Dear all,
This might be interesting for some of you
Best wishes and I hope to see many of you in Granada
Ruth
From:
Cogill, Bruce (Bioversity) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 08 August 2013 11:23
To: Cogill, Bruce (Bioversity)
Subject: FW: Call for proposals: Agricultural research impacts on nutrition and health in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia Concept Notes due 20 September 2013
FYI CALL FOR PROPOSALS Assessing the impacts of international agricultural research on nutrition and health in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
Please let me know if there is interest. Concept notes due to Wageningen University no later than 5pm CET, Friday 20th September 2013
Applicants will be informed about the outcome of the concept note stage by Monday 14th October 2013. The deadline for submitting full proposals is Monday 16th December 2013.
Starting in early 2014 for up to 2 years.
This call for proposals is motivated by the
need to broaden and deepen the evidence base regarding the potential for agriculture research and development to leverage health and nutrition benefits.
The intention is to complement, not to duplicate, on-going work in the A4NH and other CGIAR research programs, and to give priority to areas that until now are relatively “under-evaluated.”
Successful proposals will consider the themes identified above, and have a geographical focus on Sub-Saharan Africa and/or South Asia. While it is not a prerequisite that studies responding to this call should focus on specific CGIAR activities, it is considered an advantage if research speaks to issues of interest
to the CGIAR network. We are also very interested in funding desk studies that summarise and critically review what we know about the linkages between agricultural research and intermediate health and nutrition outcomes.
There is no obligation that proposals should be partnerships involving CGIAR centres. This call for proposals has particular relevance for the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) 4 on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health, but is open to all CRPs with a sufficient health and nutrition focus, and to academic and other researchers outside the CGIAR.
A
total budget of approximately USD 500,000 is available for the programme. We seek to fund a few desk studies and two or three field studies. The budget of individual proposals should not exceed USD 250,000. We give preference to proposals that provide some co-financing to the study.
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Bruce Cogill, Ph.D.
Nutrition and Marketing Diversity Programme
Bioversity International
via dei Tre Denari 472/A
00057 Maccarese, Italy
Tel: +39 06 6118 227
Cell: +39 3357 9060 16
From: Johnson, Nancy
(A4NH-IFPRI)
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 5:52 PM
To:
Subject: Call for proposals: Agricultural research impacts on nutrition and health in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
Hi everyone,
Attached is a call for concept notes that was released recently by the CGIAR’s Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA). Please circulate it to your networks. It is not a lot of money, but the issues are central to A4NH and the results will likely get a lot of attention within the CGIAR and beyond so if you have a good idea it is worth investing time in putting together a concept note. SPIA puts a lot of
emphasis on methodological rigor since their mandate is to generate evidence and to improve quality of impact assessments in the CG.
Part of that rigor is a credible theory of change linking the research to nutrition and health outcomes. The call provides a few references but you might also want to refer to our Montpellier document since it describes the main pathways through which agricultural research is hypothesized to influence nutrition and health outcomes, suggests potential indicators, and includes references.
Unlike past SPIA calls, this one is not restricted to looking at the impacts of CG research
outputs. Research is eligible if it “speaks to issues of interest to the CGIAR network.” I would encourage you to talk to your center’s SPIA focal point (who will have received this call) about ideas for studies. Speaking from my own experience, center impact assessment specialists know a lot about the research outputs of their centers, but may not be as aware as you are of examples where non-CG agricultural research had impacts on nutrition and health that might be relevant for the center’s agenda.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Best regards,
Nancy
From: Stevenson, James (NRD) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:16 AM
Cc: Douglas Gollin; Kelley, Timothy (NRD); Bulte, Erwin
Subject: Call for proposals: Agricultural research impacts on nutrition and health in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
Dear colleagues,
On behalf of Doug Gollin (Chair of the CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment) and Erwin Bulte (SPIA Associate), please find attached a two-stage call for proposals on:
Assessing the impacts of international
agricultural research on nutrition and health in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
Concept notes for studies should be sent to:
[log in to unmask] no later than 5pm CET, Friday 20
th September 2013. Please see the call document for more details.
We’d be grateful if you could circulate the call document through your networks of collaborators and colleagues and/or post it to your institution’s website etc.
Kind regards,
James Stevenson & Timothy Kelley
James Stevenson
Agricultural Research Officer
CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) Secretariat
Room C6-24, FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy
+39 06 570 52251