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African Small Grants: The global change System for Analysis, Research and Training (START) seeks to enhance scientific capacity for global environmental change (GEC) research in developing regions.

START's Africa Initiative (AI) seeks Pre-Proposals from African scientists for one-year projects on global environmental change in Africa.

Proposed research must be field-based and should seek to address substantive policy-relevant challenges facing African policymakers in one or more of the AI areas of conflict resolution, energy, food security, health, migration, and the cross-cutting theme of climate change.

Special consideration will be given to proposals that are amenable to cross-country comparison and develop benchmarks for measuring policy outcomes.

Particular attention will be given to proposals that deal with one or more of the following topics:

Distribution of food and water as a public good

Financing for innovative solutions to challenges in the areas of climate change and energy

Emerging donors in Africa, such as India, China and Brazil

Implications of demographic change and urbanization

Policy implementation gaps in local health care delivery and treatment of infectious diseases

Sources of funding for rebel movements
The Africa Initiative encourages proposals from relevant fields of physical sciences and social sciences. Eligible applicants are African-based scholars, and early-to-mid-career Canadian-based researchers.
Applicants must have a post-graduate degree or be in the advanced stages of a doctoral program.
While the Africa Initiative will give due consideration to any proposal consistent with the overall aim of this project, special consideration will be given to proposed research that:

Aims to develop innovative approaches to addressing policy challenges in the Africa Initiative’s thematic areas

Seeks to collect data that can be used by policy makers in Africa

Attempts to inform both policy makers and academics

Involves questions that are especially amenable to cross-national comparison
African Small Grants Amount: CAD$15,000
Deadline: Varies
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