Global Health Research Development Awards Application Form Guidance

GHR Development Awards Call 1 Single Stage Application

Closing date: Wednesday 15 May 2024 at 13:00 UK time

Section 1: Application Summary Information

Contracting Institution (which will administer any award)

Provide details of the organisation that will be the contractor (i.e. the organisation that will sign the contract with the Department of Health and Social Care directly) if the project is funded. The contracting organisation is the organisation where the Lead Applicant is employed.

Applications must be led by a Lead Applicant employed by a Higher Education Institution (HEI) or Research Institute based in an ODA-eligible country on the DAC list. Joint leadership is not supported under this call.

To select the Contracting Institution, enter a minimum of 3 characters and select from the list. If your organisation does not appear on the list, please contact the NIHR Global Health Team.

Application title

The application title should state clearly and concisely the proposed work to be undertaken. Any abbreviations should be spelt out in full. The application title should not exceed 15 words.

Proposed start date if awarded funding

Auto populated. For GHR Development Awards Call 1 projects the start date is 01 January 2025.

Duration (months)

Ensure you include sufficient time to complete all aspects of the project including applications for regulatory approvals (where required) and the final report. This can be a maximum of 12 months.

End date

This field will automatically populate once you have entered the project duration information.

Total Project Costs

This field will automatically populate once you have completed the detailed budget section.

Section 2: CV - Contracting Institution Lead Applicant

Some of the responses required in this section will have been pre-populated based on your CV details and any remaining fields must be completed to provide the required information.

To update your CV details, please visit the Manage My Details section in your RMS account by selecting 'Save and Close' at the top of this screen and accessing the left-hand menu toolbar.

Section 3: Research Background – Contracting Lead Applicants and Co-Applicants

The Contracting Lead Applicant’s and co-applicants’ CV details and any remaining fields MUST be completed. Completed CVs (including an ORCID iD) are a mandatory requirement for submission for ALL applicants (except CEI co-applicants). CEI co-applicants are not obliged to complete a standard CV but are required to provide a summary of any knowledge, skills and experience relevant to their role in the application. Please note that the lead applicant, and all co-applicants must manually add their own relevant publications to the application form using the ‘Applicant Publication Details’ section of the application.

To update your publications and grants select the 'Save and Close' button at the top of this screen then access the relevant left-hand menu toolbar.

• To update publications, select My Research Outputs from the left-hand menu.
• To update Grants and your general CV Select Manage My Details then Update My CV from the left-hand menu.

Once your CV is up to date:

• Select the relevant publications and grants using the green “+” icon.
• Use the delete icon (the red and white button) to remove a publication or grant from the list.
• Re-order each list by clicking and dragging the green arrow icon.

Each applicant should select the publications and grants that they would like to appear in the CV section of an application. Publications and grants are pulled in from individual ‘My Details’ pages. For further instructions please see System Help - 7.4. This document is also available from the bottom left of your screen or on the RMS login page.

Publications

Provide details of a maximum of six of your most recent/relevant publications (in the last ten years) relevant to this application (using Vancouver or Harvard citation format). Please include DOI reference numbers, if applicable. Information in this field is populated when you select publications from the ‘Manage my details’ section of your RMS account, which should be updated and edited prior to submission. Please select and order what you consider to be your 6 most recent/relevant publications to date (in the last 10 years) and use the save button to save the selections.

Research grants held

Please select research grants held (as a named applicant) CURRENTLY or IN THE LAST 5 YEARS – as well as any additional previous grants, relevant to this application, stating who the grant is with and the amount of each grant. If no grants are held, please enter N/A (as this is a mandatory field). Information in this field is auto-populated when you select grants from the ‘Manage my details’ section of your RMS account, which should be updated and edited prior to submission.

Has this application been previously submitted to this programme, other NIHR programmes or any other funding body?

Select ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ from the drop-down box to indicate whether this or a similar application has previously been submitted to this programme, other NIHR programmes or any other funding body, including applications to other ODA-funded programmes such as Global Challenges Research Fund. For more information about resubmission of a research/trainee funding application, or joint funding please contact the appropriate NIHR research funding programme.

Applications submitted to this programme, other NIHR programmes or any other funding body

Where this application or a similar one has been submitted to this or another NIHR programme or elsewhere, please click the ‘Add’ button and complete the necessary information.

