Cross-Country/Inter-Regional Research

Request for Expressions of Interest:  Cross-country/Inter-regional Research

Global Development Network (GDN)

Location: Researchers in developing countries and transition economies

Last Date: 20 September, 2013

About Us:

The Global Development Network (GDN) is a public International Organization that builds research capacity in development globally. GDN supports researchers in developing and transition countries to generate and share high quality applied social science research to inform policymaking and advance social and economic development. Founded in 1999, GDN is headquartered in New Delhi, with offices in Cairo and Washington DC. GDN works in collaboration with 11 Regional Network Partners as well as with international donor organizations and governments, research institutes, academic institutions, think tanks and more than 12,500 individual researchers worldwide.

 

About the Competition:

The Global Research Competition (GRC) is the central pillar of GDN’s Global Research Capacity Building Program. In this annual competition, social science researchers from developing countries and transition economies are invited to team up with researchers from around the world on collaborative inter-regional or cross-country research projects – the competition is inter-regional/cross-country both in terms of its analytic scope and team composition. Research teams with the most promising and interesting ideas will receive training and technical guidance from world renowned experts at a global workshop before submitting their final proposals.The winners will be chosen by GRC’s eminent steering committee and will receive a grant of up to US$ 32,000.Thewinning research teams will also benefit from intensive mentoring throughout the grant performance period, from inception to completion. The mentoring responsibility within each research team lies with a senior scholar who is engaged by GDN. Furthermore, the best performing research teams have the opportunity to apply for GDN’s large-scale, high-caliber Global Research Projects.

 

Competition Category:

Applications are being accepted for the GRC from developing and transition country researchers interested in inter-regional/cross-country research collaboration.

                                                                                                                     

Competition Themes:

Each year, the competition focuses on diverse research themes which originate from the policy research priority areas defined by GDN's Global Research Agenda and are in line with GDN's future Global Research Projects. The nature of the research themes are such that they encourage collaboration amongst researchers and are of relevance to more than one region. The themes for GRC 2013 are:

 

1.    Inclusive and Sustainable growth

2.    Food Security

3.    Political, Economic and Social Transformations

 

 

Eligibility:

1.    Researchers from developing and transition countries: The GRC is open only to researchersfromdeveloping countries and transition economies (interested in inter-regional or cross-country research collaboration), withtherequirement thattheyneedtobecitizensand current residentsof any of these countries. For e.g. an Angolan residing in Chile is eligible to apply.

2.    Individual researchers: from developing and transition countries, seeking support in finding fellow researchers (with similar research thematic interest) to form eligible inter-regional or cross-country teams can apply for the competition. GDN will provide support to all individual applicants in finding peers for collaboration.

3.    Team applicants: pre-formed inter-regional or cross-country teams are encouraged to apply for the competition. The teams should include at least two members and up to four.

4.    Age:

a.     The upper age limit for an applicant is 45 years as of 15 June, 2013. 

b.     The average age of the entire team must be below 40 years as of 15 June, 2013.

c.     Researchers (especially female researchers) below the age of 35 years (as of 15 June, 2013) are strongly encouraged to apply.           

5.    Expression of Interest (EOI) submission: Teams can submit only one EOI under only one theme.

6.    Global Training Workshop: Research teams with the most innovative and interesting EOIs will be invited to attend a Global Training Workshop before the final selection of grant recipients.

7.    Call for Proposals (CFP): All eligible inter-regional or cross-country teams (including those that are not invited to attend the Global Training Workshop) can submit their full research proposals.

 

To Apply:

·          All applications and documents must be submitted electronically. To apply online please visitwww.gdn.int/grcplatform

·          For any further queries related to the competition write to us at grc@gdn.int

 

For more details, please log on to www.gdn.int/grc