Applications Invited for CDRI Fellowship Programme

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About the Organization

The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) is a multi-stakeholder global partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks and financing mechanisms, the private sector, and academic and knowledge institutions. It aims to address the challenges of building resilience into infrastructure systems and associated development.

About the Fellowship

The CDRI Fellowship Programme is an initiative by CDRI to promote research and development on real-world problems of building resilient infrastructure. In a year, CDRI offers up to 20 Fellowships and provides a one-time grant of up to US$ 15,000 per Fellowship. CDRI Fellowship is open to the citizens of CDRI Member Countries, without any constraints of educational qualification, affiliation or professional experience. To apply for the Fellowship, eligible candidates should submit their proposals through the online Fellowship application portal.

Objective

The CDRI Fellowship Programme aims to encourage the development of solutions for disaster resilience of infrastructure. The outcomes are expected to be practically implementable and should advance the knowledge on disaster resilient infrastructure. These solutions should focus on various aspects such as recovery and reconstruction, resilience planning, life cycle of project development, policy formulation and financing of resilience in infrastructure.

Benefits:

In addition to the Fellowship amount of up to US$15,000, CDRI Fellows will become part of CDRI's global network. They may be invited to present their project outcomes at the annual International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (ICDRI) hosted by CDRI. Fellows may also be sponsored to present their outcomes at other prestigious international conferences or seminars.

Eligibility

CDRI Fellowship is open to all nationals/citizens/passport-holders/permanent residents of CDRI Member Countries. The candidates can be students, scholars, faculty or researchers from academic institutes, practitioners from government agencies, service agencies, non-governmental organizations, private organizations and community workers. Fellowship applicants can only be part of up to two projects proposals submitted for consideration in a year. Educational qualification or professional experience is no bar. Notably, the applicants will have to submit a 'letter of endorsement' from a recognized academic or research institute/government organization.

How to Apply

• All applications/proposals must be submitted using the form on the online Fellowship application portal. Applications submitted through emails shall not be considered.
• Please follow the guidelines mentioned in the portal while submitting the proposal.
• English is the preferred language for the application/proposal.

Please submit your application/proposal before 30 November 2024 (Saturday, 11:59 pm IST)

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