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GIST Tech-I Competition in Sectors of Agriculture, ICT, Health & Energy for Individuals in Developing Countries

Deadline: 15 January 2016

Are you a scientist? An entrepreneur? A researcher? An innovator? A student? Or are you just someone who has a great idea or startup company and are looking to change the world? If yes, GIST Tech-I Competition is for you!

Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) is currently inviting applications for its GIST Tech-I Competition. It is an annual competition for science and technology entrepreneurs from emerging economies worldwide. The GIST Tech-I Competition is designed to encourage and support technology and science entrepreneurs to launch and/or grow a company through:

Training and mentorship with successful entrepreneurs, scientists, angel investors, and venture capitalists
Networking opportunities
Access to capital through networking opportunities
Prizes to support your entrepreneurship goals
National and international visibility for your idea or enterprise

Program Sectors

Agriculture, ICT, health, energy, or even aerospace!

Eligible Countries

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros Islands, Congo (Republic of), Congo, Costa Rica, Cote D’ivoire, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar (Burma), Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Swaziland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Eligibility Criteria

The applicant must be a citizen of at least one of the GIST countries (mentioned above) or emerging economies.
The applicant cannot hold dual citizenship or permanent residency in a non-GIST country or emerging economy.
All applications must focus on science or technology solutions with market potential in a GIST eligible country or emerging economy, or broader.
The applicant must be at least 18 years old and can be through 40 years old on January 15, 2016.

How to Apply

Applicants must apply online through the website.

For more information, please visit Tech-l Competition.

Scholarships are Available for Female students in Developing Countries to Study Human & Health Science at Swansea University (UK)

Deadline: 1 July 2016

Swansea University College of Human & Health Science is currently inviting Female applicants to apply for the Eira Francis Davies Scholarship. Female students ordinarily resident in a developing country (mentioned below)who are admitted to pursue an undergraduate or a Taught Master’s postgraduate course at Swansea University’s College of Human & Health Science shall be eligible to apply for the Eira Francis Davies Scholarship.

Eligible Countries

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Benin, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Gambia, Myanmar, Guinea, Nepal, Guinea-Bisau, Niger, Haiti, Rwanda, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Korea, Dem Rep., Somalia, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Chad, Liberia, Tanzania, Comoros, Madagascar, Togo, Congo, Dem. Rep, Malawi, Uganda, Eritrea, Mali, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Angola, India, São Tomé and Principe, Armenia, Iraq, Senegal, Belize , Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Bhutan, Kosovo , Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Lao PDR, Sudan, Cameroon, Lesotho, Swaziland, Cape Verde, Marshall Islands, Syrian Arab Republic, Congo, Rep., Mauritania, Timor-Leste, Côte d’Ivoire, Micronesia, Fed. Sts., Tonga, Djibouti, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Egypt, Arab Rep., Mongolia, Tuvalu, El Salvador, Morocco, Ukraine, Fiji, Nicaragua, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Nigeria, Vanuatu, Ghana, Pakistan , Vietnam, Guatemala, Papua New Guinea, West Bank and Gaza, Guyana, Paraguay, Yemen, Rep., Honduras, Philippines, Zambia, Indonesia, Samoa

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must be a female resident of one of the designated list of eligible developing countries (mentioned above).
Employees of Swansea University will not be eligible to apply.
Scholarships will be used to offset tuition fees for the duration of the degree or course subject to satisfactory academic progression.
Awards are available for all undergraduate degree courses and Taught Master’s degrees within the College of Human and Health Science available to international student applicants.
Applicants must be new, full-time, degree seeking, non-EU applicants.
Applicants must have completed an application to study and accepted the offer of a place at Swansea University
Applicants must show strong academic ability and financial need
Applicants should not be eligible for other financial support from Swansea University e.g. tuition fee reductions through collaborative links or bursaries.
Please note that students progressing from ICWS are not eligible to apply for an International Scholarship.

How to apply

Applicants must download the application form through the website.

For more information, please visit Eira Davies Scholarship.

KSP Excellence Scholarship 2016 for Students in Least Developed Countries Planning to Enrol in a Master program at Sciences Po

Deadline: 10 January 2016

The Kuwait Program at Sciences Po is currently inviting applications for its KSP Excellence Scholarship 2016 to supporting research and teaching of excellence in the social sciences and the humanities with special emphasis on the study of the Arab World and the Gulf Region.

The Kuwait Program expands its Excellence Scholarship flagship program which was first established in 2013. Building on this success, scholarships are now offered to an even larger group of incoming students, enrolled in a Master program at Sciences Po. The current call for applications is dedicated to students admitted at the Master level at Sciences Po, in any field of study.

