Table 1 Summary of guidelines regarding the consideration of diversity factors for grant proposals of two Programmes of ZonMw: Innovation and Prevention.
General instructions of ZonMw for writing grant proposals | |
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Relevance | |
"ZonMw has a number of general spear-points: sex (gender differences), culture (cultural differences in prevention and care for citizens from a variety of backgrounds), age (extra focus on young people and the elderly) and the point-of-view of patients/consumers (cooperation with the ultimate target group). These factors are specifically involved in the assessment, serving as relevance criteria. The grant applications should contain an adequate explanation of the reasons for including the aspects in question in the study, or for omitting them, as the case may be. In projects where this is relevant, the process of quality assurance (..) will include a check to determine whether these factors have been adequately fleshed out in the project plan." | |
Quality. | |
Under the heading of "Quality", certain constraints are imposed on the content of the Action Plan: "Where appropriate, the Action Plan also gives details of the way in which the factors of gender, age, cultural background and/or other relevant characteristics that form an essential part of the objective, have been fleshed out....". | |
Programme Prevention In the list of instructions of the grant proposal form: - under subheading "objective" is mentioned: "provide a description of the target group (if there is one), categorizing relevant details by gender, age, cultural background and/or other relevant characteristics". -under subheading"work plan" is mentioned: "where a target group is involved, indicate how the factors of gender, age, cultural background and/or any other relevant characteristics that form an essential part of the objective will be addressed; you should also indicate the extent of any collaboration with the intermediate or ultimate target group (the point-of-view of patients/consumers)" | Programme Innovation There is no reference to sex or gender in the proposal form's list of instructions |
There is no reference to sex or gender in the proposal form itself | There is no reference to sex or gender in the proposal form itself |