You must inform us if the application has been submitted elsewhere. This includes but is not limited to, any facts that, should they come to light at a future date, would harm the reputation of either the programme or the individual who withheld the fact (e.g. if a member of the team holds a patent or has a financial interest within the research area).

Failure to disclose accurately or fully will be considered as academic misconduct and treated accordingly. You should also include in this section information on whether this or a similar application has been submitted to any programme previously, or to any other funder including other NIHR programmes. You should name, and provide dates and outcomes of these. Please indicate whether you hold or have ever held an NIHR programme contract, which has been terminated prior to completion, extended in time or in terms of funding.

Section 4: The Project Team

In the following sections, you will need to provide details of the Contracting Lead, and co-applicants including their roles and equitable contributions to the project and FTE commitment. Do not include collaborators, who should be mentioned (if appropriate) in the Detailed Project Plan section of the form.

Definitions and requirements:

Lead Applicants are researchers employed at an eligible LMIC Higher Education Institution (HEI) or Research Institute. As a Lead Applicant, you should be able to lead and manage the work and collaborations proposed in your application. NIHR will only accept applications from lead applicants with a substantive FTE at an HEI or Research Institute in an ODA-eligible country. You must provide details of all other institutional affiliations as part of your application. If you hold part-time roles in different organisations, NIHR expects your application to be made from the organisation where the substantive FTE is held. This principle applies across GHR funding calls and ongoing awards. Please see the Guidance for Applicants for more eligibility information.

If you are a Lead Applicant who does not hold a professorship and/or has not managed a research grant of over £100,000 as a lead investigator, you must include the following in your application:

• Details of mentoring and support arrangements to be put in place
• Your named mentor must be listed as a co-applicant on the application with an up-to-date CV completed on the RMS. If your application does not include a named mentor, your application will be rejected and will not be considered by the Funding Committee. If your mentor’s CV is not completed your application will be rejected and will not be considered by the Funding Committee on the grounds that capability cannot be assessed. Please ensure you give them plenty of time to complete this ahead of submission.

Co-applicants are those individuals with responsibility for the day-to-day management and delivery of the project who form your project team or consortium. Co-applicants are expected to share responsibility for its successful delivery.

Collaborators, which include consultants and service-level providers, provide specific expertise on particular aspects of the project. They may form part of your wider project team but are not accountable for the delivery of the project.

Allow sufficient time for your co-applicants to complete their sections of the online form before the application deadline.

Role of the Contracting Lead Applicant in the project

Please explain in addition to your role as Contracting Lead Applicant, the role that you will be undertaking in the project. You must provide details of all other institutional affiliations for the Contracting Lead Applicant here.

You must demonstrate in your application how you meet the eligibility criteria. If your application does not clearly demonstrate your eligibility, your application will be rejected and will not be considered by the Funding Committee. NIHR will not permit any changes to the Lead Applicant after the application has been submitted. Please see the GHR Development Awards Guidance for Applicants for more information.

% FTE commitment

Please give the percentage of your time that you will commit to this project. If you are funded as part of other NIHR projects that will be running concurrently your time must not exceed 100% overall.

NOTE: Full-Time Equivalent (FTE): percentage of full-time hours per week.

Co-applicant role and % FTE commitment

Add details of all co-applicants and their specific role and % FTE commitment in the programme. Do not include collaborators or partners, who should be mentioned (if necessary) in the ‘Project Plan’ section of the form.

Co-applicants are individuals with responsibility for the day-to-day management and delivery of the project and who form the project team or consortium. This can include patients, carers and service users. Co-applicants, including public co-applicants/CEI representatives, are expected to share responsibility for its successful delivery. In contrast, collaborators, which include consultants and service-level providers, provide specific expertise on particular aspects of the project but are not accountable for the delivery of the project.

Lead Applicants who do not hold a professorship, and/or have not managed a research grant of over £100,000 as a lead investigator must list their mentor as a co-applicant here. Please ensure their CV is up to date and completed on RMS. Please include details of mentoring and support arrangements to be put in place in the “specify role in project” section.

ORCID

Please note that an ORCID account is a mandatory requirement for all co-applicants except for CEI co-applicants. Please ensure your account is up-to-date prior to submitting your application.

