Deadline: 9 November 2017
ACTAE Regional Project-CANSEA Component has announced a third call for proposals under its “Competitive Grant Scheme” with an aim to enhance and build durable and effective networking mechanisms to facilitate synergies among agroecology initiatives.
ACTAE is organized in two complementary components CANSEA and ALiSEA under the responsibility of CIRAD and GRET respectively and CIRAD overall coordination:
- Strengthen and institutionalize the existing conservation agriculture network in South East Asia – CANSEA – in its function of promoting Agroecology (AE) and conservation agriculture (CA) effective adoption, notably through involving a wider spectrum of stakeholders, building linkage between agroecological movements, and working to diversify funding sources.
- Promote the emergence of a new regional agro-ecological learning initiative in South East Asia- ALiSEA, aiming at strengthening knowledge and experience sharing among agroecological initiatives and actors. It will focus mainly on promoting the concept of agro-ecological transition, documenting practices at grass root level and bridging existing experiences. Out/up scaling the development and adoption of agroecological practices among farmers through training and dissemination will be supported.
Grant Information
Maximum funding will be 40 000 USD, cofounding is actively encouraged.
Eligibility Criteria
- Only proposals with a focus on agroforestry approach among agroecology will be eligible.
- The proposal should be based on a production of high economic interest for the country (ies) concerned and should aim at:
- Showing results for capitalization / demonstration even within 9 – 10 months of operational implementation of the project;
- Improving the scientific and technical knowledge for the implementation of such an agroforestry approach in a general framework of the agroecological transition;
- Providing relevant information and / or methodology for decisions by policy makers (national and provincial level);
- Offering a genericity to allow their adaptation to other value crops and other regions/countries;
- Offering a partnership between different actors and providing capacity building for national staff.
- Reporting and sharing results by an oral presentation during the Regional Conference on Agroecology that will be hold by mid October 2018 in one of the four countries.
- Activities should concern Cambodia, Laos PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam.
- All recognized institutions based in the four countries covered by ACTAE regional project are eligible.
- Implementation of activities should not exceed the deadline of the 31st of August 2018, starting from the signature of the funding contract
How to Apply
Proposals should be sent by email at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit Competitive Grant Scheme.