社会科学研究会“环境与健康项目”合作项目资助

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社会科学研究会“环境与健康项目”合作项目资助方案申请说明

社会科学研究会*



中国环境与健康项目



合作项目资助方案申请说明





与世界很多国家类似，环境的变化在中国对公众健康的威胁日益加剧。中国迫切需要建立和加强相关知识积累和研究基础，以便为制订应对与环境相关的健康风险措施提供依据，并促进研究、政策和实践之间的联系。尽管目前已有一些资源投入到了环境变化和公众健康关系的自然科学研究，但合理的决策还要求人们了解与环境相关的健康问题所存在的经济、政治和社会背景及其带来的限制和机会。这就要求社会科学家更大程度地参与，也要求对现有学科和专业界限进行跨越，并整合相关的知识和资源。


为了促进有关中国环境和健康领域中政策和实践性的社会科学研究成果的产生和传播，社会科学研究会（SSRC）的中国环境与健康项目（CEHI）设立了一个资助方案。方案的第一轮资助将重点关注农村问题。


我们将为来自中国的机构和组织的申请对象提供7到10笔经费，这些资助将为实现学科间及研究机构和政府/民间机构间的合作提供补充性资金。


资助最高额为15,000美元。


资助可被用于：

1)
通过分享现有数据或收集有限范围内更多数据，把环境或健康主题融入目前只集中关注其中一个主题的研究；

2)
在目前进行的农村发展研究中新确立的环境与健康方面的研究主题；

3)
与带来不同学科视角或国际经验的伙伴合作，拓宽研究分析范围；　

4)
与非政府机构或政府部门协作，使现有研究结果更能被公众获取，且更有用途。


*社会科学研究会(SSRC)是一个独立的非盈利性研究机构，1923 成立。 SSRC总部在美国纽约，在很多国家和地区开展项目和活动。SSRC坚信，社会科学知识能够帮助公众更好地认识社会，帮助政策制定者对重大问题做出合理决策。SSRC秉承“探索·创新”的理念，以应对重要的社会问题。SSRC通过举办各种会议和论坛，组织学术研究和学者交流，开展培训项目，提供奖学金和资助，出版各种刊物等，来实现机构的目标。请点击此处来了解有关中国环境和健康计划的更多信息http://programs.ssrc.org/eastasia/china 。



本方案由洛克菲勒兄弟基金会支持资助


资助标准：
在准备您的申请书之前，请仔细阅读下列标准：
·
项目关注的主题必须是一个影响到很多人的环境健康问题；
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项目必须有助于产生或传播能为政策或政府/民间人员工作提供依据或参考借鉴的成果；
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申请对象必须具备必要的获取数据的能力,且与地方社区/政府机构有良好的合作关系，以保证项目的成功；
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如果项目是在地方层次进行，研究人员必须在该省份生活和工作，或者能够说明该项目将如何建立地方应对环境健康问题的能力；
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资助将被授予在洛克菲勒兄弟基金会中国南方项目所涵盖的9个省份中进行的工作。这9个省份包括广东、广西、贵州、云南、四川、湖南、江西、福建和海南。在中国其它地区及香港和澳门地区进行工作的申请书，只有在与国家层次政策明显相关的情况下才会考虑；
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申请对象必须展示具有产生达到专业标准的可供传播的研究成果或资料的潜能；
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项目的预算和完成时间必须是现实可行的。

项目评审委员会尤其注重以下申请：

关注因种族、性别、年龄、地理位置或职业因素而具有更高环境相关健康风险率的社区，对各种影响这些社区的问题进行考察研究； 探索出可能超越目前研究的可应用的研究方法或模型；
为年轻的研究人员或工作人员提供专业发展机会。

第一轮资助的补充标准

第一轮资助的重点是影响农村人口的环境健康问题，包括但不限于农村工业污染、化学杀虫剂和化肥、集约畜牧和水产业、以及食品安全。




申请对象标准
申请书必须：

由致力于应对环境和/或健康问题的中国学术机构（大学、学院或其它研究机构）或民间组织提交；
有不同学术专长的研究人员之间的合作，包括至少一个社会科学学科（人类学、经济学、地理学、法学/法律研究、政治学/政府研究、社会学），或者一个研究机构和一个非政府机构之间的合作；
项目可以但不必包含与一个有相关经验的国际伙伴的合作。

接受资助条件

资助获得者研讨会。资助获得者将于2009年1月15至17日参加一个研讨会，以与合作伙伴见面，与专家组和其他资助获得者就其申请书进行讨论，并对研究设计进行完善。

报告。资助期结束时（2009年8月30日），资助获得者将被要求提供： 1）有关其项目结论的一份报告，以供在中国环境与健康项目的网上平台刊出；2） 有关其合作过程中所遇挑战及所学知识的简短总结。这些报告/总结中的见解将在项目网站上发表，成为进入该领域的其他人员的资源。







Social Science Research Council



China Environment and Health Initiative



Small Grants for Collaboration



As in many other countries, environmental change in China presents a mounting threat to public health. There is an urgent need to develop the knowledge base on which to formulate responses to environment-related health risks, and to forge stronger links between research and policy and practice.
Although greater resources are now being committed to natural science research on the relationship between environmental change and health, informed decision-making also requires an understanding of the economic, political and social contexts in which environment-related health problems are embedded, and of the constraints and opportunities they present. This calls for greater engagement by social scientists and for bridging existing disciplinary and professional boundaries.


