For researchers from low-income or middle-income countries, take your research to the next level and submit research proposals within the theme, ‘Unpacking the health-environment-economic wellbeing nexus,’ for the Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD) under the Global Development Awards Competition 2020.
Winning researchers in this competitive research grant program will receive funding of up to US$ 45,000.
Application Deadline: September 30, 2020
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Benefits
Here are the benefits of participating in the awards competition:
The three winning projects will receive grant funding of up to US$ 45,000 to support the proposed research work
The first prize winner will receive a grant of US$ 30,000.
The second prize winner will receive a grant of US$ 10,000.
The third prize winner will receive a grant of US$ 5,000.
Experts will be assigned to Grant awardees in their relevant field to play the mentor role of a Scientific and Technical Advisor.
Eligibility
In order to qualify for participation in this award competition, applicants must
Be citizens or permanent residents of an eligible country.
Eligible countries are those classified by the World Bank as low-income or middle-income countries
Be researchers.
Be 45 years of age or younger as of 20th July 2020.
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.
This should be clearly shown as in the CV and personal information should be provided.
Requirements/Specifications
The awards will be granted to the participants whose proposals hold the greatest potential for improving understanding of development issues as well as clearly articulate policy implications to address relevant development problems.
Submission of proof of citizenship and residency might be required of all applicants (including team members) through legally certified documents.
The following set of individuals are ineligible to apply for this program:
Staff members of multilateral and bilateral organizations (The World Bank, IMF, IADB, UN agencies, UKAid , etc.).
Previous and current employees of GDN or its Regional Network Partners (can apply 5 years from the completion of their tenure).
Previous GDN Board Members, project mentors and members of evaluation teams.
Past and current ORD reviewers are not eligible to take part in the competition.
Past ORD winners and finalists cannot apply with the previously submitted or similar research proposal.
Winners are not eligible to apply for a period of 3 years subsequent to the end of their agreement with GDN.
Similar proposals or papers resulting as products from full or partial GDN funded activities cannot be submitted for this competition.
To be eligible for consideration for the ORD, the proposal should not be receiving or scheduled to receive funds from other sources unless it is clearly explained how the additional funds provided by the ORD would reinforce the existing funds for successful completion of the research.
Personal information details supplied in the application should be factually correct, else the application will be liable for disqualification during any stage of the competition, including after the grant has been awarded.
Proposed projects can be centered on:
Local, national, regional or continental policy initiatives, and come from any discipline within the social sciences.
Ongoing policy initiatives, past ones, or initiatives currently being set up.
A direct link to the COVID-19 crisis is welcome, but not required.
In light of the quickly changing scenario, proposals that integrate a focus on COVID-19 and related policy responses must explain how the quickly changing policy landscape is likely to impact the focus of the research.
Applications with incomplete documentation will not be considered.
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To apply for the Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD) under the Global Development Awards Competition 2020, should follow the steps below:
Complete your application and save it on your computer in .doc, .docx or .pdf format for upload.
Organization Profile: Prepare a document providing the profile (min. 1 page) of your organization (if applicable) and save it on your computer in .doc, .docx or .pdf format for upload.
CVs of the research team– A compilation of the CVs of the different team members, matching the name of the documents per role in the proposal (PI for Principal Investigator and CR for Co-Researchers) compressed into a .zip, .rar or similar type of files. must be included in the application.
The CVs should clearly state the age of all team members, the citizenships for all team members and the country of residence for the past five years for all team members and the current institutional affiliations for all team members.
About the Global Development Awards Competition 2020
Administered by GDN and supported by the Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan, the Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development is a competitive research grant program under the Global Development Awards Competition.
Since its inception in 2000, this award program funds and supports exceptional research proposals in low-income or middle-income countries with a promise for excellence in research and clear policy implications for addressing development issues.
With this year’s edition themed ‘Unpacking the health-environment-economic wellbeing nexus’, it’s encouraged that proposals critically examine policy successes and failures to look at the complex intersection of health, environment and economic well-being.
With up to 8,800 researchers and development practitioners from low-income or middle-income countries having participated in this competition and more than 200 awards conferred till date, this year’s edition will select and grant the award to three winning projects.
After the application deadline is reached, a multi-stage review process will be used to select the winners.
The evaluation process will be based on the blind review process wherein identities of the authors and reviewers will be concealed to eliminate any selection bias.
The proposals will be reviewed on the basis of the following criteria:
Potential for a substantive contribution to a particular aspect of research literature on the topic of the current edition.
Innovative value of the research topic and the methodology proposed
Academic quality of the proposal (including quality of referencing, clarity of research questions, appropriateness of methodology)
Clarity of the links to policy (at the level of concept definition, operationalization, critical review or evaluation) for addressing specific development issues
Composition of the research team and the cost-effectiveness of the budget proposed
