Awarded DC Fellowships

24 maart 2006

In the 2005 subsidy round 70 preliminary proposals were submitted; 38 applicants responded to the invitation to elaborate a full proposal. Two separate advisory committees evaluated the preliminary and full proposals: one for the Humanities and Social Sciences and one for the Natural and Medical Sciences. Twenty individual projects were awarded: ten in the Humanities and Social Sciences and ten in the Natural and Medical Sciences.

Humanities and Social Sciences

• Trajectories of Tolerance: A Comparative Study of Religious Discourse and Social Consensus in Wallo (Ethiopia)
• Violence, boys and institutionalisation: Surviving in places of safety, Cape Town
• After Jihad: Tracing personal Trajectories of non-local Moslem fighters after their participation in Jihad in Indonesia
• In and Out of Church in Managua, Nicaragua
• Health care Financing and delivery in Tanzania: including the urban poor? 
• Transnational religious networks and protestant conversion among the Hmong in Northern Vietnam
• Thought for food, food for thought: Gender dynamics in urban agriculture in Kisumu town, Kenya
• Building communities in time of war: Displaced Women´s collective action in Colombia 
• Identity and reproductive health of religious minority groups in Bangladesh and India 
• Vietnam's Familiar Strangers - Narratives of returning Overseas Vietnamese and the symbolic construction of homeland and nation

Natural and Medical Sciences

• Importance of mangroves and seagrass beds as nurseries for coral reef fishes in Tanzania
• Multidrug resistant tuberculosis and the Beijing genotype: super bug or innocent bystander? 
• Cost-benefit analysis of flying far and wintering cheaply: comparative demographics of Sanderlings in Ghana, Mauritania and The Netherlands
• A unifying study of tree species diversity in Colombian Amazonia
• Synthesis and biological evaluation of febrifugine derivatives as antimalarial agents 
• Understanding how tri-trophic interactions influence the success of biological control: The case of cassava, cassava green mite and the predatory mite T. aripo in Benin
• Holocene high-resolution climate change in the northern Colombian Andes; multi-proxy records from Lake La Cocha sediments place IPCC-Report records in a tropical perspective
• Managing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in Cameroonian intercropping and crop rotation systems: direct effects on Striga hermonthica and indirect effects on cereals and potential trap crops
• Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Production Traits to Support Breeding Programs Utilizing Local Chicken Population in Ethiopia
• Spatial patterns in species composition, forest structure and dynamics along environmental gradients in lowland forests of Bolivia