Background
The Open Society Public Health Program and the Early Childhood Program at Open Society Foundations would like to support community-based organizations to model equitable maternal and child health services while applying the Nurturing Care Concept, and elevating these models at policy level. The aim is to improve pregnancy and birth outcomes, eliminate racial disparities in infant mortality, reduce low birth weight and preterm births, reduce maternal depression and address the social determinants that affect Roma maternal and child health.
Eligibility
All proposals will be reviewed using the following criteria:
- support efforts to reduce the longstanding two-to-one disparity in infant mortality rates between
Roma and non-Roma;
- embrace a comprehensive, integrated and cross-sectoral approach focused on achieving
developmental milestones that include prenatal and perinatal care, access to children’s health care,
home visiting programs and family and parenting resources;
- the initiative can be headed by a health sector provider, or with a health sector provider as a partner, it
can also be civil society led or led by an academic institution but it has the potential for sustainable
scale up and policy shaping in this area;
- in principle, the main stakeholders of the collaboration, including local government, health
professionals, child protection specialist and/or others have agreed to the proposal and participation in
the intervention process.
- the collaboration has to ensure an active involvement of Roma civil society organizations;
- clearly demonstrates what is new and beneficial in the proposed collaboration.
- integrates human rights, child rights, gender equality, equity considerations, including participation
and voice of the Roma community within the implementation.
- the proposals should also seek to address the social determinants of health, i.e. political, social,
economic causes of health inequities within and between countries. They should consider factors as
daily living conditions and housing, public infrastructure, social exclusion, access to public services,
access to justice, information, and public participation, and distribution of power, funds and resources;
- the successful proposals will incorporate data and documentation on the collaboration including
evaluations, surveys, reports and other information on which to build case studies;
- the ultimate purpose of the proposal to be supported is its implementation at scale or be ready to be
scaled;
- the final result of the funded proposal across sectors is to be well-established with related processes
and institutional mechanisms which would result in sustainable policy changes.
Deadline: 30 March 2018
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