National Research Foundation - Managements of Collaborative Grants

About this project

The National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa has applied to Sida for funding of 15.1 million SEK to provide grant management services plus additional capacity building and networking activties for African grantees funded in the frame of the 2018 Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Action (CRA) call "Transdiciplinary Research for Ocean Sustainablity" during the period 2020-02-01 until 2023-06-30. Of the 15.1 million SEK, approx. 11.6 million SEK will be forwarded to six African researchers participating in four transnational research consortia that have applied for Sida funding and were granted funding after expert review. The purpose of the proposed partnership between Sida, the NRF and Belmont Forum is to facilitate participation of researchers from low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and other sub-Saharan countries where Sweden has bilateral development cooperation in transnational research projects addressing challenges related to understanding, mitigating, and adapting to global environmental change. Belmont Forum is a partnership of funding organizations, research councils and regional consortia working with open CRA calls. Sida will partner with the NRF for administration and management of funding to African research partners selected through Belmont Forum CRA calls. In 2018, Belmont Forum, in collaboration with Future Earth and the Joint Programming Initiative Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans (JPI Oceans), launched the CRA call for proposals on…

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Sweden · Government

Countries

Ghana, Senegal, Madagascar, Mozambique

Sectors

Environmental researchResearch/scientific institutionsCOVID-19 controlIV.1. General Environment ProtectionIV.2. Other MultisectorI.2.b. Basic health

Funded by

Sweden

Passes funds through

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

Published by Sweden to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 2 Nov 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: SE-0-SE-6-12780.

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