Dear ITI members,
As many of you know, the International Growth Centre (IGC), a research
consortium based at LSE and Oxford funded by the U.K. Department for
International Development, is a potential source of funding for
research projects in the area of trade and development. The IGC has
put out a new call for proposals, with a deadline of May 31, 2014. The
details are here:
http://www.theigc.org/news/igc-central-call-proposals
We have also cut and pasted the text from that page below. (Follow the
link above to find the live links to other pages/documents.) Please
feel free to contact us if you have questions or would like initial
feedback.
Best,
Andres Rodriguez-Clare and Eric Verhoogen
The International Growth Centre (IGC) invites researchers to submit
proposals for high-calibre research projects relevant to growth
policies in developing countries. The deadline for submission is
11:59pm, 31 May 2014, GMT time.
This is a comprehensive IGC call for proposals which encompasses its
two central programmes: the Research and Country Programmes.
The Research Programme is primarily focused on the production of
cutting-edge and policy-relevant academic research (global public
goods) that go towards informing effective policymaking in developing
countries. The IGC has recently produced a set of evidence papers
within these four themes of strategic focus that compiles current
evidence in these areas. Potential applicants are strongly advised to
go through these papers, for addressing the gaps in knowledge on
growth policies identified in these papers.
State Effectiveness Evidence Paper
Firm Capabilities Evidence Paper
Cities Evidence Paper
Energy Evidence Paper
The Country Programme is focused on tailoring top-quality research
with the specific policy needs of the IGC’s partner countries. While
funding decisions will be made centrally, projects can be sponsored
under the umbrella of either the Country or the Research Programme, or
potentially jointly. The IGC runs this call on a biannual basis.
The application form should be filled and submitted by email only to
researchprogramme_at_theigc.org.
Please title emails with the following subject line: “Research theme
(one of the four from the Application Form)/Country Office, Project
Title”.
Applications received late will not be considered. Hard copies of
proposals will not be accepted.
Funding decisions will be taken by a Commissioning Board by the end of
June 2014. Researchers will be notified of the Boards’ decisions soon
after this date, and we expect contracts to be finalized shortly
thereafter. Please note that further opportunities to respond to calls
for proposals will follow in 2014.
Please find below a set of guidelines - ‘IGC Notes for Applicants’ –
which provides further application directions for researchers.
The standard Terms and Conditions, which will form a part of
conditions for a successful research award, are also attached (as ‘IGC
Terms & Conditions’). Among other issues, this document covers how the
IGC will treat requests for Principal Investigator remuneration, and
also our procedures and requirements regarding institutional
overheads.
Please note that two of the following documents provide further
information on the IGC’s specific research and country areas of focus:
‘IGC Research Priorities’ provides further details of the priority
areas within four themes (State Effectiveness, Firms Capabilities,
Cities, and Energy)
‘IGC Countries Priorities’ highlights areas of policymaker demand and
research opportunities in IGC’s partner countries (currently
Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India - Central and Bihar, Liberia,
Myanmar, Mozambique, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan,
Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia)
The IGC will assess the submitted proposals against the following
criteria, which are further discussed in the ‘IGC Notes for
Applicants’:
(i) The extent to which the proposed research is innovative and
contributes to substantive creation of knowledge, specifically helping
to expand and strengthen the existing relevant literature on growth
and development.
(ii) Whether and how the proposed research can be used to inform
better and more evidence-based policymaking in developing countries.
(iii) The makeup of the research teams and contribution to local capacity.
(iv) Value for money.
This call for proposals encompasses both IGC Research and Country
Programmes. While these two do overlap substantially in their remits,
their focuses do differ to some extent. While there is some preference
for proposals that respond to policy demands in the IGC’s partner
countries, the IGC will continue to support frontier research
proposals which have policy implications for growth in all developing
countries. While funding decisions will be made centrally, projects
can be sponsored under the umbrella of either the Country or the
Research Programme, or potentially jointly.
We look forward to receiving your proposals and to working with
successful applicants in the future. Given the number of proposals
expected, we are unlikely to be able to respond to individual
enquiries regarding the submission process and commissioning
processes. However, we will be updating the FAQ on our website
regularly, to ensure all commonly raised queries are addressed.
- See more at: http://www.theigc.org/news/igc-central-call-proposals#sthash.TejH5gQt.dpuf
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Eric Verhoogen
Associate Professor
Department of Economics and School of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/~ev2124
Received on Wed Apr 23 2014 - 16:28:24 EDT
