The Global Development Network -GDN is an international organization with a focus on empowering the research capacity of developing countries. It announces several call for proposals round the year. Its grants are for the purpose of financially supporting developing country researchers for carrying research on poverty and development-related issues.
GDN Activities
- Global Research Capacity Building Program: Research Projects
- Regional Research Competitions (RRC): Regional research – to identify and unearth talent in developing and transition countries. RRCs are carried out every year by GDN’s Regional Network Partners (RNPs) to provide early-career researchers the chance to work under expert guidance on development topics that are particularly relevant in their regions. Individuals and teams of up to three early-career researchers are invited to apply in their respective regions. Participants represent one or more disciplines in the social sciences. The RRC grant performance period is one year. The financial envelope of the RRCs covers, on an average, 100 grants per year. The value of individual awards varies according to local economic conditions and various aspects of the research projects, such as scope of the research project, need for primary data collection, team size and composition, etc. Net research grants average US$ 12,000.
- Global Research Competition (GRC): Cross-country/Inter-regional Collaborative Research – Up to four early-career researchers (one principal researcher plus one or more research collaborator). GDN leverages an advanced online platform to support the cross-country/inter-regional team formation.
- Global Research Projects (GRP): Global, Interdisciplinary and Comparative Research – Composed of large-scale, high-caliber Global Research Projects (GRPs) where junior and mid-career researchers team up with more senior scholars. As part of the project, 12 to 15 case studies are conducted simultaneously. This translates into at least, an equal number of countries with a good regional balance to explain different elements of one of the priority research areas set by GDN and its partners through a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and comparative approach.
- The Global Development Awards and Medals Competition (AMC) is a unique competition for promoting research on development and scaling up innovative projects. The competition specifically targets emerging researchers and development practitioners from developing countries and emerging economies. The main purpose of the competition is to channelize funds to where other types of funding cannot reach.
- GDN has launched a specific project on Building Research Capacity in Least Developed Countries; with a focus on scientific research in economics and social sciences that is designed to inform national and local policymaking. Under this project, GDN will partner with four research institutions based and working in LDCs to help them implement a research capacity building program that is designed and proposed by the institutions themselves. These institutions have been selected via an open Call for Proposals that received 250 completed applications from 40 countries. Each application was screened internally and externally by international experts to arrive at the final selection.
- GDN conducts Annual Conferences along with Global Policy Dialogues and Special Events. GDN will be holding its 16th Annual Global Development Conference in Morocco on 11-13 June, 2015 on the theme of Agriculture for Sustainable Growth: Challenges and Opportunities for a New ‘Green Revolution’. Global Policy Dialogues are designed to stimulate evidence-based policy debates on global issues of interest to developing countries and to dialogue with global and regional partners in the research and policymaking community. Global Policy Dialogues aim to ensure that developing country-perspectives remain at the core of the debates.
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