SDPI and IDRC award fellowships to S Asian Students

The Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) and International Development Research Center (IDRC) award fellowship grants to students from South Asian countries to pursue higher education in social sciences.

 

In this second round of fellowships grants, ten students were selected from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Pakistan to study Masters, Mphil and PHD in the field of governance, security and justice in various universities across South Asia.  

The recipient of fellowships include Ranjini Basu,. Piu Chatterjee and Barkha Sharda from India; Kausila Timsina from Bhutan; Bishal Kumar Bhandari from Nepal; Annesa Rahman from Bangladesh; Gullali Jogezai, Saeeda Khan, Amir Mustafa and Muhammad Usman from Pakistan.

The fellowships program managed by SDPI and supported by IDRC Canada intend to address research gaps and produce skilled professionals, researchers and policy-makers in South Asian countries.  Last year in the first round of fellowships, eight students were provided scholarship grants.

“This fellowship program contributes towards a broader vision of promotion of peace and harmony in South Asia,” said SDPI Executive Director, Dr. Abid Qaiyum Suleri.  He was hopeful of selected scholars who would serve as representatives of peace in their respected countries. 

Talking on capacity building of selected fellows, Dr. Vaqar Ahmed, Deputy Executive Director, SDPI said that these selected candidates would be trained on advance research design, field research, academic writings, and study dissemination through advocacy and outreach. Scholar would also be provided possibility to share their research findings internationally, he added.