Enhancing Pro-poor Innovations in Natural Resources and Agricultural Value-chains (EPINAV)

Joanna Boddens-Hosang

The successor to the PANTIL programme, "Enhancing Pro-poor Innovations in Natural Resources and Agricultural Value-chains" (EPINAV), was formally launched in Tanzania on 24 February 2011.

What is EPINAV?

Launch of EPINAV at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, 23 February 2011. Photo: Stina Petersen/Norwegian Embassy Dar-es-Salaam

EPINAV emphasizes scaling up of proven technologies developed under PANTIL. The budget frame is 72 mill. NOK over a four-year-period. Similar to the set-up for the PANTIL- and CCIAM-programmes, roughly 20% of the budget will be allocated to Norwegian partners.

Activities funded include programme coordination, impact assessment, student training, exchange programmes and institutional compensation for involvement of researchers. The EPINAV-programme is restricted to include researchers from UMB, NVH and Bioforsk only.

Accepted project proposals
At the 1st Steering Committee Meeting of EPINAV on 27 July 2011, fifteen research proposals were accepted for implementation. These fifteen research projects are the result of evaluation of 47 accepted concept notes.

Five departments at UMB are involved in projects. For the full overview of the final research projects please see here.

Second call for proposals for two projects
No research proposals were submitted under Sub-theme 3 (Theme 1), i.e Basic Research, which has led the EPINAV Steering Committee to announce a second call for proposals for basic research. Read more here.

Call for strategic intervention project proposals
As quite a number of EPINAV projects have started their field activities, a call for strategic interventions proposals was announced. These strategic interventions will complement the various EPINAV projects by setting up demonstration sites for best practices/technologies. The strategic interventions are intended to add value to one or more of the approved 15 EPINAV projects, especially with regard to enhancing upscaling of proven technologies/best practices. Read more here.

An overview of activities under EPINAV (and CCIAM) for 2011 can be found here.

Relevant documents

Project profiles of approved projects (6 January 2012)

Research projects approved for funding under EPINAV (30.10.2011)

Evaluation of concept notes (7 June 2011)

First call for concept notes

Programme document

Agreement

Powerpoint presentation by Sokoine University of Agriculture at UMB, 8 February 2011

Published: 01.02.11
Updated: 20.03.12
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