CEI representative

We encourage the inclusion of CEI co-applicants, where appropriate. Please include a clear description of their role and the reasons why a public co-applicant is joining the team. For more information about NIHR’s CEI approach and resource guides please visit the CEI section of our website.

Please note that completed CVs (including an ORCID iD) are a mandatory requirement for submission for ALL applicants (except for CEI-co-applicants). To update these details, you should visit the ‘Manage My Details’ section by selecting 'Save and Close' at the top of this screen and accessing the left hand menu toolbar.

Co-applicants who are community representatives, patients or carers are not obliged to complete a standard CV but are required to provide a summary of any knowledge, skills and experience relevant to their role in the application.

We recognise and value the varied perspectives that community representatives, patients and carers bring to a project as applicants. In this section, please provide a summary of any relevant knowledge, skills and experience that you will draw upon to contribute to this project.

This could include information about:

• Previous or present work (paid or unpaid) with any relevant organisations
• Links with any relevant groups, committees, networks or organisations
• Experience of particular health conditions, treatments, use of services - or as a member of a particular community
• Knowledge and experience of research including previous research undertaken
• Knowledge and experience of community and public involvement
• Skills from any other roles that are transferable
• Relevant qualifications, training and learning

The bullet point list above is not exhaustive. Please include anything else that is relevant to the application.

Please allow sufficient time for your co-applicants to complete their sections of the online form before the application deadline.

There is no limit on the number of co-applicants/collaborators per application, though Lead Applicants should consider their capacity to manage a large team.

Section 5: Other Supporting Roles – Signatories (Electronic)

The following supporting roles from the Contracting Organisation must be added to the application:

1. Director of Finance
2. Head of Department or Senior Manager

Upon assigning these contacts, an email will be sent to each of them by the system. They will be required to tick a check box indicating that they have read and understood the terms on which they have been nominated for this proposal and accept this role. Ticking this box constitutes an electronic signature of the supporting role for the full application.

At the time of adding the necessary supporting roles required to approve your application, you are advised to inform the R&D office of the Contracting Organisation for your proposed project. The aim is to help speed up the permissions process should your application be successful.

The Contracting Lead Applicant will also be required to tick a check box to indicate that they have read and understood the terms on which he/she has been nominated as Contracting Lead Applicant for this proposal, and accept this role.
Once everyone has approved the application you will be able to proceed to submit.

No original or ‘wet ink’ signatures are required for this application.

Section 6: Plain English Summary

A plain English summary is a clear explanation of your project.

Many reviewers/assessors use this summary to inform their review of your funding application. They include clinicians, other practitioners and researchers who do not have specialist knowledge of your field as well as members of the public. If your application for funding is successful, the summary will be made available on the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and other websites.

A good quality plain English summary providing an easy-to-read overview of your whole study will help:

• those carrying out the review (reviewers and committee members) to have a better understanding of your project proposal
• inform others about your project such as patients, members of the public, health and social care professionals, policymakers and the media
• the funders to publicise the projects that they fund.

If it is felt that your plain English summary is not clear and of a good quality then you may be required to amend it prior to final funding approval.

It is helpful to involve patients/carers/service users/practitioners and members of the public in developing a plain English summary content.

When writing your summary consider including the following information where appropriate:

• Aim(s) of the project
• Background to the project
• Project work plan
• Community engagement and involvement
• Dissemination and anticipated outcomes

The plain English summary is not the same as a scientific abstract - please do not cut and paste this or other sections of your application form to create the plain English summary. Further guidance on writing in plain English is available online at NIHR Plain English summaries.

Section 7: Location of Project

ODA-eligible countries

Please select all ODA-eligible countries where the proposed project will be undertaken.

Other Countries

Please list other countries not listed above where the project will be conducted. If not applicable, please enter ‘None’.

Section 8: ODA Compliance Statement

Please provide a statement that demonstrates how the proposal meets key ODA funding requirements. It should address the following questions:

• which country or countries on the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) list of ODA-eligible countries will directly benefit;
• how the application is directly and primarily relevant to the development challenges of those countries;

and

• how the outcomes will promote the health and welfare of people in the country or countries on the DAC list.

For Development Awards, the project as a whole should be undertaken in an ODA-eligible country. Where this is not the case, the application must clearly state the reasons for this with due consideration to the benefit of the project to organisations based in ODA-eligible countries.

