The 3 grants awarded since 2008 by the Gates Foundation to promote tobacco control in Africa amount to about $22,2 million. At the bottom the detailed list of the projects funded by IDRC (30% of the budget).
April 30, 2010: The World Health Organization announces it wants to open a tobacco control resource center in Africa. It would be funded for 5 years by $3.5 millions from the Gates Foundation grant.
April 12, 2010: Statement by the Gates Foundation about the termination of the IDRC grant.
February 3, 2010: ACS announces it will manage a $7 million grant from the Gates Foundation (apparently awarded in November 2009) with an African Consortium. Duration of the program: 5 years.
December 4, 2009: Official press announcement of the grant by WHO.
August 2009: The Gates Foundation awards a grant of $9,994,093 to WHO. Duration 5 years.
December 2007: The Gates Foundation awards a grant of $5.274.477 to IDRC to promote tobacco control in Africa. This was -by far- the largest grant ever awarded to promote tobacco control in Africa. This is supposed to be a 2 year program. Read the notes about the meeting in Ottawa on January 15/16 2008 and see below the detailed list of the projects funded with 30% of the budget.
Here is a spreadsheet of the various IDRC-ATSA projects
What will happen to the grants awarded by IDRC under the contract with the Gates Foundation that are not over yet, now that the Foundation has terminated its grant to IDRC?
Are concerned 9 grants (at least): ATCA (end date september 22, 2010), ATCRI (september 18, 2010), Kenya (August 31, 2010), Mauritius (August 31, 2010), Senegal (August 28, 2010), Eritrea (July 6, 2010), Nigeria (June 24, 2010), South Africa (June 19), Zambia (June 18). Who is going to manage them?
Until September 2010:
African Tobacco Control Alliance : Coordination of Efforts with Organizations in Africa to ATCA (Fabrice Ebeh) for 12 months and 302.200 CAD but Fabrice Ebeh gives a smaller number (122.000) and the page is no longer available (for now) on the IDRC site.
Project Number 105896 Start Date 2009/09/22, end date: Sept 22, 2010
African Tobacco Control Research Initiative Scoping Exercise for ATCRI ( managed by Bode Oluwafemi) for 10 months. The initial budget of 137.100 CAD has increased to 159.400 (+22.300, +16%)
Project Number 105842 Start Date 2009/11/18 Duration 10 months until September 18 2010
Objectives: help organizing tobacco control advocacy in 6 additional countries (compared to the initial 12): Bénin, Botswana, République démocratique du Congo, Ethiopie, Togo and Uganda.
August 31, 2010: signed on December 19 2008: 118.100$ Kenya increased to 181.500 (+63.400, +53%)
Situational Analysis of Tobacco Control in Kenya
Project Number 105582 Start Date 2008/12/19 duration 9 months extended by 12 months until August 31 2010 Priorities: implement the smoking ban in Nairobi and fight indirect advertising
August 31, 2010: signed March 31 2009: Mauritius Island: 124.500$ increased to 188.642 (+61.142, +51%) Tobacco Control Strategies in Mauritius
Project Number 105753 Start Date 2009/03/31 Duration 9 months, extended by 8 months until August 31 2010 Objectives: support for an initiative to help cessation, evaluate the impact of the graphic warnings, support the smoking prohibitions
August 28, 2010: signed May 28 2009: Sénégal: 110.300$
Strengthening the Legal and Regulatory Framework of the Tobacco Control Campaign in Sénégal
Project Number 105819 Start Date 2009/05/28 Duration 7 months, extended by 8 months, until August 28 2010. 2 objectives: promote the vote of a tobacco control Act and support the prohibition of smoking (on religious grounds) in the city of Touba.
July 6, 2010: Eritrea: 106.300 (smokefree schools) increased to 171,000 (+64.700, +60%)
http://www.idrc.org.sg/fr/ev-83042-201_105583-1-IDRC_ADM_INFO.html Project number: 105583 Start Date: 2009/01/06 duration 9 months extended by 9 months until July 6 2010 Priority: smokefree schools for an effective implementation in 2012
June 24, 2010: signed February 24 2009: Nigeria: 119.200$ increased to 181.600 (+62.400, +52%)
Promoting Implementation of Tobacco Control Laws and Policies in Nigeria
Project Number 105642 Start Date 2009/02/24 Duration 10 months, extended by 6 months until June 24 2010. Support the implementation of the prohibition of smoking in the State of Abuja and support an increase of the taxes
June 19, 2010: Strengthening Tobacco Control in South Africa
Project Number 105663 Start Date 2009/02/19 duration 10 months extended by 6 months until June 19 2010. 3 priorities: increase the taxes, graphic warnings, smoke-free FIFA world cup. Signed February 19 2009: South Africa: 147.500$ (without changes)
June 18, 2010: signed on February 19 2009: Zambia: 104.900$ increased to 143.600 (+38.700, +36%)
Zambia Tobacco Control Campaign
Project Number 105676 Start Date 2009/02/19 Duration 10 months extended by 6 months until June 18 2010. Objectives: implement the smoking ban in Lusaka and help cessation in 4 health districts in Lusaka.
Terminated projects?
March 25, 2010: signed onJune 28, 2009: Burkina, Ghana, Malawi and Tanzania: 250.000$
African Tobacco Situational Analyses (ATSA) in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi and Tanzania
Project Number 105895 Start Date 2009/06/28 Duration 6 months, extended by 3 months, until March 25 2010
Objectives: "Evaluate the implementation of one tobacco control policy indentified by each respective country team"
March 10, 2010: Tabagisme et pauvreté au Niger, CAD 22,400 (without change) for SOS Tabagisme managed by Inoussa Saouna. Yes, the above link on IDRC's site is broken but we had copied the content so you can read it here. In fact the info was moved, who knows why, to this place within IDRC's site.
Project Number: 105 835 Start Date: 2009/11/20 Duration 4 months until March 20 2010
Objective: update the data of a 2003 study about tobacco smoking and poverty.
February 28, 2010: Smoke-Free Worksites and Public Spaces in Cameroon
Project Number 105799 Start Date 2009/07/29 duration 7 months, end of project: February 28 2010 Amount 91.100$ (without changes)
Objectives: evaluate the implementation of smokefree places in Yaoundé and support a more effective implementation.
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List by size of grant:
1. 302.200 to ATCA but not confirmed any longer (122.00 according to Fabrice Ebeh)
2. 188.642 Mauritius
3. 181.600 Nigeria
4. 181.500 Kenya
5. 170.000 Eritrea
6. 159.400 ATCRI
7. 147.500 South Africa
8. 143.600 Zambia
9. 110.300 Senegal
10. 91.100 Cameroon
11. 250.000 shared in 4 for Malawi, Burkina, Tanzania and Ghana
12. 42.300 ACS/Tanzania (not accessible any longer)
13. 22.400 Niger
InitialList by size of grant:
1. 302.200 ATCA
2. 147.500 South Africa
3. 137.100 ATCRI
4. 124.500 Mauritius
5. 119.200 Nigeria
6. 118.100 Kenya
7. 110.300 Senegal
8. 106.300 Eritrea puis 170.000
9. 104.900 Zambia
10. 89.100 Cameroon
11. 50.000 each for Burkina, Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania
12. 42.300 Tanzania (ACS)
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