Partnership For Economic Policy (PEP) Call For Proposals On Climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa [Up To US $58,000]

Application Deadline: August 25, 2020

Overview: 

Global Affairs Canada (GAC) has awarded funding to PEP for a new research initiative on “Climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Impacts and responses for women and girls”. Through this three-year initiative (2020-2023), PEP will support up to four (4) research projects, each in a different sub-Saharan African country. 

This initiative aims to address critical capacity gaps on both (supply and demand) sides of the research-policy nexus and produce the evidence that local and national policymakers need to inform specific policy interventions for:

• Increasing women’s leadership in defining and implementing solutions to mitigate or adapt to climate change effects, and
• Mitigating the effects of climate change on gender equality.
• To ensure the relevance of the research and its use for informing policy, the projects will be led by teams of local researchers and government officers.

Funding Eligibility:

A key feature of this call is that selected project teams must be composed of both researchers and government officials/officers:

• Four (4) researchers - including one senior/experienced researcher acting as the team leader and at least two researchers aged under 30 - with a sufficient academic and/or professional background in economic policy analysis. Having a master’s degree/diploma or being currently enrolled in a master’s program is a minimum requirement (generally, team leaders should have a doctoral degree/diploma or be currently enrolled in a doctoral program). These members should describe their relevant training and experience in the issues and research techniques involved.
• Two (2) government officials/officers from (and with their involvement sanctioned by) the institution in charge of the policy/program that the research aims to inform. These government-affiliated members must have a good understanding of the relevant policy processes and priorities but are not required to have research experience.
• Applicant teams must also:
• Be gender-mixed
• Female members must represent at least 50% of researchers (including the team leader) and at least 50% of government-affiliated members.
• All-female members must contribute substantively to the project.
• PEP particularly encourages teams with a female leader.
• Be composed exclusively of sub-Saharan African nationals, who are residing in sub-Saharan Africa for the duration of the project.
• PEP particularly encourages teams from low-income economies, fragile and/or conflict-affected situations (LFCs), but proposals are welcome from all sub-Saharan African countries.
• Government-affiliated team members must procure an official letter from the head of their institution stating that s/he approves 
• the research questions and objectives, as well as 
• the involvement of the concerned staff members in the project

Project Funding:

• This initiative will fund up to four (4) new projects.
• Funding is up to US $58 K, including US $24 K in research (cash) grant tied to deliverables and up to US $34K in various subsidies, such as for participation in PEP meetings and study visits, publications in peer-reviewed journals, presentations in international conferences, the organization of national policy conferences to share/discuss findings with stakeholders, etc.

Application Procedure:

Applications must be submitted via the PEP intranet system, before August 25, 2020 (23:59 GMT)

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