Deadline: 21 August 2017
The Education Quality and Learning for All (EQUAL) Global Network is seeking proposals for its “Seed Grant” from small-scale and pilot research projects based in the Middle East, North Africa and Sub-Saharan African countries.
EQUAL aims to engage researchers, research organizations, and education NGOs to support countries in achieving U.N. Sustainable Development Goal 4 and its targets (‘ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’) through development of researcher networks, research-practice partnerships, capacity and leadership development of scholars, and provision of research seed grants for targeted research activities.
The seed grants are intended to build regional research capacity, and support the development of research-practice partnerships with national and sub-national government entities and high capacity NGOs.
The EQUAL Global Network is a “Network of Networks” co-hosted by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and Global TIES for Children based at New York University‘s Institute for Human Development and Social Change and New York University Abu Dhabi.
Areas of Interest
- Theme A: “Advancing Measurement of Child and Youth Development and Learning in NonWestern, Low-Income and Conflict-Affected Countries
- Theme B: ‘’Measuring Quality in Education, Child and Youth development‘’
Funding Information
- The total US$20,000 will be provided for each of the successful proposals.
- The duration of the proposed work should be for 18 months
Eligibility Criteria
Early Career Scholars within 8 years post Ph.D. based at Higher Education or research institutes within the Eastern and Southern Africa, Anglophone West and Central Africa, Middle East and North African regions are encouraged to apply. To be eligible for funding, applications submitted must also meet the following requirements:
- The applicant’s organization will be the recipient of the award rather than an individual. The Principal Investigator (PI) must have a doctorate and have faculty status or full time employment at any of the Universities, Research networks and Centers or organizations based in the East, Southern, Central and African, Anglophone West and Central African, Middle East and North African regions.
- Principal Investigators (PIs) must be Nationals of the Eastern and Southern Africa, Anglophone West and Central African and Middle East and North African countries specified in the list below.
- The applicant’s institution should have an operational research administrative structure including but not limited to the following:
- A research management office (e.g. Office of Sponsored Research).
- An operational Institutional Review Board or Committee able to review for Human Subjects Protection. Applicants who will involve human subjects in their proposals will be required to access online research ethics training protocol and evidence of ethical approval from Institutional Ethics Review Board will be required.
- Eligible applicants must also demonstrate ability to deliver evidence based research. This will be discernible from previous work of similar magnitude and very good grounding in research methods demonstrated by how clearly the applicants explain Methods of investigation (concerning procedures, data collection, measures, and analytic plan), to be adopted.
- Experience in partnerships with NGO’s with the capacity to work at the national level, civil society organization and/or government to integrate research with practice or policy will also be required.
- Multi-disciplinary, inter-regional or cross-country research proposals will have priority.
- Eligible applicants are required to identify a particular research mentor. It is expected that the senior mentor (not the PI and preferable not to be the junior person’s PhD advisor), will be from the candidate’s institution or from another institution in that region.
- Applications will be developed using one of the three languages; English, French or Arabic.
How to Apply
Applications must submit their Letters of Intent (LOI) via email at the address given on the website.
Eligible Countries
- Eastern & Southern Africa: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Malawi, Botswana, Mozambique, South Sudan, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
- Anglophone West and Central Africa: Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cameroon and The Gambia.
- Middle East (Anglophone): United Arab Emirates, the Arab Republic of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Jordan, Sudan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic and the Republic of Yemen).
- North Africa (Francophone): Algeria, Mauritania, Djibouti, Morocco and Tunisia.
For more information, please visit The EQUAL Global Network.