Eligible Countries

Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zambia.

Benefits

The KSP Excellence Scholarship for Least Developed Countries is directed to outstanding students, covering full tuition.
Multiple scholarships will be awarded on a competitive basis in 2016-2017 to the best candidates based on their academic record and their project at Sciences Po.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must have completed their undergraduate studies in one of the above-mentioned Least Developed Countries.
Applicants must have already submitted a full application to Sciences Po for the 2016 intake through the Sciences Po Admissions Portal (including all supporting documents and references).
Students applying to Sciences Po’s master programs are eligible (oneyear master programs as well as two-year master programs).

How to Apply

Applicants must send the following materials by email with ‘KSP Excellence Scholarship LDC Application 2016’ in the subject line.
- CV in English.
- Cover letter in English of 1000 words addressed to the members of the joint selection committee,
- Copy of passport.
- Completed and signed release form.
- A joint selection committee will review all eligible scholarship applications.

For more information, please download the PDF KSP Excellence Scholarship.

Swedish Institute’s Creative Force Programme 2016 for Middle East, North Africa & South Asia: Get Seed & Collaborative Funding for your projects addressing Human Rights

Deadline: 21 January 2016

The Swedish Institute is currently inviting applications for its Creative Force programme 2016. The Creative Force programme provides funding for collaborative initiatives involving organisations in Sweden and in the focused regions mentioned below with the overall objective to strengthen democratic structures and freedom of expression in the target countries.

Focus Areas

The programme supports projects that aim to promote human rights, transparency and democracy with the aid of initiatives that use either culture or the media as a method for achieving change.

Funding Categories

Creative Force programme provides two types of funding:

Seed funding: Seed funding is available for such purposes as small-scale projects, project start-ups and planning trips.
Collaborative projects funding: Creative Force projects should also have a communicative dimension with the potential to influence opinion and encourage a dialogue about the issues which the project works.

Eligible Countries

Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
Eastern Europe: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldavia, Turkey and Ukraine
MENA: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen
Russia

Funding available & Duration

For Seed funds,the maximum amount that can be applied for is SEK 100,000.
For collaborative projects, sSums in the range SEK 100,000 − SEK 500,000/year may be applied for. The maximum project duration is two years.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must be Swedish civil society organizations, foundations, public sector agencies, private sector agencies or other professional actors. It is always the Swedish partner in a collaboration who is formally responsible for the application and legally accountable to the Swedish Institute.

How to Apply

Applicants must fill the online application form through the website and include the following documents:

Budget form
Letter of Intent (seed funding only)
Memorandum of Understanding (collaborative projects only)
Organisation assessment
Risk analysis (collaborative projects only)
Swedish applicant organisation’s proof of registration, available from Swedish tax authorities.

For more information, please visit Creative Force Programme Call for Applications.

Swedish Institute’s Creative Force Programme 2016: Get Funding for Your Small/ Start-up Projects or Collaborative Projects

Deadline: 21 January 2016

The Swedish Institute is currently inviting applications for its Creative Force programme supports collaborative projects with the overall objective to strengthen democratic structures and freedom of expression in the target countries.

These aims shall be achieved through mutual learning processes and sustainable networks between institutions and agents of change who work with either culture or the media to bring about change.

Funding categories

Two types of funding:

Seed funding: Seed funding is available for such purposes as small-scale projects, project start-ups and planning trips.
- Funding available:The maximum amount that can be applied for is SEK 100,000.
Collaborative projects: Creative Force projects should also have a communicative dimension with the potential to influence opinion and encourage a dialogue about the issues which the project works.
- Funding available & Duration: Sums in the range SEK 100,000 − SEK 500,000/year may be applied for. The maximum project duration is two years.

Eligible Countries

Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
Eastern Europe: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldavia, Turkey and Ukraine
MENA: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen
Russia

Eligibility criteria

Applicants may be Swedish civil society organizations, foundations, public sector agencies, private sector agencies or other professional actors.

How to Apply

Applicants must fill the online application form through the website and include following documents:

Budget form
Letter of Intent (seed funding only)
Memorandum of Understanding (collaborative projects only)
Organisation assessment
Risk analysis (collaborative projects only)

For more information, please visit Creative Force.

SANBio/BioFISA II Mobility Grants : Research Grants of Up to ZAR 30,000 to Address Southern Africa’s Challenges in Health & Nutrition

Deadline: 1 December 2018

The Southern African Network for Biosciences (SANBio) is currently inviting applications for its SANBio/BioFISA II Mobility Grants Programme which aimed to address Southern Africa’s challenges in health and nutrition. It is one of the five Networks under the Consolidated Plan of Action for Science and Technology (African Biosciences Initiative).

