SEARCA’s Graduate Study Program was initiated in school year 1968-69. Its aim is to ensure the relevance and responsiveness of Southeast Asia's agricultural scientists and professionals to global sustainable development issues.

The program provides support for advanced studies leading to the MS and PhD degrees in agriculture, forestry, and related fields. SEARCA aims to prepare highly qualified professionals working in agricultural and rural development for positions of leadership in SEAMEO member countries.

As of school year 2010/2011, SEARCA has granted 1,271 full graduate scholarships, of which 1,106 study programs (468 PhD, 638 MS) had been completed.

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Although applications are welcome from project staff in both bilateral and multilateral (IARC) projects, applicants must be citizens of a current ACIAR bilateral partner priority country. Currently, these are:
1.Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands (Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Tonga, Samoa, Kiribati)
2.South East Asia (East Timor, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Philippines)
3.South Asia (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan)
4.Northern Asia (Western China)
5.the Republic of South Africa and other African countries with ACIAR projects

Applicants must also be citizens of the country in which they are working.

To be eligible for selection, a candidate must:
a).at the time of applying, hold qualifications that would be assessed to be equivalent to at least an Australian bachelor’s degree in a discipline that is relevant to the proposed area of postgraduate study;
b).be a scientist or economist from the developing country partner, who is actively involved in a collaborative research project supported by ACIAR at the time of application (in some cases, ACIAR will consider supporting researchers from "advanced pipeline" projects, i.e. in cases where a full project proposal has been approved by ACIAR);
c).be jointly supported in the application by the Australian and partner country Project Leaders;
d).obtain approval from both the employing institution and home government training authority who must agree to the absence of the candidate should he/she receive a Fellowship for the period involved in obtaining the postgraduate qualification; and
e).demonstrate that he/she is employed on a permanent rather than short-term contract basis.

Criteria for selection reflect the aim of the Fellowship Scheme to enhance the research capacity of ACIAR’s partner country institutions. Thus, strong preference will be given to a candidate who:
1.can demonstrate that the studies he/she proposes to undertake under the award will be relevant in the short term to the general thrust of the research supported by ACIAR;
2.in the longer term, will significantly benefit the candidate’s employing institution in the partner country;
3.can demonstrate through the Australian Project Leader that placement for him or her at an appropriate tertiary institution can be assured subject to the candidate being awarded a Fellowship;
4.can demonstrate that the Australian Project Leader together with other co-supervisor if appropriate will be responsible for monitoring the awardee’s academic progression for the duration of his or her study in Australia;
5.can demonstrate that he/she has a sufficiently high level of English to be accepted into an Australian tertiary institution (English language testing can be arranged through the Country Manager). If the results of English testing suggest that limited additional training is required in order to be accepted into an Australian tertiary institution (e.g. the applicant has a least an IELTS score of 5 for each of speaking, listening, reading and writing), ACIAR may provide support for limited English training in the home country of the Fellowship applicant. ACIAR will support at most six months English training, and it is expected that any formal training supported by ACIAR will be complemented by the applicant's private study; and
6.is under 40 years of age at the time of the application.  auto insurance.

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Agropolis Fondation1 and Fondazione Cariplo2 signed on 16 September 2011 a Partnership Agreement which aims to promote joint action involving scientists and researchers from France, Italy as well as Southern and Mediterranean countries in a joint effort to contribute to knowledge sharing and scientific capacity building. For their initial collaboration, the two foundations decided to focus on rice given its centrality in both the economy and nutrition in most of the developing world where the availability of this staple crop is often equated with food security.

The first collaboration of its kind between the Milan-based Fondazione Cariplo and the Montpellier-based Agropolis Fondation, the FIRST Initiative (short for French-Italian Rice Science and Technology) is aimed at developing and supporting scientific research in the agri-food sector as well as in facilitating the emergence of excellent, innovative and potentially high-impact research on rice.

More than 3.5 billion people worldwide depend on rice for more than 20% of their daily calories. An excellent source of complex carbohydrates, it is also rich in nutrients and contains a number of vitamins and minerals. A lot of these nutrients, however, are lost during milling and polishing. More than a billion people depend on rice cultivation for their livelihoods. About 90% of rice is grown in Asia’s 200 million rice farms, most of which are smaller than 1 hectare. Rice-growing is the main economic activity of millions of rural poor in this region. Rice is the fastest growing staple in Africa with this region contributing to about 3.4% of the world’s production as is the case in South America.

Although not a major food crop in the region, rice consumption is slowly but steadily increasing in Europe. Not only the cost of rice production remains relatively high in this part of the world, there are also a number of constraints associated in producing it, e.g., low temperature, water scarcity and biotic stresses. These are similar to the limitations facing the rice producing countries in Asia and other parts of the world.

Estimates made by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) reveal that an additional 8-10 million tons of rice need to be produced annually to keep its prices stable and affordable at around US$ 300 per ton. One of the main challenges is therefore to ensure rice supply by boosting its production with less land, water, labor and other inputs, in more efficient, environmentally-friendly production systems.

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We are pleased to announce that up to 15 fully-funded scholarships (each worth over £12,000 to cover tuition fees) are available for applicants from the following developing commonwealth countries to study for our MSc Forestry by distance learning:

Bangladesh, Botswana, Cameroon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. students debt consolidation loans.

The scholarship also includes a £2,000 bursary to enable scholars to attend a compulsory 14-day study tour which will be held overseas in July/August.

This postgraduate course is primarily intended for students who already have an interest in forestry and who wish to learn more about the environmental and societal benefits that forests can provide. Suitable applicants include individuals working in forestry/forest-related industries/ natural resource management, particularly in the fields of planning, regulation, policy, monitoring and environmental protection. The course is also suited to individuals working in forestry education who wish to further their knowledge and expertise in order to improve their teaching.

The scholarships are currently only available for entrants in September 2012.

Applicants from Botswana, The Gambia, Ghana, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia do not need proof of English Language proficiency if they have studied their education through the medium of English.

In order to study this course, students must have access to a computer with internet access, as the University cannot provide these to distance learning students.Consolidation of Student Loan.

Applicants should ensure they are eligible for entry to the course before applying for a CSC scholarship.

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At the Stone Family Foundation, we want to find, reward and support new initiatives in the water sector that are innovative, entrepreneurial and potentially scalable. We hope the Stone Prize will help take promising approaches to the next level of their development.

We are looking for initiatives based in sub-Saharan Africa and South and South-East Asia that are developing sustainable and effective services to get clean drinking water to people who need it. This could be: marketing and selling low-cost household water purification technology, or using mobile phone technology to process water kiosk payments cheaply.

Our prize winners will be able to demonstrate their potential to have an impact—we’re not looking for ideas that exist only on paper or in someone’s head, but ones which have been tested on the ground in some way. The key for us is that winning applications can show that their idea works, and that applicants have the ambition and energy to take the initiative to the next stage.

Some examples of what we are looking for include:
taking a successful idea out of the laboratory and testing ways to market and deliver it in the field;
developing ways to successfully market and promote a new technology;
adapting an existing service to reach the poorest households; or
transferring a promising model into a different context or country.

The Stone Prize is open to all organisations and individuals that meet our criteria. There may be up to five prizes, and the winner(s) will receive £100,000 each.

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Indonesia Urban Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (IUWASH) is a five-year project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). IUWASH is implemented within the framework of the Comprehensive Partnership between the United States and Indonesia to improve the quality of public health through improved access to drinking water and safe sanitation.

In addition to that, The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) IUWASH Project will issue Grant Agreement(s) to help address growing urban water supply and sanitation challenges in Indonesia and would like to work with indigenous, local, non-U.S. non-governmental organizations (NGOs), locally-based U.S. NGOs, small and medium enterprises, civil society, local public and private universities, faith-based organizations and other local partners to achieve Indonesia's safe water and sanitation Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets by expanding access to these services.

In East Java region, you are invited to submit application for one or both of our Grant Program:
1) Solving Community Sanitation Problems Through STBM in East Java (RFA No 2012-EJ-001)
2) Optimizing Coverage of Existing Master Meter and Triggering Community-Led Total Sanitation (STBM) in the District of Sidoarjo (RFA No 2012-EJ-002)

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