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Grant 2012 - ESPA

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The ESPA Programme Executive Board invites Expressions of Interest (EOI) to attend a Grant Development Workshop near London on 2–4 July 2012. This is the first stage in an application process for major ESPA projects which will be followed by outline proposals and full proposals.
This Announcement of Opportunity (AO) is for empirical ESPA projects where original in situ research will lead to a significantly increased understanding of ways to enhance the benefits that poor people in low-income countries will derive from multiple ecosystem services. ESPA projects will be required to deliver research excellence with impact.
Projects will generate new data and knowledge from integrated studies of a wide range of ecosystem services. This call is specifically focussed on how ecosystems and their services in multi-functional landscapes can better support enhanced multidimensional well-being of poor people in low-income countries. This requires detailed in situ studies of ecosystems, their functions and processes, the goods and services that emerge, and the governance and decision-making processes involved.
Applications are invited for funding in the range of £1m to £2m Full Economic Cost (FEC). This call has a total available budget of up to £10m. Projects will be funded for a maximum duration of three years with an expected start date between 01 April 2013 and 30 June 2013. In administration of the grant, standard NERC guidelines will apply.
Applicants submitting EOIs must ensure that they, or a nominated Co-PI/Co-I, are available to attend the Grant Development Workshop on the 2–4 July 2012. If a Co-PI/Co-I is to be nominated to attend the workshop in place of the PI, this must be done at the time of application.
All participants at the Grant Development Workshop will be eligible to submit outline proposals.

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Call For Proposal 2012 - Cities Alliance: For The Catalytic Fund

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Closing Date: April 20,2012.
The Cities Alliance Secretariat is issuing a thematic Call for Proposals for funding under its Catalytic Fund dedicated to the theme "Youth and the City: Challenges of and Visions for Demographic Change". Through this thematic call the CA underscores its commitment towards those that constitute the future of a city. See also Catalytic Fund Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).
 
The thematic call has three main objectives in line with the ‘catalytic’ nature of the Fund:
 
  • To raise awareness of the role of youth in urban development at a time when cities, grappling with an historic urbanisation process, appear ill-prepared to provide improved governance, meaningful representation, or economic and social roles for their youthful populations.
  • To select and support, both technically and financially, innovative youth-focused urban projects and to revisit traditional Cities Alliance areas such as city development strategies, slum upgrading and national policies on urban development with an emphasis on youth.
  • To provide a flexible platform for successful projects to develop peer-to-peer learning networks and to systematically extract and share knowledge that both informs and influences urban practices as well as policy dialogues at the local, national and global level.
     
Examples of possible projects for submission to the Cities Alliance Catalytic Fund include but are not limited to:
 
  • The integration of a youth perspective into participatory urban planning methodologies and slum upgrading;
  • Projects streamlining the role of youth to address urban challenges such as local economic development, climate change adaptation, and basic services; and
  • Projects with an urban focus involving youth organisations and/or with a strong youth component.
     
Please note the following eligibility requirements: 
  • The proposed project must meet the objectives of the Call and the Catalytic Fund, and fall within the scope of the Cities Alliance Charter.
  • The proposed project must be implemented in countries that are on the OECD DAC List of Aid Recipients.
  • Grant size requests must be limited to between US $50,000 – US $250,000.
  • At least one Cities Alliance Member must sponsor the proposed project. Multiple sponsors are strongly encouraged. The sponsor(s) should be contacted prior to submission of the proposed project. Proponent and sponsor(s) should also have discussed and endorsed the Concept Note of the proposed project including the role of the sponsor(s) prior to submission.
  • The national government must have no-objection to the proposed project.

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