Close to 90 Proposals!

LANSA had invited high quality research proposals with August 21 as deadline.

We would like to thank the applicants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan for sending in their proposals on time. We've received nearly 90 research proposals, and the shortlisting process in underway.  

The Call for Proposals was to look for applications that propose new and innovative interventions in any area of agriculture for nutrition and / or to test the feasibility of scaling-up such innovations.

The LANSA Responsive Window facility seeks to engender a wider sense of engagement among national and regional stakeholders.

Shortlisted proposals will hear from us by September 18

The bids received cover research in Afghanistan (3), Bangladesh (7), India (33) and Pakistan (35). LANSA's Call also attracted SEVEN bids for multi-country studies.

Concept notes are currently being screened by a review team with members drawn from the LANSA consortium. We aim to announce the shortlisted applicant list by September 18.  These applicants will then need to prepare and submit a detailed research proposal by October 23, 2015.

TIMETABLE

The timetable for the selection process is detailed below: 

  • Shortlisted applicants will be informed by September 18, 2015;
  • These applicants are invited to prepare and submit full research proposal by October 23, 2015; 
  • Research proposals will be reviewed by the internal review team and an external panel using a standard scoring system;
  • Selected projects will be announced by November 20, 2015;
  • Research studies should be designed to commence by January 4, 2016

Call for Proposals: formative and feasibility research studies

LANSA invites high quality research proposals by August 21, 2015. 

Applications that propose new and innovative interventions in any area of agriculture for nutrition and / or to test the feasibility of scaling-up such innovations are invited. LANSA is particularly interested in interventions that recognise the importance of on-going environmental changes (including climate and water resource scarcity).

The Responsive Window facility seeks to engender a wider sense of engagement among national and regional stakeholders in the core challenge of improving the impact of agri-food systems, policies, programmes and interventions on nutrition. This is LANSA's second responsive window call and focuses on research Pillar 3, which aims to define a suite of interventions in agriculture that have the potential to have positive impacts on nutrition outcomes, especially in women and children.

LANSA had recently requested ideas to support the Call via an online consultation hosted by United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition and many ideas received here has helped frame the responsive window call. This Call for Proposals is specifically designed to attract applications for the conduct of high quality formative or/and feasibility research, and is open until August 21, 2015.

Four excellent studies were funded under the First Call for Proposals after a competitive process and the grantees are now partnering directly with LANSA in delivering regionally-relevant research outputs.  

LANSA is a research programme consortium (funded by the UK’s Department for International Development) that seeks to address the following core question: “How can South Asian agriculture and related food policies and interventions be designed and implemented to increase their impacts on nutrition, especially the nutritional status of children and adolescent girls?” The programme covers four countries in the South Asian region: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.

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Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions

A new five year research initiative aims to accelerate the development of innovative and interdisciplinary methods, metrics and tools to advance scientific understanding of the linkages between agriculture and food systems, and health and nutrition outcomes, to better inform policy and programmatic actions in low and middle income countries.

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