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ANNOUNCEMENT FOR
SMALL RESEARCH FUND FOR THE YEAR OF 2008
(ROUND 2)
In 2008,
the project will be able to offer Research Fund to
researchers, staff within RDViet network, including the new
master graduates and researchers among collaborating
partners. Until now, the project has approved and supported
around 10 research projects within different collaborating
institutions for the first round of research funding.
Now, the
project would like to call for the round 2 of this research
fund to interest researchers or staff among the RDViet
network. We would like to invite you to submit applications
within the three themes listed below with the process as
presented below. We want to encourgage 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.
Research 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 firstly submit a concept note. The
deadline for submitting concept notes to RDVIET office (HUAF,
Hue) of the round 2 is 25th June, 2008
through email:
rdviet@vnn.vn (cc
le.ngoan@vnn.vn )
2. We will notify you if your
concept note is accepted and invite you to submit full
application. The deadline for submitting a
full proposal will be 10th July, 2008.
3. A budget is available for your research to a maximum of
USD 4000 per project 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 further information, please contact
the RDViet at 054 536 056 or email:
rdviet@vnn.vn
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