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Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF)

Posted by Alana Milner on January 19, 2015 in Announcements

Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD) have released a pre-announcement about the upcoming 2015 Open Call for Proposals to the CIFSRF.

The call will support projects that aim at developing, testing and applying ways to scale up food security and nutrition innovations. With a strong focus on taking effective, pilot-tested, innovations to a wider scale of use and application, this call will fund projects that promise consistent and meaningful development outcomes (i.e. reaching important numbers of end-users) through the testing, demonstration and effective deployment of scaling up models, delivery mechanisms and approaches.

•    Date of official launch: early February, 2015

•    Funding: projects will be in the range of CAD $0.5 to $1.5 million

•    Deadline for full proposals: late March 2015

•    Duration of the projects: up to 28 months

•    Eligible organizations: research, development and private sector organizations from Canada and from eligible countries in the global South

•    Partnerships must include two or more organizations; at least one of which must be a Canadian organization.

•    At least one of the key implementing partners must be a private sector organization (private company, business-focused NGO, investment organization, etc.).

Read the full CIFSRF 2015 pre-announcement call here.

Any Dalhousie faculty member interested in this upcoming Call for Proposals is asked to contact Jennifer Morawiecki in International Research & Development, for more information and to register interest.