Call for funding application 2011
Honours, Masters, Doctoral,  Post-Doctoral students, Senior Researchers
IFAS-Research would like to  remind research teams, researchers and 
students in the Human and Social  Sciences working on Southern Africa, 
that all applications for the financing  of research works, events, field 
trips or publications for 2011 must  imperatively reach us by email only 
(research@ifas.org.za 
<mailto:research@ifas.org.za?subject=Funding%20Application%202011>)  
before the 30th of November 2010.
All applications will be  considered. However, research in line with that 
of the Institute will be an  advantage. As a reminder, we list hereunder 
our four current focus areas. No  conditions of nationality apply. This 
call is therefore clearly intended to  elicit projects from researchers 
from both Europe and Southern Africa.  Beyond the themes indicated below, 
Southern African researchers willing to  submit projects of a comparative 
nature (between Southern Africa and Europe)  requiring fieldwork in 
France are welcome.
The 3 essential  eligibility criteria are:
* an existing or potential scientific  partnership between France and
Southern Africa, and with Francophone  countries when applicable;
if in doubt the applicants may contact IFAS to be  put in touch
with researchers likely to collaborate with them
* an overall  budget of less than 40 000 South African Rands or 4000
euros;
* financial  participation from another institution (details of which
should be provided  in the project).
*Focus areas : *
1. *Southern African Cities:  Urban Dynamics and Governance*
Issues of security, privatisation of public  services, local
government and the adoption of "best practice"  models,
participation, migration and xenophobia, historical development  of
Southern African cities, spatial justice and the right to the city.
2.  *Democratic Transformation in the Region*
1. Mapping of electoral dynamics,  party politics, republicanism;
2. Law and transformation : constitutional  changes, protection
of minority rights, equity policies; human rights  regime,
refugee & asylum regimes, citizenship and its
transformation,  challenges posed by right of access to basic
services;
3. Democracy and  the media including the challenges of
E-government and digital  democracy;
4. Education and transformation: school and  nation-building
processes, language policy, higher education  transformation,
elite formation.
3. *Long Term Perspective on the History  of People's Settlement in
Southern Africa*
Multidisciplinary knowledge of  Middle and Late Stone Age; past and
current migration trends in the field of  history, archaeology,
rock art, socio-anthropology, linguistics, current  issues of
memory and the celebration of history in contemporary Southern  Africa
4. *Comparative Developments Economics*
Formal/informal labour,  economic policy development, governance,
effects of liberalisation on  Southern African economies,
sector-focused studies, SADC-NEPAD  EU  relations, critical and
comparative approaches to development economics, in  particular to
sustainable development issues (such as environmental  justice).
*Selection process of applications:*
* Deadline for  applications : *30 November 2010*
* Pre-selection of applications and sending  to the reporters of the
Research Advisory Comittee : mid-December 2010
*  Feedback from the Research Advisory Committee members and
validation : end of  January 2011
Responses will be sent to applicants by e-mail by  mid-February 2011.
/Please note that financing of research projects will  be granted with 
the condition precedent that IFAS has enough allocated  budget to this 
end in the year 2011./
*[Application form 
<http://www.ifas.org.za/research/pdf/funding-application-2011.doc>]
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