CA $20 000 grants for developing-country researchers studying poverty issues
The Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Research Network invites researchers originating from and residing in developing countries to submit research proposals. The PEP network provides financial (roughly 15 CA $20 000 research grants per year) and scientific support to member researchers, as well as funding to participate in
training workshops, PEP meetings, international conferences, study visits, and other activities. A shortlist of teams will be invited to present their proposals. Proposals may be submitted at any time.
The submission deadline for our 2007 meeting (to be held in Peru in May or June 2007) is 30 November 2006.
The Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Research Network brings together and provides support to developing-country researchers working to reduce poverty. The network receives funding from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) as part of its Globalization, Growth and Poverty (GGP) program.
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. PEP is composed of three tightly linked constituent subnetworks:
Community-Based Monitoring Systems (CBMS) designs and pilots community-based monitoring and local development systems aimed at poverty in its multidimensional sense.
Poverty Monitoring, Measurement and Analysis (PMMA) aims to develop and apply analytical tools to monitor, measure, and understand poverty, and to analyze a wide range of poverty issues.
Modeling and Policy Impact Analysis (MPIA) uses economy-wide models as a "laboratory" to identify and analyze the links between specific policies and shocks and their eventual impacts on poverty. This call for research proposals concerns only the PMMA and MPIA subnetworks.
All team members must originate from and reside in a developing country during the course of the project. To maximize capacity building, we favour teams composed of a senior researcher supervising several less experienced researchers, including women
researchers.
The PMMA network currently focuses primarily on multidimensional poverty, public spending/impact evaluation, and poverty dynamics. The poverty impacts of growth, public spending, and agricultural policies are priority themes for the MPIA network.
Both networks also offer a special Gender Challenge Fund for poverty studies on gender issues.
For more information and to submit a proposal, please consult the "Call for Proposals" on the PEP Web site: (www.pep-net. org).
http://www.idrc. ca/en/ev- 104606-201- 1-DO_TOPIC. html
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