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Applications Invited for Research projects that focus on Challenges and Innovations Related to COVID-19
Organization: USAID
Apply By: 22 Oct 2021
Grant Amount: 70000 USD
About the Organization
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the US Government’s (USG) preeminent foreign assistance agency. The agency is dedicated to helping foreign nations meet the needs of their citizens by providing healthcare, education, and economic opportunity to reduce poverty and promote democratic, resilient societies.
The Innovation, Technology, and Research (ITR) Hub at USAID brings together a diverse set of partners to discover, test, and scale breakthrough solutions to address critical challenges in international development (https://www.usaid.gov/innovation-technology-research). A key element of this strategy is the support of scientific and technological research through the Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER) program. PEER is a competitive awards program open to researchers in select USAID presence countries to partner with US researchers currently receiving USG funding. PEER funding goes directly to the international researcher and is designed to support research and capacity-building activities on topics of importance to USAID. Since its inception in 2011, PEER has supported research awards from a wide range of academic disciplines including the natural, physical, social, behavioral, and economic sciences, as well as engineering.
Projects funded under this year’s call for applications will receive one-year awards of up to US $70,000. In addition, they will receive personalized training and guidance from USAID’s Research Technical Assistance Center on developing evidence-to-action plans and communications products.
About the Grant
In this call, PEER aims to support research projects that focus on the impacts of COVID-19 and potential solutions that can emerge from this pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented global challenges and uncovered weaknesses in the ability of governments, the private sector, and local and international actors to deliver services and resources across many systems. This has been true in food and agriculture, healthcare, and education, among other sectors. However, the pandemic also has inspired innovation in areas such as digital technology and social organization, and there are many examples of countries or communities effectively coordinating to confront this threat. This PEER funding opportunity looks to support locally-led research projects that (1) aid in our understanding of how shocks such as COVID-19 affect key sectors in developing countries and (2) test approaches to help communities and sectors respond to and mitigate the effects of COVID-19 or similar future shocks.
Potential sectors that might be studied include but are not limited to the following:
- Digital innovations (e.g., cashless transfers, geospatial and big data)
- Education (e.g., effects of school closure on learning, digital solutions for remote education)
- Agriculture and food (e.g., resilient value chains, effects of COVID-19 on food systems)
- Women and gender (e.g., disproportionate impact of shocks, COVID-19 and gender-based violence)
- Public health (e.g., novel approaches to contract tracing, mobile health, vaccine distribution)
PEER is interested in projects that unearth insights about the resilience of systems to shocks, supply chain responses to shocks, shocks as a driver of social and economic inequality, and the intersection between challenges within key sectors and digital solutions.
Regional collaborations among multiple countries are allowed, provided that they address research that is within the scope of the focus area and the primary PI is based in an eligible country. Co-PIs may be involved in such regional collaborative projects, provided that the co-PIs are also based in a PEEReligible country
Eligibility
PEER Applicants Eligible applicants must
- Hold a research or teaching position at a higher educational institution (university) in a PEEReligible country (see list below);
- Be citizens or permanent residents of a PEER-eligible country; and
- Be living and working in the country from which they are applying.
Deadline
October 22, 2021.
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