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rapidly review how IFS works in the present.
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present our thoughts on how we are planning to
operate in future.
IFS present
What IFS does?
Why ?
Where the focus is?
Looking at the Future?
How could we go
forwards?
Individual
competitive
research grants
Capacity
enhancement
support
IFS present
What IFS does?
Why ?
Where the focus is?
Looking at the Future?
Innovations
How could we go
forwards?
Entrepreneurs
Global debate
Knowledge for development
Critical mass of science leaders
Focus: Young scientists LIC/LMICs
Individual
competitive
research grants
Support relevant, high
quality research - locally
Capacity
enhancement
support
Expand
opportunity for
women
scientists
‘Brain drain’
IFS present
What IFS does?
Why ?
Where the focus is?
E.g. World needs to double
food supply over next 40 years,
lifting billion people out of
poverty and hunger, in ways
that are environmentally
sustainable. This requires
accelerated research,
enhanced extension services,
and improved market
infrastructure to meet food
needs
Looking at the Future?
How could we go
forwards?
Sustainable biological
resources use
E.g. Managers need efficient
and flexible ways to allocate
water among competing
quantity and quality demands
for human use (such as energy,
agriculture, fisheries, and
urban consumption) and for
healthy ecosystems (such as
forests, wetlands, and oceans).
Social context:
of peoples
livelihoods and
poverty
alleviation
options
Knowledge for development
Sustainable
water use
IFS present
What IFS does?
Why ?
Where the focus is?
Useful to pose the following
questions.
•What world are we preparing
reasearchers for?
Looking at the Future?
•What must we teach?
How could we go
forwards?
•Whom are we teaching?
•Who is teaching?
IFS present
What IFS does?
Why ?
Where the focus is?
What is on the horizon?
How could we go
forwards?
IFS future
IFS future
IFS has a strong reputation and an impressive track record, good
engagement with many scientific advisers and affiliated organisations.
Exciting opportunity to re-envision the structure and direction:
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Renew core commitments ‘to support the best men and women scientists
early in their careers and to maintain a focus on sustainable management
of biological and water resources’.
Use Results-Based Management approaches and broad participation to
envision, design, implement and monitor future efforts.
Design an effective and efficient IFS structure fit for purpose within today’s
research and development architecture.
Build our capacity for impact and secure long-term funding.
IFS future: Programmes
- Piloting support for
interdisciplinary
Programme 3:
Interdisciplinary grant
to leverage additional
funding
The programme for non - 1st time applicants aims to be a link to
larger development assistance, providing grant and capacity
enhancing support for grantees to leverage longer term financial
support by research or development agencies
The IFS foci on biological
and water resources issues
have huge relevance to
development.
By addressing, with more
clarity of purpose, the
development relevance of
IFS research, can the
organisation improve client
satisfaction, development
impact and more effectively
leverage complementary
development assistance
Successful grantees of Programmes 1 and 2 become eligible for
seed funding in support of larger grant applications from other
sources such as EU, GEF climate change funds with IFS grantee
partners or others.
Programme 2:
Interdisciplinary
grant to 3-5 IFS
grantees
An excellent way to build networks amongst young scientists and to
build capacity for interdisciplinary working is a programme to
incentivise consortia of grantees to tackle small interdisciplinary
projects with a development context.
The programme for non - 1st time applicants addresses important
development assistance themes defined (and realigned every 2
years) at the regional level, taking account of national PRSPs,
changing climate scenarios, regional agendas (e.g. Africa NEPAD,
ASERECA) to define issues of regional research and development
significance
Programme 1:
Disciplinary
research
The primary role of IFS should be to help young scientists get
established by supporting them to produce excellent science.
The programme for 1st time applicants addresses the eight
disciplines currently offered by IFS
IFS future: Programmes
- Increased emphasis on
tackling interdisciplinary
development agendas
How could this contribute to
IFS broadening its funding
base and develop links with
large-scale development
assistance or more long
term financial commitments
by development agencies?
Programme 3:
Interdisciplinary grant
to leverage additional
funding
Provide seed
funding and CES
Calls for applications for research ,
development, environment funding
(including WB Development Market Place,
EU, GEF, Climate change adaptation and
mitigation initiatives)
Increase success
rate of grantees
winning funds
Programme 2:
Interdisciplinary
grant to 3-5 IFS
grantees
Could IFS interdisciplinary
project build essential
capacity to tackle
collaboratively, broader
development agendas which
are more attractive to
development donors?
Leverage support
from international
banks/donors
International Bank/donor projects tackling climate
change, biodiversity loss, integrated water use,
supporting sustainable livelihoods, and growing
urbanisation
Research and
development
partners in search of
quality DC science
Programme 1:
Disciplinary
research
Programme 1:
Disciplinary
research
Programme 1:
Disciplinary
research
Programme 1:
Disciplinary
research
Help us to design the Future of IFS
Strategic Plan
in the Side meeting this evening in the next
room
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