Invitation to Submit Proposal - AIFDR DRR Research and Community Grant Scheme

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*INVITATION TO SUBMIT PROPOSAL*

AusAID, the Australian Agency for International Development, manages the Australian Government’s official overseas aid program. AusAID assists developing countries to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable development, in line with Australia’s national interest. Through the Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction (AIFDR), we are inviting researchers and community-based organizations to submit their proposals to bid for either of *two grants programs*:

1. *The AIFDR Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Research Grants Scheme; and *
2. *The **AIFDR **Community Grants Scheme*

*Thematic areas*

For the DRR Research Grants, AIFDR is seeking research proposals in the following areas:

a) reducing risk and vulnerability in urban areas;

b) integrating gender into disaster risk reduction;

c) developing incentives for disaster risk reduction, especially around risk financing;

d) developing new approaches and scientific tools/knowledge that may be useful for DRR;

e) developing enabling environment to strengthen institutional capacity;

f) developing linkages between climate change adaptation, environment and disaster risk reduction efforts

For the Community Grants Scheme, AIFDR is seeking proposals for activities in the following areas:

(a) application of local risk analysis, risk reduction and preparedness, especially around planning and contingency planning that links with community preparedness;

(b) reducing risk and vulnerability in urban areas;

(c) good practice in developing enabling factors and incentives for disaster risk reduction;

(d) linking public-private sector partnership or activities in disaster risk reduction;

(e) development of linkages between climate adaptation, environment and disaster risk reduction efforts;

(f) engagement and promotion of under-represented and the most vulnerable groups in disaster management (women, people with disabilities, older people, people living with HIV/AIDS, ethnic minorities)

The closing date for submission of proposals is *3:00pm (Jakarta Time) Friday, 22 October 2010*.

Proposals must comply with eligibility criteria outlined in the Grants Scheme Guidelines, and must be submitted in a format consistent with the Proposal Template provided. Both these documents, as well as other relevant information can be downloaded from the following site: http://www.aifdr. org.

Alternatively, requests for documentation and for any further information in relation to these schemes can be forwarded to: community.grants@ aifdr.org or research.grants@ aifdr.org.

AIFDR will conduct a workshop on preparing a proposal. Information on how to register and to attend this workshop is available in the AIFDR website.

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