*CALL FOR PROPOSALS*
*GRANTS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRY RESEARCHERS STUDYING POVERTY*
* *
The Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Research Network (www.pep-net.org)
announces a call for proposals for its 2008 competition, in which up to
*_29 grants_* for a total value of *_$CAN 1,800,000_* will be awarded.
PEP provides financial and scientific support to teams of developing
country researchers studying poverty issues.
Specific objectives are to:
• Better understand the causes and consequences of poverty.
• Propose alternative strategies, policies and programs to reduce poverty.
• Improve the monitoring and measurement of poverty.
• Develop local research (and training) capacity in these areas.
• Develop new concepts and methodologies through fundamental research.
*All team members* must originate from and reside in a developing
country during the course of the project. To maximize capacity building,
we favor teams composed of at least one senior researcher supervising a
gender-balanced group of junior researchers. In addition to the grants
outlined below, all selected teams are also eligible for additional
funding to participate in training workshops, PEP meetings,
international conferences, study visits and other activities. Grants are
awarded under four programs:
*MPIA-PMMA CORE PROGRAM*: Six to nine grants of $CAN 20,000 (plus up to
$CAN 30,000 in additional funding) will be awarded for proposals
submitted to either our Poverty Monitoring, Measurement and Analysis
(PMMA) or our Modeling and Policy Impact Analysis (MPIA) subnetworks,
which have the following thematic priorities, although the subnetworks
are open to proposals on other poverty-related themes. PMMA:
Multidimensional poverty, public spending, intrahousehold allocation and
poverty dynamics. MPIA: The poverty impacts of growth, public spending
and agricultural policies. Both networks encourage research that
integrates gender issues. *DEADLINE: January 7, 2008.*
*CBMS NETWORK RESEARCH GRANTS:* Up to nine grants of a maximum of US$
50,000 will be awarded to research institutions, national government
agencies and local government units from developing countries (except
for countries where CBMS is currently being implemented i.e. Bangladesh,
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Laos,
Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Senegal, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam) for the
development and institutionalization of a community-based monitoring
system. Grant applications are categorized into two: (1) development and
pilot-test of a CBMS, and (2) expansion and institutionalization of a
CBMS. Aside from the financial support, grantees will be given
opportunities to participate in the CBMS and PEP network training
workshops and conferences, access to the CBMS network database as well
as technical support from the network's pool of technical advisors.
*DEADLINE: January 7, 2008*
*PEP-AUSAID POLICY IMPACT EVALUATION RESEARCH INITIATIVE (PIERI):* A
maximum of six grants of up to $CAN 140,000 ($CAN 20,000 for the
research component, up to $CAN 90,000 for the survey/experiment
component in the case of experimental approaches, as well as up to $CAN
30,000 in additional funding) will be awarded to teams of developing
country researchers to conduct policy impact evaluations. Projects
should be designed to evaluate interventions that aim at improving human
capital and alleviating poverty, e.g. child health programs, schooling
programs, training programs, safety net programs. Projects that involve
the design and implementation of a randomized experiment will have
priority. On a practical level, researchers need not restrict themselves
to new programs, but could randomize on innovations in the initial
program. When designing an experiment, it may be useful to think of more
than one treatment group, if it is not clear which delivery approach is
optimal. Such designs make it possible to go beyond the question of
whether a program has a positive impact to provide insights as to how to
best design it. *DEADLINE (expression of interest): November 30, 2007.*
*PEP-OPHI Human Development Capabilities Initiative:* Jointly with the
Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI; www.ophi.org.uk),
PEP will offer up to five grants of $CAN 20,000 (plus up to $CAN 30,000
in additional funding) for research on analyzing poverty in the
multidimensional context of the capabilities approach. This initiative
builds on the extensive work of OPHI on implementing Sen's capabilities
approach in developing countries and of the PEP network on
multidimensional poverty analysis. Proposals are welcome for one of two
themes, listed below
*Theme 1:* Missing Dimensions of Poverty Data – in this theme, research
teams are invited to undertake empirical analysis of all data from five
modules of the proposed `missing dimensions' (information and survey
modules are available on www.ophi.org.uk). Teams are not asked to
conduct a large survey. They may choose to use new data that are in the
process of being collected, or to undertake qualitative, ethnographic
and/or participatory work alongside a small quantitative survey in order
to probe the validity and strengths and weaknesses of the survey
instrument in particular contexts.
*Theme 2:* Identification and Multidimensional Poverty – in this theme,
research teams are invited to critically examine identification
techniques and weighting options for multidimensional poverty measures.
Research teams may choose to use a new identification method or various
existing multidimensional poverty measures and intersection/union
approaches. They may also choose to explore further issues of weighting
and adjustments for interconnections between variables. *DEADLINE:
January 7, 2008.*
*PEP SCHOOL:* PEP's African office at the "Consortium pour la Recherche
Économique et Sociale" (CRES) in Dakar, Senegal, is launching in October
2007 the first session of the PEP school for training economists in
poverty and economic policy impact analysis. The 2007/08 training
session focuses on the theme of modeling the micro impacts of
macroeconomic policies and shocks. The training session consists of the
following three separate activities: six weeks of distance learning
courses (October 15 to November 25, 2007); a two-week training workshop
(December 3-15, 2007) in Dakar; and eight weeks of distance technical
support (January 21 to March 15, 2008). The 2007/08 training program is
offered in French only. In the near future, we plan to develop a
separate training session on poverty monitoring, measurement and
analysis, and to offer all training activities in both French and
English. *DEADLINE: September 30, 2007.*
*FOR MORE INFORMATION* and to submit a proposal, please consult the
"Call for Proposals" section on the PEP web site (www.pep-net.org). PEP
is funded by the Australian Aid Agency (AusAID; www.ausaid.gov.au), the
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA; www.cida-acdi.gc.ca)
and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC; www.idrc.ca).
--
Dr Serajul Hoque
Department of Economics
Building 11E
Monash University
Clayton VIC 3800
Australia
phone: 61 3 9905 9244
fax : 61 3 9905 2426
email: serajul.hoque@...
web : http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/eco/
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