Eligibility

1. Applications will be accepted from:
   • university departments or academic research institutes with a doctoral program in any or all of the major sub-disciplines of anthropology (sociocultural anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology); or
   • departments wishing to establish an anthropological doctoral program [such departments must be in institutions where the infrastructure for doctoral programs is already in existence]; or
   • an interdepartmental group of anthropologists wishing to establish a doctoral program in anthropology.

   If the application is to create a new doctoral program in anthropology, or in one of the anthropological sub-disciplines, the expectation is that the doctoral program will be viable with the five year period of the award and that a strategy is in place to continue and develop the program after the end of the award.

2. Departments with a primarily applied focus in, for example, epidemiology, public health, conservation or social work are not eligible to apply.
3. Applicant departments must be located in countries where anthropology, or any of its major sub-disciplines, is underrepresented and where there are limited resources to support academic development.
4. The Institutional Development Grant must be used in ways that will contribute to the academic environment of the department and to the creation and/or development of an anthropological doctoral program. These may include, but are not limited to, such things as The grant may be used for any purpose to achieve the development goals of the applicant department. This may include, but are not limited to, such things as staff/faculty or student training activities, networking activities, student fellowships, staff/faculty or student exchange with partnership institutions, equipment, library materials and other resource purchases etc. Please note that an application requesting the grant solely for student fellowships is not within the scope of the program and will not be considered competitive.
5. Applications must be made by the head of the academic department submitting the proposal, or an appropriate equivalent senior individual. If the application is successful, this person will be the liaison with the Foundation. He/She will also be the principal coordinator of the grant and will be responsible for submitting progress and financial reports to the Foundation for the duration of the project.
6. Applicants are expected to establish partnership arrangements with internationally recognized doctoral programs in anthropology that can help the applicant department with its development goals. Partnership collaborations may be of a variety of types. They may be based on research collaborations between individuals at the partnership institutions or they may involve more formal and elaborate partnership relationships between the two institutions. The partnership/s can be newly established or build on previous collaborations. The important factor is that there is a mechanism in place for either formal or informal support and/or academic exchange. The partnership institution/s may be located in any country. The application must come from the applicant department and not from the partnership institution on behalf of the applicant department.
7. Institutional Development Grant applications that were unsuccessful in a prior funding cycle may be resubmitted. However the applicant department must repeat the entire application process, including the preliminary inquiry. An application unsuccessful in a preceding year cannot be automatically reconsidered for an award in a subsequent year.
8. Applicants must be prepared to receive a site visit from representatives of the Foundation at any time during the period of the grant to evaluate the degree to which the development goals are being achieved.
9. If an Institutional Development Grant is awarded, the applicant must agree to comply with the Requirements and Conditions of the International Development Grant.

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