Deadline- March 11, 2013
Global Development Network (GDN) and supported by the Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan invites applications for Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD). The purpose of this award is to identify and funds outstanding research proposals in developing and transition countries with high potential for excellence in research and clear policy implications for addressing development issues.
Research themes-
- Inequality
- Social Protection and Social Policies
- Inclusive Growth
Prize-
- The winning projects will receive grants worth US$ 45,000. Finalists will be invited to travel and present their proposals at GDN’s 14th Annual Global Development Conference in Manila, the Philippines from 19-21 June 2013.
- The first prize winner will receive a grant of US$ 30,000. The second prize and third prize winners will receive a grant of US$ 10,000 and US$ 5,000 respectively. The funds will be used to support the research work proposed by the winners towards the completion of their research.
Eligibility & Criteria-
- The Award is open only to researchers in developing and transition countries with the requirement that the applicants (researchers) need to be permanent residents of these countries. They could either submit the research proposal individually, or, jointly as a team.
- Citizens of developing and transition countries temporarily residing in a developed country for no more than five years are eligible to apply as part of a team. However, the principal investigator of the research proposal must currently reside and be a permanent resident of a developing or transition country. Citizenship will be verified through CVs and the scanned copy of an Identity Card that has legal standing in the resident countries of all researchers on the applying team. Please note that all personal information details as provided in the application (and CV) should be factually correct, else the application will be liable for disqualification. The information on the Identity Card will remain strictly confidential with GDN.
- In case of more than one researcher, at least half of the researchers (including the principal investigator) of the team must currently reside in a developing or transition country and should be affiliated to an organization headquartered in either of these countries.
- The upper age limit for applicants is 45 years.
- The proposal should not be receiving or scheduled to receive funds from other sources to be eligible for consideration for the Award unless it is clearly explained how the additional funds provided by the Award would reinforce the existing funds for successful completion of the research.
- Staff members of multilateral and bilateral organizations (World Bank, IMF, IADB, UN agencies, DFID, AusAID, etc.) and previous employees of the GDN are not eligible to apply.
- Past finalists and winners and are not eligible to apply with the same or similar research proposal. Additionally, winners are not eligible to apply for a period of 3 years subsequent to their submission of a successful proposal.
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