Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
National Strategic Projects Fund Guide For Applicants
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2.FASD National Strategic Projects Fund Goal and
Objectives
The goal of the Fund is to assist organizations that have the
capacity to enhance and build on already existing FASD activities
across the country, and to create new capacity where no previous
capacity exists.
Objectives
- Educate - Improve or increase awareness and
understanding of FASD, its effects, factors of risk and resources
available among the public and professionals.
- Collaborate - Develop and strengthen the
coordinating functions that ensure access to tools, expertise and
resources across Canada.
- Promote and Prevent - Address gaps and
inadequacies in the systems for both prevention and support.
- Respond and Intervene - Address gaps and
opportunities to improve outcomes for those affected.
3. Guiding Principles
The seven principles should be used to guide how your activities
will be undertaken.Your proposal should reflect these principles in
the project processes, participants, activities, evaluation plan,
etc.
- Collaborative in nature, characterized by partnerships
and leadership - always aimed at building and maintaining
capacity.
- Inclusive - supporting and addressing the
needs of women who may use alcohol during pregnancy, as well as
birth, foster and adoptive parents, partners and extended families,
people with FASD themselves and their partners and/or
advocates.
- Guided by Understanding, Compassion and
Respect - for women at risk, for people with FASD and
their families, as well as for the need for safe and secure
communities.
- Culturally Appropriate - recognizing the
importance and strength of cultural values, norms and
traditions.
- Evidence Based - and informed by research and
communication among all partners.
- Sustainable - both the outputs and outcomes of
this project should continue to inform and be accessible to
stakeholders across the country.
- Comprehensive - projects need to address FASD
from a holistic perspective and contribute to more than one aspect
of FASD.
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4. National Priorities for
Funding
National priorities for funding are established by PHAC based on
identified needs of populations and/or population groups.
The purpose of this Guide is to provide general information
about the FASD National Strategic Projects Fund, and does not
contain detailed information on funding priorities.
Project proposals will be solicited by PHAC, and priority will
be given to those proposals. Requests for proposals (RFPs) will be
posted on the website and will include details such as the current
funding priorities, project time frames, eligible applicants and
activities, and deadline for submissions. For more information on
the RFP, please go to: FASD National Strategic
Projects Fund, Request for National Proposals
*The fund defines national projects as meeting needs
that are shared by communities across Canada while recognizing and
accounting for the different challenges faced by communities in
various regions.These needs would be addressed by pulling together
knowledge and experience in collaboration with partners and
community members that represent at a minimum three provinces
and/or territories in Canada. Project activities and documents
would be delivered in such a manner as to meet the requirements of
the Official Languages Act (OLA). (see Section I of this Guide for further
information on the Act).
5. Eligible and
non-eligible Criteria
To be eligible for funding:
- Sponsoring organizations must be Canadian, voluntary
not-for-profit or educational institutions;
- Projects must be national in scope;
- Projects must be congruent with the FASD National Strategic
Projects Fund goal, address at least one of the Fund's
objectives and apply all of the Fund's principles;
- Projects must address at least one of the funding priorities
announced in the RFP or solicitation letter.
The following are not eligible for funding:
- individuals and for-profit organizations;
- pure research, in any discipline (projects that would fit the
criteria and processes of the Canadian Institutes for Health
Research or other research funding agencies);
- provision of direct services that are part of other
governments' jurisdictions;
- profit-making activities;
- ongoing organizational or a percentage of the overhead or
administrative fees of an organization;
- contingency allowances or other unidentified miscellaneous
fees; and
- capital costs, such as purchase of land, buildings or
vehicles.
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