The Call for Proposals 2010 under the Benefit-sharing Fund of the International Treaty, which will invest more than USD 10 million in projects globally, is now opened for its biennial cycle 2010-2011. Any governmental or non-governmental organization, including genebanks and research institutions, farmers and farmers' organizations and regional and international organizations, based in countries that are Contracting Parties eligible for funding, may apply for grants until 8 September 2010, 24:00 Rome time.

   The thematic focus is helping ensure sustainable food security by assisting farmers to adapt to climate change through a targeted set of high impact activities on the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture.

   This focus is achieved within the agreed priorities of the Benefit-sharing Fund, namely 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 text of the Call for Proposals 2010 has been revised on 6 August 2010. The text previously published did not contain all the modifications made by the Bureau of the Governing Body to the text of the Call. The modifications only refer to the expected size of projects under windows 1 and 2. For more information see the notification published on 6 August 2010: http://www.planttreaty.org/noti_en.htm

Text of the Call for Proposals 2010 - Corr. 2010/08/06
Annex 1 - Eligibility, selection criteria and additional requirements
Annex 2 - List of Contracting parties of the International Treaty eligible to apply to the Call for proposals 2010
Annex 3 - List of national focal points and permanent representatives to FAO of eligible Contracting parties1
Annex 4 - pre-proposal submission forms windows 1 & 2
Window 1: Strategic Action Plans
Window 2: Immediate Action Projects
Annex 5 - Information on the procedures following the submission of preproposals