Larger grants for researchers to turn evidence into design guidance, or to evaluate a pilot once it has been built.
Each Research Fund grant is defined jointly with the organisation that would act on the findings, such as a state agency, a road authority or a company. Starting from a question someone has committed to use is how research becomes a code, a procurement requirement or a product.
The fund supports work in four strands:
Grants go to named researchers at universities in the cities we work in. Larger programmes are hosted by a local university centre, which manages project funds and supervisor payments.
International research partners may contribute methods and peer review, and are credited on the work. Design guidance is prepared or reviewed by qualified engineers and planners.
Researchers at Nigerian universities, working with an organisation that would act on the findings.
Agencies and researchers with a question they want answered can help shape the questions it funds. We regard adoption, rather than publication, as the measure of a grant’s success.
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Work can move between the funds: a Student Fund project may form the basis of a Research Fund grant, and the guidance that results may be put into practice through the Pilot Fund.