Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) · Switzerland (Geneva)
MMV invites proposals from African scientists in four priority areas: (1) medicinal chemistry, novel molecules with confirmed antimalarial activity (EC50 < 10 µM) and a credible optimisation plan, especially compounds suitable for chemoprevention; (2) assay development and screening to support discovery or development of novel antimalarials; (3) computer-aided drug discovery using cheminformatic or bioinformatic approaches; (4) large molecules, biologics or oligonucleotides for malaria treatment or chemoprevention. Proposals must use the specified template.
This EDCTP3/Horizon Europe call invites international research consortia to develop projects applying digital technologies, data systems, and artificial intelligence to strengthen clinical research capacity, improve healthcare delivery, and support innovative health solutions in sub-Saharan Africa. Priority themes include development and integration of electronic health records, AI/ML-powered diagnostic and surveillance tools, digital health research infrastructure, and training in data science for health. Partnerships must involve African countries, EU Member States, and Horizon Europe-associated countries.
CODESRIA — Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa · Senegal
CODESRIA's institutes combine funded residency with structured intellectual training: laureates arrive with a research paper, work on it across two weeks with senior resource persons, and leave with a revised paper and a route to publication. This year's theme is migration governance and democratic agency, held in Lagos in partnership with the Centre for Migration Studies at the University of Ghana. This is the continent's own social science council funding African scholars directly, with no Northern partner anywhere in the structure.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) · Italy
FAO and the Smart Africa Secretariat are seeking AI-driven climate-smart agriculture solutions to deploy and validate in five countries, and Malawi is one of the five — alongside Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. The theme is deployment rather than discovery: precision agriculture and input optimisation, crop yield prediction, pest and disease surveillance and early warning, climate risk modelling and adaptive decision support, and water and natural resource optimisation. Winners receive deployment support, collaboration with government ministries, FAO technical expertise and validation in real agricultural settings.
Deadline
31 August 20263 days left
Value
US$50,000
Focus
Agriculture & food systems · Environment & climate
Heinrich Böll Foundation postgraduate (master’s level) scholarships for students from developing countries. Same values and application requirements as the doctoral track but for master’s-degree study in Germany. A valuable pathway for UNIMA junior staff and recent graduates seeking international postgraduate qualifications.
Deadline
Closes 1 September 20264 days left
Value
Monthly stipend plus allowances for the standard study period (renewable)
Grants of up to $30,000 are awarded annually to non-profit organisations researching indoor environmental quality and human wellbeing. No geographic limitations.
The Heinrich Böll Foundation offers fully funded doctoral scholarships for students from developing countries to pursue a PhD at a German university. The Foundation is politically affiliated with the German Green Party and values academic excellence combined with civic engagement, ecological responsibility, and democratic values. All academic disciplines are eligible, but applications demonstrating connection to these values are most competitive.
Deadline
Closes 1 September 20264 days left
Value
Monthly stipend plus allowances for the standard study period (renewable); doctoral funding per Heinrich Böll rates
Enables a UK institution to invite an eminent overseas academic to enrich the skills of researchers there. A UNIMA professor would be hosted by a UK university, which submits the application.
Deadline
Closes 1 September 20264 days left
Value
£10,000 - £150,000. Applications for less than £10,000 or more than £150,000 are not eligible.
The EU’s flagship global-health partnership, targeting infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. The 2026 work programme includes calls on TB drug development, prevention/treatment of lower respiratory tract infections, HIV prevention and treatment, ethics/regulatory capacity, and digital innovation & AI in health. Global Health EDCTP3 invests in global health through funding collaborative research and innovation projects tackling infectious diseases and supporting activities for research capacity building in Africa.
Deadline
Closes 2 September 20265 days left
Value
Part of a €147 million Work Programme 2026 (6 topics); budgets set per topic
This topic funds the unglamorous infrastructure that determines whether health research can happen at all: ethics committees, national regulatory authorities, pharmacovigilance systems and the digital platforms that run them. The target is regulatory agencies below WHO Maturity Level 3, mentored by ML3 and ML4 agencies, through training and twinning networks. For a country whose research ethics and regulatory capacity are a recognised bottleneck, this is more consequential than its low profile suggests.
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) · Italy
IFAD is procuring a partner to strengthen its Rural Sector Performance Assessment — the instrument that scores countries' rural policy environments and helps drive IFAD's own investment allocations. The work is analytical and methodological rather than field research: improving how rural policy performance is measured, and making the resulting evidence usable for policy and investment decisions. Universities, think tanks and research institutes are named as eligible applicants alongside NGOs and private-sector organisations.
Deadline
4 September 2026, 12:00 CET (full proposals)7 days left
Value
Up to US$1,200,000, with a counterpart contribution of at least 20% of the IFAD grant (25% for private-sector applicants); in-kind contributions accepted
