ACTIONS AT NATIONAL LEVEL

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ACTIONS AT NATIONAL LEVEL

• Proposal on criteria
• to choose ERFP activities/projects
• on national (sub-regional) level
• Elzbieta Martyniuk
• on behalf of the ERFP Steering Committee

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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

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TWO MAIN AREAS FOR ACTION

• Breed development and conservation
• programmes
• Monitoring of animal genetic resources

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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)

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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

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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

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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.)

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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 

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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
  consultants expences will be covered based on UN
  daily allowance rates.
• No honorarium included)

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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.

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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

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SELECTION CRITERIA

• 5. Selection panel members will communicate
• by e-mails.
• 6. The results will be published before the end
• of December 2002.

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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