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First Name
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1. State the title of your research project.
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2. Describe who is funding this project and why you are undertaking it.
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3. State in 250-words or less your main research questions and methods.
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4. State the dates of your proposed research project.
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5. List all data that you hope to collect through your research project.
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6. State your name and contact information (email, institutional address, and phone number).
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7. Provide a brief (approximately 250-word) biography.
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8. Provide links to your public profile as a researcher and/or the public profile of your organization or supervisor. Provide any relevant or related prior publications.
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9. Provide at least 2 contacts (phone and emails) of collaborators or supervisors who can be contacted in the event of any concerns about the project.
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10. Disclose all affiliations and potential conflicts of interest.
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11. Describe what institutional (foreign and/or local) review committee has reviewed your research. If it has not been reviewed by foreign and local institutional review committees, please provide a justification as to why this approval was not needed.
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12. List all possible risks associated with your project for the MFI Foundation and its stakeholders.
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13. List all expenses (including cost of time) that will be required for the MFI Foundation associated with the project and how those will be covered.
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14. Provide a discussion of your positionality as a researcher and how that will be navigated in the context of this project to ensure equity in research processes.
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15. What steps are you taking as a researcher to ensure that this research project is conducted in a culturally competent manner?
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16. Who are you collaborating with on this research project? Are you collaborating with other researchers in Ghana and/or West Africa? If not, please provide a justification.
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17. Why have you chosen to invite the MFI Foundation to collaborate on this project? What is the relevance of this project to MFI’s mission, and how will the mission benefit from this research?
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18. What is the societal benefit of this research? How will you benefit from this research? How will the MFI Foundation benefit from this research?
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19. List and briefly describe any research publications and products that will be generated through this research project (please note that anything not specifically described and approved here using data from the MFI Foundation will need to be later reviewed by the MFI Board).
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20. Will the MFI Foundation have an opportunity to review these publications prior to publication? If not, why is this critical to the integrity of the research project?
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21. How will the MFI Foundation be recognized on research publications and products? Will local contributors to the research project be named as co-authors or contributors?
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22. How will the research findings be disseminated to stakeholders in Ghana?
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