The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) invites applications for its 2012-2013 Small Grants for Innovative Research and Knowledge-Sharing.
Provided through the Canadian Partnerships program, these grants support research, knowledge-building, and knowledge-sharing projects. They also fund events and small dissemination activities and products.
This call offers two types of funding:
1) Support to research, knowledge-building, and knowledge-sharing projects. Budget requests under this category must be between $15,000 and $60,000. Knowledge-building or -sharing projects may include conferences, workshops, etc., but are distinguished from the events category below in that they must be more than an event(s): at least 50% of the budget must go to non-event activities (e.g. preparation of research papers leading to a workshop). Related events in this category must (as below) be hosted in large part by one or more Canadian organizations and grant funds should only rarely be used in support of the participation of Canadians or people from high-income countries.
2) Support to events and to small dissemination activities and products. Budget requests under this category must be between $1,000 and $15,000.
There is no list of eligible countries; however, IDRC only supports work and partners in middle and lower income countries (as per the latest OECD Development Assistance Committee list of ODA-eligible countries) and they do not support work in Eastern Europe or Central Asia (“stans”).
The organizational deadline for applications is April 30, 2012.
For further details and to download the application and budget forms click here.
Please note that there is a maxiumum of 3 applications permitted per orgranization and no more than one per department.
Those interested in applying should contact:
Christine Peachey, Manager International Projects.
Email: christine_peachey@carleton.ca Phone: 613-520-2600 ext 8358