Deadline: 27 March 2015
Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD) jointly invite call for proposal from consortium of organizations belonging to eligible countries for Scaling Up Food Security and Nutrition Innovations under the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund. This is a chance to secure up to CAD $1,500,000 for program implementation.
The call will support projects that aim to develop, test and apply ways to scale up food security and nutrition innovations, particularly ones that address the needs of women small-scale farmers as core users. It will support projects that take effective, pilot-tested innovations to a wider scale of use and application, to deliver meaningful development outcomes through the effective deployment of scaling up models, delivery mechanisms and approaches. The Fund promotes joint working relationships between Canadian and developing country organizations.
Funding between CAD $500,000 and CAD $1,500,000 will be provided to selected projects to implement activities for up to 28 months, including the inception phase (2 months), all research activities, and final reporting. Activities must be planned with consideration that the project will begin after 1 October 2015.
Priorities
- Gender Equality
- Environment
- Governance
Preference will be given to projects that are able to contribute co-funding and mobilize third party resources to support and expand the scaling up process – before, during and after the life of the project.
Eligibility Criteria
- Application must be made in partnership between two or more organizations from eligible countries. At least one of which must be Canadian and at least one must be an eligible country organization. The partnership should include business-related capabilities, including entrepreneurial skills and business analytics.
- International organizations (except United Nations organizations and members of the Consortium of International Agricultural Research [CGIAR]) are eligible to apply as developing country collaborators, provided that they have regional chapters or offices with appropriate legal status to operate and manage funds in the eligible countries where the research will take place.
- Applicants must ensure that they have the necessary team in place to effectively manage a research project of this size, including, but not limited to project coordination, monitoring and evaluation, and communication activities.
- A person is eligible to be a team member on a maximum of two projects in this Call. One person cannot be a team leader on two projects. Any person who is currently a principal investigator on a CIFSRF funded project is not eligible to be a team leader on an application in the current call, but s/he may be included on the team of one application in the current call.
- Applicants submitting proposals for work in India will need to provide a copy of the form for their organization when submitting their proposal. An FCRA form will also need to be attached for any third-party organization based in India.
- Proposals should
- Present a sound business case – innovation, potential for impacts at scale, delivery mechanisms/scaling up approaches, cost-benefit analysis.
- Present a sound, achievable and convincing scaling up plan describing how impacts at scale will be attained, during and after the project; include a research plan to test different scaling up approaches. The testing of these approaches should be based on sound methodologies which must go beyond qualitative case studies and small-scale pilot testing; and describe how uptake and communications activities will feed into decision making and public policies at the local, national and global levels, and how these results will reach development practitioners and the academia.
- Proposals should clearly articulate how the scaling up plan, the research plan and the uptake activities fit into a logic model.
Note: Proposed project will have one or more Team Leaders based in Canada and one or more Team Leaders in an eligible country or countries (depending on the number of applicant organizations), and they will be jointly responsible for the direction and administration of the project (including reporting to IDRC).
For more information, please visit 2015 Call for Proposals.
