Deadline: 4 November 2015
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (MFA) is inviting applicants to provide grants for development research activities as part of Denmark’s international development cooperation.
The call is divided into two components:
- North-Driven Development Research Projects: Denmark
- South-Driven Development Research Projects: Ghana, Tanzania, and Nepal
Grants will be awarded to strategic research cooperation which generates new knowledge relevant to the needs and strategies of priority countries and to Denmark’s development cooperation and contributes to strengthening research capacity in these countries.
The development research projects supported by the MFA must include substantive elements of research capacity strengthening, which focus on national priorities and ownership in developing countries.
Themes
- Ghana
- Natural Resource Management/Climate-Smart Agriculture/Environmentally
- Sustainable Solutions
- Economic Development and Poverty Reduction/Role of the Informal Sector
- Health: Right to Health/Health Care/Determinants of Health
- Tanzania
- Good Governance
- Economic Development and Poverty Reduction/Green Growth/Natural Resource
- Management
- Health: Right to Health/Health Care/Determinants of Health
- Nepal
- Economic Development and Poverty Reduction/Green Growth
- Fragility, Stability and Rights
- Denmark
- Conflict and fragility
- New development actors and changing partnerships
- ICT for development
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications can only be submitted by an institution, e.g. a governmental institution, private-sector enterprise or private organization.
- For the North-driven research projects this implies an institution in Denmark.
- For South-driven research projects this implies an institution in Ghana, Tanzania, or Nepal.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must fill the electronic application form at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit this link.
