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Latest news on the International Health Links Funding Scheme

Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by Erin in Latest News

THET and British Council are pleased to announce ‘Round Two’ of the UK International Health Links Funding Scheme. The response to the initial call for applications, in September 2009, was overwhelming and the IHFLS received an enthusiastic 170 applications.

Grants are being made available to support projects run by long-term partnerships, or ‘Health Links’, between UK health institutions and their counterparts in developing countries.  The deadline for the second round of Start-up and Project grants is 5:00pm on Monday, 31 May 2010. Grants will be awarded from the beginning of August 2010. 

To apply for the IHLFS, please visit www.britishcouncil.org/learning-healthlinks. For further application details, please contact the British Council at healthlinks@britishcouncil.org. For more information about THET and Health Links please contact Rachel Schofield on +44 (0)20 7290 3892, or by email at rach@thet.org, or Rhonwyn Cornell, Links Development Officer, at rhonwyn@thet.org, or on +44 (0)20 7290 3880.

Application Workshops
In October 2009 four IHLFS application workshops were run in the UK, and two in Africa (in Malawi and Kenya), facilitated jointly by THET and British Council staff. The aim was to provide Links, and potential Links, with guidance on the application process and to offer an opportunity to ask questions. 94 people in the UK and 68 people in Kenya and Malawi attended the workshops and took part in some lively discussions. We received very positive feedback from the workshops, and participants’ suggestions from the earlier workshops were used to improve subsequent ones. A summary of the evaluation report from the application workshops is available here.

Independent Selection Panel
THET and the British Council are pleased to announce that the Independent Selection Panel for the Funding Scheme has been chosen. Click here to read more about the role of the Selection Panel and to find out more about its members.

The deadline for the first round of medium and large grant applications has now passed. Details of the next round of funding for these grants will be published on the IHLFS webpages and on this website in Spring 2010.

Applications for Small Grants may be submitted at any time during the lifetime of IHLFS or until all the funding for each year is allocated.

To find out more about the types of grants available through the IHLFS, including whether your Link is in a target country, please click here.

For further information and full application details and to download application documents for small grants, please visit the IHLFS webpages at www.britishcouncil.org/learning-healthlinks.

All queries about the Scheme should be sent to the IHLFS team at HealthLinks@britishcouncil.org.

The IHLFS works closely with the new UK International Health Links Centre (IHLC). For more information about International Health Links, please visit the IHLC’s website at www.ihlc.org.uk.

To read a copy of the Press Release about the IHLFS from 28th September 2009, please click here. Further background information on THET and the British Council is available here.