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The PAHEF Grants Program (PGP)

PAHEF makes grants consistent with its mission to improve the health of the people of the Americas. Specifically, grants are given for projects that focus on operations research, policy development and capacity building, develop models with high potential for replication, have a clear end point and measurable impact, have a high probability of success, and support lines of work that fall within the priorities of PAHEF.

PAHEF’s Grants Program (PGP) was launched in March 2005 by PAHEF’s Board of Trustees and provides grants in the range of $5,000 - $25,000 per year for up to two years. The grants are awarded to organizations that support sustainable projects that are innovative, culturally sensitive, and foster partnerships with other stakeholders to improve health in the Americas and the Caribbean. PGP supports efforts to improve the effectiveness of programs aimed at solving problems in specifically defined health areas of interest, which vary from year to year depending on priorities within the organization. PAHEF encourages organizations to submit proposals that deal with program design, monitoring and evaluation, and operations research.

The proposals for 2009 will continue to focus on two important developments that will severely and increasingly strain the health budgets of countries in the Americas and the Caribbean over the next century: the emergence of obesity and related chronic diseases and the aging of the population. Within these two broad areas PAHEF wishes to focus on: