INFORMATION MEETING FOR APPLICANTS
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2016 - DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH
GHANA
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark hereby invites potential applicants for development
research grants to information meeting in Accra concerning the Call 2016. Representatives and
researchers from universities and other research institutions in the private and public sectors
throughout Ghana are invited.
22 May 2015, @ 9.30am
Venue: STEPRI-CSIR HALL, LIBERATION LINK, AIRPORT RESIDENTIAL AREA
Registration: [email protected]
The research applications from Ghana must fall under the following three themes:
 Theme 1: Natural Resource Management/Climate-Smart Agriculture/Environmentally
Sustainable Solutions
 Theme 2: Economic Development and Poverty Reduction/Role of the Informal Sector
 Theme 3: Health: Right to Health/Health Care/Determinants of Health
The Call is available at Danida Fellowship Centre’s website, link
http://dfcentre.com/research/calls-for-applications/.
Programme for the information meeting:
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Welcome and presentation of the Call and the Themes by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of Denmark.
What constitutes a good application? Strategic aspects and criteria for selection. By the
Consultative Research Committee for Development Research (FFU).
Formal requirements and the application process by Danida Fellowship Centre.
General cooperation between research institutions and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Denmark.
Questions/discussion.
PowerPoint presentations from the information meeting will be available at the above mentioned
website after the meetings.
Background Information
Since 2008 Denmark has, in addition to supporting North-driven development research projects,
supported South-driven development research projects on a pilot basis. The South-driven
approach has since 2014 been institutionalised in three of the of the Danida priority countries;
Ghana, Tanzania, and Nepal. In the South-driven approach the institutions in the South take the
lead in defining the projects, selecting Danish research partners, and managing the research
projects.