Summary

• Grants of up to £25,000

• Starting January 2023 for up to 9 months

• For researchers, artists, writers, NGOs, and/or cultural organisations

• To be awarded to applicants in low and middle income countries (Palestine, Kenya, Rwanda, Lebanon, etc: to see if you qualify check the ODA DAC list)

• For projects that complicate and re-think the timescales/timelines of humanitarian intervention (for example looking at trauma, repeated cycles of conflict, layered legacies of exclusion)

• Host organisations must be able to support research (more below)

DEADLINE: September 15th, 2022         

Background

Rights for Time is an international research network funded by the AHRC in the UK. We work to illuminate the complex time frames of violence and trauma, in an effort to re-think current approaches to ‘protection’. Too often humanitarian interventions are time-limited or understand a problem in terms that are too narrow to have lasting impact. Working with community stakeholders, NGOs, universities and government, we hope to encourage partners to consider the role of time in their work and expand their frames of reference. So far, the network has convened the following case studies:

• A mental health programme designed for ongoing contexts of harm in Gaza city

• A photography workshop & exhibition with a historically marginalised community in rural Rwanda

• A study of how to collect better evidence in Kenya to support survivors of sexual violence

• An exploration of the literary concept of the ‘refugee’ and its many meanings in Jordan

• And a review of policy in Lebanon as an archive of crisis response.

The network is now looking to fund further work exploring time and humanitarian intervention.

What do we want to fund?

We will fund around ten projects. We encourage creative submissions from the countries we currently work in and any other ODA context. The projects should generate a better understanding of time, harm and humanitarian protection.  – how we can promote and ensure the rights of people in challenging situations.

Each proposal should:

• Identify the specific problem being addressed (policy, mental health, education, etc)

• Develop a key question or questions that will be answered through the project  

• Situate the work within a its context (make clear why it is important, what other work has or has not been done, why your approach is important)

• Explain how your project can generate solutions to the problem of ‘crisis’ time and intervention approaches

Projects can involve multiple methods. These might include interviews, focus groups, creating art works together, questionnaires, participant observation, close reading, or textual analysis.