Strategic Plan
On March 30, 2022 CORDAP’s Initiative Governing Committee approved the platform’s strategic plan prepared by its Scientific and Advisory Committee (SAC) for 2022-2025.
Focusing on research and development and committed to scalability, CORDAP-funded projects will accelerate the research and development of next-generation solutions to conserve and restore corals and reefs at much broader scale, delivering to far greater impact.
Its open-source platform model will allow anyone to advance and use the platform’s technologies, will be transdisciplinary, equitable and inclusive, and will strive for efficiency. Finally, every penny of international funding the platform receives will go directly to its R&D and other projects.
Delivering the Program
The strategic plan identifies how CORDAP will deliver the program, describes the types of projects it will fund, and outlines the proposal submissions, review processes and the priority investment areas for 2022. This strategic plan focuses on the most pressing investment needs for directing the program over its first three years of operation.
CORDAP will invest in novel early-phased ideas through to final proof-of-concept development and testing. Six investment types have been identified:
> Novel R&D projects
> Improving or scaling up existing interventions
> Translation R&D
> Scoping and planning studies
> Foundation science to support implementation of interventions
> Capacity building and local implementation
Its open-source platform model will allow anyone to advance and use the platform’s technologies, will be transdisciplinary, equitable and inclusive, and will strive for efficiency.
Finally, every penny of international funding the platform receives will go directly to its R&D and other projects.
To maximize innovation and diversity of thinking, CORDAP’s calls for proposals will be open to all submissions within its scope and investment criteria.
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