Progress on DFSG-funded Country Studies

DFSG Steering Committee Meeting Berlin September 5, 2007

Objectives for Country Studies

Support incremental work at both the macro and micro/sectoral levels that:

Analyzes the determinants of growth and the binding constraints that hinder it, with particular attention to those constraints that are most relevant to the poor, and/or Analyzes specific microeconomic/sectoral constraints that make it difficult for the poor and other excluded groups (e.g., defined by region of residence, ethnicity, gender) to participate in and contribute to shared growth.

Criteria for DFSG Grants

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Consistency with broad two categories of analysis (35 points) Technical soundness and innovation (15 points) Relevance to sectoral and country priorities and specificities (15 points) Knowledge sharing, dissemination, and capacity building (15 points) Donor and client engagement (10 points) Attention to gender issues (10 points)

Proposal and award timeline

January 24 Call for proposals March 2 submission deadline March 2 to April 12 review

PRMPR pre-screening Review committee (PRMPR & PRMED) scoring Sector board approval DFSG donor approval

April 16 announcement of awards

Awards

12 studies chosen for awards of $50K each

AFR

5 (Cameroon, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Zambia) East Asia 3 (China, Indonesia, PNG) ECA 2 (Moldova, Romania) LAC 1 (Uruguay) MENA 1 (Egypt)