Deadline: 7 July 2024
Colansa calls on civil society organizations and academics from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to participate in a grant program that promote the transformation of food systems, making them healthier, more sustainable, equitable and inclusive.
The first call of COLANSA’s Research Award schema will focus on Latin-America and the Caribbean regional projects that address different evidence needs for achieving food system transformation for healthier diets in children and adolescents.
The objective of this Call for Proposals is to support projects that will contribute to transformations in the way healthy foods are produced, marketed, and consumed. Proposals can address any of the aspects, sectors and actors involved in these processes, with the objective of promoting food systems that are healthy and sustainable in the countries, with special attention to the most socially vulnerable populations. The ultimate objective is to contribute to the protection of the human right to adequate food and health.
Funding Information
- In this First Call, COLANSA will fund qualifying projects with a maximum duration of 12 months (August 2024 to July 2025). Total budget available for the call is up to $ 110,000 USD. Funding of 3-4 proposals with a maximum of 35,000 USD per proposal (including overhead) is anticipated. Budget requested is expected to be aligned with the activities and duration of the proposed project, and appropriately justified. It should also take into consideration the number of partners included.
Expected Impact
- Projects funded under this call will collectively contribute:
- to generate evidence for promoting food systems transformation, healthier and more sustainable diets for children and adolescents in the LAC region with children’s rights and equity approach
- to raise awareness on the existing inequities on children’s and adolescent’s diet and thus, contribute to decreasing these inequities
- to expand researchers’ capacities to engage with key food systems stakeholders
- to improve regional research capacities to work collaboratively (i.e., data harmonization, multi-country analyses, etc.)
Eligibility Criteria
- Graduate students, researchers, or civil society organizations based on LAC countries are eligible to apply for this call.
- All applicants need to have an institutional affiliation (e.g., University, research institute, non-profit organizations, etc.).
- Research teams could be from a single country (single-country team) or can include team members of more than one country of the region (multi-country team).
- Applicants must have independent legal status, be capable of contracting as well as receiving and administering funds, and have the authority to lead the proposed project activities.
Ineligible
- The following are not eligible to apply:
- Individual persons without any institutional affiliation
- Governmental agencies or institutions
- UN agencies or UN Country Teams
- Alcohol, tobacco, or ultra-processed foods companies or entities that have received direct financial support from alcohol, tobacco, or ultra-processed foods companies in the last 5 years.
- Entities that have received any type of financial support from Bloomberg Philanthropies in the last 5 years.
- Members of the steering committee of COLANSA.
For more information, visit COLANSA.
