Call for proposals: scaling up food security and nutrition innovations
Canada’s International Development Research Centre and Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada are pleased to announce the 2015 open call for proposals under the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (the “Fund”).
Deadline for submission of proposals: March 27, 2015
With a strong focus on taking effective, pilot-tested innovations to a wider scale of use and application, this call will fund outstanding research-for-development projects that promise consistent and meaningful development outcomes (i.e. reaching important numbers of end-users) by testing, demonstrating and effectively scaling up models, delivery mechanisms, and approaches.
This is an open, competitive call for proposals, and will fund projects submitted by strong partnerships between research, development, private sector, and other business-oriented organizations from Canada and from eligible countries.Projects are anticipated to begin in October 2015. The size of the projects funded by this call will be in range from CA$0.5 to $1.5 million.
