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The Food and Health Bureau is inviting non-profit-making organisations to submit grant applications for Non-Research Health Promotion Projects and the Seed Funding Scheme under the Health Care and Promotion Fund (HCPF).
Non-Research Health Promotion Projects aim to help people adopt healthier lifestyles by enhancing awareness, changing behaviour or creating an environment that supports good health practices, while the Seed Funding Scheme seeks to foster the development of innovative, effective and sustainable programmes in the community, in particular those which include evaluation using scientific methods and can generate evidence of their effectiveness. The scheme offers non-recurrent funding opportunities to facilitate mobilisation of local resources through building partnerships among public, private and non-governmental organisations to promote health in the community.
"Priority for funding is given to applications targeting underprivileged groups who are vulnerable to ill-health, and health promotion programmes carried out in primary care settings.
"To sustain the effects of health promotion interventions, engaging the community to create supportive environments and empowering individuals to take ownership of their health through multidisciplinary approaches and cross-sectoral collaborations are the keys to success," a spokesman for the bureau said today (April 14).
In addition, higher funding priorities will be accorded to the following thematic areas:
* Tobacco control
* Lifestyle, nutrition and physical activity
* Mental well-being
* Injury prevention
* Reducing alcohol-related problems
* Promoting family doctor model of care
* Empowering the community in the management of chronic diseases
* Cancer prevention
The closing date for applications is July 31, 2014. All applications will be subject to rigorous review by the Health Care and Promotion Fund Committee and its Promotion Sub-committee, which comprises healthcare professionals and experts, individuals closely involved in community affairs and government representatives.
Principal applicants must represent a non-profit making organisation, a registered community group or a group formed under a registered non-profit making body. Successful applicants may be awarded full or partial support normally not exceeding $300,000 on a one-off basis for Non-Research Health Promotion Projects and $500,000 for the Seed Funding Scheme.
Established by the Government in 1995, the purpose of the HCPF is to strengthen health promotion and disease prevention work. To date, over 300 health promotion projects have been supported.
Guidance notes, application forms and details on thematic priorities can be obtained from the website of the Food and Health Bureau's Research Fund Secretariat at rfs.fhb.gov.hk. Enquiries can be made by fax at 2102 2444 or by e-mail to rfs@fhb.gov.hk.
Ends/Monday, April 14, 2014
Issued at HKT 11:00
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