Funding Opportunities:
Grand Challenges | The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Jan 13)
Details: Grand Challenges initiatives use challenges to focus attention and effort on specific health and development problems. Grand Challenges initiatives launch challenges as open requests for grant proposals, refining the process of sourcing innovation over time. Each challenge is an experiment in focusing innovation on making an impact. Each addresses some of the same problems, but from differing perspectives. Each builds a grant program that fosters collaboration across projects to speed impact.
Deadline: Jan 13, 2022
Apply: Learn more and apply here.
Request for Proposals: Women’s Economic Empowerment and Digital Finance | BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (Mar 3)
Details: Women’s Economic Empowerment and Digital Finance (WEE-DiFine) is a research initiative aimed at generating a comprehensive body of evidence on the causal impact of digital financial services on women’s economic empowerment. Based at the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the Initiative supports rigorous research projects exploring this theme.
Following the success of the first two Requests for Proposals (RFPs), WEE-DiFine is excited to announce the launch of its third RFP. This RFP will accept proposals for all grant categories: large grants are available for greenfield evaluations and extensions to existing studies, and small grants for measurement studies, qualitative studies, and pilot studies. Additionally, this RFP is expanding the regional scope to include studies in Southeast Asia in addition to proposals concentrated in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Deadline: Mar 3, 2022
Apply: Learn more and apply here.
Inclusion Fellowship: Capstone Research Programme | BRAC (Rolling)
Details: BRAC Social Innovation Lab’s "Inclusion Fellowship: Capstone Research Programme 2021" is an opportunity for current students and early-career researchers to design studies and experiments to understand the existing gaps in different areas of DFS to recommend a pathway from practice to policy at the end of the study.
The Fellowship will provide the mechanism for aiding clients to keep using DFS tools such as mobile money. Factors leading to growing gaps in lower-income communities should be taken into account when making policy recommendations. Fellows will be expected to build on pre-existing academic and in-practice research and evidence in the field of financial inclusion and gender equality, and provide additional insights or evidence on ways to strengthen women’s financial inclusion further.
Deadline: Rolling
Apply: Learn more and apply here.
Request for Proposals | The Fund for Innovation in Development (FID) (Rolling)
Details: The Fund for Innovation in Development (FID) is a new initiative to support innovation that contributes to reducing global poverty and inequality. Through flexible grant funding, FID enables innovators and researchers to test new ideas, build rigorous evidence of what works, and scale the highest-impact and most cost- effective solutions.
Innovation is central to accelerating a more just and inclusive world. FID embodies this idea by offering a renewed approach to development assistance, providing grant funding to test new ideas, experiment and demonstrate – based on rigorous evaluation methods – what works in development, and scale the most efficient solutions with the greatest positive impact.
FID accepts applications:
- for innovations in any sector, and specifically encourages applications for solutions in education, health, climate change, and gender equality
- for innovations in all low- and middle-income countries, and specifically encourages applications from the priority countries for French aid
- from nearly any type of applicant, including researchers, governments, NGOs and for-profit companies.
Deadline: Rolling Until Filled
Apply: Learn more and apply here.
Request for Proposals | Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) at USAID (Rolling)
Details: Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) provides grant funding to innovators and researchers to test new ideas, take strategic risks, build evidence of what works, and advance the best solutions.
DIV’s tiered-funding model embraces risk at early stages and mitigates risk at later stages, ensuring that funding is targeted to the most cost-effective innovations that can improve people’s lives. DIV takes a broad approach to innovation; innovations can be business models, products, behavioral interventions, applied research, or replications of proven innovations in novel environments.
DIV accepts applications on a rolling basis. Our window is always open, so you can submit your application at any time.
Deadline: Rolling
Apply: Learn more and apply here.
Events:
CEGA: Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences | BITSS 10th Annual Meeting (Feb 10 & 11)
Details: The BITSS Annual Meeting brings together actors from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share novel research and discuss efforts to improve the credibility of social science by advancing research transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics. The program will feature presentations of meta-scientific work selected from the Call for Papers, as well as several keynote presentations.
This year’s keynote address will be given by 2021 Nobel Laureate David Card (UC Berkeley) on Feb. 10, who will discuss the credibility (r)evolution in economics.
Learn more and register here.
CEGA: University of San Francisco | Pacific Conference for Development Economics 2022 (Mar 5)
Details: The Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev) is one of the major annual conferences dedicated to development economics. The event brings together researchers and practitioners to present and discuss work that enhances our understanding of economic development, advances theoretical and empirical methods, and improves development interventions and policy.
The University of San Francisco is hosting PacDev 2022 in person on USF’s campus (with logistical support from CEGA).
Learn more and register here.
The World Bank | From Jobs to Careers: Apparel Exports and Career Paths for Women in Developing Countries (Jan 14)
Details: In recent decades, the apparel industry has shifted its production to low-wage developing countries, increasing the demand for women, closing male-female wage gaps, and bringing women into the formal labor force. Indeed, the benefits of apparel exports have reached the female population, but is an apparel-led export strategy sufficient to induce the transition from jobs to careers? A new report, “From Jobs to Careers: Apparel Exports and Career Paths for Women in Developing Countries” provides an answer by focusing on seven countries where the apparel industry plays an important role in its export basket – Bangladesh, Cambodia, Egypt, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Vietnam.
At this seminar, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Lead Economist and Global Lead, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, will present the main findings of the report. This seminar will be conducted in English, without interpretation into Japanese.
Learn more and register here.
