| Frequently Asked Questions
WHO/SEARO High-Level Consultation on
the Bloomberg Global Initiative
to Reduce Tobacco Use ,
22-23 February 2007, New Delhi, India
1.
What is the Bloomberg Global Initiative to
Reduce Tobacco Use?
The Bloomberg Global Initiative to Reduce
Tobacco Use was established as a consequence of the commitment made by Mr
Michael R. Bloomberg, mayor of New
York City, to donate US$ 125 million towards
ending the global tobacco epidemic.
The Bloomberg funds will be used to fund
activities to promote freedom from smoking, with special emphasis in
fifteen developing countries, where more than two thirds of the world's
smokers live.
The initiative – coordinated by five key
partner organizations – will focus on the following four components:
 Refine
and optimize tobacco control programmes to help smokers stop and prevent
children from starting;
Support
public sector efforts to pass and enforce key laws and implement effective
policies, in particular to tax cigarettes, prevent smuggling, change the
image of tobacco, and protect workers from exposure to other people’s
smoke;
Support
advocates’ efforts to educate communities about the harms of tobacco and to
enhance tobacco control activities so as to help make the world
tobacco-free, and
Develop
a rigorous system to monitor the status of global tobacco use
2. Which
organizations are involved in implementation of the Bloomberg Global
Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use?
The key partner organizations in the
Bloomberg
Initiative and their roles are as follows:
(i.)
World Lung Foundation
Implement a grant programme to
implement in-country tobacco control measures;
Create a global resource centre
for effective anti-tobacco advertisements;
Support measures to prevent tobacco
smuggling, and
Operate regional centres
on tobacco control.
Contact details: 61 Broadway 6th floor, NY, NY 110006, USA, Tel: 001-212-315-8765 Website: www.worldlungfoundation.org
(ii.) Campaign for
Tobacco-free Kids
Create
a Global Advocacy Resource Centre including resources for advocacy, legal
support, and to improve public information about tobacco and the tobacco
industry, and
Implement
a grant programme to support in-country tobacco control advocacy.
Contact details: 1400 Eye Street, Suite 1200, Washington
DC 20005,
USA. Tel:
001-202-296-5469 Website: www.tobaccofreekids.org
(iii.)
World Health Organization
Provide
global, regional and in-country leadership in tobacco control, and
Monitor
the implementation of global tobacco control policy at the country level
Contact details: 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.
Tel:00-41-22-791-2126 Website: www.who.int/tobacco
(iv.)Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) Foundation
Measure
the current burden of tobacco and status of tobacco control in high-burden
low-and middle-income countries through creation of a global adult tobacco
survey.
Contact details: 50 Hurt Plaza, Suite 765, Atlanta, Georgia
30303, USA. Tel: 001-404-653-0790 Website: www.cdcfoundation.org
(v.)
Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public
Health
Expand
training and economic studies, with particular focus on China, and
Analyse, refine
and optimize tobacco control interventions.
Contact details: 615 N.
Wolfe Street, Baltimore MD
21205, USA Tel: 001-443-287-7277 Website: www.jhsph.edu 3. What
is the role of the WHO Tobacco Free Initiative at headquarters, regional
and country office levels?
WHO will contribute to the Bloomberg
Initiative as follows :
"Learning
from experience" - Knowledge and expertise beyond tobacco control -
health systems, chronic diseases, monitoring and evaluation;
Sponsorship
and support for numerous partnerships and other collaborations;
WHO’s
experience in working actively with over 85 partnerships;
Country
and regional presence, and
Unique access to ministries of health and
non-state sectors, which can facilitate coordination at country, national
and international levels.
In addition, WHO's Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) will be able to contribute its existing tobacco
control tools to the project, in particular, in areas like:
Policy
and research development;
Expertise
(TFI staff and knowledge networks, strong links
to global experts);
The
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control;
Networking
among the organizations working in the area of tobacco control;
Monitoring
in the form of producing the Global Tobacco Control Report, and
Advocacy
like observing the World No Tobacco Day.
