About Our Activities

CHNRI has been working since 2001 to promote and prioritize resource sensitive and context specific researches that address the ever growing burden of childhood diseases in developing countries. The overall goal of CHNRI is to improve child health and nutrition of world's children through appropriately targeted research.

CHNRI Pursues its Objectives through an open process of advertising and competitive selection of individuals and institutions to carry out the research and policy works it funds; collaboration in low and middle income countries; provision of administrative oversight, assuring that CHNRI's achievements and its funded projects are systematically evaluated, and that partners are kept informed; and dissemination of information to the broader global audience.

CHNRI’s major activities include:

1. Priority Setting:
This initiative follows up on RFP1 to complete the work on priority setting. Adopting the strengths of the previous approaches to priority setting in health research CHNRI has developed a new model for priority setting. The advantage of the new methodology is that it doesn’t consider generating new knowledge as the sole end point of research, but it rather addresses several component of research option. It also incorporates the views of both technical experts and stakeholders ;

2. Mapping Partners:
After completing the one time regional assessments of researchers and research institutions in 2002, CHNRI developed a plan to create a permanent resource that will contain up to date data on research activities. The Objective of this activity is to reach the broad world of child health and nutrition researchers and institutions with an online home in the form of a user friendly open source community tool. CHNRI online community will be a web based knowledge sharing environment that will provide information and communications resources to researchers interested in child health and nutrition;

3. Funding Appropriately Targeted Research:
RFP 1:
Identification of regional child health and nutrition research agendas and Mapping of actors (individual researchers, organizations, universities, and groups) and their role in the field of child health and nutrition within a region
RFP 2:
Development and conduct of interventions to scale up promotion of exclusive breastfeeding to district or national level through IMCI
RFP 3:
Low birth weight and Prematurity: determinants and consequences for neonatal morbidity and survival
RFP 4:
Identification of an effective child health and nutrition intervention and evaluate the impact of a specific and defined delivery strategy on intervention coverage