ACTIONS AT NATIONAL LEVEL

Proposal on criteria

to choose ERFP activities/projects

on national (sub-regional) level

Elżbieta Martyniuk

on behalf of the ERFP Steering Committee

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE ERFP CALL FOR ACTION

To identify and support projects which:

• will initiate collaborative activities in the field of AnGR between European countries

• will reinforce ongoing collaboration and exchanges between NCs in Europe

TWO MAIN AREAS FOR ACTION:

• Breed development and conservation

programmes

• Monitoring of animal genetic resources

BREED DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION

a. In-situ– The call could support the creation of one or more groups of

countries maintaining breeds that are similar. These countries may need financial support to coordinate their actions or to exchange their experience

– Project aimed to develop proposals for joint action involving several countries sharing the same/having similar breeds of livestock

(the Central and Eastern European countries, or/and the South Eastern European countries)

BREED DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION

a. In-situ

Expected outputs:

Development of proposals for collaboration, which will ensure long-term, economically viable and sustainable conservation of AnGR through joined efforts of several countries

BREED DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION

b. Ex-situ

The call could support the creation a group of countries interested in developing ex-situ conservation programmes

The project may analyse technical, legal and practical

aspects of maintaining cryo-conservation banks

BREED DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION

b. Ex-situ

Expected outputs:

Guidelines for setting cryo-conservation banks for AnGR

(procedures for collection of genetic material, number of samples depending on species/ type of genetic material; access, use and replenishment protocols, ownership and organizational structure etc.)

MONITORING OF ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES

This area will receive

an important support from EFABIS programme

which should provide an effective tool

for establishment of databas

and creating links between databases.

Additional issues :

MONITORING OF ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES

a. Monitoring of AnGR – needs and approaches

The call could support the creation a group of countries interested in discussing and advancing their monitoring programmes

Expected outputs:

Study on ongoing AnGR monitoring programmes with recommendations identifying best monitoring practices, dimension/organization of monitoring, to provide quality input for national databases

MONITORING OF ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES

a. Monitoring of AnGR – needs and approaches

The call could support the creation a group of countries interested in discussing and advancing their monitoring programmes

Expected outputs:

Study on ongoing AnGR monitoring programmes with recommendations identifying best monitoring practices, dimension/organization of monitoring, in order to provide quality input for national databases

MONITORING OF ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES

b. Overview of available data and information on AnGR diversity in Europe

The call could support creation a group of countries willing to participate and contribute to Europe-wise analysis of data on AnGR diversity at regional level.

Expected outputs:

Study on dimension and content of available European databases concerning various aspects of AnGR and analysis of possible use of these data in evaluating animal genetic diversity at European level.

MONITORING OF ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES

c. Projects to enable direct assistance to country/group of countries in developing monitoring programmes and establishing national databases.

Assistance of a consultant appointed by RFP to support action at country level

Expected outputs:

Development of programme/ databases

TIMING

By end of September

European Regional Focal Point will launch A Call for Action

By end of October

Submission of project proposals

By end of 2002

Projects approved and financed

PARTICIPATION IN THE ERFP CALL FOR ACTION

1. Only the European National Coordinator is eligible

to submit project proposal and manage the project,

if supported

2. Priorities will be given to projects involving a high

number of countries (min 5?)

3. Deadline for submission of projects – end of October, 2002

PARTICIPATION IN THE ERFP CALL FOR ACTION

4. Maximum duration of a project – two years

5. The project proposal must be linked with one of the key priority areas

6. Maximum budget for a single project – 20.000 EURO

(Budget of the project will include travel costs, consumables and other costs. No salaries, no durable costs. 

In case of Country Assistance projects – consultant’s expences will be covered based on UN daily allowance rates.

No honorarium included)

SELECTION CRITERIA

1. Project proposals will be submitted to official selection procedure established by the NCs workshop.

2. The selection panel will include the ERFP-SC + Technical Adviser as will be proposed later. This selection panel will act for one year only.

3. The members of the selection panel will have to rank proposals according to their preference. The first proposal on the list of each member will receive score "10", the second one will receive "9" and so on. The total sum for each proposal will be calculated. The proposals having maximum score will be financed, as resources allow.

SELECTION CRITERIA

4. The criteria for selection of project proposals will include:

• Conformity with objectives of the Call

• Conformity with the tasks of the Working Group

• The technical quality and feasibility of the proposed work

• The quality of the proposed organisation and management

• The potential value and impact of the expected outputs

SELECTION CRITERIA

5. Selection panel members will communicate

by e-mails.

6. The results will be published before the end

of December 2002.

SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL

Proposals should be clear and concise

(3 pages max.) and include:

Page 1:

• Title of the project

• Coordinating country, institution and name of project manager

• List of participating countries (institutions/participants)

•Total amount required and duration of the project

SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL

Page 2:

Objectives of the project, description of work, milestones for each year, expected outputs

Page 3:

Breakdown of the budget, total amount requested, amount for each country

(The financial support includes the costs of meetings of the partners, preparation and exchanges of data and material between partners, the cost of publishing and disseminating of the results of the work. It cannot include costs of manpower and durable equipment)

OUR TASK FOR TODAY

Discuss and reject/amend/accept the SC proposal for the Call for Action

Identify leaders for specific project areas

Indicate interest in participation in given project/ activities of the Working Group

LETS TRY TO GET ORGANIZED TODAY

Time is running faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast

We MUST allocate money from this year RFP budget by the end of 2002

We NEED QUALITY PROJECTS

if we hope for further financing of ERFP

PLEASE CONTRIBUTE

FLOOR IS OPEN FOR VOLUNTEERES

PROJECT LEADERS

THANK YOU