Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is pleased to announce a call for concept notes by invitation titled “Innovative partnerships to accelerate structural change for regenerative, healthy, equitable food systems”. This call is part of IDRC’s new initiative REGENOVATE: Scaling food systems impacts through innovative collaboration.
This call for concept notes is open to Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and Asia (see eligible countries in Annex 1). It seeks to identify transdisciplinary, cross-sector and multistakeholder teams motivated to leverage diverse, multisectoral coalitions to make food systems more equitable, sustainable, resilient and healthy. The objective is to conduct action-oriented research that will strengthen and amplify the work of transdisciplinary coalitions to use evidence that meets their common goals toward regenerative food systems. The call aims to support research consortia that go beyond research actors and include representatives from key coalitions involved and active in the transition towards regenerative food systems, so that they are directly positioned to locally generate knowledge and use this knowledge to inform and coordinate their action towards policy and best practices to reach impact at scale.
IDRC would like to invite you, as an organization with recognized expertise in food systems transformation, to build a research consortium and submit a concept note for funding under this initiative. To do so, your organization should engage with other organizations of relevant:
actors (decision makers, civil society, private sector, knowledge brokers, producers’ associations, consumers associations, academics),
sectors (agriculture, health, education, environment, trade, finance),
and scales (local, national, regional and international).
The consortium should include representatives from coalitions involved in food systems transformation. The invited organization is expected to reach out to others for the purposes of developing the research consortium and a collaborative application. See section 6 for all the requirements for applicants and third partythird-party organizations.
Members of the existing coalitions being supported, strengthened and engaged in action-research in the project should, to the extent possible, be part of the research consortium either as lead or co-lead applicant organizations, or third-party (participant) organizations (see eligibility requirements).
Duration of grants: Up to 42 months.
Budget: Between 1 million CAD and 2 million CAD per project. Grants will be awarded subject to availability of funds.
Eligible countries: Most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and North Africa regions, and low and middle-income countries (LMIC) in Asia are eligible. See Annex 1 for more information.
Language: Applications can be submitted in English, French or Spanish.
Information sessions for applicants on November 27th in the following languages:
English: 11:00 AM UTC + 0
Information session (ENG) - Regenovate | Rencontre-Participation | Microsoft TeamsFrench: 3:00 PM UTC + 0;
Session d'information (FR) - Regenovate | Rencontre-Participation | Microsoft TeamsSpanish: 1:00 PM UTC - 5
Sesión informativa (ESP) - Regenovate | Rencontre-Participation | Microsoft Teams
Contact email: crfs@idrc.ca
REGENOVATE: Innovative partnerships to accelerate structural change for regenerative, healthy, equitable food systems
Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is pleased to announce a call for concept notes by invitation titled “Innovative partnerships to accelerate structural change for regenerative, healthy, equitable food systems”. This call is part of IDRC’s new initiative REGENOVATE: Scaling food systems impacts through innovative collaboration.
This call for concept notes is open to Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and Asia (see eligible countries in Annex 1). It seeks to identify transdisciplinary, cross-sector and multistakeholder teams motivated to leverage diverse, multisectoral coalitions to make food systems more equitable, sustainable, resilient and healthy. The objective is to conduct action-oriented research that will strengthen and amplify the work of transdisciplinary coalitions to use evidence that meets their common goals toward regenerative food systems. The call aims to support research consortia that go beyond research actors and include representatives from key coalitions involved and active in the transition towards regenerative food systems, so that they are directly positioned to locally generate knowledge and use this knowledge to inform and coordinate their action towards policy and best practices to reach impact at scale.
IDRC would like to invite you, as an organization with recognized expertise in food systems transformation, to build a research consortium and submit a concept note for funding under this initiative. To do so, your organization should engage with other organizations of relevant:
actors (decision makers, civil society, private sector, knowledge brokers, producers’ associations, consumers associations, academics),
sectors (agriculture, health, education, environment, trade, finance),
and scales (local, national, regional and international).
The consortium should include representatives from coalitions involved in food systems transformation. The invited organization is expected to reach out to others for the purposes of developing the research consortium and a collaborative application. See section 6 for all the requirements for applicants and third partythird-party organizations.
Members of the existing coalitions being supported, strengthened and engaged in action-research in the project should, to the extent possible, be part of the research consortium either as lead or co-lead applicant organizations, or third-party (participant) organizations (see eligibility requirements).
Duration of grants: Up to 42 months.
Budget: Between 1 million CAD and 2 million CAD per project. Grants will be awarded subject to availability of funds.
Eligible countries: Most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and North Africa regions, and low and middle-income countries (LMIC) in Asia are eligible. See Annex 1 for more information.
Language: Applications can be submitted in English, French or Spanish.
Information sessions for applicants on November 27th in the following languages:
English: 11:00 AM UTC + 0
Information session (ENG) - Regenovate | Rencontre-Participation | Microsoft TeamsFrench: 3:00 PM UTC + 0;
Session d'information (FR) - Regenovate | Rencontre-Participation | Microsoft TeamsSpanish: 1:00 PM UTC - 5
Sesión informativa (ESP) - Regenovate | Rencontre-Participation | Microsoft Teams
Contact email: crfs@idrc.ca