1. Impact and the Global Challenges Research Fund
Paul Meller, ESRC

2. What is the Global Challenges Research Fund
Address global challenges through disciplinary and interdisciplinary research
Strengthening capability for research and innovation, within developing countries and the UK
Agile response to emergencies and opportunities
Cutting edge research which addresses the problems faced by developing countries
2015 Government Spending Review Outcomes

3. UK Context UK Aid Strategy
Strengthening global peace, security and governance
Strengthening resilience and response to crises
Promoting global prosperity
Tackling extreme poverty and helping the world’s most vulnerable

4. OECD DAC Country List

5. Global Context

6. GCRF Delivery Partners

7. GCRF allocation (4th March 2016)
Challenge-led research, evidence gathering & long-term planning
Pace & urgency

8. GCRF Strategy development
Consultation
Town Meetings
Call for Evidence
Global Engagement
UK Aid Strategy
GCRF Strategy
UN Global Goals
Strategic Context
Delivery Partners
Strategic Advisory Group
Department for International Development
Key Stakeholders

9. GCRF research agenda for enabling change
Leave no one behind
to create new knowledge and drive innovation that helps to ensure that everyone across the globe can prosper through access to health, food, water, education, energy etc.
Sustainable societies and economies
to identify new responses to the challenges arising from changes in population, technology, consumption and pressure on the environment
Support peace and justice
to understand how to strengthen the institutions that underpin peaceful societies, good governance, respect for human rights and the rule of law.

10. Pathway to impact: Official Development Assistance
“Research directly and primarily relevant to the problems of developing countries may be counted as ODA. The costs may still be counted as ODA if the research is carried out in a developed country.” 

11. Strengthening pathways to impact within developing countries
Building research capacity and collaborations with academics in developing countries
Building partnerships and collaborative links with NGOs/charities/civil society in developing countries
Developing further collaborative opportunities to strengthen international links
“doing things with people and not simply for or to them”

12. Deliver GCRF through partnership
Consultation on
Expectations of stakeholders
Direction and intent
Core values and goals
Strategy
Involvement through
Setting boundaries and priorities
Convening (and delegating to) communities of interest
Building effective and shared peer review values
Commissioning
Co-production for
Insight, access and context
Implementation and impact
Legacy and future capability
Research

13. GCRF calls (ESRC) GCRF funding opportunities led by ESRC:
Postdoctoral fellowships - closed 9 September 2016
Tackling antimicrobial resistance: behaviour within and beyond the healthcare setting - closed 8 September 2016
Centres competition: Foundations of inclusive growth - closed 6 September 2016
Strategic Networks call - closed 2 August 2016
Forced displacement call - closed 20 July 2016
Secondary Data Analysis Initiative highlight notice - closed 15 July 2016
Other initiatives
IAA uplifts – developing networks and ideas

14. GCRF calls (RCUK)
First RCUK Collective Fund call:
Growing Research Capability to Meet the Challenges Faced by Developing Countries (recently closed)
Future Collective Fund (across RCUK remit) calls being developed.
Future Research Council specific calls being developed.

15. Thank you GCRF website: www.rcuk.ac.uk/funding/gcrf/
ESRC and GCRF:
Sustainable Development Goals: sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs
DAC list: