Every entry links out to the organizer's own page, which is the authoritative source for dates and requirements — always check there before relying on a deadline.
More Resources
Standing programmes without deadlines: rolling funding, mentoring, training, and job listings. Most come from the CIDR Opportunity Hub, an open directory of more than 250 opportunities for African scholars maintained by CEGA and NIERA, whose dated entries also appear on the calendar above.
Rolling funding
- J-PAL African Scholars Program — funding and mentoring for African scholars through J-PAL's DigiFI, JOI, DAISI, and LAI initiatives; resident and non-resident African scholars are eligible.
- DigiFI Africa, J-PAL — rolling proposals on digital payments and identification in Africa, from policy outreach grants to full randomized evaluations; open to J-PAL affiliates, invited researchers, and African scholars.
- IPA open funding opportunities — current calls from Innovations for Poverty Action's research initiatives.
- Weiss Asset Management Foundation — rolling proposals for cost-effective programmes and research that reduce human suffering, reviewed by an allocation committee of development economists.
- CARTA fellowships — doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships and research-leadership training for early-career researchers in Africa.
- Partnership for Economic Policy grants — competitive calls that pair funding with training, mentoring, and peer review for researchers in developing countries.
Mentoring
- AuthorAID mentoring — a free global network matching researchers in low- and middle-income countries with mentors for research design, writing, and publication.
- G²LM|LIC mentoring programme, IZA — for PhD students and researchers within five years of the PhD from low-income countries working in applied microeconomics.
- EconNect Africa — a student-run network for African scholars pursuing doctoral degrees in economics and related fields.
- African Academy of Sciences mentorship scheme — for African early-career researchers.
- Project Access graduate programme — free mentoring for students facing barriers who are applying to master's programmes in the UK, US, and Europe.
Training and courses
- Partnership for Economic Policy online courses — techniques and tools for economic policy analysis, including a four-course programme with the University of Florence offered each year from February to May.
- EGAP Learning Days — workshops building experimental social science research capacity among principal investigators in the Global South.
- AuthorAID courses — self-study courses on grant proposal writing, research writing and publishing, and critical thinking, open at any time.
- PASGR professional development training — research design and methods courses from the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research.
- Centre for Statistical Analysis and Research workshops — short statistics courses in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
- NIERA — the Network of Impact Evaluation Researchers in Africa, which runs trainings in decision-focused evaluation.
- IPA high-frequency checks — open Stata tools for monitoring survey data quality in real time.
Events and jobs
- 3ie seminars, workshops, and conferences — events on evidence, evaluation methods, and evidence use.
- Impact Source job board — research and evaluation jobs, filtered to Africa.