ANH Competitive Grants Call: Opens 12 September

05 September 2024

ANH Academy opens a new Request for Proposals for competitive grants on 12 September 2024

ANH Academy Competitive Research Grants: Round 1

The Agriculture, Nutrition & Health Academy was formed as part of the Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA) programme. Running over two phases from 2015-2024, IMMANA has accelerated progress on tools, data, and capacity needed to guide evidence-based policy in agriculture-food systems, nutrition, and health.

New ANH Academy initiatives build on a decade of fostering a growing global interdisciplinary community of researchers, practitioners and policymakers working at the intersections of agriculture, food systems, nutrition and health. We now pivot towards a programme focused on accelerating policy change for nutrition, while ensuring planetary health and equity. This includes generating, translating and facilitating the uptake of evidence to guide policy change towards improved outcomes, as well as promoting global capability sharing and strengthening networks and collaborations that foster interdisciplinary, multi-sectoral action.

Goal

The new ANH Academy Competitive Research Grants will be situated within a wider goal to accelerate actions towards equitable and just food systems for nutrition and health, whilst confronting climate change and protecting nature, through interdisciplinary research, capability sharing and collaboration.  As such, the Grants programme will have an explicit focus on facilitating food systems and nutrition-related policy change through generating actionable evidence, strengthening science-to-policy capabilities, and positioning and translating key evidence.

Scope and priority research themes

This round of ANH Academy Competitive Research Grants will move beyond developing and validating agriculture-nutrition methods, metrics and tools (IMMANA Phase 1 and 2) to testing and evaluating interventions, strategies and policies, which will increase the equitable consumption of safe, affordable, nutritious foods.

Key topics

Reducing food loss & waste
Creating demand for nutritious diets

Budget, duration and partnerships

Each ANH Academy grant awarded will be between £750,000 and £1,000,000 and up to 3 grants are expected to be awarded through a competitive selection process in each round. Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary. All budgets should be submitted in pound sterling (£).

The maximum duration for each awarded grant is 36 months with an estimated start date of May 2025. All awarded IMMANA grants must be completed by April 2028.

Projects led by institutions in low- and middle-income countries are encouraged, however, irrespective of project leads, equitable partnerships are a essential.