Founded in 1998, the South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes (SANEI) is a nonprofit organization and the regional partner of the Global Development Network (GDN). SANEI was established to promote cooperation and increase communication amongst economic research institutions in the South Asia as well as to foster cooperation, understanding and development in the region.
The SANEI is currently inviting Research Proposals for its 13th Round of Regional Research Competition (RRC) within the thematic focus ‘Sustainable Urbanization in South Asia: Issues and Challenges’. The proposals could relate to a single South Asian country or cover more than one country within a comparative framework.
The Scope
The scope of the studies could cover, among others, one or more of the following aspects relevant to individual or a group of countries in South Asia. However, these are only suggestive. Researchers are free to choose other researchable topics, provided they are relevant to the theme and to the countries of the Region.
- Sustainable Urbanization: Contexts, and Specific Visions
- Comprehensive Master Plan: A Tool for Sustainable Urbanization?
- Urban Land Use Planning and Traditional Neighbourhood Development as Components of Sustainable Urbanization
- Reducing the Flow of Population from Rural to Urban Contexts: Relationships of Sustainable Urbanization to Healthy Rural Life
- Sustainable Urbanization: Building Larger Number of Smaller Cities or Smaller Number of Larger Cities?
- How to Make Existing Cities More Sustainable and Build New Cities Genuinely Sustainable?
- Sustainable Urbanization: What Forms of Local Self-Government?
- Conservation and Direct Involvement of Communities in Local Planning and Management
- Consistent Plans for Urban Services, Social Development, and Social Inclusion
Eligibility
- Proposals can be submitted by researchers from all relevant areas of social sciences.
- Applicants must be nationals of any of the following countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and should be currently resident in these countries.
- Applications may be submitted by individuals or a team of researchers.
- An applicant cannot submit more than one proposal or be a member of more than one research team. A SANEI Steering Committee Member cannot be a Principal Investigator or a Team Member in a SANEI supported project.
- A formal application must be made by the institution (e.g. universities, research institutes or non-profit organizations) with which the applicant is affiliated and if the project proposal is funded, the institution will be responsible for the administration of the grant.
- Awardees of the SANEI 11th and 12th Round RRC are not eligible to participate in this 13th Round RRC.
Last date for submitting the proposals is August 15, 2011.
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