|
| The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has joined with several U.S. Government (USG) supported agencies to support Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER). Administered by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), PEER is a competitive grants program that invites scientists in developing countries, partnered with USG-supported collaborators, to apply for funds to support research and capacity-building activities on topics with strong potential development impacts. This innovative program is designed to leverage the investments other USG-supported agencies have made in scientific research and training while supporting the initiatives of developing country scientists. Learn more... | Latest News
PEER COVID-19 Special Call for Proposals Released
On August 23, 2021, PEER released its latest call for proposals, which aims to support research projects that focus on the impacts of COVID-19 and potential solutions that can emerge from this pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented global challenges and uncovered weaknesses in the ability of governments, the private sector, and local and international actors to deliver services and resources across many systems. This has been true in food and agriculture, healthcare, and education, among other sectors. However, the pandemic also has inspired innovation in areas such as digital technology and social organization, and there are many examples of countries or communities effectively coordinating to confront this threat. This PEER funding opportunity looks to support locally-led research projects that (1) aid in our understanding of how shocks such as COVID-19 affect key sectors in developing countries and (2) test approaches to help communities and sectors respond to and mitigate the effects of COVID-19 or similar future shocks. Projects funded under this year’s call for applications will receive one-year awards of up to US $70,000. In addition, they will receive personalized training and guidance from USAID’s Research Technical Assistance Center on developing evidence-to-action plans and communications products. The deadline for submission of pre-proposals is October 22, 2021. For further details please review the Request for Applications. Awards for PEER Opportunity for Research Partnerships in Bhutan will be announced in early October, 2021. |
 |  |  |
PEER currently invites application for the special COVID-19 cycle, which has a pre-proposal submission deadline of October 22, 2021. The Request for Application is available through this link.
Awards for PEER Opportunity for Research Partnerships in Bhutan will be announced in early October, 2021.
For more information on PEER Cycle 9 funded awards, please see the Cycle 9 Projects Webpage. |
To review the eligibility requirements for PEER, use the links below:
| Applicants to the PEER COVID-19 cycle may access the online pre-proposal submission form by clicking this button, logging in to our system, and then clicking "Apply" near the top left of the page that appears after logging in.
Current PEER award recipients may use this button to access our online system to prepare and submit their project reports.
|
Funded Projects
Interested in seeing all projects funded by the PEER program?
Visit the funded projects page to see a list and map of projects from all cycles and to get summaries and quarterly progress updates or view video summaries produced by the project teams on the video corner webpage. |
| | | PEER Spotlight | |  | PEER 10th Anniversary Seminar Series: Dr. Sangeeta Chopra
September 21, 2021
This year, the PEER program marks its 10th anniversary of funding science around the world leading to better science capacity and significant policy change in many countries. In view of this 10 year mark, the PEER program is organizing a series of webinars to provide PEER principal investigators the chance to present their work and showcase its impacts.
This webinar is the eighth in the series and featured Dr. Sangeeta Chopra from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in India, and the PI of PEER Project 7-360: Off-grid, clean energy cooling for affordable storage of perishables for BOP farmers. On September 21, she discussed how an inexpensive, off-grid, batteryless, cold storage for perishables is needed to support smallholder farmers in developing countries as the first link in the cool chain.
A recording of the webinar is available online and future webinars will be announced on this webpage and similarly recorded. Previous speaker webinars are available on the PEER Speaker Series 2021 webpage. |
 This program is sponsored by USAID in partnership with the following U.S. Government-supported agencies: |
|
|
|
|
|
