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Funding opportunities for those who are interested in research that informs policies and has global impacts

  • 1.  Funding opportunities for those who are interested in research that informs policies and has global impacts

    Posted 05-18-2023 08:57

    Dear Colleagues,
    If you have experience in development research to address global challenges, you may be interested in those two open Calls for Concept Notes posted at Funding - LASER PULSE    Specifically, we are looking for researchers and development professionals who have experience in global development and have local partners in one of these two countries - Madagascar or Somalia. 

    1. Call for Concept Notes: Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) Desk Review and Market Study, Political Economy Analysis & Secondary Data Analysis for Resilience Food Security Activities (RFSA) in Madagascar

    2. Call for Concept Notes: Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) Desk Review and Market Study (DRMS) and Political Economy Analysis (PEA) for Resilience Food Security Activities (RFSA) in Somalia.

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    Funding - LASER PULSE
    Since its inception, LASER PULSE has awarded approximately 40 grants in USAID Partner Countries, with each award ranging from $50,000 to $5 million, depending on the complexity of the research question and duration of the proposed research.
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    Please note that these two work assignments have tight and strict deadlines (can't be extended).  Also, the experience working with US Agency for International Development (USAID) is very different from a typical research grant in terms of the substantial co-creation process, timely delivery of high-quality, insightful reports, and additional institutional recusal requirement.  The research study findings (reports) will have direct impacts on the design of upcoming USAID resilience, food, and nutrition security programs in these two countries.  We have done a similar study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last year and the reports are available on laserpulse.org under Research--> Resource Library.  Please feel free to contact me (yih@purdue.edu) if you have any questions or need more information.   There will be more funding opportunities through LASER PULSE  in the future and please feel free to join our network (laserpulse.org) to get future notifications.

    Y. Yih, Ph.D.

    Academic Director, LASER PULSE (Long-term Assistance and SErvices for Research, Partners for University-Led Solutions Engine) Consortium

    Professor, School of Industrial Engineering

    Director, Smart Operations & Systems (SOS) Lab

    Purdue University

    West Lafayette, Indiana

    Pronouns: She | Her | Hers (Why Pronouns Matter)



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    Yuehwern Yih
    Academic Director of LASER PULSE; Professor of Industrial Engineering
    School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
    W Lafayette IN
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