Call for Proposals: Using Data for Policy-Relevant Research and Evidence-Based Advocacy

Date:
April 21, 2011

The Open Society Institute Think Tank Fund and Information Program invite proposals from think tanks, policy research organizations or advocacy organizations with in-house research capacity for comprehensive projects focusing on using data for policy relevant research and evidence-based advocacy.

The purpose of this call for proposals is to encourage think tanks and advocacy organizations with research capacity to develop comprehensive proposals that speak to all stages of building evidence-based policies. This may include improving access to and reuse of the existing data that think tanks and policy research organization already have in house, or that they know of that could be made available from public sources (i.e. from public authorities, government, EU etc.) in accessible and searchable formats.

Eligible Countries

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.

Deadline

The deadline is June 15, 2011.

More Information

For further information and application guidelines please see the "Using Data for Policy-Relevant Research and Evidence-Based Advocacy" guidelines.

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