Component 2: South-South dialogue and intra-regional learning
The specific objective of this Call for Proposals is to select a regional organisation which will be the lead organisation for the strengthening of South-South dialogue and intra-regional learning.
It is expected that a regional level organisation will become the lead organization for this component. It will be responsible for forming a regional network of the institutions involved in technology transfer, and will be tasked with arranging regional experience-sharing, promotion and dissemination of the programme results, and workshops between network members.
Component 2 will work in close conjunction with actions taking place under Component 1.
The organisation will be responsible for including the organisations implementing projects under Component 1 into the above-mentioned regional network. The Component 2 will facilitate their regional collaboration, information exchange and training in order to maximize the value of Component 1 actions.
The priorities for this Call are :
- Building south-south linkages to enable technology exchange
- A regional network of implementing organisations
- Targeted, pro-poor market research to improve trade relations and opportunities within the regional to improve (cross-border) trade as part of the ‘opportunity-led’ approach.
The deadline to submit applications is 19 January 2011. For more, visit this link.
