IFS - CGIAR Challenge Program on Water & Food
Water and Food in the Volta Basin
Call for Research Grant applications from young scientists from the Volta Basin
Deadline: 31st December 2007
Water Management, Food Production, Poverty & Environment
In a joint initiative with the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, IFS is calling for researchers interested in working in teams on topics related to linkages between water management, food production, poverty, and the environment.
This recruitment will support ongoing research activities related to the use and management of small reservoirs and small reservoir ensembles. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to work in partnership with others from different research backgrounds and with senior researchers from many regional and international research institutions including the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE) and Centre régional pour l'eau potable et l'assainissement (CREPA); Burkina Faso; the International Water Management Institute, Ghana; the TU Delft University, Netherlands, and the Institute for Research and Development (IRD), France.
Who can apply?
Applicants must be from one of the 6 countries of the Volta River Basin:
Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, and Togo; preferably
under the age of 40; and not currently associated with a CGIAR research center
(please refer to IFS age criteria on the website). We welcome especially applications
from female researchers.
Eligibility
criteria
How
to apply
Application
forms
Applicants should be interested in working as part of a bilingual (French and English) international and multidisciplinary research team.
This application call is particularly interested in recruiting researchers
with backgrounds in one or more of the following specialties:
Water Resources Management,
Remote Sensing,
Agricultural Engineering,
Hydrology,
Social Science (Political Science, Economics)
Ecology,
Agronomy/Soil Science,
GIS
To better understand the research context behind this special call, please
go to:
Description of
Research Context
Application Preparation and Planning Workshop
(Burkina Faso 19 -23 November 2007)deadline for application for participation: 31 August 2007
Applicants interested in receiving assistance with their final applications
can apply to be part of an Application Preparation and Planning Workshop held
in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 19 - 23 November 2007.
To be considered as a participant in this workshop, please prepare an abstract
for your application to IFS using the following template, and contact Ms.
Marcia Macomber (m.macomber@cgiar.org)
by 31 August 2007. Those who are selected to participate in the workshop will
be required to fill in the IFS application form before the workshop.
Template
Find out more
For information on the Challenge Program on Water and Food:
www.waterandfood.org
For information on the related research in the Volta Basin and elsewhere:
www.smallreservoirs.org
www.glowa-volta.de
www.iwmi.cgiar.org/africa/atb/
cpwf-theme1.irri.org/PN5.htm
For any questions related to this call, please contact Ms. Marcia Macomber
(m.macomber@cgiar.org).
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