• Managing Your Grant:  Nuts, Bolts, and Coffee. 
  • Provides a helpful, brief overview of key principles in post-award grant management.
• What is Grant Management?  A Complete Guide to Grant Management for Companies and Non-Profits.
  • This resource is from a private company selling software solutions to help with grant management, but it provides helpful general information that is clear and well-written.

Good Practice in Grant Management and Reporting.

• This is a good, general overview of grants administration and management, especially regarding financial reporting. It is not clinical research/health-specific, but more focused on charities and non-profit organizations. However, many key principles still apply. 

• ESSENCE on Health Research (2020) – The five keys to improving research costing and pricing in low-and middle-income countries: Case studies on grants management and research costing.
  • This comprehensive document from the World Health Organization offers the experiences and practices of grants management and/or research costing in institutions within Africa, Asia, and Latin America, including how indirect costs are applied to project budgets, how indirect cost recovery rates (ICRR) are calculated and how recovered indirect costs are distributed and used. Full of practical and relevant tips to manage research budgets in the context of low and middle-income countries.
• Sakraida, T. J., D’Amico, J., & Thibault, E. (2010). Small grant management in health and behavioral sciences: Lessons learned. Applied Nursing Research, 23(3), 171-177.
  • This is a helpful article about health science grant management and describes lessons learned in post-award management.  Unfortunately, it is not available as open-access but you can order it through the publisher, request it through your institution if applicable, or try through an open-access research database.

• Funding sources for research: A research primer for low- and middle-income countries
  • This is a link to a very helpful overview paper that is part of an excellent 8-part ‘how-to’ series commissioned by the International Federation of Emergency Medicine. The content applies to many types of healthcare research in low and middle-income countries.

• Research career tips for researchers in low and middle-income countries
  • This is an outstanding video from a physician in Africa who provides many practical suggestions for beginning researchers in low and middle-income countries, including how to find funding for research projects.

• Grants & Funding: NIH Types of Grant Programs
  • This website is fairly technical, but it describes the types of grants available through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest funder of biomedical research in the U.S. 
• Finding Grants and Funding for Clinical Research
  • This website provides a summary of different clinical research funding options, with a helpful section on ‘disease specific private grants,’ however some of the options may only apply to researchers in the U.S. (Note: this resource is from a private lab company.)
• NIHR: National Institute for Health Research
  • This link describes a new funding program through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) in the United Kingdom to strengthen research capacity in low and middle-income countries, with a focus on establishing Global Health Research Centers in Non-Communicable Diseases.
• Research Funding and Grants Guide 
  • A nice and clear summary of different grant funding options.  It is from the University of Michigan in the U.S., but it includes links to global funding directories. 

• Cordero et al. (2008). Funding agencies in low and middle-income countries: Support for knowledge translation. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 86(7): 524-534.
  • Note: this resource is a bit older (2008), but it is from the World Health Organization and lists international funding agencies and interviewed key members of the organizations for advice and suggestions. The tables are particularly helpful.

• Fundamental Principles of Writing a Successful Grant Proposal
  • This article provides an excellent, clear, and brief overview of general grant writing principles, with a slight focus on National Institute of Health (NIH) grant proposals.
• Toolkit from the Civicus Foundation
  • This 40-page PDF describes the planning and researching a funding proposal before you write it; how to write the proposal; and the follow-up required once it is written and sent off. An example proposal is provided at the end.
• Applying for a Grant
  • This resource is from the Fogarty International Center of the NIH, which tends to fund the most global research. The page has many helpful embedded links and webinars. There are many training programs available to clinicians and researchers in LMICs.
• Grant Process Overview
  • This provides a step-by-step overview of applying for an NIH grant.
• How to Develop and Write a Grant Proposal
  • This overview from the Congressional Research Service of the U.S. offers many good general tips in writing grant proposals.

• Writing a Grant Proposal  
  • An 8-minute video that discusses general grant proposal strategies and provides a summary of best practices.
• Grant Writing 101
  • This is not a perfect video, but it is clear. It gives a general overview of the grant writing process in 25 minutes.

• Sample NIH grant applications
  • These real-world examples are from the NIH National Cancer Institute Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences. There is also a funding webinar on the same page.

• Chung, K. & Shauver, M. (2008). Fundamental principles of writing a successful grant proposal. The Journal of Hand Surgery, 33(4): 566-572. 
  • A somewhat older article, but comprehensive and clear overview that focuses on NIH grant submissions.
• Wisdom, J., Riley, H., & Myers, N. (2015).  Recommendations for writing successful grant proposals: An information synthesis. Academic Medicine, 90(12): 1720-1725.  
  • A very nice, clear, brief evidence-based article about writing successful grant proposals. Has a slant towards NIH proposals, but includes general principles that can apply broadly.
• Ardenhall, H. (2014). How to write a successful grant application and research paper.  Circulation Research, 114(8): 1231-1234.