DEVELOPMENT, SECURITY, AND COOPERATION
USAID Research Support Program

The Policy and Global Affairs (PGA) of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) provides technical and administrative support to the U.S.-Israel Research Programs of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Through two international collaborative research programs, the U.S.-Israel Cooperative Development Research (CDR) Program and the Middle East Regional Cooperation (MERC) Program, USAID provides research grants to scientists for the application of advanced scientific techniques and innovative technologies to important problems in USAID-targeted areas of the world, while helping to strengthen international scientific capacity. CDR grants are directed towards Israeli cooperation with developing-country scientists; currently new funding for CDR has been discontinued. MERC grants provide for collaboration between Israeli and Arab scientists.

PGA staff provides USAID with assistance in securing peer-review of research proposals and in the technical monitoring of grants for CDR and MERC. All program and funding decisions are made by USAID. For more information, please contact the Research Support Program at the below address. The NRC and USAID have cooperated since 1981 to support international collaborative research through programs such as CDR and MERC, as well as the now-completed special initiative for Central Asia and Georgia (CDR/CAR), the Program in Science and Technology Cooperation (PSTC), and the NRC Committee on Competitive Research Grants (CRG). Until recently, PSTC and CRG activities were undertaken by the NRC's Board on Science and Technology for International Development (BOSTID).

Research Support Program Staff
Maurice Fried, Program Director
Emi Kameyama, Program Assistant

Kira Mock, Program Officer

Our contact information is:
Research Support Program for USAID
Policy and Global Affairs
National Academy of Sciences
500 Fifth Street, NW, Mailstop W517
Washington, DC 20001
USA

TEL 202 334-2633
FAX 202 334-2660
EMAIL review@nas.edu

The program is managed at USAID by: Dr. David O'Brien, Program Manager