Population and Development

Call for integrated research programmes

PopDev will award excellent research initiatives submitted jointly by Dutch and developing country researchers, with a preference for research in sub-Saharan Africa. A first open call for proposals was released in 2007. Two research programmes have been awarded in 2008. See Awards & Grants

A second call has been released in December 2011 with a deadline for pre-proposals at 15 March 2012.

Joint call 2011
NWO-WOTRO (NL), the Economic Social Research Council (UK), the Population Reference Bureau (PRB, USA) and the Research Council of Norway have released a joint call. The specific aims of this joint call for proposals are: 

  • to fund high-quality scientific research contributing to knowledge that leads to reproductive health and population policy choices to achieve maximum economic benefits;
  • to enhance production of development-relevant knowledge, engagement of researchers with societal stakeholders and availability of research results relevant for policy and practice at country level;
  • to strengthen local research capacity in this research field;
  • to enhance international collaboration and networking between research groups in this research. 

Partnerships
Research funded is a joint initiative of and is being carried out by a team of researchers that must include at least one researcher based in the country of the funding agency (ESRC, NWO-WOTRO, RCN, or PRB) and one researcher based in the developing country of interest. Proposed research to be supported with the grant must be completed in 2 years at most.

Stakeholder involvement
This scheme encourages the involvement of and exchange with relevant stakeholders, not only academic, but also explicitly with non-academic, policy-making, and service providing audiences, identified as important to the production and use of research findings.

Thematic focus
Proposals should focus on one of two themes: 1) The impact of reproductive health on women’s economic empowerment, or 2) Relationships between reproductiveh health and family planning on the one hand and macroeconomic outcomes in countries on the other. 

Further information about the 2011 call for proposals can be found here: Call description and application form.

Contacts
USA (coordinator): Marlene Lee, PRB, mlee@prb.org, 202-939-5445
The Netherlands: Gerrie Tuitert, NWO-WOTRO, popdev@nwo.nl