The TFI's expected
role as part of the Bloomberg Initiative will be mainly two-fold - capacity
building with the World Lung Federation (WLF),
and monitoring/evaluation with the CDC Foundation.
Capacity
building would be done by strengthening capacity of government for tobacco
control and by strengthening TFI throughout WHO in headquarters, regions and countries. The support
for strengthening capacity would enable countries to design and implement
national tobacco control action plans, to create or strengthen tobacco
control units of government which are supported by a broad coalition of
governmental and non-governmental organizations, and
The
monitoring and evaluation component of the Initiative will include
data-gathering and analysis on tobacco use, exposure to second-hand smoke,
health outcomes, policy implementation and industry monitoring. This will
be achieved as part of the Global Tobacco Control Report process as well as
through work with CDC Foundation in the area of surveillance, in particular
undertaking the Global Adult Tobacco Survey to measure trends in exposure
to tobacco and tobacco smoke and the economic impact of legislation
The Regional Office for South-East
Asia will contribute to the Initiative by raising awareness
among the policy-makers in the Region about the Initiative through regional
consultations and national capacity building workshops for overall
development of projects and their management. This will be undertaken in
collaboration with WHO country offices and the Regional Resource Centre of
International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease in New Delhi.
Under the Bloomberg Global Initiative, WHO
country offices will be strengthened in
order to provide effective technical support to both public and private
sectors to develop appropriate projects, and also to implement and manage
them at the country level. 4. What
is the Grants programme of the Bloomberg Global Initiative to Reduce
Tobacco Use?
As part of the Bloomberg initiative, a
competitively awarded Grants Programme has been established to support
projects to develop and deliver high-impact tobacco control interventions.
This funding will be made available to organizations that can work at the
country level on one or more of the Initiative's four strategic components.
The Grants programme of the Bloomberg
Initiative is being managed by two of the partner organizations - the
International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, and the Campaign
for Tobacco-free Kids. All five partner organizations will encourage and
provide technical support for the application of grants from all countries,
but particularly from the fifteen high-burden countries (see question 6). 5. When
will the Grants programme of the Bloomberg Global Initiative to Reduce
Tobacco Use provide funding?
Proposals will be considered twice a year – in
January and June. The deadline to submit Project Ideas for the first round
of grants of the Bloomberg Initiative in 2007 has now passed. A Call for
Proposals for the second round is being prepared. The deadline for Project Ideas for the second round of grants is 13
June 2007. 6. Which
countries and/or regions are eligible to apply for funding to the Bloomberg
Global Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use Initiative?
Governments, state/provincial authorities,
and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from low- and middle-income
countries (as categorized by the World Bank) are eligible to apply for
grants. The Initiative places a priority on countries with the greatest
number of smokers. More than half of the world's smokers live in fifteen
countries :
Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India,
Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Thailand,
Turkey,
Ukraine, Vietnam and Poland. However, applicants
from non-Bloomberg countries can also apply for grants. Applicants must be
recognized legal entities capable of entering into contractual arrangements
and assuming legal and financial obligations. Applicants other than
government cannot be the recipients of financial support from any tobacco
product manufacturer or the parent, subsidiary or affiliate of a tobacco product
manufacturer. The grants programme cannot fund individuals. 7. Which
are the priority countries for the Bloomberg Global Initiative to Reduce
Tobacco Use in the South-East
Asia Region?
Of the fifteen priority countries, four are
in the South-East Asia Region. These countries are Bangladesh, India,
Indonesia and Thailand. 8. How
will the WHO Regional Office and country offices be involved in the grants programme?
The Regional Office for South-East
Asia and country offices will be involved in the grants programme
by assisting countries to apply for grants and in implementing those grants
as well as feeding the results of these projects back into global policy
development. 9. What
kinds of projects are eligible for funding under the Bloomberg Global
Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use?
The grants programme will give priority to
projects that lead to substantial, sustainable improvements in tobacco
control laws, regulations, policies and programmes, including (but not
restricted to):
Tax
and price measures, including anti-smuggling measures;
Establishment
of smoke-free workplaces and public places, and effective enforcement of
smoke-free policies;
Direct
and indirect advertising bans;
Other
evidence-based regulatory/legislative initiatives, and
Effective,
long-term mass media campaigns and programmes targeting the general
population and.sub-population groups.
