Deadline: 28 February 2017
The alumni-based Small Grant Fund (SGF) is a component of the Vietnam-Australia Human Resource Development Partnership (VAHRDP); the SGF has been established to fund proposals from Vietnamese alumni of Australian tertiary education institutions.
Funding Information
- The value of an activity for an individual alumnus funded under this scheme will be up to VND 83 million (approximately AUD 5,000 as of October 2016)
- The maximum duration for implementing a grant activity is 12 months. Grant implementation should commence within 3 months of funding approval.
Priority Areas
- Governance and Economic Growth (economics, international trade, public policy)
- Transport (project management and financing, transport engineering, urban transport planning)
- Water and Sanitation (water management, water engineering, water quality and supply systems)
- Education (education management, quality assurance)
- Gender Equality (gender and development, women’s studies)
- Agriculture and Rural Development (agribusiness management, agricultural economics, rural development, sustainable tourism management)
- Regional Stability and Human Rights (public international law, international human rights law)
- Disability
- Climate Change (Cross-cutting)
Outcomes
Any Small Grant activity must contribute to one or more of the following three VAHRDP Program Outcomes:
- Outcome 1: Male and female alumni use new skills and knowledge to make positive contributions to selected priority areas
- Outcome 2: Stronger workplace enabling environments for skills utilisation in selected priority areas
- Outcome 3: Australia and Vietnam have stronger, sustainable links in selected sectors/agencies
Eligible Activities
- Category 1. Development and conduct of a training course, workshop, seminar or conference
- N.B. proposals merely to attend one of the above are not eligible.
- Category 2. Applied Research
- N.B. This category may include presentation of papers or posters of which an alumnus is a lead author at Australian industry or academic fora.
- Category 3. Organizational and Institutional Change
- N.B. This category includes scope for innovative activities promoting organisational and institutional change (that are not covered under the first two categories), especially activities which improve the workplace enabling environment, in particular for women.
Eligibility Criteria
- All Vietnamese who have completed their studies in an Australian education institution through the Australia Awards, including the Australia Awards Scholarships (AAS), the Australia Awards Fellowships (AAF), the Endeavour Scholarships and Fellowships, and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) Scholarships.
- Vietnamese alumni who have completed their studies in an Australian education institution through Vietnamese Government scholarships.
- Vietnamese alumni who have self-funded their studies or received other scholarship support and who have completed post-graduate studies at an Australian education institution in Australia or Vietnam.
- Up to 10% of the SGF funds each funding round is available for this third category.
- Professional Groups established under the Australian Alumni in Vietnam Strategy Individual applicants must also meet certain additional conditions to be considered for a grant:
- Applicants must not be named in more than one proposal in any single SGF round
- Applicants must not have an ongoing or un-acquitted small grant (i.e. grants cannot be for overlapping periods)
- Successful applicants will be required to sign a Grant Agreement before a grant is awarded, which includes mandatory financial and progress reporting requirements
- Applicants whose study in Australia was not funded under an Australia Award or Vietnamese Government scholarship must provide evidence of their Australian qualification
Note: Alumni who have previously received an SGF grant may also be eligible for follow-on grants provided the proposed activity is a relevant follow-on from the alumni’s previous grant activity.
How to Apply
Proposals should be submitted via email at the address given on the website.
Eligible Country: Vietnam
For more information, please visit Small Grant Fund (SGF).