Tenth Work Plan Splash
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CRSP is delighted to share news of a two-year grant extension awarded by the
United States Agency for Intenational Development (USAID). In a suspense-filled
countdown, the official extension notification arrived at Oregon State University
on July 30, 2001, just one day before the original termination date of the
CRSP grant.
The original term of the program’s current grant was from August 1, 1996, through July 31, 2001. Because of a series of annual budget cuts that began in 1998, the program had been forced to selectively address grant objectives. Had the program come to completion as originally planned, numerous objectives set out in the grant proposal would have remained unaddressed. Over the course of more than a year of negotiations, CRSP Director Dr. Hillary Egna, supported by sister CRSPs, successfully persuaded USAID to extend the program’s current grant term, thus permitting the research portfolio carried out under the current grant to fully meet planned objectives.
A new work plan—a collected set of research investigations—will accomplish that end. Development of the Tenth Work Plan began with the distribution of a request for proposals (RFP) to eligible US insitutions. The RFP invited proposals in research areas that were underrepresented in the Eighth and Ninth Work Plans, with the goal of filling in gaps in the body of research carried out under the current grant. As a result of the RFP process, approximately 45 new aquaculture research investigations will be funded and carried out in the remaining grant term.Research activities will be conducted with host country partners in Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Brazil, Peru, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh, and Nepal.
The CRSP looks forward to the work ahead and welcomes all new—and returning—participating
researchers and students to the CRSP network. Aquanews also looks forward
to continuing to showcase the progress and accomplishments of projects sponsored
by the CRSP in the next several years.
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