Entries Open for Research4Life/INASP Advocacy Competition!, Deadline: 15 September 2016

The Research4Life/INASP Advocacy Competition is now open for entries. The competition highlights the critical role that doctors, researchers, librarians and policymakers play in advocating their leaders to support research in their institutions and countries.

Over the last two decades we have worked together with INASP to close the information gap between developed and developing countries by providing free or low cost access to academic, scientific, and professional peer-reviewed content online and providing the necessary training to support researchers, practitioners, librarians and authors in building viable research ecosystems.

The competition calls for case studies demonstrating how users have overcome hurdles to boost criticalleadership support for the information and infrastructural resources needed to improve evidence basedhealth care, agriculture and environmental policies as well as basic research in their countries.

Prizes

• Elsevier will provide the winner with a travel grant to the 2017 Publishers for Development conference in the U.K.
• SAGE Publishing has offered a one year subscription to a major reference work and Taylor & Francis will provide an honorable mention award.

Eligibility Criteria

The competition is open to all researchers, practitioners, librarians and library staff whose institution is either a registered user of one of the Research4Life programmes – Hinari, AGORA, OARE and ARDI – or who have access to online journals or books as a result of deals intermediated via INASP.

How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply via given website.

Eligible Countries

Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cabo Verde,Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana,Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Iraq, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Micronesia (Federated States of), Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea,Rwanda, Samoa, São Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania,Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Bosnia and Herzegovina,Botswana, Cook Islands, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Gabon, Georgia, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica,Jordan, Kosovo, Libya, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nauru, Niue, Palau,Paraguay, Republic of Moldova, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, The former Yugoslav Republic ofMacedonia, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Bolivia, Cuba, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua

For more informatioon, please visit Research4Life/INASP.