Section 9: Detailed Project Plan

Using all of the headings in the order presented below, please use this section to clearly explain your proposed project.
Schematics, tables, illustrations, graphs, and other types of graphics can be embedded to clarify the project plan but they should not clutter the central narrative. Images do not count towards the overall word count but inclusion of them to overcome word limits is not permitted. Images may only be included within the 'Project Plan.' Images included in other sections will be removed from the application and not seen by reviewers.

As this is the main part of your application which will be considered by the reviewing panel, you should ensure that the information is accurate, succinct, clearly laid out and provides sufficient methodological detail. This section should not exceed 5,000 words.

Background and Rationale

This section of the application should include why this project is important in terms of supporting underpinning work for the development of high-quality global health research proposals and applications to help award holders and their institutions based in ODA-eligible countries secure further research funding from the NIHR and other funders.

This should include a brief overview of previous work and relevant ongoing projects. Applicants should provide a clear explanation of the areas to be addressed, the impact on their organisations and researchers and how this project would fill a demonstrable gap.

Explain how your proposed project is within the remit of the NIHR GHR Development Awards Call programme and how it addresses the key objectives of the call to build global health research capacity and capability, to support the development of equitable and sustainable research partnerships among collaborators, and to support the development of high-quality LMIC-led global health research proposals, as detailed in the GHR Development Awards Call 1 Guidance for Applicants.

It is essential that you clearly identify the challenges faced by your organisation based in an ODA-eligible country. Please outline the anticipated value or contribution the study will provide.

N.B. Any reference citations should be included in the ‘Supporting Documentation’ section of this application. If a key citation is not freely available, a copy should also be included.

Structure and expertise of the project team, including capacity and capability

Explain why the group is qualified to do this project, describing the track record of the project team in the relevant area, including publication outputs, grant income and impact on health service practice and policy. State clearly the particular contribution that each of the applicants will make towards the project and the particular contribution that any collaborators intend to make.

Project plan and methods

Please provide detailed information on the project plan and methods.

If you propose to undertake primary research such as testing data collection procedures and/or generating pilot data to support the scientific case for and feasibility of a proposed research project, your application will be assessed on research quality. Your application should show the quality and appropriateness of the proposed primary research demonstrating clear objectives, sound design, detailed methodology, identification of possible risks and ethical considerations.

If your proposal involves human subjects research, you need to be able to provide your plans for an ethical review of the proposed activities in the relevant countries. You should anticipate that securing ethical reviews in the proposed activities in the relevant countries can take some time and this should be factored into your work plans. As part of our contract monitoring, we will require evidence of ethics approval. If there are no plans to obtain an ethical review, due to a lack of research activity or otherwise, please provide confirmation of this here.

N.B If any questionnaires have been prepared for use in the proposed project, please include a copy in the ‘Supporting Documentation’ section of this application.

Stakeholder Engagement

Explain how the project team has engaged with relevant stakeholders in developing this project, and how it intends to engage with them throughout the project.

Explain how proposed activities will shape meaningful and sustainable collaborations/ partnerships between the lead organisation and their partners.

Approach to creating sustainable and equitable partnerships

Partnerships proposed in applications must be based on new collaborative relationships. You should describe your approach to ensuring equity in partnerships and demonstrate how the partnerships will deliver and sustain research and capacity-strengthening goals. Your approach to equitable and sustainable partnerships is assessed at the application stage and will be monitored and evaluated throughout the lifetime of your funded award.

Please see our GHR Development Awards Guidance for Applicants for more information.

Community Engagement and Involvement

You should show how relevant stakeholders will be involved and how you will develop CEI capacity during the award period for future research. For more information please see NIHR's vision for Community Engagement and Involvement (CEI).
GHR Development Award holders are expected to develop community engagement and involvement (CEI) practices/processes to ensure future research proposals are suited to the local context, policy-oriented and practice-relevant.

You should plan for and undertake meaningful, ethical and inclusive CEI and demonstrate that the planned CEI approach is appropriate and effective in the local context and for the study design. You are encouraged to use the UNICEF Minimum Standards for Community Engagement, which promote principles such as participation, empowerment and ownership, inclusion, two-way communication, adaptability and localisation, and building on local capacity.

