Call for Proposals: Establishing Research Chairs on Forced Displacement in the Middle East and East Africa

Deadline: 3-Aug-21

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is pleased to announce a call for proposals to establish research chairs working on issues of forced displacement in two regions, the Middle East and East Africa.

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To help address this gap, IDRC is launching this call for proposals to localize and institutionalize research on forced displacement in the Global South by establishing research chairs on forced displacement at universities in the Middle East and East Africa. The aim is to:

empower local institutions to define research agendas
lead on practical, gender-transformative solutions that promote the social, economic, political, and health rights of forcibly displaced persons and host communities
amplify the voices and perspectives of forcibly displaced persons and host communities in local, national, regional, and global arenas.
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Critically important across these intersecting themes are commitments to:

supporting robust gender analysis and gender transformative approaches
supporting inter-disciplinary and multi-sectoral approaches
promoting localized agenda-setting and the amplification of local perspectives, including refugee voices, in local, national, regional, and global fora
linking humanitarian and development approaches in contexts of displacement
Note: In identifying the thematic entry point(s) for the research chair, proposals should also present concrete ways to implement such approaches within the host university and throughout the research chair’s work. Proposals should present initial ideas about how research chairs will develop and strengthen a community of practice by linking research to host and forcibly displaced communities, and about how to connect the chair’s work to policy processes at the local, national, and global levels.

More specifically, it is envisaged that the research chairs will:

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support timely, innovative research in contexts of forced displacement that scales up learning from best practices to local, national, regional, and global levels and provides evidenced-based policy recommendations
identify and target from the outset potential research users and ensure that recommendations and outputs are designed to be accessible and relevant to these groups
promote policy dialogues and inform public debates that help shape discourses on forced displacement at local, national, regional, and global levels based on local knowledge and practice, and that help define future research agendas
use their platforms and partner with others to amplify local voices, including those of forcibly displaced communities, in the design and implementation of sustainable and gender-transformative solutions
identify and implement sustainability strategies for the continuation of the research chairs beyond initial funding
mentor and supervise early-career scholars and scholars in forced displacement studies
engage with an emerging network of research chairs established in the other regions by collaborating and exchanging shared learning agendas
Funding Information

Grants of up to CA$600,000 will be issued per university. The project duration will be an estimated 60 months, including all research activities and final reporting.
The newly established research chairs will:

conduct research
mentor and supervise early-career scholars
work with relevant stakeholders to conduct outreach with communities, refugee-led initiatives, and civil society
advocate with policy stakeholders at the local, national, regional, and global levels.
More specifically, research chairs are intended to:

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commit to excellence in research and teaching on forced displacement, including mentoring and supervising early-career scholars
be demand-driven and responsive and reflect specific thematic and sectoral, as well as sub-national, national, and regional priorities and capacities
complement IDRC strategic priorities
ensure an inter-disciplinary, multi-sectoral and gender transformative approach to studying forced displacement
ensure a strong linkage with community research, policy influence, and programming initiatives, including refugee-led responses
ensure that the research conducted has a strong connection to policy processes — from the local level to national, regional, and global debates
collaborate with research chairs in other regions, including those supported by IDRC, to reinforce the collective impact of localized knowledge production on forced displacement
Eligibility Criteria

This Call is targeted to universities in low- and middle-income countries in the Middle East and East Africa with a strong track record in research as well as community and policy outreach.
For the purposes of this call, eligible countries in East Africa are Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, and South Sudan. Eligible countries in the Middle East are Lebanon, Jordan, West Bank and Gaza, Iraq, and Egypt.
Applicant organizations are considered to be those that have:
legal corporate registration in an eligible country: IDRC enters into agreements with legal entities only
demonstrated institutional capacity to host a research chair on forced displacement
demonstrated institutional expertise and commitment to advancing knowledge on forced displacement
commitment to gender equality, inclusion, and equity
Only proposals that meet the eligibility criteria above will be considered.
For more information, visit https://www.idrc.ca/en/funding/call-proposals-establishing-research-chairs-forced-displacement-middle-east-and-east-africa