Irish Aid has provided multi-annual programme grants to five established Irish NGOs, Christian Aid, Concern, Goal, Trócaire and Self Help Africa under the Multi Annual Programme Scheme (MAPS). Since 2006, a significant number of additional NGOs received multi-annual block grants tied to specific projects but frequently implemented on a multi-country basis The end of the MAPS and Block Grant programmes presented an opportunity to redesign programme funding in a way which would help to address some of the weaknesses identified in the last cycle. Lessons were documented through a mid-term review (2009), as well as monitoring, evaluation and audit. The first step involved a clarification and rationalisation of eligibility criteria to enable a distinction between organisations with a reasonable level of capacity suited to programme funding and those more suited to project funding.. This project was identified by RTI International for their own research purposes and some fields do not align with The GO Map categories. End dates were estimated as one year after the start date. The Project Type "Research, Clinical" may not accurately describe this project's focus but was used for all RTI International's Global Noncommunicable Diseases Initiative projects added in June 2018. Specialties were not analyzed. All project funding was valued in 2015 USD.