The Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute with funding assistance from the Canadian International Development agency (CIDA) is calling for applications for the Action Research Project Grants (ARPG) with a specific objective of supporting applied and participatory research to find local solutions that will have lasting impacts on communities in India by improving the human condition. The overall goal of the ARP is to generate knowledge about developmental needs in India that are to lead to specific interventions.
The grant seeks to support action research initiatives that are selected in line with MDGs, CIDA’s priority themes and India’s Approach Paper to the 12th Plan in the areas – including causes, nature and ways of alleviating poverty – of sustainable/community-based agriculture, climate change and clean energy and gender equality.
The lead applicant must be an individual researcher/faculty member or research team affiliated with a Canadian or Indian member institution of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. The applicant must have a development organization in India that has a long and good reputation of working in the development field.
The application deadline is 20 March 2011. For more information, visit this link.
