Your Opportunity to Receive Grants Up To US$ 30,000 To Fund Your Research From GDN 2020

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Description

The Global Development Awards Competition 2020

The Global Development Network (GDN) invites researchers from low-income or middleincome countries to submit research proposals within the theme, ‘Unpacking the healthenvironment-economic wellbeing nexus,’ for the Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD).
The Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development is a competitive research grant program under the Global Development Awards Competition 2020. The Awards Competition is administered by GDN and supported by the Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan. This award program identifies and funds outstanding research proposals in low-income or middle-income countries with high potential for excellence in research and clear policy implications for addressing development issues.

Opportunity Focus area:
Finance
Economics

Specialties

Business & Management, Economics, Finance, Social Sciences

Eligibilities

25 - 35, 36 - 60

The upper age limit for all applicants is 45 years as of 20 July 2020

Gender

Nationality

Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Yemen

Required Languages

Other Requirements

Nationality

The competition is open only to researchers who are citizens or permanent residents of low-income or middle-income countries.

Residency

Citizens of eligible countries currently residing in a non-eligible country are only allowed to apply if they have been living in the non-eligible country for no more than five years as of 20 July 2020.

Other Funds

The proposal should not be receiving or scheduled to receive funds from other sources to be eligible for consideration for the ORD unless it is clearly explained how the additional funds provided by the ORD would reinforce the existing funds for successful completion of the research.

Staff members

Staff members of multilateral and bilateral organizations (The World Bank, IMF, IADB, UN agencies, UKAid , etc.) are not eligible to apply.

Previous and current employees of GDN

Previous and current employees of GDN or its Regional Network Partners are not eligible to apply up till 5 years from the completion of their tenure. Previous GDN Board Members, project mentors and members of evaluation teams are not eligible to apply.

Past ORD winners

Past ORD winners and finalists are not eligible to apply with the same or similar research proposal. Additionally, winners are not eligible to apply for a period of 3 years subsequent to the end of their agreement with GDN