Global Challenges Research Fund for Building Resilience in Developing Countries, Deadline: 6 September 2016

Global Challenges Research Fund for Building Resilience in Developing Countries, 

Deadline: 6 September 2016

The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), together with the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), invites proposals, as part of  the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), taking a leadership role in generating inter-disciplinary research and communities which can address the issue of ‘Building Resilience’ in developing countries.

The call is open to proposals addressing resilience to natural and man-made environmental hazards in a range of developing world contexts. The focus is on how to build resilience in relation to both sudden and slow-onset environmental hazards (e.g. land-degradation, deforestation, drought, hurricanes, climate change) taking into account the intersections and relationships with other contexts such as conflict and fragility, poverty and famine, urbanisation, economics and health / disease risks.

Thematic Priorities

It is expected that any proposal will cut across at least two of these areas and not fall within the bounds of any one:

• Underlying drivers of disaster risk
• Understanding of and ability to forecast environmental hazards
• Communication
• Governance
• Incentivising action and measuring resilience
• Cultural implications in building resilience
• Resilient systems (of system)
• Build back better/greener
• Improving effectiveness of research engagement and uptake

Funding and Duration

A total of £3·3m of funding is available for this call. Awards are expected to vary in scale according to the nature of the activities proposed and not to exceed £200k (at 100% full economic costs). The funders anticipate funding 15-20 projects ranging from 3-9 months. A small number of projects of 12 months duration can be funded. Successful projects will be expected to start no later than 1 November 2016.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants may submit their proposal as a single Je-S application only. Joint applications are not allowed for this call.
• This call will award funds to the lead institution named on each application, which will then be responsible for disbursing funds to other institutions/organisations named on that application.
• All projects are required to have a Principal Investigator based in a UK Research Organisation eligible for NERC funding.
• The lead Research Organisation (RO) must be eligible to hold NERC, ESRC or AHRC grants; i.e. be an approved UK Higher Education Institution (HEI), Research Council Institute (RCI) or
• Independent Research Organisation (IRO) eligible for NERC, ESRC or AHRC managed mode funding.

How to Apply

Applicants must apply online via given website.

Eligible Countries

Armenia, Indonesia, Samoa, Bangladesh, Kenya, São Tomé and Principe, Bhutan, Kiribati, Senegal, Bolivia, Kosovo, Solomon Islands, Cape Verde, Kyrgyz Republic, Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Lao PDR, Sudan, Congo Rep.,Lesotho, Swaziland, Côte d’Ivoire, Mauritania, Syria, Djibouti, Micronesia, Tajikistan, Egypt, Moldova, Timor-Leste, El Salvador, Morocco, Ukraine, Georgia, Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Ghana, Nicaragua, Vanuatu,Guatemala, Nigeria, Vietnam, Guyana, Pakistan, West Bank and Gaza, Honduras, Papua New Guinea,Yemen, India, Philippines, Zambia, UK.

For more information, please visit GCRF.