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Invitation to VS-RDE-01
partners to submit research proposals in the year of 2008
In 2008
the project will be able to give network members financial
support to new research projects, including the new master
graduates who defended their theses in March 2008. We invite
you to submit applications, in particular within the three
themes listed below, following the same process as last
year. We want to encourage joint applications which support
comparative case study material around a common theme and
team work. Justification must be given for the comparisons
to be made.
Themes
for 2008 applications
1.Rural Development Policy and Practice
Little is known about how policy is
actually applied in practice. You are encouraged to identify
a particular aspect of policy (and this should be as
specific as possible) relevant to rural development in its
widest sense and develop a research project around the
analysis of that policy and how it has been applied in
practice, from the implementation process to its impact.
This should be seen as an exercise in policy evaluation.
2.Adaptation to changing conditions
Adaptation processes to changing conditions can refer to
many aspects of rural livelihoods- markets, climatic
changes, industrialization or urbanization to mention a few.
You may want to focus for example in market research, not
only on markets a place of marketing and exchange of goods
but pay attention to the different actors involved and how
rural markets actually work in practice. You may wish to
focus on climate change from the point of how it affects
rural livelihoods, men and women or different groups looking
at production, institutions or changing access to natural
resources. You may wish to contrast different types of
locations (remote, close to urban centres for example) or
social groups, or migration and vulnerability.
3.Understanding Livelihoods options and reasons for
poverty
Studies under this theme can for example focus on cases of
chronic poverty and how the poor “participate” in
development on different terms. Studies may relate to
selling or leasing of land, labour, responding to policy or
development projects, access to resources etc... What are
the risks and insecurities that they face and how do they
deal with these?
Instructions for applicants:
1.You are invited to first submit a
concept note. The deadline for submitting concept notes
to RDVIET office (HUAF, Hue) is
April 15th, 2008.
2.We will notify you if your concept note is accepted and
invite you to submit full application before the end of
April. The deadline for submitting a full proposal will be
May 15th 2008.
Format for full proposal are the same as last year.
3.A budget is available for your research to a maximum of
USD 5000 per project (multiple
for comparative study with two or more graduates) and your
application should include budget estimates
4.The research should be carried out in 2008 and outcome
presented at the 5th annual scientific meeting of
VS-RDE-01 in February, 2009.
5.We encourage collaborative work (teams
of two or more with a named team leader) to build
comparative analysis and team work but you may also submit
separate individual proposals. If you plan a team approach
budget should be allocated for collaborative meetings.
6.Each concept note should contain a
proposed work schedule of activities and outputs
For submission of concept note, full
proposal and further information, please contact us:
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