We recommend that research teams recruit or assign a member of the project team with relevant experience and expertise in CEI to act as CEI lead to coordinate and oversee activities.

You may also find it helpful to refer to MESH, a collaborative, open-access online space that provides resources, encourages networking and shares good practices to bridge the gap between the research community and the general public in low and middle-income countries.

Please see the GHR Development Award Guidance for Applicants for more information.

CEI in the proposed project

Please outline your plans for engaging and involving patients and carers in the proposed project. This could include direct engagement with individuals or engagement through civil society, patient or community organisations. This section could include:

• Who will be responsible for leading this work and why have they been selected.
• How you will reach communities who are most affected by your future proposal’s research topic, as well as those who are often marginalised. What you will do to ensure this is meaningful.
• How you will support, train and build the capacity of people with experience that are relevant to the call to get involved.
• How people will be involved throughout the project cycle, from informing the design, involvement in the project activities as well as the monitoring, evaluation and dissemination of future research. Will they have a role as part of the strategic decision making e.g. within governance structures.
• How your CEI activities will help to maximise the impact of future research for the direct and primary benefit of the population in the countries involved.

Please ensure your plans are fully costed within your budget.

Project Timetable and Project Management

It is mandatory to attach a Gantt chart indicating a schedule for the completion of work, including the timing of key milestones and deliverables.

For the purposes of the GHR Development Award calls “deliverables” are defined as tangible products or outcomes (e.g. documents or recorded evidence of outcome/impact). “Milestones” may also be associated with products but can also be key staging points in the project that enable monitoring of the overall delivery against the objectives (e.g. completion of a specific task or activity).

• All critical enablers for the project (e.g. collaboration agreements, sub-contracts, ethical consent, risk management, due diligence and safeguarding policies) should be considered to be deliverables.
• Quarterly financial assurance reports detailing actual spend are a mandatory requirement for this call and must be listed as deliverables.
• If applicable, any Stop/Go decision points for the project should be clearly reflected in the milestones

When uploading, applicants must only use the filename description ’Appendix_Gantt Chart’.

You should clearly describe programme management and governance arrangements for your project. Please see the GHR Development Awards Guidance for Applicants for more information.

You should identify the project management processes that will ensure that the milestones are reached in a timely manner. This should include the roles and responsibilities of those individuals undertaking the proposed project and set out reporting lines, and the schedule of meetings of the proposed project group to permit coordination, evaluation of progress and dissemination of findings.

Risk Management and Assurance

You should identify any known or anticipated risks to delivering the project. These may be specific project-related risks faced as a contractor or those faced in the implementing context by researchers or communities. Please see the GHR Development Awards Guidance for Applicants for more information.

You may find it useful to refer to the following online resources:

1. Charity Commission’s guidance on how to manage risks when working internationally
2. The Wellcome Trust’s guidelines on research involving people living in low- and middle-income countries
3. Good Financial Grant Practice (GFGP) standard online assessment tool

Please provide clear details on the risks and challenges, as well as mitigating actions, in delivering the proposed work and pay particular attention to the following issues:

Data protection and information governance

• Where relevant, describe ethics or governance considerations in relation to the project including use and storage of personnel and sensitive data.

Financial assurance, ODA compliance, monitoring and auditing of expenditure

• Describe arrangements for due diligence, the allocation and transfer of funds to collaborating organisations and the financial processes, controls and audit measures in place to monitor and ensure appropriate use of funds, including any specific subcontracting arrangements for compliance auditing. Please see the GHR Development Awards Guidance for Applicants for more information.

Fraud and bribery

• Describe the arrangements or governance mechanisms in place to prevent fraud, bribery and corruption and to ensure compliance for the duration of the Award.

Safeguarding

• Describe the arrangements for safeguarding of project staff, and study participants where relevant. If your project is funded, the contracted organisation will be expected to take all appropriate measures to prevent actual, attempted or threatened sexual exploitation, abuse or harassment by your employees or any other persons engaged and controlled by the Award to perform any activities under your Agreement with NIHR and adopt robust procedures for the reporting of suspected misconduct, illegal acts or failures to investigate.

Please see the GHR Development Awards Guidance for Applicants for more information.

