by 4 Communities by Communities
Nigeria is facing a growing burden of vaccine-preventable cancers – cervical and liver cancers. While there are evidence-based solutions, such as HPV and birth-dose HBV vaccines to prevent these cancers, there is a missed opportunity to engage policy actors to create locally-informed strategies that will ensure these solutions and other life-changing evidence from research are integrated into policymaking to reduce the cancer burden in the country. A policy actor is someone who actively participates in efforts to design, discuss, review, contribute to, share, and/or implement policies to reduce the burden of health issues such as cervical and liver cancers. Policy actors are vital to the systemic acceptance and use of cancer research evidence across the Nigerian healthcare system.
For Communities by Communities (4CBYC) in partnership with the Nigerian Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) is on a mission to end the burden of cervical and liver cancers in Nigeria through impactful, research-informed health policies. To make this happen, we need policy actors who are innovative and passionate about creating health policies that will change the course of cancer prevention and care in the country. To succeed, we are looking for cancer policy actors at the national, state, and local levels; community/advocacy policy actors; and organization-focused policy actors ready to lead this change.
We are committed to empowering policy actors to fuel real change and innovation to fight cervical and liver cancers. These transformative solutions are possible when national-to-community policy assets meet opportunities. We built this open policy community model to solve these complex health problems with rather than for communities.
The Policy for Cancer (P4C) open call is seeking teams of 2 to 4 passionate cancer policy actors to respond to the following question:
How might we increase the use of cancer research in policies and policymaking strategies to end cervical and liver cancers?
The final deadline for submissions is May 30th, 2025.
More details about the program can be found on our website at www.4cbyc.org. All data collected will be confidential and shared only with 4CbyC organizers and not with any third parties.
If you are interested, you can submit an application in one of the following ways by May 30, 2025 at 11:59 pm WAT..
Eligibility: We are looking for individuals interested in tackling the burden of vaccine-preventable cancers (cervical and liver cancers) who serve in the following roles:
Judging Process and Criteria
Applications will be reviewed by 4 Communities by Communities Team and affiliated partners, and up to 10 of the most promising teams of innovative and passionate policy actors will be chosen to participate in a designathon. Judging criteria will include the following:
All entries are judged anonymously. No identifying information should be included in any submitted essay, story, letter, audio/video, poem, or nonfiction piece.
CONTEST SEED FUNDS
Top three finalist teams will receive the following in seed funding for a policy dissemination project:
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You can only participate as a team. All team members must submit an application and include the same open call answers and proposals in their submission.
Be sure to read the Call to Action page on our website (www.4cbyc.org) BEFORE you proceed with the submission form! If something is not clear, please get in touch with us by email at fourcbyc@gmail.com, Info@4cbyc.org, or call 09090496884.
The deadline for this challenge is May 30, 2025.
The final deadline for submissions is May 30th, 2025.
For communities who want to prevent and end cervical and liver cancer in Nigeria, we are here to make it happen.
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