The BioFISA Programme is aimed at strengthening the NEPAD SANBio Network and in this second phase it focuses on boosting regional collaboration and networking.

Programme Objective

The SANBio/BioFISA II Mobility Grant is one of the instruments used to promote linkages, knowledge-sharing and collaboration amongst institutions and practitioners in the SANBio Network regionally and internationally and will support the following activities:

Regional and international conferences related to the research areas of health and nutrition.
Knowledge exchange in specific thematic areas supported by SANBio/BioFISA II.
Specific technical training related to current work undertaken by the institution with follow up plans to utilize skills acquired.
Mentor and mentee visits (both academic and business development of bioscience start-ups) provided a mentorship plan is in place.
Peer-to-peer exchange meetings between different institutions in the SANBio Network.
Proposal development (only applicable for shortlisted candidates during the preparation of full proposals the SANBio/BioFISA II Call for Proposals).

Eligible Countries

Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Lesotho, South Africa, Seychelles, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Grants available

Individual support grants of up to ZAR 22,000 for regional applications or ZAR 30,000 for an international application will be provided, depending on the particular nature of the exchange or visit.
BioFISA II Mobility grant will target to support 50% applications from female applicants.

Eligibility Criteria

The call for applications is open to all participants from all SANBio Network Member States (mention above).
All applications will be evaluated on the following criteria:
- Relevance of the activity and contribution towards strengthening the SANBio network.
- Relevance in terms of thematic areas in health and nutrition supported by SANBio/BioFiSA II Programme.
- Preferred participation of women and under-represented groups (target of 50%).

How to Apply

Applicants must download the application form through the website and submit by electronically.

For more information, please visit Mobility grant.

3ie’s 2016 Request for Proposals: Grants of up to US$7.5 million for Projects Related to Environment, Governance, Infrastructure & Public finance

Deadline: 18 January 2016

The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) requests research organisations or consortia to submit expressions of interest (EOI) for undertaking one or more impact evaluations under 3ie’s new Development Priorities Window (DPW).

The window is aimed at promoting rigorous and policy-relevant impact evaluations in a variety of development sectors where high-quality evidence is scarce. In this first call (DPW1), 3ie invites applications for support to produce rigorous and policy-relevant impact evaluations of programmes or policies in any of these four sectors: environment, governance, infrastructure or public finance to achieve relevant sustainable development goals (SDGs).1 Proposed impact evaluations must be of interventions undertaken in a low- or middle-income country as classified by the World Bank.

Focus Areas

Environment
Governance
Infrastructure
Public finance

Grants available

3ie aims to make approximately 18 awards of up to a total value of US$7.5 million through the window.

Eligibility criteria

EOIs must evaluate programmes or policies in at least one of the four DPW1 sectors. Multicountry applications are eligible, so long as all countries are low- or middle-income countries.
Only legally registered organisations and consortia of registered organisations, not individuals, may apply. Each proposal must be submitted by a single organisation that may include other organisations or team members as sub-grantees or sub-contractors (subject to 3ie’s direct and indirect cost policies).
For-profit organisations are eligible to apply, but are restricted to the same indirect cost limits as non-profit organisations and may not charge a fee.
The applicant organisation must be able to sign the 3ie grant agreement.
Organisations may submit more than one EOI and may be included on more than one EOI. They should, however, have the capacity to implement any and all grants awarded to them under the window.
Researchers may be included in multiple applications, but must indicate in writing that they are available and able to carry out fully all of the stated time commitments concurrently in the case of multiple awards.
Evaluation teams should include nationals of the country in which the study is being implemented. National researchers must be resident in that country and working for an organisation that is registered in that country. They must be engaged in substantive tasks for the study during design, analysis, writing, stakeholder engagement and research communication for evidence uptake and use.

How to Apply

All submissions must be made using 3ie’s online Grant Management System. Submissions are requested in two phases:

Phase one: submission of an expression of interest.
Phase two: submission of the full proposal.

For more information, please visit 3ie grant program.

OSISA has announced a call for grant applications for its 2016 grants program.

Deadline: 31 March 2016

The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) has announced a call for grant applications for its 2016 grants program.

OSISA supports innovative programs working towards open society ideals and which advocate for these ideals in southern Africa. The programs it supports will look beyond immediate symptoms and seek to address structural problems that reproduce poverty, inequality, exclusion and discrimination.

