Here are some exciting opportunities with deadlines coming up this month! We are sharing opportunities from CODESRIA, IBTCI, the American Political Science Association, and the African Studies Association of Africa!
2019 Democratic Governance Institute: Call for Director, Resource Persons and Laureates
Theme: Digital Technologies and Election Management in Africa’s Democratisation Processes.
Application Deadlines:
Director: 31st March 2019
Resource Persons: 31st March 2019
Laureates: 30th April 2019
Date for the institute: 15th-26th July 2019
Venue: Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Questions and Inquiries: submission@codesria.org
Number of visits: 2
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, CODESRIA, invites proposal submissions from African academics and researchers to participate in the 2019 session of the Democratic Governance Institute, which will take place in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire from July 15th-26th 2019. A limited number of non- African academics and researchers from within and outside the continent who will submit proposals and qualify will be selected to attend if they can fund the cost of their participation.
For more information on each position, application submission, and materials please see our website:
https://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article2911
IBTCI: Ghana Lead Researcher
International Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI), a U.S. based international development consulting company established in 1987, has worked in over one hundred countries and implemented over three hundred projects. IBTCI serves government agencies, private sector companies and several donor agencies. IBTCI specializes in Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) across many sectors including, but not limited to, conflict and crisis, democracy and governance, economic growth, education, environment, and global health.
Assignment Title: Ghana Lead Researcher
Department/Location: Remote, with three weeks field research in Ghana
Technical Point of Contact: Research Director, PELA
Type: Short Term Consultancy
Classification: Consultancy
Overview: IBTCI seeks a lead researcher who specializes in politics and/or security in Ghana to lead a violent extremism (VE) risk assessment of Ghana – including a literature review and field research. This assessment is funded by USAID West Africa’s Peace through Evaluation, Learning and Adapting (PELA) Activity. The purpose of this activity is to support USAID/West Africa to be a more effective, efficient and adaptable operating unit in achieving the development objective of strengthening systems of non-violent conflict management in West Africa. This is a ten week consultancy beginning on or about June 01, 2019, which includes 3 weeks of field research in Ghana. This position is contingent on USAID funding.
IBTCI: Research Consultancy Positions
International Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI), a U.S. based international development consulting company established in 1987, has worked in over one hundred countries and implemented over three hundred projects. IBTCI serves government agencies, private sector companies and several donor agencies. IBTCI specializes in Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) across many sectors including, but not limited to, conflict and crisis, democracy and governance, economic growth, education, environment, and global health.
Assignment Title: Lead Researchers (four Short Term Technical Assistance (STTA) positions; one STTA in each of the following countries) – Benin, Togo, Côte d’Ivoire, or Guinea
Department/Location: Remote, with three weeks field research
Technical Point of Contact: Research Director
Type: Short Term Consultancy
Classification: Consultancy
Overview: IBTCI seeks four STTA lead researchers; each lead researcher is to specialize in politics and/or security in one of the following countries– Benin, Togo, Côte d’Ivoire, or Guinea – to lead a violent extremism (VE) risk assessment of each country – including a literature review and field research. This assessment is funded by USAID West Africa’s Peace through Evaluation, Learning and Adapting (PELA) project. The purpose of this activity is to support USAID/West Africa to be a more effective, efficient and adaptable operating unit in achieving the development objective of strengthening systems of non-violent conflict management in West Africa. This is a ten week consultancy beginning on or about June 01, 2019 and includes three (3) weeks of field research in the country of expertise. This position is contingent on USAID funding. Please specify country of expertise in the application.
2019 Lee Ann Fujii Award for Innovation in the Interpretive Study of Political Violence
Sponsored by Routledge and the Interpretive Methodologies and Methods (IMM) Conference Group of the American Political Science Association
Deadline for nominations/submissions: April 1, 2019
Scope/Eligibility (see below for detail): books, journal articles, and chapter-length publications
The Interpretive Methodologies and Methods (IMM) Conference Group of the American Political Science Association announces the creation of “Routledge’s Lee Ann Fujii Award for Innovation in the Interpretive Study of Political Violence.” The award, funded by Routledge/Taylor & Francis, is to be given to books, journal articles or book chapters, in recognition of the late Professor Fujii’s contributions to that area of inquiry.
For more information, see here
African Studies Association of Africa’s 3rd Biennial Conference: Call for Panels and Papers
African and Africana Knowledges: Past Representations, Current Discourses, Future Communities
United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
October 24-26, 2019
The aim of this year’s conference is to invite and initiate a scholarly stocktaking of the knowledge produced by Africans in Africa and the Diaspora in various forms—from scholarly work to artistic expressions—and to examine representations and current African realities and emerging futures with African knowledges. In other words, by stocktaking accomplishments and challenges facing African peoples globally, we hope to address the ideological basis of the current disproportions in the distribution of worth, power and wellbeing affecting Africans and diasporic Africans.
The conference will present distinguished African/a and Africanist keynote speakers, award-winning films, inspirational performances and the opportunity to join pre-conference workshops.
Deadlines:
May 15, 2019 (Individual Submissions)
May 30, 2019 (Panel Submissions)