Competitive Grants Program
The CGP is the flagship programme of RASTA under which research proposals are invited on specific themes/topics decided by the Research Advisory Committee (RAC). For this, a ‘Call for Research Proposals’ is announced bi-annually: March and October. Applications from all around Pakistan and abroad are invited through open competition on the broad research themes outlined above for the grant of awards. Anyone from across Pakistan and/or abroad, with a research focus on Pakistan’s public policy issues relevant to the stated CGP themes/topic of each round, can participate. Outreach of this programme is ensured through inviting and entertaining reasonable number of applications from outside the major cosmopolitan/metropolitan centres compete for the grants.