Deadline: 31 January 2024
The CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment is seeking Expressions of Interest (EoIs) from researchers interested in leading, or being part of, country level studies of the dynamics of agricultural innovation, for the following countries:
- Phase 1: Ethiopia, Uganda, Vietnam, Bangladesh
- Phase 2: Colombia, Nigeria, Egypt, North East India
- Phase 3: Ghana, Mali, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Malawi, Philippines, South India, Nepal, Morocco, Guatemala, Peru
Disciplines
- Skills demanded of this work included: economics (agriculture and/or development); quantitative skills (survey design and implementation, data management, econometrics); qualitative skills (political science/sociology); country-specific knowledge of agricultural systems; country-specific language and cultural knowledge.
Funding Information
- Phase 1: They anticipate these being significant research grants of up to $3 million USD per country over a six-year period
- Phase 2: They anticipate these being significant research grants of up to $2 million USD per country over a six-year period,
- Phase 3: They anticipate each of the scoping reviews being funded with a research grant of up to $250,000 USD per country.
Deliverables
- A detailed stock-take excel table that lists CGIAR innovations.
- At least two rounds of nationally representative household panel survey data (over a 6-year period) generating estimates of adoption of CGIAR-related agricultural innovations.
- An impact evaluation plan (after the third year) derived from pilot research carried out through the grant, or analysis of the data collected in 2 along with other secondary data. The proposed impact evaluation should focus on CGIAR-related agricultural innovations, and it should use rigorous tools for causal inference.
- At the end of year six, at least one research paper that leverages the panel structure of the data and/or additional sources of variation (experimental or quasi-experimental) to estimate the impact of a particular CGIAR-related agricultural innovation.
Eligibility Criteria
- Non-profit research organizations are eligible to apply.
- CGIAR researchers are not eligible as either principal investigators (PIs) or co-PIs. If CGIAR researchers are listed as collaborators in an EoI, their participation will have to be clearly justified at the full proposal stage.
- To preserve independence from the CGIAR, salary support or other research resources budgeted for CGIAR collaborators should be minimal in such cases.
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