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Call for Proposals: Closing Justice Gap – A Legal Empowerment Research and Learning Agenda

Russell Sage Foundation: Program on Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration (US)

Deadline: 22-Mar-21

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is pleased to launched a call for proposals for applied research projects of up to three years in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.

This cohort of projects will seek to generate knowledge and evidence on how legal empowerment strategies work to overcome structural inequality and exclusion, expand participation, and promote public accountability.

IDRC seeks proposals for applied action research projects of up to three years which can be either single country studies led by local organizations or multi-country studies, led by local organizations across countries. Research projects will focus on generating evidence about innovative legal empowerment approaches and experimentation from the field. Research will contribute to building a comparative evidence base on how legal empowerment approaches draw on the grassroots and community-level experiences of addressing specific violations and the leadership of those directly affected to achieve systems change. In particular, they will focus on how legal empowerment approaches can contribute to addressing the root causes of inequality and exclusion and to promoting public accountability (see research questions).

Proposals will aim to contribute to promoting the rights of vulnerable groups and fostering more inclusive and accountable governance institutions through the following goals:

Funding Information

Eligibility Criteria

For more information, visit https://www.idrc.ca/en/funding/call-proposals-closing-justice-gap-legal-empowerment-research-and-learning-agenda

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