Call for Applications: CREEW Research Grant Program (Nepal)

CREEW has initiated the Research Grant Program aimed at assisting students in the final year of their master’s program who are working on thesis proposals within the realms of water, environment, natural resources, or other fields relevant to CREEW.

This program serves a dual purpose: not only does it offer financial grants to students, but it also immerses them in comprehensive research guidance and mentoring initiative. Grant recipients will collaborate closely with CREEW’s team of technical experts to refine their research proposals. Furthermore, they will participate in a minimum of three research-sharing meetings during the grant duration.

Thematic Areas

• Groundwater and Surface Water: Quantity and quality, pollution and treatment, demand and supply, conjunctive water use, snow and glacier, groundwater-surface water interactions, managed aquifer recharge, hydrogeology, groundwater potential zoning, groundwater exploration, groundwater induced land subsidence, groundwater vulnerability and risk mapping, water resource assessment and management, sustainable hydropower development, policy and practice and, regulation.
• River Basin and Ecosystems: Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), hydrology, hydraulics, modeling, water-energy-food-nexus, watershed health, river basin management, river health and restoration, sustainable management of ecosystems and biodiversity, ecosystem-based management, land and soil management, policy and practice.
• Integrated Waste and Resources Recovery: Waste types, generation and characteristics; 3R principle and practices, resource recovery from waste, waste treatment technologies, waste governance, waste management financing, waste and climate change, special waste management (healthcare, hazardous and e-waste management, fecal sludge management), waste to energy, waste burning, GHGs emissions, air pollution, circular economy, waste disposal and landfill engineering, life cycle assessment (LCA).
• Climate Change and Resilience: Climate change impacts of various sectors, adaptation and mitigation; climate resilience, climate change modeling, climate finance, climate policy and practice, disaster risk management (DRM), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience, Clean Development Mechanisms (CDMs), EbA and IKT for climate change adaption.
• Green Energy: Types of green energy: solar energy, wind energy, biomass, biogas, and hydroelectric energy; energy-mix, sustainable hydropower development, waste to energy, green economy, air pollution, carbon footprint.
• Environmental Health and WASH: Water quality and household water treatment, WASH in schools, WASH + emergencies, WASH + maternal and child health, WASH + nutrition, menstrual hygiene, behavioral change, health risks (chemical and microbial), emerging pollutants, cross-border and transboundary pollution, environmental footprint.

Funding Information

• The grant is capped at a maximum of NPR 50,000, with duration of six months.

Eligibility Criteria

• Master’s student who has completed all the course requirements.
• Master’s students who are developing their thesis proposal for submission to their departments at college university.
• Thesis proposal must be on water resource environmental geo-technical engineering, environmental science, hydrology and meteorology, agriculture, forestry and other relevant fields.
• Thesis proposal must include research topics related to Nepal.

Application Requirements

• Cover letter (1 Page)
• Recommendation letter from the thesis supervisor for the applicant with consent for applying the grant and, supervisor’s brief CV (1-2 pages). Supervisor should email the recommendation letter and brief CV to info@creew.org.np with subject line “CREEW Grant 2024 25 Recommendation and Consent Letter for Students Name”
• Thesis proposal
• Scanned academic mark sheets and their certificates only starting from 10+2, undergraduate and ongoing post-graduate levels
• Student ID

For more information, visit CREEW.