Deadline: 7-Jun-22
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) are pleased to announce a call for concept notes under the Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CLARE) initiative.
The newly released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability underscores how climate change is increasingly and disproportionately affecting the world’s most vulnerable. It emphasizes the urgent need for adaptation, and the critical need for solutions that cut across sectors and systems and address social inequities to enable a more climate-resilient future for everyone.
CLARE aims to respond to this challenge. It is an ambitious initiative supporting research to enable socially inclusive and sustainable action to build resilience to climate change and natural hazards across Africa and Asia-Pacific. Given the scale and urgency required, in addition to generating research, CLARE will place significant emphasis on getting knowledge and evidence into use. CLARE will deliver strengthened agency in the Global South to do and use research for adaptation action, as well as actionable adaptation solutions to support the most vulnerable.
Themes
This call for concept notes seeks to identify transdisciplinary teams motivated to conduct action-oriented research related to one (or more) of CLARE’s three research themes:
- Understand climate risk: Research to improve their understanding of the risks associated with climate and natural hazards, by addressing gaps in the underpinning science.
- Risk-informed early action: research to improve risk-informed anticipatory action to reduce humanitarian and extreme impacts of weather, climate variability and the compounding and cascading interaction of natural hazards.
- Developing in a changing climate: Research to inform development in a changing climate; action that builds resilience in the present climate and adapts to future climate.
Funding Information
There are two sizes of funding available for this call. Smaller projects for grants up to CAD 1.5 million, and larger projects for grants between CAD 6-8 million. Project duration will not exceed 42 months.
Eligibility Criteria
The following eligibility criteria apply:
- This call is open to projects involving activities in African or Asian-Pacific countries
- An organization may participate in more than one concept note, yet an individual principal investigator may only lead on one project.
- The lead organization(s) must have the capacity to administer and transfer foreign funds. Other collaborating partners may include organizations from within the region; national, regional, or international offices of multilateral organizations or international NGOs; or other organizations from outside the region.
- United Nations agencies and CGIAR centres are not eligible to be a lead organization.
- This call is open to projects that are gender and inclusion-sensitive, gender and inclusion-responsive or gender and inclusion-transformative. Proposals that are gender-blind will not be considered eligible.
For more information, visit https://www.idrc.ca/en/funding/call-concept-notes-climate-adaptation-and-resilience-clare