CDKN is pleased to launch the Climate compatible development Impact Research Fund (CIRF)
which aims to fill priority research gaps and address key questions
relating to climate compatible development, across four thematic areas.
The approximate total budget for the call is up to £3.35 million. We
expect to fund around 8 to 16 projects of 12-20 months’ duration,
depending on quality of applications and amount of funding requested.
From this page you will be able to access all the relevant information,
application forms, and guidance documents associated with the CIRF, as
well as short articles introducing the thematic scope of the call.
Overview:
In this call, CDKN challenges the international research community to
develop innovative research to provide a robust and accessible evidence
base for decision-making and achieve maximum policy impact. The highest
standards of theory and intellectual rigour are expected. Multi- or
inter-disciplinary research collaborations are encouraged, where they
improve research quality.
The four thematic areas were developed following a six month
consultative phase with academics and policy-makers in developing
regions; they are as follows:
- Robust national plans for climate compatible development transitions
The next fifteen years provide the window of time in which the global
economy must shift toward low-carbon development to avoid a global mean
temperature change of greater than 2°C and climate change’s worst
effects, a reality affirmed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change’s Fifth Assessment Report. Research commissioned through
this package will look at: informing and operationalising national
targets, strategies, or plans for low-carbon development; understanding
the effects of green growth objectives on other policies; and
identifying and resolving political economy constraints and enablers
that affect the ambition and implementation of national plans.
- Enabling conditions for urban climate compatible development
Urban areas are a crucial location for achieving climate compatible
development. The urban population will swell to almost 5 billion by 2030
and with growth particularly concentrated in Africa and Asia. The
second research area will examine the enabling conditions for
implementation of climate compatible development in rapidly growing
cities in developing countries, with a focus on infrastructure,
peri-urban climate compatible development, innovative funding
mechanisms, incentives, health, and women and marginalised groups.
- Climate-related disaster risk management and adaptation
Climate-related disaster risk management and adaptation have been
identified as priority areas by government stakeholders in many of
CDKN’s deep engagement countries, and these sets of policies often
provide a practical entry point for delivering climate compatible
development. The scope of this thematic area includes understanding and
measuring the social and economic impacts of disaster risk
management and adaptation initiatives, and enhancing the resilience of
micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, including those in the
informal economy.
- Climate Compatible Development and the Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus
Water, energy and food security are central to the pursuit of climate
compatible development. The direct impacts of climate change on human
development can be clearly seen in these sectors, for example, through
changes in water availability and crop production. Policy formulation
and implementation, however, tends to be on sectoral lines. The core
premise of the WEF ‘nexus approach’ is that the policy objectives in one
sector (water, energy or food) can interact with those in other
sectors, because they are either preconditions for the realisation of a
another sector’s objectives, or one sector (system) imposes conditions
or constraints on what can be achieved in the other sectors. This
research package will examine various elements associated with
governance, equity, and transnational nexus resource management.