You may find the following online resources helpful:

• NIHR Safeguarding Guidance
• NIHR Policy on Preventing Harm in Research
• UKCDR Safeguarding – prevention from harm
• FCDO Due Diligence: Safeguarding for external partners

Climate and the environment

• You should describe whether any part of your programme is susceptible to environmental and climate risks and/or would have the potential to accelerate climate change.
• you should consider the following areas to ensure that risk and impact on the environment are most efficiently minimised and mitigated:
  • pollution
  • waste efficiency
  • water resources
  • biodiversity
  • land degradation
  • in terms of susceptibility to climate-related risk, you should consider the following hazard categories:
  • biological (e.g. epidemics, infectious disease)
  • geophysical (e.g. earthquakes, tsunami)
  • climatological (e.g. extreme weather conditions, wildfires)
  • hydrological (e.g. floods)
  • meteorological (e.g. cyclones)
• Please refer to our guidelines on Carbon Reduction and see our Guidance for Applicants for more information.

A risk register may also be uploaded if available, to summarise the detail provided in this section. NIHR will be looking to act in partnership with applicants, expert reviewers and its programme managers to explore a proportionate and contextually sensitive approach to monitoring and evaluation. A mutually agreed risk register will be critical in informing our approach to monitoring.

NIHR reporting and monitoring requirements: NIHR recognises the need for flexible and agile project management in the context of global health, and will work with successful applicants to develop a proportionate approach to monitoring and reporting. However, applicants should note that due to mandatory conditions for ODA compliance, we will require detailed quarterly finance reports (recording actual spend) and a final report at the end of the award.

Dissemination and anticipated outcomes

The purpose of this section is for the applicant to describe the planned outputs and outcomes of the proposed project, detailing how the project will lead to high-quality internationally competitive global health research proposals directly led by eligible LMIC organisations for research funding. Where possible, applications should quantify the potential benefits and the anticipated timescale for the benefits to the project partners resulting from the proposed project to be realised. NIHR understands that the impact of any project may take time to be realised. NIHR also recognises it may be difficult to provide definitive answers or guarantees on longer-term impacts. However, applicants should provide details of the pathway to impact of the proposed project.

In this section, please outline your plans to apply for research funding both from the NIHR and other funders. It also may be useful to consider the following guidance:

NIHR expects Development Awards to lead to high-quality internationally competitive global health research proposals directly led by eligible LMIC organisations for research funding, both from the NIHR and other funders.

Expected outcomes/ outputs of the GHR Development Awards include:

• Strengthened institutional and individual research capacity in ODA-eligible countries and
• preparedness for applying for and managing applied global health research funding.
• Sustainable and equitable research partnerships between award holders and their collaborators, which foster mutual learning and knowledge exchange, and ongoing collaboration on high-quality applied global health research projects.
• Increased understanding of the health research needs of ODA-eligible countries, and health research questions relevant to ODA-eligible countries.
• Strong evidence of community engagement and involvement to refine research priorities and ensure research proposals are suited to the local context and are policy and practice-relevant.

Success criteria and barriers to proposed work

Please set out the measurements of success you intend to use and also the key risks to delivering this project and what contingencies you will put in place to deal with them. This section should identify appropriate actions that would reduce or eliminate each risk or its impact. Please see the GHR Development Awards Guidance for Applicants for more information.

Section 10: Justification of Costs

Provide an overall justification of costs and details of how it provides value for money.

Section 11: Detailed Budget

Through this call, awards up to £100,000 over 12 months are available for eligible projects, starting October 2024. The amount awarded and the length of the funding period should be fully justified according to the nature of the proposed project.

Justification of costs

Provide a breakdown of project costs associated with undertaking the project and provide justification for the resources requested, including the following:

1. Staff costs
2. Travel, subsistence, and conference attendance costs
3. Items of consumables directly relevant to the project
4. Community engagement and involvement costs#
5. Costs associated with dissemination, excluding open-access publication costs
6. Risk management and assurance costs
7. Training and development costs
8. Monitoring, evaluation and learning costs
9. Any other direct costs
10. Other legitimate and reasonable indirect costs/overheads (associated with staff costs in ODA-eligible countries)

Please refer to the Development Awards Finance Guidance to assist with preparation of a detailed budget. For help with estimating community engagement and involvement costs, please see the NIHR Payments Guidance for researchers and professionals.

