S/N | Domain | Activities/Tasks | Expected Results/ deliverables | Indicators/ Performance measures | Timeline | Responsible |
1. | Capacity building in proposal and grants writing | Organize TOT workshops to train potential trainers on proposal and grants writing for different types of research: biomedical, implementation, HPSR and Health Economic research (3 per Faculty) = 18 | | | August 2019 | NEC & Grants Cttee |
Capacity building workshop of members from 6 Faculties on grant writing and ethics of research (5 per Faculty) = 30 | | | September 2019 | NEC &Grants Cttee |
2. | Establish inter and intra faculty research proposals that can win national and international grants | Constitute inter and intra Faculty teams of researchers (3 to 5 per faculty) | | | May 2019 | Faculty Officers |
Identify call for proposals and call for letter of interest/intent for research grants from national and international bodies (Quarterly Call) | | | April – May 2019 | Grants Cttee |
Each Faculty to develop fundable research proposals within the context of their Faculty (At least 3 per Faculty) | | | August 2019 | Fac Grants Cttee Rep |
Production and submission of full research proposal for national and international funding | | | October 2019 | Grants Cttee |
3. | Establishment of Chapter Mentorship Program | Identify research mentors and provide support to equip younger fellows in research (Faculty based) | | | July 2019 | Fac Officers |
Develop Mentorship guideline | | | August 2019 | Fac. Officers |
Appoint Mentorship Coordinator | | | June 2019 | Faculty Officer |
Commence mentorship programme | | | | Faculty Officer |
4. | | Mentored Research – NIH, UNICEF, NPHCDA etc | | | Ad-HOC 2019 | NEC/Grant Comm |
5 | Capacity building in leadership, management, and health policies | Development of Curriculum for training of members in leadership, management and health policies (LMHP) | | | TBD | Grants Cttee |
Commence LMHP training | | | TBD | Grants Cttee |
6 | Governance and Accountability of Research Grant | Recruitment of a desk officer for management of Grant fund | | | 2020 | NEC |
Establishment of a management and accounting system for coordination of grant fund for research | | | 2020 | NEC |
7 | Knowledge Translation | Dissemination of knowledge products from the grants | | | 2020 | NEC |
