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Benefit-sharing Fund: Call for Proposals 2008

FAO/Alessandra Benedetti    The Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture opened the Call for proposals under the Benefit-sharing Fund of the International Treaty for its first biennial cycle (2008-2009).

   The Secretary of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture is pleased to inform that eleven projects were approved to be funded under the Benefit-sharing Fund of the Treaty. The decision was taken by the Bureau of the Third Session of the Governing Body, which met in Tunis on 31 May 2009 to appraise the eligible project proposals, on the basis of recommendations made by the Panel of Experts and approved the projects to be funded within the first project cycle.

   Project Proposals were invited from, and presented by, organizations based in developing countries that are Contracting Parties to the Treaty and addressed one or more of the following priorities: i) information exchange, technology transfer and capacity-building; ii) managing and conserving plant genetic resources on-farm; and iii) the sustainable use of plant genetic resources.

   The information table below contains information regarding the projects approved.

List of project approved


The Funding Strategy

Farmers/M. Hermann/Bioversity International

   The Governing Body adopted in Madrid the Funding Strategy for the Implementation of the International Treaty with the resolution 1/2006, contained in Appendix F.





pdf Funding Strategy - Resolution 1/2006
GB-1/06/REPORT. Appendix F
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   In 2007, the Governing Body adopted, as annexes to the Funding Strategy the following texts contained in Appendix D of the Report:


pdf Annex 1 of the Funding Strategy, Priorities
GB-2/07/REPORT. Appendix D.1
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pdf Annex 2 of the Funding Strategy, entitled Use of Resources under the Direct Control of the Governing Body: Draft Eligibility Criteria.
GB-2/07/REPORT. Appendix D.2
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pdf Annex 3 of the Funding Strategy, Use of Resources under the Direct Control of the Governing Body: Operational Procedures.
GB-2/07/REPORT. Appendix D.3
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   In 2009, the Governing Body adopted, by Resolution 3/2009, the Annex 4 of the Funding Strategy:


pdf Annex 4 of the Funding Strategy, Information and reporting requirements under the Funding Strategy
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