Deadline: 30-Sep-21
Applications are now open for the Research Funding Programme 2021 to strengthen and elevate the state of understanding of societal processes and outcomes.
This programme is designed to promote inquiry into areas of particular interest to Azim Premji Foundation and to explore possible responses for some of them.
This funding programme is designed to strengthen and supplement their existing efforts in areas of climate change action, local democracy, and labour, livelihoods and employment. While they are open to any broad consideration within an area, the research should be empirically grounded, and be able to inform practice and policy.
Focus Areas
They invite research proposals of high quality that examine the significant questions of public concern in the following areas:
- Climate change action
- Their funding towards this area is designed to promote an increased understanding of the climate crisis in India, and to explore possible action and responses to it. They seek proposals of high quality that examine significant questions of public concern in the following areas:
- Climate change education and outreach, especially in cities
- Climate change policy and action
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation.
- Their funding towards this area is designed to promote an increased understanding of the climate crisis in India, and to explore possible action and responses to it. They seek proposals of high quality that examine significant questions of public concern in the following areas:
- Local democracy
- The Centre for Local Democracy invites research proposals for empirical work in the following areas that have direct relevance to strengthening local democracy and development. They seek rigorous analysis and study of the following:
- Determinants of good practices of gram, block and zilla panchayats in any of the areas of resource mobilisation, governance of natural resources, welfare, equity and social justice.
- The process of Gram Panchayat Development Planning, and its contribution to development and social justice outcomes.
- The barriers faced by elected women representatives in gram panchayats having prior experience in community-based work or in social movements.
- Study of the functioning of the traditional governance systems of the Adivasis and their integration with constitutional local governance structures and processes.
- The functioning of nyay panchayats and other alternative dispute resolutions systems and possibilities of their integration with the mainstream justice delivery system.
- Assessment of quality and coverage of Capacity Building Strategies of panchayats in terms of their efficacies in institutional functioning and welfare-development goals.
- The Centre for Local Democracy invites research proposals for empirical work in the following areas that have direct relevance to strengthening local democracy and development. They seek rigorous analysis and study of the following:
- Labour, livelihoods and employment
- The Centre for Sustainable Employment aims to foster fresh and creative thinking on this urgent and complex issue. They invite research proposals in the broad area of labour, livelihoods and employment including but not limited to:
- Macroeconomics of structural change and employment generation
- Skills and skill development
- Sustainable industrialisation and green growth
- Labour laws, informality, and contract labour
- Impact of COVID-19 and the associated measures on labour, livelihoods and employment.
- The Centre for Sustainable Employment aims to foster fresh and creative thinking on this urgent and complex issue. They invite research proposals in the broad area of labour, livelihoods and employment including but not limited to:
Funding Information
- Amount: 5 to 20 lakhs (depending on the domain)
- Project Duration: 1 to 3 years (depending on the domain)
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications are invited from individuals or an associating group of researchers.
- They invite applications from independent researchers, or researchers affiliated with academic institutions, non-profit organisations, for-profit organisations and the government. They encourage scholars and researchers in the fields of education, development practice, public policy, economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, history, creative arts, media and the sciences to apply.
- This call for proposals is for researchers external to Azim Premji Foundation. Employees of Azim Premji Foundation are not eligible to apply.
For more information, visit https://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/grants/research-funding-2021