Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation

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Research Grants

Knowledge/capacity-building, the first action pillar of the Comprehensive Action Plan, includes building the capacities in regional cooperation initiatives in senior and mid level officials in CAREC participating countries and research institutes and networks in the region. To implement this, ADB, with support in part from the People's Republic of China Regional Cooperation and Poverty Reduction Fund, approved the regional technical assistance, "Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation: Capacity Development for Regional Cooperation in CAREC Participating Countries, Phase I".

The CAREC Research Grants Program aims to promote research by experts from CAREC countries in regional economic cooperation. A competitive selection process is undertaken to provide grants of up to $20,000 to researchers whose topic focuses on regional economic cooperation issue or theme in energy, agriculture/environment, trade and transport that is relevant to CAREC participating countries. Research teams must include researchers from CAREC participating countries and proposals that include teams from more than one country are given extra consideration.

The research papers will be peer reviewed, and subject to quality, CAREC will disseminate the research through publications and forums.