10.What
kinds of projects are not
eligible for funding under the Bloomberg Global Initiative to Reduce
Tobacco Use?
The grants programme is not designed to fund
basic research, academic studies, prevalence surveys or cessation services
(unless they are integral to a policy initiative). Systematic surveys of
adult prevalence are being undertaken separately with the support of the
Bloomberg Initiative and do not form part of this grants programme. 11.How
can an application for the grants be made?
Applicants should first submit a "Project Idea", using the application form that is available at: www.tobaccocontrolgrants.org . Project Idea forms are required to be submitted in English by email to projectideas@tobaccocontrolgrants.org .
Applicants may submit proposals for more than one Project Idea. A template of the project idea form is
included in this folder.
All Project Ideas will be reviewed by a
joint working group of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and
Lung Disease, and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and then assigned to
one or the other for further consideration, according to the nature of the
proposal. The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
will manage grants designed to strengthen government and NGO efforts to
control tobacco use. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids will manage grants
that are aimed at development and implementation of strategic advocacy
campaigns.
Within one month following the submission
deadline, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal to
the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease or the
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Applicants whose Project Ideas are not
selected will be notified accordingly. Full proposals submitted without a
direct invitation will not be considered. 12.What
are the criteria for assessment of the grant applications?
Applications will be reviewed by grants
programme staff of the International Union Against Tuberculosis
and Lung Disease and the Campaign for
Tobacco Free Kids. Selected international tobacco control experts may also
be invited to review particular proposals at the discretion of the grants
programme staff.
Applications will be assessed on the
potential for success, the potential impact on tobacco use and the ability
of the applicant to execute the project plan. Consideration will also be
given to whether, and to what extent, such a grant complements and/or
builds on other grants or technical assistance already provided for tobacco
control initiatives in the same country.
Priority will be given to applicants who can
demonstrate that they possess one or more of the following:
Proven
ability to work in the areas of policy analysis, media advocacy, coalition
building, public education or other related areas necessary to implement
the most effective tobacco control strategies in their country;
An
understanding of what it will take for the government to adopt and
implement the proposed policies;
The
capacity to carry out the proposed work according to plan and in the
timeframe outlined;
A
proven history of, or capacity for, collaboration with other NGOs and/or
between government and NGOs, and
Put
in place good communication and coordination with project partners
(including the government, as appropriate) early in the application
process.
Applications are encouraged from alliances
of organizations working in close collaboration to promote tobacco control
policy change in their country or region. 13.How
much funding is available for each project?
Proposals can be submitted for grants from
US$ 10 000 for a short-term advocacy campaign up to US$ 500 000 per year
for a major comprehensive initiative. Short-term, one-year and two-year
project proposals will be considered. 14.What
are Rapid Response Advocacy Grants?
In between grant rounds, applications for
Rapid Response Advocacy Grants of up to US$ 50 000 will also be considered.
These grants will help meet unanticipated needs where there are
identifiable benefits associated with rapid funding.
Proposals for this type of grant will be
considered on a case-by-case basis throughout the year and every effort
will be made to provide applicants with a response within one week.
Applicants for this type of grant should
complete a Project Idea form, explaining clearly why the project cannot wait until the next grant round, and email it to rrag@tobaccofreekids.org . 15.What
are the contact details to receive further information about the Grants
programme?
Written enquiries can be sent via email,
post or fax to:
The Union Grants Program
Department of Tobacco Control and Prevention
International Union Against Tuberculosis
and Lung Disease
68, Boulevard St Michel
75006 Paris
France
Fax: +33 1 58 28 51 25
Email: tobaccocontrolgrants@iuatld.org
International Advocacy Grants Program
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
1400 Eye Street NW, Suite 1200
Washington DC 20005
USA
Fax: + 1 202 296 5427
Email: grants@tobaccofreekids.org
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