SANDEE invites concept notes in any area of
environmental and resource economics relating to the development of South Asia
and the HKH for summer 2021 grant cycle.
SANDEE is an initiative of
ICIMOD under its Regional Programme on MKAN. SANDEE is a research
capacity-building network that provides research support to researchers and
institutions from South Asia and the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region
interested in the connections between economic development, the environment,
and the use of natural resources. ICIMOD is a regional intergovernmental
learning and knowledge-sharing centre based in Kathmandu, Nepal, that works in
its eight Regional Member Countries of the HKH region: Afghanistan, Bangladesh,
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan.
Funding Information
Grants are likely to be in the range of USD
20,000–30,000 over a two-year period. The upper limit grants are aimed for the
multidisciplinary teams involving two or more countries in the region, or focus
on a transboundary issue.
Criteria
- Regardless of whether concept
notes submitted in response to this call focus on any of the
environmental/natural resource topics, SANDEE will prioritize the
selection of concept notes that have a strong economics component and the
dual potential to produce high-impact scientific publications and
information that is useful to national-, provincial-, or local-level
policy makers in the region.
- Concept notes for action
research that aims to produce consulting-type reports will not be
considered. SANDEE welcomes concept notes that involve interdisciplinary
projects, cross-border collaborations, and trans-boundary topics with a
mountain and gender focus.
- Researchers working in South
Asia and the HKH region are eligible to submit concept notes.
- Principal investigators (PIs)
must be junior to mid-career professionals employed by a university,
research institute, or other similar institutions in the region, including
government agencies and nonprofit organizations.
- Institutional affiliation of
the PI is mandatory. While submitting a full proposal, a support letter
from the institution where the PI is affiliated is required for further
consideration.
- Research teams can include
senior researchers (professor, directors, etc.) as co-PIs or mentors but
not as PIs.
- ICIMOD is especially encourage
women researchers and researchers affiliated with member universities of
the Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) to apply.
Post Date - 19-Nov-2020