South Asia
Research area
Research type
The Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies Small Grant Program
Amount:
- Approximately 3-5 awards averaging $800-1,500 USD, with no single award exceeding $2,500 USD.
Deadline: October annually.
Duration: 1 year.
Requirements:
Citizenship: Open
General: Current ANHS members.
Eligibility:
- Applicants can belong to any nationality.
- ANHS members currently in good standing and/or teams of individuals that include at least one ANHS member in good standing. This includes student members. Projects can be individual or collaborative.
- Current ANHS Executive Council (EC) members may be involved in team projects as participants or advisors, provided that they do not receive direct financial compensation from this award to carry out the proposed activities. Former EC members are eligible to submit proposals as long as at least one calendar year has passed since they ceased being members of the EC.
- A project proposals should be submitted in English by using this application form and include the following sections:
- Basic information:
- Applicant name
- Affiliation (if any)
- Country of citizenship
- Email address, if email access is an issue, please provide a WhatsApp or WeChat ID where you can be contacted.
- Location of proposed activity
- Names of project collaborators, if any
- Proposed activities and work plan: What will you do? How will you do it? Who will do it? (750 words or fewer)
- Deliverables/Results: Who are the targeted beneficiaries? How will this activity create a positive impact? What will be the results and how will you measure them? (750 words or fewer).
- Timeframe: How long will the proposed project take to complete? (250 words or fewer)
- Budget: Provide a budget breakdown, including calculations and brief rationale. Note: Receipts will be required for all expenses over US$100 or local currency equivalent.
- Program impact statement: How would this small grant impact your career, your research, and/or your community? (250 words or fewer)
- Project participants: Please provide a brief (100 word or fewer) biography for each team member.
Details:
- Proposed activities should support the broad mission of ANHS.
- Examples of supported activities: Special events (lectures, symposia, fine arts programming, etc.), Professional development activities (workshops, trainings), Targeted field or archival research, Collaborative research projects, Subsidy toward publication, including making new research available open access.
- Projects that support documentation or preservation of, or education about, imperiled traditions, communities, places, and languages.
- Priority consideration for: women-owned, women-focused, and/or women-led initiatives; activities that benefit rural and underserved populations; open-access publications or resources; landscape and the environment; preservation of tangible or intangible cultural heritage and traditions.
- Interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary collaborations encouraged, all disciplines eligible.
- Location of project activities, with priority given to those that take place within Bhutan, China, Nepal, northeast India, and Sikkim. To avoid overlap with other Overseas Research Centers (ORC), projects proposed to take place elsewhere in India will be considered on a case by case basis and may require consultation with other ORCs.
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