African Small Grants: The global change System for Analysis, Research and Training (START) seeks to enhance scientific capacity for global environmental change (GEC) research in developing regions.
START’s Africa Initiative (AI) seeks Pre-Proposals from African scientists for one-year projects on global environmental change in Africa.
Proposed research must be field-based and should seek to address substantive policy-relevant challenges facing African policymakers in one or more of the AI areas of conflict resolution, energy, food security, health, migration, and the cross-cutting theme of climate change.
Special consideration will be given to proposals that are amenable to cross-country comparison and develop benchmarks for measuring policy outcomes.
Particular attention will be given to proposals that deal with one or more of the following topics:
- Distribution of food and water as a public good
- Financing for innovative solutions to challenges in the areas of climate change and energy
- Emerging donors in Africa, such as India, China and Brazil
- Implications of demographic change and urbanization
- Policy implementation gaps in local health care delivery and treatment of infectious diseases
- Sources of funding for rebel movements
The Africa Initiative encourages proposals from relevant fields of physical sciences and social sciences. Eligible applicants are African-based scholars, and early-to-mid-career Canadian-based researchers.
Applicants must have a post-graduate degree or be in the advanced stages of a doctoral program.
While the Africa Initiative will give due consideration to any proposal consistent with the overall aim of this project, special consideration will be given to proposed research that:
- Aims to develop innovative approaches to addressing policy challenges in the Africa Initiative’s thematic areas
- Seeks to collect data that can be used by policy makers in Africa
- Attempts to inform both policy makers and academics
- Involves questions that are especially amenable to cross-national comparison
African Small Grants Amount: CAD$15,000
Deadline: Varies
For further details, see: African Small Grants – Small Research Grants for African Scientists Website