Section 12: Uploads

Mandatory:

• A list of references cited in the application (maximum 3 pages A4)
• Delivery Chain Risk map

The following file(s) are considered non-mandatory to submission; please number your files and attach:

• Supporting documentation, including protocols, questionnaires, logic models, flow diagrams, pictures, charts
• Any further supporting documentation (a flow diagram illustrating the study design and the flow of participants, diagrams, pictures, letters of support for any other major contributors and co-applicants (institutional support), etc.)
• Due Diligence forms completed by the contracting organisation for the NIHR or a UK research organisation or funder in the last 3 years (including any supporting documentation).

N.B. No more than 15 separate files are permitted. The total file size should not exceed 10Mb. Total file sizes larger than this may not be considered as part of the submission. All supporting documentation must be uploaded with a clear and concise filename description, preceded by a numbered ‘Appendix’ reference. Uploads MUST be provided as a Word or PDF document or you may not be able to submit your application or it may be difficult for the panel to view the required information in order to assess your application.

Section 13: Administrative Contact Details

Please provide the details of an administrative lead as a secondary point of contact for any queries relating to the application, should it be supported.

NOTE: Please note this person does not need to be included as a co-applicant.

Section 14: Research and Development Office Contact Details

Please provide the contact details and job title of a person in the R&D office, so that we are able to notify them of the outcome of this application including any associated feedback.

NOTE: Please note this person does not need to be included as a co-applicant.

Section 15: Acknowledge, Review and Submit

Conflict of Interest (COI) checks

Please declare any conflicts or potential conflicts of interest that you or your co-applicants may have, including any facts that, should they come to light at a future date, could lead to a perception of bias. Include any relevant personal, non-personal & commercial interest that could be perceived as a conflict of interest. Examples include (this list is not all-encompassing) secondary employment, consultancy, financial or commercial gain (pensions, shareholdings, directorships, voting rights), honoraria, etc. In the case of commercial sector involvement with the application or the study, please state clearly the relationship to ownership of data, access to data, and membership of project oversight groups.

Agreement to terms and conditions

As Lead Applicant, please tick the box to confirm that the information given on this form is correct and that you will be actively engaged in this project and responsible for its overall management. In addition, you will accept responsibility for ensuring that the host institution and interested parties are kept informed.

N.B. Ticking this box constitutes an electronic signature of the lead applicant with regard to this application.

Checklist of information to include when submitting a NIHR GHR Development Award application

Applicants should click the checkboxes to indicate that they have included the necessary information prior to submitting their application.

• GANTT CHART (mandatory upload)
• A full and accurate detailed budget breakdown (mandatory upload)
• References - up to 3 pages (mandatory upload)
• Delivery Chain Risk Map (mandatory upload)
• A clear description of team member roles and contribution
• A good quality Plain English Summary
• A clear detailed project plan outlining the study design.
• A flow diagram illustrating the study design/flow of participants/ approach to knowledge mobilisation, if appropriate
• Appropriate and relevant community engagement and involvement
• A clear justification of costs/value for money
• The support and agreement from the necessary supporting roles/signatories
• Other Supporting documentation (non–mandatory upload)
• Publications and Grants of Lead Applicant is correctly displayed
• Clear demonstration of how the Lead Applicant/ the Lead Applicant’s organisation meets the eligibility criteria set out in the GHR Development Awards Guidance for Applicants.
• Either a clear plan to obtain an ethical review of the proposed activities in the relevant countries OR clear confirmation that an ethical review is not required for this project.
• Where applicable, your mentor is included in the application, with an up-to-date CV and details on plans to provide support.
• Where possible, Due Diligence Forms completed by the contracting organisation for the NIHR or a UK research organisation or funder in the last 3 years (including any supporting documentation) 

Section 20: Validation Summary

Please follow the next steps in order to complete your application submission process;

• Validate all mandatory/required fields listed below (that are required to be completed/amended before submitting)
• Check all co-applicants have completed their CV details as appropriate and review the PDF final version for any formatting issues
• Click 'Save and Close'
• Click the 'Submit' option (this must be completed by 13:00 (GMT), 15 May 2024

Please note that your submission will not be considered complete until all applicants have both confirmed and approved the application and the 'Submit' button becomes available and is then used.

You will receive an automated email containing the acknowledgement that we have received your application.