The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation seeks to bring about the kinds of changes that will help people live healthier and more productive lives. Whether the challenge is low-yield crops in Africa or low graduation rates in Los Angeles, the Foundation aims to identify pressing problems that get too little attention.

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DFID leads the UK’s work to end extreme poverty. They aim towards ending the need for aid by creating jobs, unlocking the potential of girls and women and helping to save lives when humanitarian emergencies hit.

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An online portal through which researchers can find and secure funding under a number of EU funding programmes including Horizon 2020.

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The aim of this programme is to strengthen technology, research and innovation cooperation between Europe and South Africa.

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The EDCTP aims to accelerate the development of new or improved drugs, vaccines, microbicides and diagnostics against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as well as other poverty-related and neglected infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on phase II and III clinical trials.

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Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU research and innovation programme thus far, with nearly €80 billion of funding available over seven years (2014 to 2020. It promises more breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking great ideas from the laboratory to the market.

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The IDRC funds projects that aim to bring employment, food security, health, peace and prosperity to developing regions of the world.

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The Newton Fund aims to promote the economic development and social welfare of either the partner countries or, through working with the partner country, to address the well being of communities. The Newton Fund is part of the UK’s official development assistance (ODA). The fund is managed by the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

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The NIH is one the largest funders of biomedical research in the world, investing tens of billions of dollars a year to enhance life and reduce illness and disability.

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This funding aims to advance science for global health. Fogarty's global health research and research training programs offer a variety of funding opportunities.

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TDR is a global programme of scientific collaboration that helps facilitate, support and influence efforts to combat diseases of poverty.

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SIDA is a government agency working on behalf of the Swedish parliament and government, with the mission to reduce poverty in the world. Through their work and in cooperation with others, they contribute to implementing Sweden’s Policy for Global Development.

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All research proposals to UK Science Councils are to be made through the Joint electronic Submission System (Je-S)

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Arts and Humanities Research Council (ARC)

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (ESPRC)

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Medical Research Council (MRC)

Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC)

Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

USAID is the lead US government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realise their potential.

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The Wellcome Trust works on the philosophy that good health makes life better. They provide more than £700 million a year to support bright minds in science, the humanities and social sciences as well as education, public engagement and the application of research to medicine.

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UCT has ring-fenced funding to enable researchers' participation in the WUN Research Development Fund, which provides grants for research projects that include at least three member universities and span at least two geographical regions.

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