AKI Research Grants 2012-13: Poverty Research & Food Research

DESCRIPTION

The Angelo King Institute invites empirically-based research proposals on: (i) Poverty Research using the Community-Based Monitoring System Data Sets and/or Annual Poverty Indicator Survey, and (ii) Food Research. These proposals must be implemented over a six-month timeframe. 

The output must include the full research paper, presentation in a lecture series and as well as a three-to four-page policy paper, to be published by the Institute as an AKI Policy Brief (ISSN 2094-3342).

ELIGIBILITY

An applicant for the Research Grants is open to all full-time faculty members of De La Salle University-Manila.

AWARDS

Five proposals will be selected for the Poverty Research Grant and shall each be awarded PHP100,000 each. Another five proposals will be selected for the Food Research Grants, each amounting to PHP100,000. All grants will be selected by a review committee of the Angelo King Institute.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

All applications for Research Grants must include:

1. Information on the researcher (contact and background information, including current curriculum vitae) and co-researcher(s), if applicable.
2. Abstract of the proposed research project.
3. Statement of how the research advances the state of knowledge in the field.
4. Research proposal (limited to 7 single-spaced pages) that addresses the following:

• Problem statement/policy issue and its importance

• Theoretical or conceptual framework for the research

• Review of literature

• Research questions

• Description of methodology including proposed dataset and criteria for selecting the sample, selection of variables and rationale for using them, and analytic techniques

• References cited in the proposal

SUBMISSION DEADLINE

Proposals for Research Grants are due at the following office by 12:00 noon of May 25, 2012:

                Angelo King Institute

                Second Floor, North Wing

                Saint La Salle Hall
                De La Salle University
                2401 Taft Avenue
                Manila 1004

Contact Jesus Carlos Exequiel D. Castillo/Christopher James R. Cabuay at 524-46-11 local 287, 524-53-33, or at jesus.castillo@dlsu.edu.ph/christopher.cabuay@dlsu.edu.ph if you have questions regarding the application or submission process. 

All awards are contingent upon the availability of funds at the Institute. The funding will also be linked to the approval of the required deliverables by the Institute.