Implementing strategies for Building Capacity in Research Administration at CIDEIM, and subsequent dissemination within Colombia and the Latin American region - PROJECT SUMMARY
The Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Medicas, CIDEIM, is recognized by
COLCIENCIAS as a research center within the National System of Science, Technology and Innovation of
Colombia. CIDEIM originated in Colombia in 1961 as an International Center for Medical Research and Training
awarded to Tulane University by the United States National Institutes of Health and hosted by Colombia as a
bilateral Technical Assistance Mission. Successive renewals of this program were followed by funding through
the US NIAID ICIDR program until 1989. In 1990 at the initiative of COLCIENCIAS, CIDEIM was established as
a Colombian non-profit foundation and in 1991, successfully competed for a Tropical Medicine Research Center
TMRC award from the US NIAID. Since then, CIDEIM investigators have developed collaborative research and
training programs with U.S. universities through subawards within projects supported by NIAID and the Fogarty
International Center, as well as receiving direct awards from the US NIAID. Our current NIAID funding includes
a TMRC U19 award and sub-award within a U19 award to the University of Connecticut, which have increased
our institutional role in, and responsibility for the management of USNIAID grants.
The overall goal of this project is to strengthen the capacity of CIDEIM to develop and implement
institutional policies and practices for grants management that are compliant with NIH guidelines and
requirements for administration of NIH grants, and to share this capacity with other institutions in the region. To
achieve this goal, we will first address critical gaps in CIDEIM grants administration for current and future grants
funded by the USNIH, by training CIDEIM management leaders at Yale University. Senior administrators trained
in the U.S. will then transfer and implement these policies and practices including oversight of updated NIH
guidelines, in CIDEIM. Second, we will design, implement and evaluate an internal training plan, curriculum and
materials that will provide the bases for institutionalization of sustainable grants management and administration
capacity through continuing education and updating of training in accordance with changes in NIH guidelines.
This training curriculum and corresponding materials will be adapted for external training and transfer of capacity
to other institutions in Colombia and the region. Our management leaders and their teams will review and adjust
Institutional policies, procedures and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to meet good management
practices in compliance with NIH requirements throughout the pre-award, award and post award phases of the
natural history of programs and projects. Adaptation of training to internal and external online access and
development of an in-house grant tracking system will promote sustainability of these practices.
