IDRC invites applications for its second call for Concept Notes 2012-2013 Small Grants for Innovative Research and Knowledge Sharing.
Provided through the Canadian Partnerships (CP) program, these grants support research, knowledge-building, and knowledge-sharing projects. They also fund events and small dissemination activities and products.
Canadian Partnerships promotes linkages with Canadian institutions, particularly universities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), within the mandate of the IDRC act. This program will support proposals that fit with one or more of CP’s identified outcome areas:
A. Strong collaboration in research and knowledge-sharing among Canadian institutions and with counterparts in developing countries
B. Increased contribution of Canadian collaborative research and knowledge to policy and practice of development actors
C. Improved capacity of Canadian institutions to learn from their experiences and to share lessons with others
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”).
For more information and to download the application and budget forms, please visit click here
*Please note that there is a maximum of 3 applications permitted per organization and no more than one per department.
Carleton International internal deadline: August 24th, 2012
Agency deadline: August 31, 2012
Those interested in applying should contact:
Randy Zadra (randy_zadra@carleton.ca)
or
Gabriela Moreno Escamilla (gabriela_moreno@carleton.ca)