The China Environment and Health Initiative (CEHI) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is pleased to announce a small grants program to stimulate the generation and dissemination of policy and practice-oriented social science research on environment and health in China.
The focus of the first round of grants will be on rural issues.


Seven to ten grants will be made to applicants located at Chinese institutions. Grants will provide supplementary funds to enable collaboration across disciplines and between research institutions and government or civil society organizations.

The maximum grant amount will be $15,000.

Grants may be used to:

1)
integrate environment or health perspectives into research currently focused on a single domain by sharing existing data or conducting limited additional data collection;
2)
develop a new focus on environment and health within the context of ongoing research on rural development;
3)
broaden the scope of analysis through collaboration with partners who bring additional disciplinary perspectives or international experience; or
4)
work with NGO or government partners to make existing research more accessible and useful.


For more information about the China Environment and health Initiative, click here http://programs.ssrc.org/eastasia/china/


This program is supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Funding Criteria
Please review the list of criteria carefully BEFORE preparing your proposal

Projects must address an environmental health problem that affects a substantial number of people. Projects must clearly useful in generating or disseminating knowledge that will inform policy or the work of government or civil society actors. Applicants must have the necessary access to data, or relationships with local communities or government agencies, to conduct the project successfully. If the project is being carried out at the local level, researchers must either live and work in the same province, or otherwise demonstrate how the project will build local capacity to work on environment and health issues. Grants will be awarded for work in the 9 provinces covered by the Rockefeller Brothers Funds’ South China Program (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Hainan). Proposals for work in other parts of China and in Hong Kong and Macau will be considered only if they have clear relevance for national level policy. Applicants must demonstrate the potential to produce research or materials for dissemination that meet professional standards.
Projects should have a realistic budget and timeframe.
The selection committee will favor proposals that:

Address issues of disparate impact on communities that are vulnerable to environment-related health risks as the result of their ethnicity, gender, age, geographical location or occupation. Develop methods or models of research that have the potential for application beyond the current project.

Provide opportunities for the professional development of young researchers or staff.

Additional Criteria for Year 1

The focus of the first round of grants will be on environmental health problems affecting rural populations, including but not limited to rural industrial pollution, chemical pesticides and fertilizers, intensive livestock farming and acquaculture; and food safety.


Applicant Criteria
Proposals must be:

Submitted by a Chinese academic institution (university, college or other research organization) or civil society organization with a demonstrated commitment to working on environment and/or health issues.
Structured as a collaboration that involves researchers with different disciplinary expertise, including at least one social science discipline (Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Law/Legal Studies, Political Science/Government, Sociology),OR as a collaboration between a research institution and an NGO.
Projects may but do not have to involve collaboration with an international partner with relevant expertise.

Terms of the Grant

Grantee workshop. Grantees will attend a workshop from January 15-17, 2009 at which they will meet with their collaborative partners, discuss their proposals with selected resource people and other grantees, and refine their research designs.

Reporting. At the end of the grant period (August 30, 2009), grantees will be required to provide 1) a report on the findings of their project for publication on CEHI web-based platforms, and 2) a short account of the challenges they faced in the process of collaboration and what they have learned. Insights from these narratives will be published on the project website as a resource for others entering the field.

Resource mapping. Grantees will map the people, institutions, and writings associated with the project topic into the online Resource Hub (ceh.resourcehub.ssrc.org) of the China Environment and Health Initiative to enable others to gain a clear understanding of relevant existing research on the topic.




Application Process

Prospective applicants are encouraged to communicate with the CEHI staff and raise any questions they may have.
Communications and proposals can be in Chinese or English.
Proposals for the first round of small grants are due on November 14th.Applications that arrive after that date will not be considered.
Information about the submission procedure will be available on the CEHI website on November 1.
Applicants should be available to answer questions about their proposals the week of November 15th.
Small Grants winners will be announced on December 5th.
Questions should be sent to cehi@ssrc.org. Please read the funding criteria and proposal structure carefully first.
Proposal Structure
The proposal should include:
A.
PROJECT OUTLINE (250 words)
A short description of how the project will generate or disseminate research that
can inform government or civil society responses to environment-related health risks. Indicate the budget amount requested.
B.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION ( 5 pages)
The narrative description of the project should address the following questions:

What is the problem the project seeks to address? Who is affected by it? What will the project do? Why is collaboration necessary to the success of the project? What is the collaborative process and who are the people involved? At what stages and in what ways will they participate?
How will their particular disciplinary or professional training contribute to the success of the project? How will this project build upon existing research and advocacy on this issue?
What data will be used and how will project staff collect or gain access to it? If the cooperation of local communities, government agencies or other actors is required, are the necessary relationships in place? How is the project innovative, for example in developing new methods or frameworks for collaboration? What will be the project outcomes? How will the success of the project be assessed?
What is the broader significance of the project? What is the potential audience for the results? How will they be disseminated?
C.
ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND

A description of the proposing and collaborating organization(s) (max. 200 words each), including mission, constituency, geographical scope of work, and annual budget. The relevant knowledge, data or skills that each partner brings to the collaboration?
The name, institutional affiliations, research experience, and CV of the lead partners in the proposing and collaborating organizations (maximum 2 pages each).
D.
PROJECT TIMELINE
E.
BUDGET
A budget of up to $15,000 may be submitted, with itemized major expenditures.
The budget should indicate:

Other funding support – amount and source, including in-kind contributions Personnel and consultants costs* Fieldwork expenses (including honoraria for respondents) Relevant travel*
Dissemination, outreach costs
*Salary or consultancy fees will be considered only under exceptional circumstances. *Reasonable travel expenses for international partners may be included.