Danida Fellowship Center (DFC) Research Call 2023

DFC has published its 2023 call for development research. https://dfcentre.com/research/calls/calls-for-applications-phase-1/

As in previous years, the DKK 200 million DKK call provides grants up to DKK 10 million/5 years to projects headed by Danish research institutions, collaborating with research institutions in the global south. A two-phase call, the first deadline is 8 February, 2023.

Eligible countries are divided into countries with ‘expanded development cooperation’ and those with ‘targeted cooperation’. For the former group, only the main call theme ‘Development under conditions of climate change’ applies, whereas for the latter group of countries (Ghana included), the main theme must be addressed in the context of sector programme themes (that range from water to food and to energy).

The main ‘Development under conditions of climate change’ theme has a focus on natural resource problems, and proposals must address interactions between climate change, biodiversity, and poverty alleviation. Last year, the biodiversity dimension had to be addressed in a ‘nature-based solutions’ perspective, among others, but this no longer seems to be the case.  Rather, the present call places considerable emphasis on societal framework conditions, including political, institutional and governance contexts and their interactions with  biodiversity, natural resources, adaption and livelihoods, under conditions of climate change.

Additionally, the call demands explicit attention to wider transformation processes. For AGRO researchers this means that the wider relevance of adaptation problems and their possible agroecological solutions, must be clearly addressed. In other words, what any research case is a case of in wider transformation perspective, must be made clear in a proposal. Aligning with Danida’s ‘The World we Share’ strategic framework  https://um.dk/en/danida/strategies-and-priorities is recommend in this regard, and inter-disciplinarity, in particular inclusion of social science  frameworks is strongly encouraged. So is a balanced gender composition.

Note that an online information meeting concerning this call is scheduled for 29 November 2022 at 13:00 hrs. For more details concerning the information meeting, please refer to DFC’s website,

You are welcome to contact Torsten torsten.berg@agro.au.dk  about the call.