Sharing CSIDNet Working Group FAQs and Resources

Proposals should be submitted collaboratively by the full proposer team. Only one proposal form should be submitted per team, with a designated team lead responsible for completing the application. Make sure all key contributors are listed in the submission.

We encourage teams to propose concrete, feasible outputs whether that’s a training resource, a policy brief, a small-scale prototype, or laying groundwork for a larger tool. This call is intentionally open to creative ideas that might not fit within traditional funding schemes. Be clear and specific about what your group aims to produce. Keep in mind that the 13-month timeframe includes coordination, participatory budgeting, and reporting, so we recommend focusing on one or two achievable outputs rather than trying to do everything. Don’t overpromise—realistic plans are more compelling than overly ambitious ones.

Yes, stipends are allowed and encouraged where appropriate. You can allocate part of your budget to compensate team members, contributors, or external collaborators for their time and expertise. At this phase, we do not need you to upload a budget. Once selected, then all selected projects will develop their budgets and agree on final allocations as part of a participatory budgeting process.

No, the working group structure is intended to be an annual call. If your team is not selected this round, or if you have new ideas in the future, you’re welcome to apply again in the next cycle. However, you would need to go through the full application and participatory budgeting process each time—there are no automatic carryovers or guarantees of future funding.

Yes, all proposals should be grounded in or clearly connected to climate-sensitive infectious disease (CSID) work. However, the scope can be interdisciplinary and innovative—as long as there’s a clear link to CSID-related questions, tools, or communities. If your idea feels broader, consider reframing it to show how it applies to or advances work in the CSID space.

We encourage you to use the space to explain as clearly as possible the feasibility of your proposal. It’s more important to describe a concrete idea in detail, than to superficially mention too many project components.

At this stage, you don’t need to break down the budget, you only need to select the expected budget range among the multiple choice options. After WGs are selected, there will be a participatory budgeting stage to distribute available funding.

At the proposal stage, the minimum requirements for the proposer team are: at least 2 people should be network members, at least two organizations should be represented, and the proposer team should be up to 6 people. After the WGs are selected, there isn’t a limit for the number of team members; your application should include a strategy to invite participants to the WG.

We encourage you to be specific about engagement strategies, for example, have you identified existing channels (LinkedIn groups, newsletters, university mailing lists, etc) that you can use for outreach? How will you encourage people to contribute? Simply saying that anyone interested in the WG topic is welcome to join might be too general.

Feel free to send an email to the whole network via groups[dot]io or use some of the existing WhatsApp groups to invite people to join your team. Reach out beyond the network to colleagues in your organization or other collaborators. Rewatch the webinar series on WG topics and ideas, and reach out to presenters.

The eligibility criteria mentions that “Proposer team leads must be based in a part of the world heavily affected by Climate Sensitive Infectious Diseases with significant kinship and relational ties to the place.” Note that this refers to the proposer team leads, not just the PoC, so more than a specific location requirement, there is room to explain how the team has relational ties to a CSID-affected region.