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 Before
NIAID can award your grant, your institution and
all performance sites involved in animal work must have an animal
welfare assurance on file with OLAW.
There are three types of assurances: full, inter-institutional, and
foreign.
- Full assurances are for domestic institutions
that control their own facilities and have a complete
animal care and use program in place,
including a veterinarian and IACUC.
Full assurances remain in effect for four years and can be resubmitted
for an additional four years.
- Inter-institutional assurances are for organizations that contract
animal work to an assured institution or use its facilities. The organizations agree to conduct the project according to the assurance of the covered organization. Timeframes
for these agreements are project specific. For example, a small
business subcontracting animal work to a performance site must
reapply for an inter-institutional assurance each time it competes
for a grant.
- Foreign assurances are for foreign institutions that are grantees or subaward partners to a domestic grantee. A foreign entity must state that it will comply with either animal welfare requirements for domestic
institutions or the laws and regulations of the country in which it resides. For example, a German institution or performance site
could adhere to German laws for animal care and use. Foreign assurances
are in effect for five years.
Institutions that collaborate with grantees through a subaward also require assurances. Alternatively, a grantee may amend its assurance to cover a collaborating institution.
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