Deadline: 26 January 2017
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in UK and the Department for International Development (DFID) are currently accepting proposals for Development Frontiers Research Fund that aims to innovative, strategic and catalytic research with the potential to radically impact on sustainable development concepts or practices, or lead to new thinking and action on poverty reduction.
The fund is set within the ESRC-DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research that funds world class social science research that addresses the goal of reducing poverty amongst the poorest countries and people globally.
This call has been designed to enable researchers to conduct exploratory, small-scale projects with a view to developing ideas, collaboration, and research capacity for future larger grants for other calls, whether to ESRC or DFID or other funders.
This second call within the Development Frontiers Research Fund will support innovative, interdisciplinary research that is focused on new ways to tackle the challenges encountered at the intersections between poverty, environmental sustainability and conflict/fragility in specific developing country contexts.
Funding Information
- Proposals are invited for projects with a full economic cost (fEC) value between £200,000 and £300,000.
- Projects can be between 12 and 18 months long, but must finish no later than 31 March 2019.
Eligibility Criteria
- This call is open to proposals from researchers based anywhere in the world.
- Eligible research organisations from the UK and other developed countries can lead on a maximum of up to two proposals to this call.
- There is no restriction on the number of proposals that developing country research organisations can lead on.
- A requirement of this call is that at least one developing country researcher and at least one early career researcher must be included in the research team, either as principal investigator or co-investigator.
How to Apply
Proposals must be submitted through the Research Councils’ Joint Electronic Submissions system (Je-S) via given website.
For more information, please visit ESRC-DFID Development Fund.