Rebecca Rhodes African Inclusive Literacy Research Grant 2026 (up to $5,000) – YOA

Deadline: February 27, 2026

Applications are open for the Rebecca Rhodes African Inclusive Literacy Research Grant 2026. In reminiscence of inclusive schooling champion Rebecca H. Rhodes, the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) and the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) established the Rebecca H. Rhodes African Inclusive Literacy Research Prize in 2023 to assist analysis by African students and practitioners investigating how to assist youngsters and youth with disabilities study to learn and write and skim and write to study.

UNESCOs estimates that fewer than 10% of kids with identified disabilities in Africa attend faculty, and of these, few are studying to learn and write (UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report, 2020). Many different youngsters in class have unrecognized disabilities and battle to meet minimal studying requirements. Several components lead to these challenges in several nations and contexts, and present insurance policies and initiatives battle to make important progress. At the identical time, many governments, non-governmental/civil society organizations, and communities are earnestly searching for and experimenting with options to serve these youngsters and the youth they turn into, and wish extra proof on what is required and what would possibly work.

While many worldwide businesses and organizations work on inclusive literacy, the simplest and sustainable approaches and nationwide insurance policies should come from a larger understanding of the native challenges, property, and options in every context. African students and practitioners are greatest positioned to conduct this analysis, however African analysis is severely underfunded. The Rebecca H. Rhodes African Inclusive Literacy Research Prize goals to make a modest contribution to tackle this downside, with a selected concentrate on essentially the most useful resource-constrained areas on the continent that even have the best potential to make essential strides to safe foundational literacy for youngsters and youth with disabilities, particularly in West, Central, East, and Southern Africa.

Grant

• The third spherical of the Rebecca H. Rhodes African Inclusive Literacy Research Prize will comprise one $5,000 USD prize to be made to a single major applicant – a person (not a corporation) – to assist cowl bills for proposed analysis associated to literacy schooling (i.e., foundational studying expertise, and, optionally, writing/written communication expertise) for youngsters or youth with disabilities and/or particular schooling wants.

Eligibility

• The major applicant MUST:
  • Hold present citizenship of an African nation, with a choice for these from West, East, Central, and/or Southern Africa.
  • Either at the moment reside in an African nation OR should have resided in an African nation for 2 weeks or extra throughout the previous 24 months counting from February 2026 AND reveal an intention to work in an African nation within the subsequent one-two years, no less than.
• The proposed analysis have to be performed in West, East, Central, or Southern Africa. This can embrace a number of nations.
• Research proposed for this prize needs to be accomplished and outcomes made out there inside 18 months of any prize awarded in March 2026.
• Applications accepted in English or French.

Application

All application supplies have to be submitted in French or English, in a single file in Word, Google Docs, or PDF format. All elements needs to be single-spaced, with 1-inch/2.5cm margins utilizing 12pt Times New Roman or font or roughly equal dimension.

Submit your application to: [email protected]

For extra data, go to Rebecca Rhodes African Inclusive Literacy Research Grant.