| Overview : Submission Guidelines for Applicants: Each project application should designate a lead researcher / lead project staff with at least two years of relevant research or thematic experience. Applicants can also employ other staff, such as support researchers or support staff. CVs of all staff members and their relevance for the research study or project will be evaluated. Interested Applicants must submit: Signed and scanned Grants Submission Form (see Annex B) Detailed budget (see Annex C) List of studies or projects implemented by the organization CVs of all persons participating: CVs of lead and support researchers should contain the list of academic publications; CVs of lead and support staff shall contain a description of relevant related thematic experience (IMPORTANT: lead researcher/lead staff cannot be altered during the course of implementation);
A writing sample (3-5 pages) of the lead researcher in Georgian or English if the proposal includes a research component.
IMPORTANT: Please send the budget in an Excel file and all other documents in one PDF file electronically to the following email address: inesa.ejibia@undp.org. If additional clarifications are required, questions can be sent to the email indicated above. A consultation meeting will be held remotely on Monday 21 June 2021, at 11:00 a.m. Interested parties shall send a preliminary request for participation in the meeting to the following email address inesa.ejibia@undp.org. The deadline for submitting applications is 28 June 2021, 19:00 p.m. (Tbilisi time). Applications received after the deadline will not be considered. | 
