August Funding and Research Opportunities

Every month, EASST compiles a list of funding, research, and employment opportunities for East African researchers. To view a complete list of the opportunities available in August, please visit the “Other Opportunities” page of the EASST website. A few highlights below:  
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CEGA’s Digital Credit Observatory has just launched a Request for Proposals, inviting researchers to apply for funding for rigorous studies addressing questions around the impacts of digital credit on consumers in emerging markets; how various borrower characteristics (financial literacy, gender ,etc) could have an effect on these impacts; and how non-traditional credit-scoring algorithms, regulations, and other consumer protection measures can be designed to minimize consumer risk. Please apply for this exciting opportunity by September 15th!  
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Sign up for CEGA’s Berkeley Initiative for the Social Sciences (BITSS) recently launched Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to learn  about Transparent and Open Social Science Research! This engaging new course is free and designed to be accessible to anyone from a graduate student to a policy-maker, and includes learning units in cutting edge topics such as data visualization and meta-analysis. Please register by September 8th to be included in the first course-run!  
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EASST’s close partner the African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) is looking to hire up to five researchers to work in the following units: Data and Measurement, Aging and Development, Urbanization and Wellbeing, and Population Dynamics and Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.