Deadline: 13 November 2013
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands through NWO (The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) -WOTRO invites research consortia composed of Dutch and African partners to apply for funding for joint, interdisciplinary research and knowledge sharing projects on Strategic Actors for Inclusive Development. Proposals should focus on motives, incentives and conditions for strategic actors and other practitioners having a stake in inclusive development to pursue goals, tactics and engagement strategies that bring about effective implementation of inclusive development policies.
This Call aims at generating insights into the conditions under which actors (across state, society and economy) who potentially have the power and capacity to overcome political and institutional obstacles, will actively pursue inclusive development.
Specific objectives of the Call are:
Contributing to new, evidence-based knowledge on motives, incentives and structural favourable conditions for strategic actors to pursue goals, tactics and engagement strategies that bring about effective implementation of inclusive development policies;Sharing of this knowledge with relevant stakeholders (strategic actors and other practitioners having a stake in inclusive development) to facilitate uptake and application of the newly acquired knowledge.
This Call focuses on the following countries: Ghana, Benin, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda.
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