US Government Support for IAI Core Budget 2011-2014

这笔赠款将提供2,286,000美元，作为美国政府对美洲全球变化研究所（IAI） 2011年至2014年核心预算的捐款。IAI是一个政府间机构，其核心预算由包括美国在内的19个成员国提供资金。这笔资金代表了美国政府同意的美国对IAI的自愿捐款，将用于支付IAI理事会国际工作人员工资和差旅费的59%，IAI的10名成员科学咨询委员会的差旅费，以及IAI的部分出版预算。目前的提议包括美国三年的捐款。该提案的智力价值在于IAI及其核心资金在实现IAI实施全球变化跨学科研究区域合作的目标方面的重要作用；开展或选择赞助（基于同行评议）不能由任何一个国家或机构单独开展的区域性科学项目和培训；将本地区的研究机构与全球项目联系起来；提高本区域各国的科学技术能力和研究基础设施；促进科学数据的标准化、收集、分析和交流；并为政府提供有关全球变化的公共政策的科学信息。IAI通过征集提案、同行评审和奖后监督来实施其科学项目。此外，它还积极发展跨学科和跨国家的机构和研究人员的持久网络，并正在分析和综合IAI的各种科学产出。IAI与成员国协商制定科学和政策战略，并收集和处理科学产出，以促进知情决策。在这里要求的三年支持期间，IAI将完成两个科学项目，提供最终分析、报告和对科学和政策影响的深入综合。科学-政策联系的综合将在各种出版物上发表，供不同的读者使用，并将由IAI工作人员和其他专家进行编辑。一个战略规划过程已经启动，一个新的合作科学项目将被开发出来。已经安排了五个培训项目，还将制定其他项目。超出这些网络的科学内容的更广泛的影响在于建立该地区管理大型合作科学项目的机构能力。在未来3年，IAI将继续其将跨学科的研究和教育活动联系起来的任务，并探索由国际网络产生的机会，将科学纳入其成员国的决策过程。因此，一项重要的努力将是让成员国参与科学并将其转化为政策。IAI已被美国国务院列为《联邦雇员国际组织服务法》所指的国际组织，受美国法典第5编第3343条和美国法典第5编第3581条的保护。提交本提案的核心预算支助使原子能机构理事会得以运作。目前，国际空间研究所理事会由巴西在圣保罗州圣若泽多斯坎波斯的巴西国家空间研究所（空间研究所）校园内担任东道国，国际空间研究所理事会作为国际公认的法人行使职能，享有巴西政府给予的相应特权和豁免。核心预算承诺由《建立国际投资协定》的所有缔约方作出：阿根廷、巴西、加拿大、智利、哥伦比亚、哥斯达黎加、古巴、多米尼加共和国、厄瓜多尔、危地马拉、牙买加、墨西哥、巴拿马、巴拉圭、秘鲁、乌拉圭、美国和委内瑞拉。数额由IAI协定缔约方大会年度会议协商一致确定。IAI是美国的一项倡议，旨在促进美洲科学机构在全球变化问题上的合作研究。美国国家科学基金会是白宫指定的在IAI中履行美国职责的主要美国政府机构。

This grant provides US$2,286,000 as the U.S. Government contribution to the 2011 to 2014 core budget of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI). The IAI is an intergovernmental institution whose core budget is funded through contributions from its 19 member countries, including the USA. The funding represents the US voluntary contribution to the IAI as set by agreed to by the USG, and will be used to cover 59% of the IAI Directorate international staff salaries and travel costs, travel costs for the 10-member Scientific Advisory Committee of the IAI, and part of the IAI's publication budget. The present proposal covers the US contribution for three years.The intellectual merit of this proposal lies in the essential role of the IAI and its core funding in realizing the IAI's objectives to implement regional cooperations for interdisciplinary research on global change; to conduct or select for sponsorship (based on peer review) scientific projects and 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 change.The IAI implements its science programs using calls for proposals, peer reviews and post-award monitoring. In addition it has become active in developing durable networks of institutions and researchers across disciplines and countries, and is engaging in analysis and synthesis of the IAI's varied science output. The IAI develops science and policy strategies in consultation with member countries, and collects and processes science output to contribute to informed decision making. During the three year period of support requested here, the IAI will complete two science programs, provide final analysis, reporting and an in-depth synthesis of the science and policy implications. The synthesis of science-policy links will be published in a variety of publications for different audiences, and will be edited by IAI staff and other experts. A strategic planning process has been initiated and a new cooperative science program will be developed. Five training programs have been scheduled and others will be developed. The broader implications that go beyond the science content of the networks lie in the building of institutional capacities in the region to manage large collaborative science projects. Over the next 3 years, the IAI will continue its task of linking research and education activities across disciplines, and explore opportunities generated by the international networking to insert science into the decision process of its member countries. An important effort will therefore be to engage member countries in the science and its translation into policy.BackgroundThe 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.Core Budget support, for which this proposal is submitted, allows the operation of the Directorate of the IAI. Currently, the IAI Directorate is hosted by Brazil in Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo state, on the campus of the Brazilian National Space Research Institute (INPE), where the IAI Directorate functions as an internationally recognized juridical personality, with the corresponding privileges and immunities granted by the Government of Brazil.Core Budget commitment pledges are made by the all Parties to the Agreement Establishing the IAI: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, the USA, and Venezuela. Amounts are arrived at by consensus at an annual meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the IAI Agreement.The IAI is a U.S. initiative to stimulate cooperative research on global change issues among the scientific institutions of the Americas. The National Science Foundation is the lead U.S. Government agency designated by the White House to carry out U.S. responsibilities within the IAI.