Scientific Capacity Building for Global Change Research

全球变化分析、研究和培训系统（START）将促进和支持区域合作研究网络，让发展中国家科学家以综合、多学科的方式调查全球环境变化的关键问题。此外，裁武条约组织将制定和协调各种活动，以创新方式加强传播积累的知识和专门知识，并为国际合作研究、伙伴关系和交流开辟新的途径。它们将优先重视相互耦合的人类和自然系统之间的相互作用以及科学在生态系统管理和决策中的应用。将以竞争性次级奖的形式提供支持，每年征集提案，优先考虑调查非洲和亚太区域科学计划中所述关键区域环境变化问题的多学科小组的提案。START还将与国际地圈生物圈计划（IGBP）合作，支持一个由来自非洲各地的科学家和其他利益攸关方参加的研讨会，以完善AfricanNESS科学计划，特别是设计和开展非洲全球环境变化区域综合研究的战略。加强对全球变化的区域影响和后果的了解;提高发展中国家利用这种信息进行规划和决策的能力;非洲和亚太地区的科学家队伍得到了改进和扩大，他们与美国、日本、卫生组织正在被纳入国际全球变化研究网络。

The global change SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training (START) will facilitate and support collaborative regional research networks that engage developing country scientists in investigating critical issues of global environmental change in an integrated, multi-disciplinary manner. In addition, START will develop and coordinate activities that enhance dissemination of accumulated knowledge and expertise in innovative ways and that foster new avenues for international collaborative research, partnership and exchange. They will assign priority to interactions between coupled human and natural systems and application of science to ecosystem management and decision-making. Support will be given in the form of competitive sub-awards through annual calls for proposals that will give priority to proposals from multi-disciplinary teams that investigate critical regional environmental change issues, as articulated in science plans for Africa and for the Asia-Pacific region. START will also, in collaboration with the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP), support a workshop involving scientists and other stakeholders from across Africa to refine the AfricanNESS science plan, especially strategies for designing and conducting regional integrated studies of global environmental change in Africa.Primary projected outcomes are expected to include: a direct contribution to global change science and change detection; enhanced understanding of regional impacts and consequences of global change; improved ability to use such information for planning and decision-making in developing countries; and an improved and expanded group of scientists in Africa and Asia-Pacific who partner with scientists in the United States, Japan, and other developed countries and who are being integrated into international global change research networks.