RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP

Political Studies at Wits University and the Women’s Rights and Citizenship Programme at IDRC are pleased to announce a Research and Training Institute on Women’s Rights and Citizenship, to be held at Wits University from 4-16 August 2008. The aim of the Institute is to deepen the capacity of researchers to deploy feminist theories and methodologies in applied, policy-oriented research. The Institute has two components: a training institute (4-16 August, followed by a further week of training in November), and seed funding to develop fully-fledged research proposals in the area of women’s rights, citizenship and governance in sub-Saharan Africa .

We invite applications from research teams of 2-3 African researchers based in African institutions, and working in the area of gender, citizenship and governance. Research teams could be flexible in composition, for example a mix of university-based and NGO-based researchers, a senior researcher with a PhD and two Masters/ Doctoral level students, or exclusively university or NGO-based. Research teams could also cut across more than one institution, for example two research centres.

Ideally, we would prefer that the team consist of a senior researcher with a PhD and two young researchers with four-year or Masters degrees. All expenses (travel, accommodation and meals, and course materials) will be covered by the Institute. Successful participants will be provided with seed grants of $10 000 to conduct baseline research and develop full research proposals by 30 November. Interested researchers should contact Nurina Ally ([email protected] ) for a detailed application package and further information.

The deadline for applications is Monday May 5 2008.