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SAGA PROGRESS REPORT (12/03-12/04) &
UPCOMING WORKPLAN (1/05-12/05)


ANNEX

IV. COMPETITIVE GRANTS RESEARCH PROGRAM

As of date, the Small Grants Program of SAGA has awarded 21 individuals with research grants. Thirteen (13) students (5 females) and 7 faculty (2 females). All the recipients of the grant are (were) based in one of the member research institutes of the Secretariat for Institutional Support for Economic Research in Africa (SISERA) during their field research period. The SISERA institutions participating in hosting these awardees include:
  1. Economic Policy Research Center, Uganda;

  2. Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, Ghana;

  3. Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania;

  4. Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches en Economie et Gestion, Cameroun;

  5. Institute of Policy Analysis and Reseearch, Kenya;

  6. Centre de Recherche Economique Appliquée, Senegal;

  7. Institue of Economic and Social Research, Zambia;

  8. National Institute of Economic Policy, South Africa;

  9. Groupe de recherché en economie appliquée et théorique, Mali;

  10. African Institute of Applied Economics, Nigeria;

  11. Botswana Institute for Developmental Policy Analysis, Botswana;

  12. Centre d’Orientation et de Recherche en Compétitivité, en Economie et en Décision Organisationnelle, Benin.
All except four of the awardees have completed their fieldwork and have submitted expense and trip reports. Seven of Year 1 awardees have completed their final report, and three of them have written papers for publication. Hence, we are observing a number of “intermediate” levels of outputs from these collaborative research efforts (See Attachment 5). These include:
  1. Carrying out applied research in collaboration with individuals in the host institutions (confirmed by those Directors who had the opportunity to host during the annual meeting).

  2. Dissemination of research results through exit seminars at the host institutions, and papers/reports and publications.

  3. Continued collaboration/communication between the U.S.-based principal researcher and both senior and junior researchers at the host institution.

  4. Creating database for the host institution.

  5. Other outputs include completion of Ph.D. degrees, publications.
Activities

During this reporting period (October 1, 2003 – September 27, 2004) we continued to remain in contact with all those returned from the field as well as with to those awardees still completing their fieldwork. More specifically, these included:
  1. Backstopping the program for those continuing to complete their deliverables;

  2. Processed and completed all the closeout budgetary and reporting activities of all of Year 1 Awardees. This included processing all relevant receipts submitted by awardees, and preparing a reimbursement packet for the awardees consisting of any and all monies due for direct expenditures incurred during their fieldwork, including the Host Institutions. We also assembled fieldwork trip reports, and provided an updated copy of the expected deliverables still due to the SAGA Research Grants Office;

  3. Modified and updated the survey instrument used in Year 1 to collect information of the research experiences of the awardees and the host institutions. We disseminated this survey instrument to all of Year 2 Awardees;

  4. Processed and coordinated the departure of 9 (out of the 11) Awardees from Year 2. And, have begun processing the return of 2 Awardees from Year 2, which includes the process of preparing their reimbursement packet and collecting their fieldwork trip reports;

  5. Up-dated the Competitive Research Grants web site. The revised version includes abstracts of all funded research projects for the last two (2) years of the grant, and field trip reports of all awardees from Year 1;

  6. Drafted a brochure, which summarizes and highlights the accomplishments of the two funding cycles.
Work Plan (October 1, 2004 – September 27, 2005)

In an effort to ensure a successful research experience for the awardees, we remain in contact with those still in the field as well as with those still completing their final reports on their projects. This requires us to not only be a backstop for all awardees who are either in the field or have returned in collaboration with the SISERA host institutions but also to follow up on deliverables and distribution of project outputs. More specifically we plan to:
  1. Advertise the opportunities under the Small Research Grant Program;

  2. Receive, process, and evaluate/review proposals;

  3. Coordinate the visit of the recipients with the research institution;

  4. Process and coordinate the return of all awardees from Year 2;

  5. Follow up and assemble all final reports and other papers from all Year 2 awardees;

  6. Conduct/complete follow up surveys with the Awardees and their respective host institutions (i.e., we will use the survey instrument used in Year 1); and

  7. Finalize the brochure.

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