Deadline: 1 September 2015
Department for International Development (DFID) and NERC are inviting applicants for Humanitarian Emergencies & resilience(SHEAR) research Consortia Grants .
SHEAR is a five year international, interdisciplinary programme which aims to support improved disaster resilience and humanitarian response by advancing monitoring, assessment and prediction of natural hazards and risks across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, and through working with users, bring this into use in reducing the impacts of disasters.
Funding Information
- Proposals are invited for funding of up to £2m full economic cost (FEC) per consortium.
- Proposals will be funded for a maximum duration of four years with an expected start date of May 2016.
Programme Objectives
- Improving risk assessment and prediction of drought and flooding across Sub-Saharan Africa and providing an ‘honest broker’ of existing systems.
- Enhancing multi-hazard risk assessment and monitoring across south Asia, with a focus on the interaction of ’cascading’ hazards such as landslides.
- Strengthening understanding of the underlying drivers of risk toward more integrated, multi-hazard risk monitoring and warning systems.
- Getting the right information, to the right people in the right ways – research to enhance the uptake and use of risk information in practice
Themes
- World-leading research into hydrological controls on landslide hazard in South Asia as part of multi-hazard risk assessment and building towards early warning systems.
- Flood and drought risk assessment, modelling and forecasting in Sub-Saharan Africa; including better understanding the multifaceted and complex drivers of risk and building toward more risk-based monitoring and warning systems.
Eligibility Criteria
- SHEAR will fund UK and non-UK organisations where these are found to be eligible.
- Non-UK organisations (and other UK organisations not currently eligible to receive Research Council funding) that are interested in applying will only be eligible to directly receive SHEAR funding if they satisfy all of the following conditions:
- The organisation must be a legal entity.
- The organisation must be able to demonstrate an independent in-house capability to undertake and lead research and training in the field or discipline in which it wishes to be funded
- The organisation must meet the accountability and audit requirements of the SHEAR funders.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must submit their proposals via mail at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit Research Grants.
