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STRENGTHENING RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION INFRASTRUCTURE AT AFRICA UNIVERSITY, ZIMBABWE

Award Number: G11HD088121
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 05/18/2016
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 11/30/2021

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STRENGTHENING RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION INFRASTRUCTURE AT AFRICA UNIVERSITY, ZIMBABWE - DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Africa University (AU) in Zimbabwe strives to be a center of research excellence and a research leader, contributing to knowledge generation and knowledge dissemination for leadership development, and for social and economic transformation. This project seeks to strengthen the research administration infrastructure at AU, in order to assist researchers to successfully compete for international funding to carry out the much needed research to solve the many health problems that Zimbabwe is facing. Currently the biomedical and biobehavioural research output at Africa University is low. Lack of grants management and other support for researchers is thought to be a contributory factor. This project proposes to develop the recently established AU Office of Research and Outreach Programs (OROP) to make it fully functional and productive to serve the needs of the AU research community. The project proposes a plan to develop the capacity of Africa University OROP leadership and staff in various aspects of research administration. This will result in the availability of a user-friendly central research office that is led and staffed by well qualified ad motivated cadres to support and motivate interested AU faculty, students and staff to move to the next level of productivity in research. The project proposes an innovative cost-effective staffing plan for the OROP. Then a two-tiered capacity building plan where initially the research administration leaders are trained in many areas, including NIH policies and processes, then they in turn pass on the knowledge and skills they would have acquired to the OROP staff. A variety of training methods will be used, including internships, formal certified courses, seminars, workshops, e-lessons, exchange visits. Mentoring will be provided by well-experienced leaders in research administration. The OROP staff will in turn support and train AU researchers on key areas that include developing research proposals, implementing and managing grants, report and manuscript writing. The ultimate goal is research output increasing at AU, especially large externally funded research. This will generate income that will in turn sustain the OROP, enabling it to provide even more professional services to researchers.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $52 )
2023	2020	AFRICA UNIVERSITY	FAIRVIEW RD	MUTARE				ZWE	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	5	11/23/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$52
														Subtotal = $52

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = -$52 )
2022	2020	AFRICA UNIVERSITY	FAIRVIEW ROAD, OLD MUTARE	MUTARE				ZWE	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	5	6/14/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$52
														Subtotal = -$52

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $48,600 )
2020	2020	AFRICA UNIVERSITY	FAIRVIEW ROAD, OLD MUTARE	MUTARE				ZWE	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	5	4/29/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$48,600
														Subtotal = $48,600

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = $48,600 )
2019	2019	AFRICA UNIVERSITY	FAIRVIEW ROAD, OLD MUTARE	MUTARE				ZWE	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	4	4/18/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$48,600
														Subtotal = $48,600

Issue Date FY: 2018 ( Subtotal = $48,600 )
2018	2018	AFRICA UNIVERSITY	FAIRVIEW ROAD, OLD MUTARE	MUTARE				ZWE	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	3	9/25/2018	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2018	2018	AFRICA UNIVERSITY	FAIRVIEW ROAD, OLD MUTARE	MUTARE				ZWE	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	3	5/3/2018	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$48,600
														Subtotal = $48,600

Issue Date FY: 2017 ( Subtotal = $48,600 )
2017	2017	AFRICA UNIVERSITY	FAIRVIEW ROAD, OLD MUTARE	MUTARE				ZWE	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	2	7/3/2017	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$48,600
														Subtotal = $48,600

Issue Date FY: 2016 ( Subtotal = $59,400 )
2016	2016	AFRICA UNIVERSITY	FAIRVIEW ROAD	MUTARE				ZWE	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	1	5/18/2016	NEW	$59,400
														Subtotal = $59,400

Grand Total All Awards = $253,800

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STRENGTHENING RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION INFRASTRUCTURE AT AFRICA UNIVERSITY, ZIMBABWE

Award Number: G11HD088121

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 05/18/2016

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 11/30/2021

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