Call for Proposals: CRRP and CAPaBLE Programmes 2024

The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) is dedicated to fostering a dynamic community of global change researchers, policymakers, practitioners and civil society. APN engages innovative and trans disciplinary approaches across a vast network of expertise to build a more resilient and sustainable future. APN’s commitment is demonstrated through:

• Supporting research and action: Empowering collaborative research and science-based strategies for effective change.
• Bridging science and policy: Effectively linking scientific outcomes with policy mechanisms applicable at all levels of governance and across diverse societal sectors.
• Building scientific capacity: Enhancing scientific capabilities of early-career professionals, policymakers and practitioners, extending to local communities and civil society.

Categories

• Collaborative Regional Research Programme (CRRP): APN promotes regional collaborative research that improves understanding of the physical, biological and human dimensions of change in the Earth system and advances actionable science that informs decision-making.
• Scientific Capacity Development Programme (CAPaBLE): APN supports CAPaBLE activities that enhance existing capacities of developing countries at three levels of individual-based capacity development; group, organisation, network-based capacity development; and societies, governance, and system level capacity development.

Thematic Areas 

• Collaborative Regional Research Programme (CRRP):
  • Proposals must address one or more of the following activities in one or more of the priority topic areas:
    • Collaborative research on global change and sustainability that particularly addresses Gaps, Analysis, Synthesis and Assessment work.
    • Collaborative research that develops Pathways and Mechanisms to achieve sustainable development and develop adaptation strategies.
    • Collaborative Place-Based Integrative Research, particularly from developing countries.
    • Collaborative research that is Co-Designed to contribute to the Paris Agreement, Sustainable Development Goals, Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, UN Decade of Ocean Science (2021-2030), and the accumulation of scientific knowledge at IPCC, IPBES, etc.
• Scientific Capacity Development Programme (CAPaBLE):
  • Scientific Capacity Development Activities that promote the following approaches related to one or more of the six thematic areas of APN:
    • Utilizing and strengthening existing capacity
    • Creating opportunities to use/instil capacity
    • Developing new capacity through innovative approaches
  • Awareness-Raising and Dissemination activities for policy- and decision-making communities, civil society and/or the general public.
  • Science-Policy interfacing in the context of the priority topics.
  • Capacity Development Partnership Activities that contribute to the capacity development components of the evolving global change arena, including the UNFCCC Paris Agreement, IPCC, IPBES, post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals, Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the UN Decade of Ocean Science, and ongoing and new global change and sustainability research programmes.
  • Activities geared towards using Science Communication to disseminate knowledge generated from projects, particularly to non-science audiences.

Priority Topics 

• Pacific:
  • Global change and its impacts on ecosystems and livelihoods in the Pacific
  • Climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, displacement and relocation
  • Climate variability and change and their impacts in national and regional contexts
  • Biodiversity and ecosystem conservation for human wellbeing and protection in the Pacific
• South Asia:
  • Climate change adaptation, losses and damages, and the impacts of extreme events
  • Future GHG emission scenarios, including decarbonisation pathways
  • Integrated urban waste management for sustainable development
  • Enhancing urban and rural water security in South Asia in the face of Global Change
  • Ecosystem resilience: Addressing climate change and ecosystem services through promotion of ecosystem-based adaptation
• Southeast Asia:
  • Climate change and variability (CC&V) and disaster risk reduction
  • Transboundary issues (specifically air pollution, marine plastics, marine debris)
  • Big Earth Data for SDGs
  • Bio-circular green economy (BCG) and circular ecological economy (CEE)
  • Achieving SDGs in the face of a changing climate: Food, water and energy security
• Temperate East Asia:
  • Nature-based solutions for climate resilience and ecosystem restoration
  • Climate extremes, carbon neutral societies, and alternative energy production
  • Big Earth Data for global change
  • Knowledge innovation for sustainable resource management
  • Urban resilience and strengthening capacity for sustainable development

Ineligible Expenses

• APN has limited funds available, and thus, it’s important to recognize that APN does not provide support for:
  • The running costs of institutions;
  • The salaries of administrative staff; the salaries of researchers who receive or are to receive full-time salary support;
  • The salaries of consultants (project leaders and collaborators should have the expertise to conduct the activities);
  • The maintenance of long-term observation and monitoring systems; and
  • General-purpose equipment such as personal computers, laptops, smartphones, tablets or fixed office structures (desks, chairs, etc.).

Eligibility Criteria

• Researchers, academics, practitioners working in institutions based in APN member countries and approved countries are eligible to apply for APN grants.
• Special consideration: APN reiterates the importance of enhancing support to, and engagement of, early-career professionals (ECPs) in the Asia-Pacific region by providing a platform for ECPs to utilize their knowledge and innovative ideas to address regional issues related to global change and sustainability. Therefore, APN encourages applications from ECPs.
• Early career professionals must be 40 years of age or under. The professional should have one of the following:
  • A university degree holder with five years of relevant work experience;
  • A postgraduate working towards a PhD or a Master’s;
  • A Master’s degree holder with two years of relevant work experience;
  • A PhD holder; or,
  • A postdoctoral student

For more information, visit APN.