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Sustainable Integration of Female Genital Schistosomiasis into SRH and Primary Health Systems

COR-NTD request for proposals

Coalition for Operational Research on Neglected Tropical Diseases (COR-NTD)

Up to US$175,000 for research on sustainable and scalable integration of female genital schistosomiasis services into sexual and reproductive health and primary health systems.

What it funds

  • Research generating evidence for sustainable integration of female genital schistosomiasis services into sexual and reproductive health and primary health systems
  • Studies of feasibility, acceptability, effectiveness, sustainability, scale-up and system integration
  • Work addressing women and girls affected by or at risk of FGS

Is this a fit?

Apply if

  • You are studying how FGS services can be integrated into routine SRH or primary-care systems
  • You can evaluate feasibility, acceptability, effectiveness, sustainability, scale-up or system integration
  • Your team includes the clinical, implementation, health-system or programme expertise needed to translate findings into practice
  • Your proposed work addresses women and girls affected by or at risk of FGS
  • You can show a realistic pathway from research findings to service integration

Skip it if

  • Your project is only a prevalence survey with no integration or implementation component
  • Your proposal is about SRHR but has no substantive FGS component
  • Your work is about schistosomiasis generally without addressing FGS integration
  • You cannot identify a plausible routine-service pathway where integration would occur

What you need to prepare

Needed at application

  • Research proposal
  • Study objectives and implementation approach
  • Project team and institutional information
  • Budget within the US$175,000 maximum
  • Timeline
  • Description of health-system or service integration
  • Relevant letters or approvals if required by the official application

How the application works

  1. 1
    Review the official COR-NTD RFP and submission form
  2. 2
    Confirm geographic and institutional eligibility
  3. 3
    Define the specific health-system entry point for FGS integration
  4. 4
    Explain why the proposed approach is sustainable and scalable
  5. 5
    Build the budget within the US$175,000 maximum
  6. 6
    Submit by the funder’s stated deadline

Key dates

Application deadline
26 August 2026
East Africa equivalent
27 August 2026

The Methods Bench take

Best suited for
Multidisciplinary teams that can connect FGS expertise to real SRH, HIV, cervical-cancer, family-planning or primary-care delivery systems.
The main hurdle
The proposal needs to be about integration, not merely FGS burden. Reviewers are likely to care about whether the approach can live inside routine systems after the research project ends.
Start early on
Defining the service-delivery pathway, implementation outcomes, health-system actors and a credible sustainability plan.
Watch out for
A technically strong FGS study can still miss the call if it does not answer how FGS care can be integrated sustainably into existing systems.

Before you start, check

  • Does the project directly address FGS?
  • Is there a clear SRH or primary-care integration pathway?
  • Is the study designed to generate implementation evidence?
  • Have you checked the exact geographic and institutional eligibility in the RFP?
  • Can the team demonstrate both research and delivery-system expertise?
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