For the 2016 strategy year, OSISA invites proposals from civil society, community or state actors from our region for the following programme priority areas: –

Human Rights, Access to Justice and the Rule of Law
Democracy and Governance
Social and Economic Justice
Natural Resources Governance
Youth Arts and Culture
Women’s Rights

OSISA recognizes that there are some emerging and other leading civil society groups and formations such as community-based organizations and social movements operating in our region, which are not formally registered entities. It is willing to consider concept proposals from such unregistered and informal groups and formations that, if approved, may then be further developed into fully-fledged grant proposals for consideration.

OSISA works in 10 southern Africa countries: Angola, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

For more information, visit OSISA.

Nordic Climate Facility’s Grants for Sustainable Livelihoods in Nordic & Low & Middle-Income Countries

Deadline: 29 January 2016

The Nordic Climate Facility (NCF) invites applications from Nordic Countries Organizations to promote the exchange of technology, expertise and innovative ideas between the Nordic countries and eligible low-income countries facing climate change.

NCF is an initiative by Nordic Development Fund (NDF) that aims to increase low-income countries abilities to mitigate and adapt to climate change, contribute to sustainable development and alleviate poverty.

Theme

The theme of NCF6 is Green Growth for Sustainable Livelihoods.

Eligible Countries

NCF financing can be granted to partnerships between relevant Nordic institutions, organisations, companies or authorities that hold a registered place of operations in either Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway or Sweden, and qualified local partners located in eligible countries. The eligible countries are: Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, Kenya, Laos, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Rwanda, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia. Involvement of other partners from third countries is allowed.

Focus Areas

Innovativeness, i.e. provide innovative solutions or products or innovative financing mechanisms.
Provision of tangible results and preferably generation of concrete investments as expected outcomes.
Building climate resilience among the vulnerable groups.
Inclusion of climate change mitigation actions and generation of a quantifiable volume of emission reductions (where applicable).
Combination of mitigation and adaptation impacts with measurable indicators.
Positive and measurable development impacts, poverty reduction, and a high number of final beneficiaries with due consideration to cross-cutting issues and the involvement of final beneficiaries, using a Base of the Pyramid (BoP) focus where applicable.
Empowerment of women in climate change adaptation and mitigation activities and business development.
Application of best practices from the Nordic region.
Replication and upscaling potential.
Ability to leverage more public and/or private financing.
Dissemination of results and potential for interregional cooperation.
Economic, social and environmental sustainability.

Grants available

NCF will grant EUR 250,000 to 500,000 and requires a minimum co-financing of 20% of the total estimated project costs.

Eligibility criteria

NCF financing can be granted to partnerships between relevant Nordic institutions, organisations, companies or authorities that hold a registered place of operations in either Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway or Sweden, and qualified local partners located in eligible countries (mentioned above).
All projects should be in line with National Adaptation Programs of Action (NAPAs) and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action plans (NAMAs), and other relevant strategies and policies in the recipient country, as applicable.

How to Apply

Applicants must apply online through the website.

For more information, please visit call for proposals.

Be a Part of OSISA’s Marginalisation and Inequality Course: A Policy Lens on Social Exclusion and Marginalisation!

Deadline: 17 January 2016

The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa is seeking applications for its Marginalisation and Inequality Course that will provide a policy lens on social exclusion and marginalisation, by laying out a theoretical framework for understanding the process by which certain groups are systematically disadvantaged.

The course will be held from the 7 – 18 March 2016 in Johannesburg. Participants must arrive on the 6 March 2016 and cannot leave before the course ends on the 18th at 17h00 pm.

As discrimination occurs in public institutions, such as the legal system or education and health services, as well as social institutions like the household, the course will focus on the ways in which these institutions either challenge or deepen social exclusion.

The course will use a number of innovative mechanisms to facilitate this discussion, to equip policy-makers and those who work to influence policy outcomes and social programmes, with the skills to better identify the drivers of social exclusion, and the mechanisms for addressing it. Particular emphasis will be on:

A human rights framework for protecting the rights of marginalised people and
Policies and programmes that seek to address the long-term and systemic challenges that marginalised groups face.

Objectives

Provide a set of skills to improve the capacity of participants to make better policy choices (whether they are in the state or advocating for change);
Create a cohort of activists who are conversant with the rights-based approach to inequalities, marginalisation and exclusion.

Eligible Countries: Angola, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia or Zimbabwe.

Eligibility Criteria

Prospective participants are expected to meet the following criteria:

Possess an undergraduate degree;
At least five years work experience in a civil society or public sector institution;
Currently be employed in an area where public policy advocacy is important;
Work at middle management, executive or leadership level;
English proficiency (as the course will be delivered in English);
Be a national from any of the ten countries mentioned above in which OSISA is active.

How to Apply

Interested applicants must submit their application forms with all necessary documents at the address given on the website.

For more information, please visit Marginalisation and Inequality Course.