Agriculture and Natural Resources Management Research Priorities
Setting Exercise
Proposed Criteria for Selecting USAID’s Collaborative
Research Support Program Portfolio
The Offices of Agriculture (EGAT/AG) and Natural Resources
Management (EGAT/NRM) in USAID’s Bureau for Economic
Growth, Agriculture and Trade have presented a Research Framework
for public comment. In addition, they are in the process of
revising Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) portfolio,
which will constitute an important portion of research under
the Framework. In the process it is important to ensure that
the new portfolio is consistent with the Framework’s
four themes and that it addresses agriculture and natural
resource management interests of developing countries to:
improve food security, increase incomes, reduce risk and vulnerability;
and promote the sustainable use of the natural resource base.
A draft set of criteria to be used in identifying appropriate
topical areas within the CRSP Portfolio is proposed below.
The public is invited to comment on these and to make specific
recommendations for a set of research themes that would comprise
a coherent and effective CRSP portfolio. Please send all questions,
comments, and suggestions by August 31, 2005 to research.feedback@usaid.gov
. USAID will consider all feedback as it designs a proposed
CRSP portfolio that will be released for further comment.
Proposed criteria
- Supports and is consistent with USAID Policies and Strategies
and Title XII legislative language and promotes USAID’s
priority of employing market-oriented strategies in agriculture
to address hunger, poverty, and environmental sustainability.
- Has potential over five years of providing significant
results with the relatively modest U.S. public foreign assistance
available by itself or in cooperation with other donors
and the private sector.
- Builds on the comparative advantage of U.S. Universities
and their partners.
- Is broad enough to allow for flexibility in responding
to emerging issues, evolving priorities, and USAID mission
or Bureau interests; but focused enough to produce a coherent
body of work that defines each CRSP and facilitates significant
engagement with partners in developing countries, in the
US, among IARCs, etc.
- Allows a “systems perspective” to research
in which relevant social, economic, political, as well as
technical consideration for development impact are, to the
extent practical, taken into account.
- Enhances the ability of the Agriculture and Natural Resources
Management Offices to provide technical leadership.
Get Acrobat
Reader
Back to Top ^
|
