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Name of the entity
CLimate Adaptation and REsilience (CLARE), UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Canada International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Type of Support Provider
Multilateral
Close Date
Funding Amount
CAD 3,400,000
Eligible to submit a proposal
Non-state actors (e.g., academic/research institutions, non-profits, etc.)
Private companies
Climate Objective
Adaptation
Region
East Asia and Pacific
Sectors and Themes
Cities
Co-financing Requirement
No
Consortium Requirement
Yes
Call Summary
The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) are pleased to launch this call for expressions of interest (EoI) to lead and implement research that enhances urban resilience to climate change in member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
This call is held under the CLimate Adaptation and REsilience (CLARE) framework research programme, primarily funded by the UK FCDO with 15% co-funding from IDRC. This call is the first stage of a process through which CLARE expects to partner with one institution that creates and leads a consortium of applied research projects in lower-income (ODA-eligible) ASEAN countries while promoting collaboration with institution in non-ODA-eligible countries.
This call requires interested applicants to demonstrate that their organization and proposed team are able to lead a consortium for impactful research on climate adaptation and resilience in multiple Southeast Asian countries. This demonstration involves submitting supporting documents for each of the evaluation criteria listed in this call. The submission of these documents via the application portal wholly constitutes your expression of interest.
This call is for an organization that would lead the selection, contracting and monitoring of upcoming research under CLARE, focusing on supporting partnership and collaboration amongst researchers, policymakers and local communities that drive evidence-based and socially inclusive practical actions toward urban climate resilience for the most vulnerable populations in ASEAN, focusing on ODA-eligible ASEAN countries. Specifically, the research will aim to:
• enable socially inclusive and sustainable actions to support resilience to climate change and natural hazards, including through nature-based solutions;
• scaling up research and innovation efforts to provide better information on climate risks, better decision-making tools, guidance, and better climate adaptation solutions to enable transformational change in ASEAN countries.
This will be done through implementation of research that directly informs action through evidence, data and tools supporting urban climate resilience (in line with the CLARE theory of change, see Annex 2). In particular:
• Research will use transdisciplinary approaches. Projects integrate climate hazards, risks, as well as economic, institutional, cultural and political drivers that shape potentials for solutions for more inclusive and resilient urban futures and identify windows of opportunity for implementing resilient, transformative pathways.
• Research will be co-created with key users and contribute to strengthening capacity of those developing and applying the research, according to the Adaptation Research for Impact Principles (i.e. research designed to have direct impact on the ground, promoting action that enhances climate resilience in urban areas).
• Project will report against the CLARE theory of change (see Annex 2) and the UK International Climate Finance indicator on the number of people supported to better adapt to the effects of climate change.
• Research teams, methodologies and uptake will integrate principles for gender equality and inclusion.
The above requirements could be met by employing lab-type approaches, “inclusive spaces where stakeholders, practitioners and researchers come together to co-design and test ideas, co-produce knowledge and co-evaluate solutions.” Other approaches also will be considered.
This call is held under the CLimate Adaptation and REsilience (CLARE) framework research programme, primarily funded by the UK FCDO with 15% co-funding from IDRC. This call is the first stage of a process through which CLARE expects to partner with one institution that creates and leads a consortium of applied research projects in lower-income (ODA-eligible) ASEAN countries while promoting collaboration with institution in non-ODA-eligible countries.
This call requires interested applicants to demonstrate that their organization and proposed team are able to lead a consortium for impactful research on climate adaptation and resilience in multiple Southeast Asian countries. This demonstration involves submitting supporting documents for each of the evaluation criteria listed in this call. The submission of these documents via the application portal wholly constitutes your expression of interest.
This call is for an organization that would lead the selection, contracting and monitoring of upcoming research under CLARE, focusing on supporting partnership and collaboration amongst researchers, policymakers and local communities that drive evidence-based and socially inclusive practical actions toward urban climate resilience for the most vulnerable populations in ASEAN, focusing on ODA-eligible ASEAN countries. Specifically, the research will aim to:
• enable socially inclusive and sustainable actions to support resilience to climate change and natural hazards, including through nature-based solutions;
• scaling up research and innovation efforts to provide better information on climate risks, better decision-making tools, guidance, and better climate adaptation solutions to enable transformational change in ASEAN countries.
This will be done through implementation of research that directly informs action through evidence, data and tools supporting urban climate resilience (in line with the CLARE theory of change, see Annex 2). In particular:
• Research will use transdisciplinary approaches. Projects integrate climate hazards, risks, as well as economic, institutional, cultural and political drivers that shape potentials for solutions for more inclusive and resilient urban futures and identify windows of opportunity for implementing resilient, transformative pathways.
• Research will be co-created with key users and contribute to strengthening capacity of those developing and applying the research, according to the Adaptation Research for Impact Principles (i.e. research designed to have direct impact on the ground, promoting action that enhances climate resilience in urban areas).
• Project will report against the CLARE theory of change (see Annex 2) and the UK International Climate Finance indicator on the number of people supported to better adapt to the effects of climate change.
• Research teams, methodologies and uptake will integrate principles for gender equality and inclusion.
The above requirements could be met by employing lab-type approaches, “inclusive spaces where stakeholders, practitioners and researchers come together to co-design and test ideas, co-produce knowledge and co-evaluate solutions.” Other approaches also will be considered.
Eligibility Criteria
The Applicant Organization to this call must meet the following criteria:
• It must be headquartered in an ASEAN member state
• It must have independent legal status (or “legal personality”) and be capable of contracting in their own right and name, receiving and administering funds, and have authority to direct proposed project activities. Applicants must be able to demonstrate legal status through written documentation. Legal status will only be reviewed if and when applicants are selected following technical selection.
• It must have the ability to transfer funds to organizations outside their country, and in the ASEAN region.
The call is not open to individuals, to government ministries, and agencies or branches, offices and chapters of international organizations including the UN and CGIAR. Regional or country offices of international organizations are ineligible to apply even if these offices are registered as independent legal entities in their countries of location.
For the purposes of this funding opportunity, the following definitions apply:
Applicant Organization: An institution that is leading and coordinating the application and where the applicant is based. The Applicant Organization must have a legal corporate registration in an eligible country.
Lead Applicant: This is the principal investigator who is employed by and based at the
Lead Applicant Organization. This individual must be a citizen or permanent resident with a primary work affiliation in an eligible country.
Core Team: This team provides the intellectual direction, technical and administrative support for the Applicant.
Peer Review Committee: The applicant organization will be supported by a Peer Review Committee, a diverse and multi-disciplinary group of experts in the subject of research that support project selection, synthesis, outreach etc.
Advisory Committee: Includes a multisectoral group of individuals representing various stakeholders in ASEAN including governments, nonprofits, development partners, civil society, grassroots organizations, women and youth groups, Indigenous and other equity-seeking groups, and the private sector.
• It must be headquartered in an ASEAN member state
• It must have independent legal status (or “legal personality”) and be capable of contracting in their own right and name, receiving and administering funds, and have authority to direct proposed project activities. Applicants must be able to demonstrate legal status through written documentation. Legal status will only be reviewed if and when applicants are selected following technical selection.
• It must have the ability to transfer funds to organizations outside their country, and in the ASEAN region.
The call is not open to individuals, to government ministries, and agencies or branches, offices and chapters of international organizations including the UN and CGIAR. Regional or country offices of international organizations are ineligible to apply even if these offices are registered as independent legal entities in their countries of location.
For the purposes of this funding opportunity, the following definitions apply:
Applicant Organization: An institution that is leading and coordinating the application and where the applicant is based. The Applicant Organization must have a legal corporate registration in an eligible country.
Lead Applicant: This is the principal investigator who is employed by and based at the
Lead Applicant Organization. This individual must be a citizen or permanent resident with a primary work affiliation in an eligible country.
Core Team: This team provides the intellectual direction, technical and administrative support for the Applicant.
Peer Review Committee: The applicant organization will be supported by a Peer Review Committee, a diverse and multi-disciplinary group of experts in the subject of research that support project selection, synthesis, outreach etc.
Advisory Committee: Includes a multisectoral group of individuals representing various stakeholders in ASEAN including governments, nonprofits, development partners, civil society, grassroots organizations, women and youth groups, Indigenous and other equity-seeking groups, and the private sector.