Stanford King Center on Global Development | A conversation on delivering at scale: transforming India’s sanitation policy and practice (Jan 20)
Details: In 2015, more than 500 million people in India defecated in the open, representing 60 percent of the world’s population that did not use a toilet. In his role as Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Param Iyer was tasked with ensuring that everyone in India used a toilet by 2019. Join us to hear about his experience leading one of the sanitation sector’s largest efforts in transformational change, the Swachh Bharat Mission, in conversation with King Center Faculty Affiliate and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Jenna Davis.
Learn more and register here.
Career Opportunities:
CEGA: Hiring Part-Time WordPress Developer, ATAI-Research.org (Rolling)
Details: The Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI), co-managed by the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), is seeking a WordPress developer to upgrade and redesign portions of atai-research.org. This project will take place between January – July 2022 and report to Jenna Fahle, Program Manager at CEGA. This project aims to improve our current website (ATAI-research.org) and to add additional pages on our new initiative, the Digital Agriculture Innovations and Services Initiative (DAISI). The WordPress developer will not be responsible for creating website copy, but ideally will have experience and expertise in user interface.
Deadline: Rolling
Apply: Learn more and apply here.
CEGA: Hiring Operations and People Senior Associate (Rolling)
Details: Reporting to the Director of Operations, the Associate executes and advises others on procurements, vendoring, and customer service relationships and helps to cultivate a culture of workplace safety, camaraderie, and fun. You will lead general office management activities including coordinating space use/planning, ergonomics, IT, software, and equipment maintenance. The Associate will also support and implement CEGA’s talent management strategy, including support for recruitment, diversity, student services, and onboarding. You will work closely with campus People and Culture (HR) to ensure CEGA’s adherence to campus policies and processes and will develop internal process improvements, guidelines and information resources; support organizational learning; and promote staff productivity.
Deadline: Rolling
Apply: Learn more and apply here.
CEGA: Hiring Associate Director, Communications and Policy Engagement (Rolling)
Details: CEGA seeks a creative, ambitious, and mission-driven communications professional to develop and implement a new communications and policy engagement strategy for CEGA. Reporting to the Executive Director, the Associate Director of Communications and Policy Engagement will work closely with CEGA leadership (especially the Director of Operations), program staff, faculty, and partners to increase CEGA’s sustainability and impact by developing and disseminating high-quality content for priority audiences and collaborating with them to proactively position and time communications. The Associate Director should be familiar with CEGA audiences, including policymakers, researchers, and the media, constantly leveraging and updating insights about each to design savvy communications and events. They will further enhance the center’s digital communications platforms—including our website, blog, and social media channels—to ensure a cohesive narrative, timely and meaningful commentary, and clear internal processes.
The Associate Director of Communications and Policy Engagement will ensure that communications, events, and policy engagement efforts across the center align with core organizational goals. Strong collaborative skills are key; success in this position will require forming deep working partnerships with CEGA staff, affiliated faculty, grantees, LMIC partners and policy-makers, and consultants. The Associate Director of Communications and Policy Engagement will oversee a small team, including an Events and Communications Associate, consultants, and interns.
Deadline: Rolling
Apply: Learn more and apply here.
Emerging Scholars Program, Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (Jan 14)
Details: The Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) is an interdisciplinary center at Princeton University. The center is a nexus of expertise in technology, engineering, public policy, and the social sciences on campus. In keeping with the strong University tradition of service, the center’s research, teaching, and events address digital technologies as they interact with society.The CITP Emerging Scholars program is a post-baccalaureate program that brings in people for two-year staff positions at CITP. The program provides intensive research and/or work experience with real impact, along with coursework, and mentoring. The ideal outcome for participants is to either enter a competitive graduate program or to find an impactful placement in government, nonprofits, or the private sector. The Emerging Scholars program is for people who have received a bachelor’s degree (or will receive one by the time of appointment) in fields such as computer science, sociology, economics, political science, psychology, public policy, information science, communication, philosophy, and other related disciplines.
Deadline: Jan 14, 2022
Apply: Learn more and apply here.
Senior Research Specialist, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (Rolling)
Details: Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) is looking to hire multiple full-time pre-doctoral research assistants (Senior Research Specialists). The positions entail close collaboration with professors Allan Hsiao, Micaela Sviatschi, and Thomas Fujiwara on research projects related to development economics, political economy, and environmental economics (e.g., crime, climate change, elections, and gender disparities). The positions involve a variety of tasks that provide excellent preparation for graduate school, such as managing data sets, statistical analysis, design and implementation of surveys, summarizing research findings, and editing research papers. The opportunity to actively participate in fieldwork in a developing country context is also a possibility (though not required) for the position. This position is ideal for seniors graduating by Summer 2022 or final year master’s students with a strong interest in pursuing a Ph.D. in Economics after acquiring one or two years of research experience.
Deadline: Rolling
Apply: Learn more and apply here.
Advancing Evidence in Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development (Rolling)
Details: The Center for Global Development (CGD) is an independent, non-partisan, research organization that focuses on issues and institutions critical to inclusive development, publishing rigorous empirical research and pursuing active engagement with the global policy community to drive development progress.
The Center is seeking one or more outstanding researchers to help advance evidence-informed policymaking through a two-year fellowship placement in a US government department or agency working on aid and development policy. Designed to strengthen the link between research and policymaking, this fellowship provides a rare opportunity for a highly-motivated candidate to develop and execute a research agenda that supports improvements in the management and measurement of US foreign assistance programming—with the benefit of insider access to unique data and high-level policymakers.
Over the course of two years, fellows will work alongside government officials to identify research questions and conduct analysis intended to make US foreign aid investments more effective, equitable, sustainable, and accountable for results.
Deadline: Rolling
Apply: Learn more and apply here.
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