Health Research Grants for Arab Region

Health Research Grants for Arab Region

Research Grants Program "Health and Livelihoods in the Arab Region: Well-being, Fragility and Conflict."

The Arab Council for Social Sciences is pleased to announce the Research Grants Program on the topic of "Health and Livelihoods in the Arab Region:

Well-being, Fragility and Conflict."

The program includes three courses on the same topic, and this session is the second of it. The Research Grants Program provides a funding opportunity that aims to support research across disciplines and different methodological approaches to major topics of interest to the Arab region. Funding for this program comes from a grant provided by the Canadian International Development Research Center (IDRC) , the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) , and the Andrew W. Foundation. Melon for the Arab Council for Social Sciences.

The topic "Health and Livelihoods in the Arab Region: Well-being, Fragility and Conflict" responds to the ongoing economic and socio-political changes in the region, especially during the past decade that has witnessed conflicts and unrest that led to massive displacement and forced migration.

These changes were accompanied by a sense of intense insecurity and social injustice, especially among vulnerable or vulnerable groups, which include refugees, displaced persons, and disadvantaged groups in host societies. At the same time, marginalization, social injustice, and deprivation have also spread among vulnerable groups in countries that have not witnessed major conflicts or socio-social changes.

It is therefore important to explore and analyze the implications of these factors for health and well-being through social science approaches.

This call encourages the presentation of innovative research on health related to the Arab region and the health crises and challenges raised and exacerbated by conditions of vulnerability, conflict, fragility, and insecurity. Research proposals must be innovative, demonstrate critical thinking, and adopt well-established approaches in the social sciences to study health in conditions of conflict and volatile situations in the Arab region.

Topics or research areas that the proposals could address include, but are not limited to: