Awarded Capacity Development Grants #2

14 June 2006

In the first subsidy round of 2006, the WOTRO Board received eight proposals. As recommended by the Capacity Development Grants committee, the Board decided to award four projects. In the second subsidy round of 2006 the WOTRO board awarded four Travel grants.

First subsidy round 2006:

Partnership grants:

• Radiation and isotopes for health of people, in particular infants, living below the poverty line in Brazil
  
• Adaptive Management of Biodiversity by Smallholder Farmers: a challenging theme for a Philippine-based, long-term Asian-European research and education programme

Travel grants

• Rattan exploitation in a comparative perspective (Travel Grant for Dr Louis Defo, Cameroon)
• Travel Grant for Dr Antoine Socpa to work in Dutch libraries and prepare two publications
  Applicants: Prof. P.L. Geschiere (ASSR), Dr A. Socpa (University of Yaoundé, Cameroon)
  Carried out in: the Netherlands

Second subsidy round:

Travel grants:

• Work visit to attend the ICOPA meeting (International Conference on Parasitiology) in Glasgow and to visit research institutes in the U.K. and the Netherlands
  Applicants: Dr. B.Y.M. Nour (University of Gezira / Blue Nile Research and Training Institute, Sudan); Dr H.D.F.H. Schallig, KIT Biomedical Research
  Carried out in: UK and the Netherlands
• Travel grant for participation in Environmental and Resource Economists congress in Japan
  Applicant: A.H. Rahim (Sudan Development Association)
  Carried out in: Japan
• Thinking Qualitatively - A workshop Conference on Qualitative Research Methodology, Canada
  Applicant: Dr. S. Zaman (BRAC University, Bangladesh)
  Carried out in: Canada
• Participation in the 2006 Annual Meeting of Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) in China
  Applicant: Dr. A.M. Cascante Marín (National Museum of Costa Rica)
  Carried out in: China