Announcement on AGRODEP Grants for Innovative Research

AGRODEP recently granted conditional approval to fourteen grant proposals submitted by AGRODEP members in response to the competitive call for proposals for innovative research launched in June of 2011 (see the AGRODEP Grant Program for more details). 

The conditional approval means that the authors will have to incorporate a set of modifications in the final versions of the project proposal for the grants to be fully approved. The grant applicants have been contacted individually by the AGRODEP management team with specific remarks and requested modifications for their proposals.

Six of the selected proposals fall under the CAADP category and grants for these proposals will cover two-years of research.

The goal of the grants falling under the CAADP category is to identify the existing policies proposed and implemented under the CAADP Agenda and to perform a systematic assessment that identifies the major bottlenecks affecting the efficiency of such policies.

The policy impact assessment will be done in two stages:

• Stage 1 (research from October 2011 to September 2012): Assessment of existing bottlenecks affecting the efficiency of the policies proposed and implemented under the CAADP Agenda. Collection of statistical data and identification of the key tools needed to assess the effectiveness of these policies and the effects of reducing or removing the bottlenecks identified.

• Stage 2 (research from October 2012 to September 2013): Simulation of the costs and benefits of removing the bottlenecks identified. Recommendations for removing these bottlenecks to improve the effectiveness of CAADP policies. 

Congratulations to the grantees!