Communication from the Department of Science and Technology:
The 2015 Calls for Proposals under the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF) is co-funded by Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD) and Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The Call was officially launched on 2 February 2015 and the deadline for applications is 27 March 2015.
The call will support projects that aim to develop, test and apply ways to scale up food security and nutrition innovations, particularly ones that address the needs of women small-scale farmers as core users. It will support projects that take effective, pilot-tested innovations to a wider scale of use and application, to deliver meaningful development outcomes (i.e., reaching important numbers of end-users) through the effective deployment of scaling up models, delivery mechanisms and approaches.
Proposals submitted to this call will need to include the following three key objectives, (adapted to the context of each particular project):
1. To scale up effective, pilot-tested innovations, and achieve meaningful impacts at scale.
2. To test and assess the effectiveness of creative and bold scaling up models, delivery mechanisms and approaches.
3. To inform decision-making and public policies, at different levels and varied contexts, using evidence-based research results.
This call for proposals will fund projects submitted by strong partnerships between research, development and business-oriented organisations from Canada and from eligible countries. Each partnership must be between two or more organisations and/or companies. At least one of which must be Canadian and at least one must be an eligible country organisation.
Sindisa Mabaso
Assistant Director: Developments Partnerships
Department of Science and Technology
Tel : +2712 843 6361
Fax : +2786 681 6883
Website: www.dst.gov.za
E-mail : Sindisa.Mabaso@dst.gov.za
More information: CIFSRF – 2015 Call Document pdf:
