World Bank 2020 Building the Evidence on Forced Displacement

Call for Research Proposals (papers): Preventing social conflict and promoting social cohesion in forced displacement contexts.

In 2016, the UK government’s Department for International Development, the World Bank, and the UNHCR established a joint research program, Building the Evidence on Protracted Forced Displacement: A Multi-Stakeholder Partnership, with the objective of improving global knowledge on forced displacement.

The program is now launching a call for research proposals (papers) under the first new research component: Preventing social conflict and promoting social cohesion in forced displacement contexts.
The goal is to better understand how policy measures and development investments, and their interaction with local contexts, can help reduce inequalities, alleviate social tensions, and promote social cohesion
between and within displaced populations and host communities. The papers generated from this call will be used as background papers to prepare a report on this topic. The evidence generated through this research program will inform World Bank programming and UNHCR protection programs in forced displacement contexts.
Research proposals are encouraged in three areas. Some proposals may cover more than one theme.

• Table of Content
• About World Bank
• World Bank Building the Evidence on Forced Displacement
• Aim and Benefits of World Bank Building the Evidence on Forced Displacement
• Requirements for World Bank Building the Evidence on Forced Displacement Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About World Bank

With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries. Together, IBRD and IDA form the World Bank, which provides financing, policy advice, and technical assistance to governments of developing countries. IDA focuses on the world�s poorest countries, while IBRD assists middle-income and creditworthy poorer countries. While our five institutions have their own country m...... continue reading

World Bank Building the Evidence on Forced Displacement

Aim and Benefits of World Bank Building the Evidence on Forced Displacement

The program will finance up to 25 papers. Each paper will be awarded a grant of $25,000 regardless of the number of authors. Grants will be paid in the form of Short-Term Consultancy contracts with the World
Bank. The terms of the contracts will be agreed with each contracted scholar, with the total amount of contracts per paper limited to $25,000.

Requirements for World Bank Building the Evidence on Forced Displacement Qualification

Submissions by both individuals and research teams will be considered. A maximum of two papers per author can be submitted; applicants are limited to serving as the lead author on one proposal. Lead authors are expected to be external to the World Bank or the UNHCR, but research teams can include World Bank and/or UNHCR staff.

Proposals should be limited to two pages and include the following information:
• Theoretical framework and key literature
• Research question(s)
• Hypotheses, assumptions
• Empirical and identification strategy
• Data sources
• Policy relevance

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, visit World Bank website.