CoCooN Conflict and Cooperation over Natural Resources in Developing Countries

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CoCooN - Conflict and Cooperation over Natural
Resources in Developing Countries
WOTRO Science for Global Development

• Call for Preliminary Proposals
• Deadline 3 November 2009
• Martijn Wienia, 22-23 September Cali

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PLANNING

• Steps in the procedure
• First call 2009-2010
• Two stage preliminary and full applications
• Four-five year period max 620 k
• Mid-term review Counterbalance risks
• Go or no go DGIS no objection
• Go / initially formulated Risk assessment/strategy
  
• Go / extension activities
• Second call proposals extension of
  IP-activities formulating new activities with
  fellow-IPS or other projects to max 1000 k
• Final evaluation

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FIRST CALL

• First stage Preliminary applications
• Deadline 3 November 2009
• Advice by IPAC / Decision by SC Mid-December
  2009
• 10 selected consortia invited December 2009
• Joint elaboration full application
• Second stage Full applications
• Deadline Early March 2010
• Peer review / Response applicants March - May
  2010
• Advice by IPAC / Decision by SC June 2010
• Approval DGIS July 2010
• Start IP lt November 2010

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AIMS
WOTRO Science for Global Development

• Providing society with tools and perspectives for
  evidence-based policy development and practice in
  developing countriesthe Development perspective.
  
• Generating knowledge, high quality research and
  innovation in the field of conflict and
  cooperation over natural resourcesthe Knowledge,
  research and innovation perspective.
• Capacity development of institutions, groups and
  individuals, including researchers, policy makers
  and other stakeholders at different levelsthe
  Capacity development perspective.

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IPs WHO?
WOTRO Science for Global Development

• Consortia
• Southern-based research institute
• Northern-based research institute
• Southern-based non-research institute and
• Northern-based non-research institute
• Non-research Governmental, CSO, NGOs
  etc.
• Research Academic and non-academic
• At least one institute from a DGIS partner
  country
• Coordinator from one of the afore mentioned
  partners

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DGIS Partner Counties
WOTRO Science for Global Development
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IPs WHAT?
WOTRO Science for Global Development

• Three facilities
• knowledge sharing
• research
• learning, training and capacity development
• Process approach
• demand articulation
• stakeholder involvement
• feed-back and take-up of new knowledge and
  insights
• Clear objectives targets

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IPs - Knowledge sharing

• making existing knowledge available and
  accessible for stakeholders
• integrating and synthesising various sources of
  knowledge to create new knowledge

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IPs - Research

• Various components fast-track, medium-term and
  long-term projects
• Transdisciplinary, crossing disciplinary
  boundaries and involving scientific knowledge as
  well as knowledge from beyond the scientific
  community
• Research preferably conducted by post-doc and
  senior researchers

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IPs - Capacity development and training

• Activities directed to improving the capabilities
  of individuals and institutes to learn and
  innovate
• Based on partnerships and the ability to build on
  as well as generate knowledge and create a
  supportive institutional environment

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IPs - Process approach

• Demand articulation
• Initiatives rooted in the South and based upon
  context specific priorities
• Continuous and iterative process
• Stakeholder involvement
• Among and beyond consortium partners
• Feed-back and take-up of new knowledge and
  insights
• Importance of communication/communication strategy

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IPs - CLEAR OBJECTIVES TARGETS

• Key word summary
• Monitoring Evaluation
• Midterm and external midterm review
• Internal consortium/collaborators and
  stakeholders

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Eligibility

• Consortium and four partner members
• Coordinator from South or North
• Joint project formulation and execution
• Workshop 20 k
• Eligible countries and alignment
• DGIS partner country
• not jeopardize and preferably benefit and
  contribute to Dutch and national/regional
  policies
• Risk assessment and management strategy
• Monitoring evaluation and communication plan
• Formulating overall objective and related
  specific objectives, results/ activities/target
  groups/indicators

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PRELIMINARY PROPOSALS IDEA/OUTLINE
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CRITERIA

• Relevance for development
• Quality of knowledge generation and research, and
  potential for innovation
• Potential for capacity development
• Coherence and synergy in project and process
  design
• Equal weight of the four main criteria

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BUDGET

• Reimbursable costs
• Personnel Researcher/Non-researchers
• Knowledge, research and innovation costs
  durables and consumables
• Other activities related to communication and
  dissemination of results
• Non-reimbursable costs
• Overhead costs of Northern-based institutes

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BUDGET

• Specific conditions
• Max k 620 in which
• Max k 20 proposal development activities
• Max. k14 on average per year per fulltime team
  member
• Bench fee k 5/fulltime collaborator
• Self assessments mid-term and final review min .
  k 10/event
• Knowledge sharing min. 5 and max. 15
• Communication/ dissemination min. 5 and max. 15