Call for Papers: DFID–UNHCR–World Bank Program 2020: Building the Evidence on Forced Displacement

Call for Research Proposals (papers): Preventing social conflict and promoting social cohesion in forced displacement contexts

In 2016, the UK government’s Department for International Development, the World Bank, and the UNHCR established a joint research program, Building the Evidence on Protracted Forced Displacement: A Multi-Stakeholder Partnership, with the objective of improving global knowledge on forced displacement.

The program is now launching a call for research proposals (papers) under the first new research component: Preventing social conflict and promoting social cohesion in forced displacement contexts.
The goal is to better understand how policy measures and development investments, and their interaction with local contexts, can help reduce inequalities, alleviate social tensions, and promote social cohesion
between and within displaced populations and host communities. The papers generated from this call will be used as background papers to prepare a report on this topic. The evidence generated through this research program will inform World Bank programming and UNHCR protection programs in forced displacement contexts.
Research proposals are encouraged in three areas. Some proposals may cover more than one theme.

• About World Bank
• DFID-UNHCR-WBG Call for papers
• Aim and Benefits of DFID-UNHCR-WBG Call for papers
• Requirements for DFID-UNHCR-WBG Call for papers Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for DFID-UNHCR-WBG Call for papers
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About World Bank

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DFID-UNHCR-WBG Call for papers

• Type Postgraduate
• OrganisationWorld Bank
• Country to study -
• School to study -
• Course to study Not specified
• State of Origin
• Gender Men and Women
• Application Deadline July 30, 2020

Aim and Benefits of DFID-UNHCR-WBG Call for papers

The program will finance up to 25 papers. Each paper will be awarded a grant of $25,000 regardless of the number of authors. Grants will be paid in the form of Short-Term Consultancy contracts with the World
Bank. The terms of the contracts will be agreed with each contracted scholar, with the total amount of contracts per paper limited to $25,000.

Requirements for DFID-UNHCR-WBG Call for papers Qualification

Submissions by both individuals and research teams will be considered. A maximum of two papers per author can be submitted; applicants are limited to serving as the lead author on one proposal. Lead authors are expected to be external to the World Bank or the UNHCR, but research teams can include World Bank and/or UNHCR staff.

Proposals should be limited to two pages and include the following information:

1. Theoretical framework and key literature
2. Research question(s)
3. Hypotheses, assumptions
4. Empirical and identification strategy
5. Data sources
6. Policy relevance

Proposals are expected to meet the following selection criteria:

1. Papers should consist of original empirical analysis. Papers that draw on data analysis that has already been published or that appears in papers under review will not be considered.
2. Papers are required to be completed within 6 months of the signature of the contract.
3. Papers should rely on existing and available data. Given the time frame and the COVID-19 crisis, papers that propose new data collection will not be selected. The World Bank and the .
4. UNHCR will give authors access to their respective data stores in compliance with existing security and privacy requirements. Proposals that include data sets at the World Bank or UNHCR that have not yet been made available to researchers will be considered.
5. Proposals should focus on “displacement settings,” which may include the origins of displaced persons and/or host communities. “Displaced persons” is defined to include refugees and internally displaced persons. “Social conflict” includes conflict that leads to displacement as well as clashes within and between displaced populations and host communities. Social conflict is not limited to overt violence, and may include forms of implicit and explicit exclusion

Interview date, Process and Venue for DFID-UNHCR-WBG Call for papers

.Indicative Timeline

1. July 30, 2020 – Submission deadline 
2. September 30, 2020 – Completion of selection
3. September–December 2020 – Contracts awarded

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, visit the WBG website

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