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You are here: Home / Grant / CFPs: Combined Challenges of Ageing and Socio-Economic Contexts in the Western Balkans and Southeast Asia

CFPs: Combined Challenges of Ageing and Socio-Economic Contexts in the Western Balkans and Southeast Asia

Deadline: 10 June 2024

The French Development Agency (AFD) is launching a research program to examine how demographic structures and dynamics as well as plural forms of socio-economic development are articulated/intertwined.

The Agence française de développement (AFD) group is a public institution that finances, supports and accelerates transitions towards a more just and sustainable world. It implements France’s development and international solidarity policy.

Focusing on long-term development trajectories related to settlement/depopulation dynamics is a key topic, which is not taken into account at this stage and yet has major strategic and financial implications for a development agency.

Ageing is an «unprecedented event in the history of humanity» according to the population division of the United Nations. 2020 marks a historic turning point where the evolution curves of the proportion of people aged 65 and over on the one hand, and people under five years of age intersect and engage in strongly divergent directions, on the other hand.

Indeed, global ageing results from the combination of a progressive weakness in fertility and the average lengthening of life. This phenomenon has been known for decades in developed countries and now affects an increasing number of developing countries. Outside Sub-Saharan Africa, the only region still young and in the process of settlement, and assuming an unchanged ratio of the dependency rate, the number of people over the age of 60 will increase sharply in volume.

Themes

  • To shed light on the specificities of AFD’s countries/regions of intervention, analyses are therefore already needed on the themes raised by the IMF.
    • The articulation with the growing challenges of climate change by examining whether the sociodemographic characteristics of aging transitions are (or not) essential to limit/mitigate the effects of climate change, what would be the adaptive capacities of aging populations, and if these issues, for the time being, “emerging”, are to be further developed as part of the proposed research programme;
    • Major trends in national, regional and international migration. Indeed, they can note differences in economic and legal attractiveness (attraction/repulsion) in “geo-historical” migrations between regions and continents (Mexico/United States, Maghreb/Europe, South Asia/United Kingdom, Turkey/Germany, Balkans/Western Europe); “increased” migration bythe evolution of communication technologies and social networks that make permanent settlement migrations evolve towards migrations without definitive break with the countries of origin; migrations of health care providers such as doctors, nurses, care workers; additionally, “constrained” migrations with the spread of conflicts of all kinds and the exacerbation of geopolitical crises; finally, migrations linked to the slowdown of globalization, the return of protectionism and the strengthening of restrictive national laws and regulations and its corollary, the closure of borders (United States, Europe of 28) and finally, progress in regional development and mobility at the continental (Africa, Balkans) or national (China, South Asian countries).

Purpose

  • In order to study in more detail the socio-economic challenges and perspectives for the mentioned geographies (Western Balkans and South-East Asia) and the themes of intervention of AFD, the Department of Economic Diagnostics and Public Policies (ECO) AFD’s Innovation, Strategy and Research (ISR) Executive Directorate is calling for expressions of interest for a 24 month global research programme.
  • Research is expected to clearly identify, describe and analyze these links, both from an academic perspective but also with a view to an informed operationalization and facilitation of dialogues that AFD conducts with its public partners in the countries in which it operates.
  • More specifically, the research projects covered in this call will focus on population dynamics in three of the traditional fields of demography (mortality/ morbidity, aging, migration) and modes of (de)settlement and territorial planning (territorial identities, urbanization/ rural areas in particular in relation to natural environments) and their impacts/ interactions with the socio-economic issues present and to come in these geographies. The ambition of this program is to feed AFD into its dialogue with public authorities in the Balkans and South-East Asia: it therefore has a strong operational aim.

Projects

  • Only one proposal will be selected. All proposals will have to jointly address three sub-projects:
    • Sub-project 1: a literature review;
    • Sub-project 2: country studies;
    • Sub-project 3: Valorization activities in order to deepen knowledge on the one hand and feed the dialogue of AFD with its public partners, on the other hand.
  • For sub-project 2, proposals will have to present multidisciplinary contributions from the social, political and economic sciences in at least 4 countries and at most 5 countries in the following two geographies:
    • Western Balkans (2 to 3 countries, with a priority given to the following countries sur Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, North Macedonia)
    • Southeast Asia (Vietnam, the Philippines and free choice of a possible additional country).

Funding Information

  • The total budget requested for the expected deliverables may not exceed 200,000 EUR.
  • Co-financing is encouraged.
  • Project duration: The expected duration of the program is 24 months from the signing of the contract.

Proposals should in particular

  • For the literature review:
    • Describe how, by whom and on what sources will be produced the academic literature review of aging issues presenting in an historical (a) and prospective (b) dimensions the effects of aging on societal values, political systems, macroeconomic issues, in particular consumption patterns, and typologies of social protection systems (objectives, organisations, funding methods). This global review of the scientific progress/knowledge about aging should recall examples, experiences and lessons learned from already advanced countries in their ageing transition, thus shedding light on emerging and/or future challenges in the above mentioned geographies.
    • Enunciate the questions and methodological principles for the elaboration of the deliverable related to this sub-project.
  • For Country Studies:
    • For the countries to be studied in the Western Balkans (there are 2, Serbia and Bosnia) and in Southeast Asia (there are 3 maximum, including Vietnam and the Philippines), explain the relevance of the subject and share research questions articulating demographic determinants (mainly aging), socio-economic and climate issues and more if necessary.
    • Proposed research questions should cover the following:
      • The importance of ageing contexts for each country studied
      • Challenges related to ageing in terms of existing and future public policies
      • Ageing and its social consequences
    • Propose preliminary hypotheses with a view to presenting later when carrying out country studies, scenarios to quantify financial efforts and investments with a perspective of sustainable development and under the constraint of climate change and its consequences.
    • List the methodological questions and principles for the development of research deliverables.
    • Demonstrate the ability to identify the existence and value of the work of local research teams working on these topics and explore opportunities for research partnerships with them.
  • For dialogue activities:
    • Propose specific deliverables in short and comparable formats for decision-makers and public actors as well as valorisation activities.

Eligible Projects

  • Research projects should, as far as possible, involve the following disciplines: sociology, demography, geography, history, political science, urbanism and spatial planning, economics, legal and administrative sciences (taxation, social protection, employment), environmental and biodiversity sciences.
  • Multidisciplinary work is sought after and particular attention will be paid to the quality of researchers, either individually or mobilized by research institutions. Proposals for country studies must have a partnership dimension including research institutions from the countries in which the studies are carried out. In addition, research involving academic and non-academic actors (think tanks, statistical institutes for example) sharing their knowledge, their skills and experiences in providing concrete answers to scientific questions that can be later endorsed by public actors will be privileged.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Constitution of the research team 
    • AFD encourages candidate institutions to call on partners from other institutions/organizations in the target countries to complete their team and meet the requirements of this call.
    • The application must specify the main institution of the team and the affiliations. The main institution that will submit the application on behalf of the entire team will imperatively be an academic institution (university, research center, laboratory) or recognized as having produced knowledge recognized as such (think tank for example).
    • A single lead institution may submit several projects, provided that the principal researchers have the expertise to conduct the proposed thematic analysis and that the proposals include operational tracks/ proposals (of the policy papers style) consistent with the chosen research axis.

For more information, visit AFD.

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