Transcript Potential Funding Sources for Climate Vulnerability Index

Potential Funding Sources
for Climate Vulnerability
Index Project
CVI Workshop
Guayaquil, Ecuador
March 23, 2005
EPA
The Impact of Climate Change & Variability on
Human Health
“Research on the consequences for human health of
global change -- including climate, climate variability,
land-use, economic development, and technology”.
 Us: Human health as a measure of Vulnerability to
Climate Change?
 Eligibility: Public and State controlled institutions of
higher education
 Award Ceiling $600,000.00 (4 in total)
 Application Receipt Date: March 24, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
 http://fedgrants.gov/Applicants/EPA/OGD/GAD/2005STAR-E1/Modification2.html
 http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2005/2005_hsa_impacts_resea
rch.html
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USDA (Foreign Service)
Scientific Cooperation Research Program
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“Long-term & short-term international collaborative research &
exchanges that address concerns for food security, environmental
stewardship, and agricultural trade”. Focus on “mutual strategic
goals of USDA and its worldwide partners. SCRP projects promote
the enhancement of agricultural producers’ economic
opportunities, protection from agricultural pests and diseases,
food safety, nutrition and health, rural quality of life, and the
environment.”
Us: CVI addresses food security, nutrition, health, environmental
stewardship, quality of life, etc., in holistic way.
Eligibility: U.S. scientists affiliated with a college or university
$45,000.00
Mar 15, 2005
http://fedgrants.gov/Applicants/USDA/FAS/FAS/USDA-GRANTS122904-001/Grant.html
USAID
United States-Mexico Training, Internships,
Exchanges and Scholarships Initiative
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“A successful application: (1) training to build capacity in eligible focus
areas (detailed below), as identified by the Mexican institution and
local stakeholders; (2) appropriate persons selected through a fair,
transparent process; approximately half of training opportunities and
scholarships offered to women; (3) training responsive to institutional
& development priorities; (4) oversight provided by both institutions;
(5) trainees return to work in Mexico within a defined timeframe, to an
established setting with follow-on support and monitoring from partner
relationship; (6) private sector, NGO, and local government
engagement in partnership with significant cost-share contributions.”
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Our proposal could fit in: Focus Areas 3) Environment (Oaxaca,
Chiapas, Tabasco, & Veracruz; this might not be useful for San Pedro),
4) Rural Prosperity for Small-Scale Producers; and 5) Health.
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Eligibility: U.S. higher education institutions
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10 applications, $500.000 each
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DEADLINE: April 15, 2005
The Christensen Fund
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Back locally grounded efforts to elucidate relationships between
culture & environment; to strengthen world's capacity to maintain
cultural & biological creativity and diversity, by:
(1) convening diverse entities involved in a given field to explore
ideas & approaches that could form part of long-term strategies (2)
experimenting with innovative approaches that need testing or
development (3) building relationships with key organizations or
groups, or (4) making timely but small investments in key
institutions in priority regions.
Regional focus: The Greater Southwest (USA and NW Mexico),
Central Asia, Turkey and Iran, The African Rift Valley (Ethiopia),
Northern Australia.
Us: Vulnerability and resilience
Eligibility: U.S. 501(c)(3)s or similar not-for-profit organization,
government unit, university or museum, either in U.S. or abroad
$100.000 of one year or less duration.
DEADLINE: January 15th (1st quarter) and March 31st (2nd quarter) .
http://www.christensenfund.org/frame_grants.html
Potential Sources not directly
applicable to us, but worth a look
for possible project partners
EU: 6th Framework Program
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Objectives: promote scientific and technological
cooperation between undertakings, organizations, and
researches from third countries and from the Community
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Us: ?
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Any other country may participate project-by-project if in
conformity with interests of the Community and on a selffinancing basis, only if its participation is also of
substantial added value for implementing all or part of
the specific programs in accordance with its objectives.
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The CVI project has partners in Europe, esp. through
HELP & CPWC
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http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/calls.cfm
START Program
(Co-funded by IGBP, IHDP,WCRP)
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ONLY FOR AFRICAN INSTITUTIONS
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Establish and foster regional networks of
collaborating scientists and institutions in
developing countries, who asses environmental
change and vulnerabilities to it.
Swedish Funding Institutions
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Numerous opportunities for institutions in
developing countries collaborating with Swedish
Universities
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Swedish South Asian Studies Network
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Sida's Developing Country Research Council
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Mistra (Swedish Foundation for Strategical
Environmental Research)
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Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)
Other future possibilities that
might apply
Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations
to Climate Change (AIACC) in Multiple
Regions and Sectors
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To try in approximately one year (they’ll have
funding), for institutions in developing
countries mostly
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Eligibility mostly for project partners in
developing countries.