Links to Financing ARD/SRD and Proposal Formulation

General

Financing ARD - "over 200 annotated links to information on innovative funding strategies and organizations that provide funding for agricultural research in ACP countries". Part of the website of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA).

Resources for Mobilizing Funding for Development Projects by Jack K. Boyson. Comprehensive guide to sources of finance for rural development (pdf document)

Multilateral Agencies

The World Bank

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

International Fund for Agricultural Development. See also page with overview of IFAD grants and procedures.

United Nations Development Programme. See also Millennium Development Goals page, which forms the basis of many multilateral and bilateral funding priorities.

European Union:

• Directorate for Development
• Directorate for Research, and the 7th Research Framework Programme of the Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS)
• EDULINK - The ACP-EU Cooperation Programme in Higher Education -funding for capacity building.

African Development Bank

Asian Development Bank

Inter-American Development Bank

European Bank for reconstruction and Development

Bilateral donors and Development Cooperation Departments

United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID). See also their page on Funding Schemes

TheNetherlands Department for Development Cooperation. See also the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education, which has funding programmes for capacity building

Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ, Germany)

Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DANIDA)

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

International Development Research Center of Canada (IDRC) See also IDRC Internship awards

US Agency for International Development (USAID) See also USAID Advanced Training for Leadership and Skills (ATLAS) Fellowships.

Philanthropic Foundations

The Foundation Center. Gateway and secialised search engine and links to many foundations, corporate grantmakers, their interests and procedures.

European Foundation Centre, with lists of members, and Funders Online, a searcheable data base of funding sources in Europe

Large foundations that have financed much ARD and SRD:

• The Rockefeller Foundation
• Ford Foundation
• W.G. Kellogg Foundation

The International Foundation for Science (IFS)

Science and Development Network, Grants Page.

The International Section of The Royal Society. Administers a comprehensive programme of study visits, fellowships and joint projects aimed at promoting scientific collaboration between the United Kingdom and international research centres across the world.

NGOs

United Nations NGO database search engine

Organisational roles in farmer participatory research and extension: lessons from the last decade ODI. Perspectives on NGOs and their role, by John Farrington

Major NGOs active in SRD:

• Oxfam UK
• Tearfund
• CARE
• World Neighbors
• Grain

Competitive funding for ARD/SDC

The Agricultural Investment Sourcebook of the World Bank

Competitive Agricultural Technology Funds in Developing Countries. Study by the Overseas Development Institute London - Links to articles on competitive funding and examples from the South

Competitive funding of agricultural research within the World Bank, by Derek Byerlee (pdf document). Summary of World Bank experience.

See also World Bank newsletter on competitive funding and other similar publications on Agriculture and Rural development

ASARECA Competitive Grants System

Stakeholder-driven funding mechanisms for agricultural innovation. Cases from Sub-Saharan Africa by W. Heemskerk, B. Wennink (editors). 2006. Available as pdf download from the Royal Tropical Institute (The Netherlands)

Guidelines on writing proposals and proposal formulation

Short course on proposal writing from The Foundation Centre.

Guidelines for Writing a Project Proposal, from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Nicely laid out.

Proposal checklist. This checklist is primarily for use with social science and USAID proposals/procedures.

Research Awards, given by the Economy and Environment Programme of SE Asia. Example of grants from this regional funding programme, including guidelines for proposal formulation, how to design a research project and criteria for assessment.