National Child Rights Research Fellowships 2009

The National Child Rights Research Fellowships were started to encourage new findings on why children are deprived of their rights and ways in which the rights may be guaranteed.

The objective is to trace the identity formation of children as a potential force that defines various developmental processes, as also the descriptive analysis of how their childhood is lived in the context of changes that have been the characteristics of the institutions of family, community, society, economy and the state.  

Possible Focus Areas

• Child rights in the context of disappearance and reinvention of traditions, customs, norms and mores; and as also the impact of emergence of new kinds of rural technologies and occupations.
• Creativity and imagination, in the experience and expression of childhoods.
• Evidences of the assertion or rejection of the role of children in various decision making arenas in various spaces such as households, advertisements, political party campaigns to governing institutions.
• Insights on children actively and passively amidst conflicts, violence and discrimination. 
• Reflect on constructions of childhood and the implications on children's rights.
• Gather evidence on the relationships between ethnicity, inequality and conflict as witnessed and/or experienced by children. 
• Locating identity questions (language, discourse, representation) within the school-community relationship. 
• Is best interest principle, a value, a constitutional right, an interpretative advocacy instrument or a rule of law.

Eligibility

Potential fellows will be Indians residing in India, above the age of 18 years. There is no upper age limit. Preference will be given to applicants who have studied in government schools.

Grant Sizes

Up to 10 fellowships for grant sizes ranging from Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 1 lakh will be awarded. These will be support grants and fellows will be free to continue their primary occupation or study programme. The proposals seeking grants of more than one lakh will not be reviewed.

Requirements

Proposals must include the following:

• A three-page proposal, which shall include scope, relevance, research question, conceptual framework, proposed methodology, time frame and a detailed budget.
  
• A two-page CV.
  
• A sample of related published or even unpublished work or any documentation done on a related theme is essential for the proposal to be reviewed.
  

Proposals must reach latest by September 12, 2009 through email to research@crymail.org or by post to:

CRY-Child Rights and You
Documentation Centre
189 A, Anand Estate
Sane Guruji Marg
Mumbai – 400011

Source: CRY