The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves [1] (the Alliance) is seeking qualified teams of researchers to fill key gaps in the existing evidence on the use of traditional cookstoves and open fires as they relate to child survival, with a focus on the following:
Of particular interest are studies that 1) address health outcomes responsible for a major proportion of infant and child mortality on a global scale, and 2) are based in potential Alliance priority countries/regions. Potential countries/regions include the Alliance’s potential focus [East Africa (Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda), Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Viet Nam], and active countries (Ghana, Guatemala, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, and Peru), as well as India and China, where a wealth of cookstove-related research and implementation efforts have taken place.
As much as $800,000 will be available for studies funded under RFA 12-1. The Alliance expects to fund up to two studies of roughly two years duration, at $100,000 to 200,000 per year, dependent on the scope and the scale of the proposals. Opportunities for cost sharing and leveraging funds are actively encouraged.
Letters of intent (encouraged, but not mandatory) are due by April 23, 2012.
The deadline for submission of applications is June 4, 2012.
To download the RFA and application materials, please visit http://cleancookstoves.org/resources/funding-opportunities/ [2]
Links:
[1] http://cleancookstoves.org/
[2] http://cleancookstoves.org/resources/funding-opportunities/
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