IAI Professional Development Seminars to develop capacity building for global environmental change science and its policy application in the Americas

该奖项满足了美洲全球变化研究所第二十一次缔约方会议上确定的美国政府捐款，《建立美洲全球变化研究所（IAI）条约》签署国同意为支持 IAI 活动的研究预算捐款。提交本提案的计划预算支持允许 IAI 理事会为多学科、跨国研究和能力建设计划提供支持。这些资金将用于支持针对美洲全球环境挑战的五场专业发展研讨会（PDS）。研讨会将探讨： 跨学科科学团队管理技能；管理热带森林的生态系统服务；安第斯国家的生态健康方法；全球变化和变异对南方共同市场国家人类健康的影响；增强农村地区的风险抵御能力。该提案的智力价值在于 IAI 在发展与 IAI 目标相关的研究能力方面的重要作用，即针对全球环境挑战开展跨学科研究的区域合作；开展任何单一国家或机构无法开展的区域相关培训；将本地区的研究机构与全球项目联系起来；提高本地区国家的科技能力和研究基础设施；促进科学数据的标准化、收集、分析和交换；向政府提供有关全球环境挑战的公共政策的科学信息。IAI 已被国务院列为《联邦雇员国际组织服务法》所指的国际组织，并受《美国法典》第 5 章的管辖。 3343 和 5 U.S.C. 3581. 目前，IAI 理事会由乌拉圭主办，设在蒙得维的亚乌拉圭技术实验室园区内，IAI 理事会作为国际公认的法人机构行使职能，并享有乌拉圭政府授予的相应特权和豁免。

This award satisfies a U.S. Government contribution identified at the Twenty-first Meeting of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, Conference of the Parties, whereby signatories of the Treaty Establishing the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) agreed to contributions towards a research budget supporting the activities of the IAI. Program Budget Support, for which this proposal is submitted, allows the Directorate of the IAI to provide support for a multidisciplinary, multinational research and capacity building program. The funds will be used to support five Professional Development Seminars (PDS) for global environmental challenges in the Americas. Seminars will explore: Transdisciplinary Scientific Team Management Skills; Managing Ecosystems Services from Tropical Forests; Ecohealth Approach for the Andean countries; Impacts of Global Change and Variability on Human Health in the MERCOSUR countries; and Building Resilience to Risk in Rural Areas. The intellectual merit of this proposal lies in the essential role of the IAI in developing research capacity in relation to the IAI's objectives to implement regional cooperation for interdisciplinary research on global environmental challenges; to conduct training of regional relevance which cannot be conducted by any single country or institution; to link research institutions of the region to global programs; to improve the scientific and technical capabilities and research infrastructure of the countries of the region; to foster standardization, collection, analysis and exchange of scientific data; and to provide scientific information to government towards public policy on global environmental challenges.The IAI has been listed by the State Department as an international organization within the meaning of the Federal Employees International Organization Service Act, covered by 5 U.S.C. 3343 and 5 U.S.C. 3581.Currently, the IAI Directorate is hosted by Uruguay on the campus of the Technological Laboratory of Uruguay in Montevideo where the IAI Directorate functions as an internationally recognized juridical personality, with the corresponding privileges and immunities granted by the Government of Uruguay.