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Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD) have launched an Open Call for Proposals to the CIFSRF.

CIFSRF will support projects that aim to develop, test and apply ways to scale up food security and nutrition innovations, particularly ones that address the needs of women small-scale farmers as core users. It will support projects that take effective, pilot-tested innovations to a wider scale of use and application, to deliver meaningful development outcomes (i.e., reaching important numbers of end-users) through the effective deployment of scaling up models, delivery mechanisms and approaches. Proposals must present a sound business case for the innovation(s) they intend to scale up. moving beyond natural and social sciences research and encompassing multiple fields and sectors including, but not limited to, business economics, socio-cultural, legal-regulatory, and institutional fields:

• Funding: projects will be in the range of CAD $0.5 to $1.5 million
• Duration of the projects: up to 28 months
• Eligible organizations: research, development and private sector organizations from Canada and from eligible countries in the global South
• Fields: natural and social sciences; business economics; socio-cultural, legal-regulatory, and institutional fields
• Partnerships must include two or more organizations; at least one of which must be a Canadian organization
• At least one of the key implementing partners must be a private sector organization (private company, business-focused NGO, investment organization, etc.). 

Read the full call document here.

Any Dalhousie faculty member interested in this Call for Proposals is asked to contact Jennifer Morawiecki in International Research & Development, for more information and support in preparing an application.