Seven CoCooN Integrated Projects awarded
6 July 2010
The first call of the CoCooN programme – Conflict and Cooperation over Natural Resources in Developing Countries – has resulted in the awarding of seven Integrated Projects. Each of the awarded projects demonstrates integration and synergy of three perspectives: a clear development perspective, high-quality knowledge and research, and capacity building. All with the same purpose, to adequately manage, resolve and learn from conflicts over natural resources.
The Cocoon Steering Committee received 45 proposals. Seven projects were awarded grants. These projects will start with a working programme of two years. Successful projects may apply for extension of their activities through a second call (up to one million Euro per project) for a maximum duration of five years in total.
Early December 2010 a kick-off seminar of the CoCooN programme will be organised. At this seminar the consortia of the awarded projects will be invited to present and discuss their projects. Please stay informed through the website or the news flash (click here to register).
Awarded projects
The following projects have been awarded with a grant:
- Small-scale gold mining and social conflict in the Amazon: Comparing states, environments, local populations and miners in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Suriname (GOMIAM)
- Re-incorporating the excluded: providing space for small-scale fishers in the sustainable development of fisheries of South Africa and South Asia
- Land Grab and Dwindling Water Resources: Reconciling competing claims and conflicts over natural resources in Africa’s dry lands, specifically Kenya
- Nationalization of extractive industries, conflict and co-operation in Bolivia and Ecuador
- Assessing the socio-economic implications of industrial biofuel plantations: Repercussions of Jatropha curcas on rural land use alienation and conflict escalation in Ghana and Ethiopia
- Lands and Rights in Troubled Waters - Land-use change, environmental harm and human rights violations in Colombia and Brazil: the case of the Cauca and Tapajós basins
- Groundwater in the Political Domain
CoCooN is a new international programme funded by the Directorate General of Development Cooperation (DGIS) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The programme is part of the NWO Conflict & Security theme.
The programme aims to provide contributions to evidence-based policy development, interventions and practices in the field of conflict and cooperation over natural resources, and to adequately manage, resolve and learn from conflicts and cooperation over natural resources through the funding of projects that combine providing access to and sharing of knowledge, research and learning into a continuous, iterative process.
More information
For more information visit the programme site: www.nwo.nl/cocoon