Beneficiaries: The beneficiaries are those who gain social and/or economic advantage from the technology, methodology or knowledge transfer activities of proposed project. They may be identified as, for example, the household, the village community or the global community.

Concept Note: Outline research proposal submitted as a basis for funding for preliminary assessment.

DFID: UK Department for International Development

KaR: Knowledge and Research

Logical framework: Management tool that aims to promote good project design by clearly stating the defined project logic and components.

PAG: Programme Advisory Group

PMC: Programme Management Centre

Project activities: The project activities define the action needed to accomplish each output of the project.

Project goal: Overall rationale for the project, overall problem the project is aiming to solve or contribute to, whether at the sectoral, regional or national level.

Project inputs: Means mobilised to produce the planned output.

Project outputs: Expected research results and products achieved by the project. They might be seen as completed tasks or project deliverables.

Project purpose: Impact which the project hopes to generate by producing project outputs. The project should have only one clearly stated purpose, which is not a reformulation of the outputs. The project purpose should not reflect matters concerned with the management responsibility of the project. It is important to specifiy in the purpose who are the intended project beneficiaries. 

Technology: In this Programme, the word Technology is employed to include processes and management practices, organisational and supportive systems, and the knowledge associated with these. The aim of the Programme is to fund a portfolio of projects that covers technology in this wider sense, applicable to both disability and healthcare.

We wish to emphasise that the programme will not only focus on projects which seek to develop “hard” aspects of technology, such as equipment. It will also seek to support projects which look at softer issues, such as how policies/systems can be developed to manage such “hard” technologies or to improve the delivery of health services and equipment to the poor and the disabled. Following is a selection of examples of projects addressing soft technologies, which could all be eligible for funding in the frame of this programme: 

• Best practice study on managing primary healthcare units in resource-constrained environments

• Research on improving, or implementation of an improved, distribution system of medication in rural areas

• Improvement of diagnostic procedures for a typical disease particularly affecting the poor

• Training or workshops on how to build wheelchairs with local resources

• Any social, health and economic impact study of a technology or healthcare practice targeting the poor or the disabled.