Selection Criteria for Research Grant Allocation

Research and capacity development partnerships between the PRGA Program and partner institutions will be based on the following selection criteria:

1. Collaborations should have strategic relevance to the goals of the PRGA Program
2. Priority will be given to partnerships that are most likely to contribute to concrete outputs contained in the PRGA logframe
3. To the extent possible, all collaborative activities should contain a co-financing arrangement
4. Priority will be given to regional networks over individual institutions or members of organizations
5. All proposals are encouraged to have a strong gender focus.
6. The proposal of the collaborating institution or project should contain and be guided by the following:
   • A clear and focused research issue and workplan
   • Evidence that the project will work with farmers' organizations or groups
   • Explicit consideration for issues social inclusion, particularly based on gender and difference, in the proposed research
   • A strategy for multidisciplinary team work involving social and natural science skills
   • A plan to build on farmers' skills and capabilities such as experimentation, organizational capacity etc.
   • A plan for monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment
   • A clear definition of the roles of all partners in the research and capacity-building process
   • The statement of resources available and resources required
   • A plan for sustaining project activities at community and organizational level beyond the proposed project cycle
7. Grant recipients should be willing to:
   • Provide an accounting of how project resources will be allocated among their partners
   • Participate in comparative analysis across Program funded projects
   • Implement interventions agreed upon jointly
   • Monitor impact using similar procedures and indicators and process documentation
   • Organize, yearly, a broad-based PRGA seminar/workshop in their respective organization
   • Share experiences in planned international workshops organized by the PRGA Program and submit research findings for peer review
   • Co-publish with local partners and with the PRGA Program
8. Recipient institutions and their partners can expect to gain:
   • Information on impact of PR&GA for agricultural research
   • technology development Exchange of information and experience with a wider research Network and through inclusion in Program's community of practice in plant breeding, natural resource management, gender analysis, institutional change and impact assessment
   • Lessons and 'best practices' about what works and what doesn't work for PR&GA methods and its institutionalization
   • Enhanced capacity for implementing PR and GA methods; assessing Impact for Learning and Change; institutionalizing PR and GA methods through organizational change
   • Opportunities to publish research results