[Gender] RV: RFP release for the Aquaculture & Fisheries CRSP

[Paula Zuñiga]

>PLEASE FORWARD THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO YOUR COLLEAGUES.
>
>RFP Release Notification for the Aquaculture & Fisheries Collaborative
>Research Support Program (CRSP) [11.23.06]
>http://pdacrsp.oregonstate.edu/afcrsp/rfp/
>
>The Aquaculture & Fisheries Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP)
>invites proposals for Global Research, Capacity Building, and Institutional
>Development in Aquaculture and Aquatic Resources Management. Full proposals
>are due on 31 January 2007.
>
>Applicants are invited to submit 30-month proposals for the period of 1
>April 2007 through 30 September 2009.  Based on current budget projections,
>about 8 awards of approximately $400,000 each will be made to eligible U.S.
>universities or colleges to serve as Lead Partners. Eligibility criteria
are
>specified in the RFP.
>
>Awards made under the RFP will focus on aquaculture and the nexus between
>aquaculture and fisheries. Projects are envisioned to comprise many
partners
>in a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional approach to solve a
development
>problem. Lead Partners are expected to assume strong administrative and
>technical leadership for projects, be involved in advisory groups serving
>the overall program, and form collaborative partnerships through sub-awards
>to developing country institutions, NGOs, IARCs, private sector firms, and
>other U.S. universities or colleges. Matching support (non-federal cost
>share) is required and is specified in the RFP.  Proposals will be
>peer-reviewed through an open and competitive process.
>
>Applicants will select a USAID-eligible country for their base operations
>and are encouraged to involve satellite countries to broaden the potential
>impact of their results. Further information regarding USAID-eligible
>countries is provided in the RFP.
>
>The Aquaculture & Fisheries CRSP is a new 5-year program awarded on 29
>September 2006 by USAID to Oregon State University, which serves as CRSP
>Management Entity. CRSP funding is provided by USAID, OSU, and
participating
>partners. The goal of the new Aquaculture & Fisheries CRSP is to ³develop
>more comprehensive, sustainable, ecological and socially compatible, and
>economically viable aquaculture systems and innovative fisheries management
>systems in developing countries that contribute to poverty alleviation and
>food security.²
>
>Problems accessing the website or downloading the documents?
>Please email acrsp at onid.orst.edu <mailto:acrsp at onid.orst.edu>
>
>Aquaculture & Fisheries CRSP website
>http://pdacrsp.oregonstate.edu/afcrsp/
>
>Aquaculture & Fisheries CRSP RFP website
>http://pdacrsp.oregonstate.edu/afcrsp/rfp/
>
>Activities under the concurrent Aquaculture CRSP can be viewed at
>http://pdacrsp.oregonstate.edu/
>
>PLEASE FORWARD THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO YOUR COLLEAGUES.
>
>Thank you.
>
>---------------------------
>Dr. Hillary Egna,
>CRSP Director
>Snell Hall 418
>Oregon State University
>Corvallis OR 97331-1641 USA

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Keith M. Moore
Associate Program Director, SANREM CRSP
Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
Collaborative Research Support Program
Office of International Research, Education, and Development (OIRED)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
840 University City Boulevard, Suite 7
Blacksburg, Virginia   24061-0378

Phone:  (540) 231-2009
Fax:            (540) 231-1402

http://www.oired.vt.edu/sanremcrsp/