURE THAT MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES IMPACT KEY SPECIES ONLY IN POSITIVE WAYS.
Wildlife Without Borders-Western Hemisphere This project will reduce livestock loss and retaliatory jaguar killings in the Maya Biosphere Reserve buffer zone by 1) expanding the adoption of jaguar-friendly management techniques among ranchers in communities along the roads to Tikal and Yaxha through their participation in the Ministry of Agricultures Rural Development Training Center, 2) strengthening the Agroforestry Roundtable for the Lake Peten Itza Watershed to increase local participation in jaguar conservation and 3) promoting peaceful human-jaguar co-existence through a social marketing campaign targeted at ranchers.
ENSURING CONSERVATION STATUS FOR LAST UN The forests within Guatemala's Caribbean Rainforest Corridor are a vital link in the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor and the Caribbean migratory flyway of Central America. The Caribbean region of Guatemala is one of the country's biodiversity hotspots and the region is critical for Neotropical wintering migratory and resident birds; one hundred and twenty species of migratory birds are reported for the region, and use the remaining native habitats as their main wintering or stop-over habitat. However, between 1991 and 2010, 40% of the total forested surface disappeared, mostly due to weak law enforcement, the encroachment of subsistence agriculture and the expansion of extensive cattle ranching and oil palm plantations. The grantee will protect and manage remaining forests in cooperation with local communities and government agencies, and will continue monitoring bird populations to generate data related to migratory species in their wintering grounds, as well as monitoring forest cover change in order to evaluate long term impacts of the project. The project will also support the sustainable development of 6 neighboring Maya Q'eqchi communities, where environmental education campaigns will be implemented in order to promote bird friendly productive activities...Species that will benefit include: swallow-tailed kite, olive-sided flycatcher, Bell's vireo, wood thrush, bluewinged warbler, golden-winged warbler, golden-cheeked warbler, bay-breasted warbler, cerulean warbler, prothonotary warbler, worm-eating warbler, Swainson's warbler, Kentucky warbler, varied bunting, painted bunting and dickcissel...
COMMUNITY-BASED INTEGRATED WATERSHED MANAGEMENT IN GUATEMALA'S WESTERN HIGHLANDS This project will strengthen community capacity to protect and conserve the Cuchumantanes landscape, including local water sources and forests, by 1) reducing human pressures on key forest basins through forest guard training and reforestation and agroforestry projects, 2) strengthening local capacity for community-based watershed management by establishing one local watershed committee and participatory watershed management plan for implementation, and 3) generating sustainable livelihoods for 75 rural communities through the use of fuel efficient stoves, inscription into Guatemalas forestry incentive programs, honey production and sale, and the collection and sale of Inga edulai seeds for agroforestry.
5 Year Cooperative Agreement for the Conservation of Mesoamerica's Last Wild Places Project will secure measurable progress towards protection of Mesoamericas five largest wild places by 2020, including viable populations of wide-ranging species such as the jaguar, Bairds tapir, white-lipped peccary, and macaws. Through a five year cooperative agreement, project activities will reduce threats to the Maya Forest, Heart of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor Reserve, Indio-Maiz-Tortugero, La Amistad International Park, and the Darien to ensure regional connectivity and protection of the core strongholds of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor. Project will: 1) develop a joint strategic vision document for Mesoamerica, 2) analyze the human footprint and cows hoofprint in Mesoamerica to understand conservation threats and trends, inform decision makers, and inspire public and political support to transform the human footprint and save the last of the wild before they are gone (LAC 1544) increase law enforcement monitoring capacity, including use of Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART), in at least 500,000 hectares of protected areas in Guatemala, Belize and Honduras using the Maya Biosphere Reserve as a demonstration site and strengthening CEMEC/CONAP as a center for regional training on law enforcement monitoring and SMART (LAC 1543), 4) strengthen capacity for protected area governance in Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras through exchanges with Guatemalas Maya Biosphere, incorporation of governance indicators into the Honduran Integrated Monitoring System and implementation of key priority actions for addressing severe governance challenges (LAC 1546), 5) scale-up and strengthen adoption of jaguar-friendly management techniques to reduce human-jaguar conflict in the Maya Biosphere Reserve and also transfer expertise through training of key actors in Nicaraguas Bosawas Biosphere Reserve (LAC 1545), and 6) build capacity of future conservation practitioners by providing real-world conservation training opportunities to
Strengthening the constituency for jaguar conservation in the Maya Biosphere Reserve Buffer Zone. This project will reduce livestock loss and retaliatory jaguar killings in the Maya Biosphere Reserve buffer zone by 1) expanding the adoption of jaguar-friendly management techniques among ranchers in communities along the roads to Tikal and Yaxha through their participation in the Ministry of Agricultures Rural Development Training Center, 2) strengthening the Agroforestry Roundtable for the Lake Peten Itza Watershed to increase local participation in jaguar conservation and 3) promoting peaceful human-jaguar co-existence through a social marketing campaign targeted at ranchers.
FILLING THE GAPS FOR BIRD CONSERVATION I FILLING THE GAPS FOR BIRD CONSERVATION I
FILLING THE GAPS FOR BIRD CONSERVATION I In 2009, Huehuetenango was identified by the National Council of Protected Areas..(CONAP) as the single most important conservation gap in Guatemala. Recent studies show the high importance of the area for bird diversity, including more than 45 species of migratory birds. Unfortunately, over 60% of the forests of Northern Huehuetenango have disappeared during the last thirty years. The grantee recently established the first private nature reserve in the region: located in northern Huehuetenango, the San Isidro Reserve encompasses 845 hectares, and was recently acquired with the objective of conserving critically endangered amphibians and launching bird conservation and monitoring efforts in the department of Huehuetenango. In this project, the grantee will manage the nature reserve, conduct bird monitoring, environmental education and encourage support local communities in improving their livelihoods through sustainable use of their resources...Species that will benefit include: swallow-tailed kite, upland sandpiper, yellow- billed cuckoo, wood thrush, golden-winged warbler, golden-cheeked warbler, Kentucky warbler and painted bunting...