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.

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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