Pre-announcement: Team Grants in Diabetes Prevention and Treatment in Indigenous Communities: Resilience and Wellness

The CIHR Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes (INMD), Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health (IIPH), Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH), Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH), and Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (INMHA), are pleased to announce the upcoming funding opportunity for Team Grants in Diabetes Prevention and Treatment in Indigenous Communities: Resilience and Wellness.

In 2021, Canada will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin, for which Drs. Banting and Macleod received a Nobel Prize - an illustrious moment for Canadians and one of the most dramatic examples of rapid translation of a discovery in basic science into a benefit for patients. Despite this discovery and the subsequent progress that has been made in treating diabetes, the burden of diabetes on individuals, families, communities and health care systems is increasing in Canada and around the world, as are the related complications.

The Team Grants in Diabetes Prevention and Treatment in Indigenous Communities: Resilience and Wellness will support Indigenous-led and community-driven research that aims to reverse the upward trajectory of diabetes and associated co-morbidities (e.g. cardiometabolic disease) among First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples and their communities. The objective of this component is to define and integrate models of resilience and wellness into diabetes prevention and treatment approaches among First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples.

Objectives

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• To define and integrate models of resilience and wellness into diabetes prevention and treatment approaches among First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples.
• To support Indigenous-led and community-driven efforts to reverse the upward trajectory of diabetes in Indigenous communities, including Urban Indigenous communities.

Eligibility

This funding opportunity seeks applicants who are Indigenous community-based groups or non-governmental organizations, or individuals who self-identify as Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit or Métis) or provide evidence of having meaningful and culturally safe involvement with Indigenous Peoples in order to:

1. Prioritize First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples and communities, including Urban Indigenous communities, in leading their research agendas;
2. Promote cultural safety of and appropriate engagements by researchers working with Indigenous Peoples in meaningful ways to ensure that respectful relations are established;
3. Add value to the research through the use of Indigenous culturally relevant theoretical and conceptual frameworks, and Indigenous culturally appropriate research protocols, including Indigenous methodologies; and
4. Promote equity and development of trainees, researchers and knowledge users who are of Indigenous ancestry.

For an application to be eligible:

1. The Nominated Principal Applicant (NPA) must be:
   1. an individual affiliated with an Indigenous non-governmental organization in Canada with a research and/or knowledge translation mandate.
      or
   2. an Indigenous non-governmental organization in Canada with a research and/or knowledge translation mandate.
      or
   3. an individual (an independent researcher or a knowledge user) affiliated with a Canadian postsecondary institution and/or its affiliated institutions (including hospitals, research institutes and other non-profit organizations with a mandate for health research and/or knowledge translation).
      or
   4. an individual (an independent researcher or a knowledge user) working in a municipal, provincial or territorial government in Canada where the activity which forms the subject matter of the funding is not being funded by specific programs of those municipal, provincial and territorial governments.
2. The Nominated Principal Applicant must have their substantive role in Canada for the duration of the requested grant term.
3. If the Nominated Principal Applicant is an individual, the Nominated Principal Applicant must either self-identify as Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit or Métis) or provide evidence of having meaningful and culturally safe involvement with Indigenous Peoples.
4. The Nominated Principal Applicant may only submit one (1) application to this funding opportunity in the role of NPA but may participate in other roles in any number of applications.
5. The team must involve at least one (1) team member, other than the Nominated Principal Applicant, from each of the following categories:
   1. An Indigenous Elder and/or an Indigenous Knowledge Keeper*, identified on the application as a Principal Applicant, Co-Applicant, Principal Knowledge User or Knowledge User.
   2. An Indigenous person who is living with, affected by, and/or at risk of developing diabetes to provide an experience and perspective on diabetes prevention and treatment.
6. The team must include a Sex and Gender Champion, with experience in meaningful and culturally safe sex and gender-based analysis or gender diversity in Indigenous communities. The Sex and Gender Champion must have successfully completed one of the sex- and gender-based analysis training modules available online through the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health and submit a Certificate of Completion. This role could be filled by the Nominated Principal Applicant or another team member. Applicants are encouraged to review the “How to integrate sex and gender in research” page on the CIHR website.

*A Knowledge Keeper (also known as a Knowledge Holder or Knowledge Guardian) is an Indigenous person, regardless of age, who possesses the Indigenous cultural knowledge necessary for the proposed research project or activities, as recognized, validated, and authenticated by the Indigenous community.

Administration of Funds

CIHR grants are generally administered by the business office of an institution or organization declared eligible to administer CIHR funds after a financial and eligibility review.

Organizations identified as the Institution Paid may be required to undergo a financial and eligibility review, if they have not already done so, in order to administer the grant funds. They may be required to sign a funding agreement with CIHR. If necessary, a successful applicant may choose to have their funds administered by a CIHR eligible institution.

Funds will not be released to the Institution Paid of a successful applicant unless they have been approved to administer funding.

If your Institution Paid is not currently eligible to receive funding from CIHR, please contact the Contact Centre to enquire about the process.

Funds available

CIHR and partner(s) financial contributions for this initiative are subject to availability of funds. Should CIHR or partner(s) funding levels not be available or are decreased due to unforeseen circumstances, CIHR and partner(s) reserve the right to reduce, defer or suspend financial contributions to grants received as a result of this funding opportunity.

The total amount available for this funding opportunity is $8,420,000. This amount may increase if additional funding partners participate.

Of this $8,420,000:

• $420,000 is available to fund up to twelve (12) development grants of up to $35,000 per grant if requested, to successful applications at the Letter of Intent (LOI) stage. It is anticipated that up to twelve (12) fundable LOI applications will be invited to the full application stage.
• $8,000,000 is available at the full application stage, enough to fund up to four (4) grants. The maximum amount per grant is $400,000 per year for up to 5 years, for a total of $2,000,000 per grant.

*These timelines are estimates and subject to change.

Disclaimer: The information contained in this pre-announcement of the Team Grants in Diabetes Prevention and Treatment in Indigenous Communities: Resilience and Wellness funding opportunity is subject to change and does not commit CIHR or partners to the requirements outlined in this version. The final funding opportunity will be published by CIHR in the Funding Opportunity Database in ResearchNet in Fall 2020.

Date modified:

2020-11-05