Transcript Nye lysark april 2013

On Whose Terms?
Policymakers’ Reflections:
Major Challenges and Future Goals
Jesper W. Simonsen, Executive director
NFU Conference 2014 – Tromsø 1.-2.10.2014
Presenting the
NORGLOBAL II
Programme
Outline
 The Role of The Research Council of Norway
 Development Research in Norway
 The NorGlobal II Programme
 On Whose Terms?
 An interesting illustration
The Roles of The Research Council of Norway
• Adviser
• to government, institutions etc.
• research policy, themes, structure
• Financing for added value
•
•
programmes, projects, centres, scholarships,
infrastructure
basic research, thematic programmes, support
private RTD
• Meeting places
• Internationalization
www.forskningsradet.no/lysaker
The Council distributes about 30 % of public
expenditures on R&D in Norway
Public
funding
of R&D in
Norway
50%
Ministry of
Education
and Research
The Research
Council
Other
Ministries
Higher
education
sector
Institutes
Industry
Funding from all the ministries (2014)
Health
Administration
Foreign
affairs
Environment
Agriculture
Petroleum and
energy
362
329
371
269
1830
Education and
research
478
779
1312
1908
Trade, industry and
fisheries
Totalt 8048 mill. kr. (inkl. adm)
Education and
research
Cross-sectoral
Why development research?
Knowledge, competence and capacity in Norway
 to design the Norwegian development assistance to get
maximum positive impact (and to avoid damages)
 to design the global initiatives and foreign policy to get
maximum positive impact (and to avoid damages)
 to design other policies optimally taking the principle of
coherence into account.
 In other words: To use the tax-payers money efficiently
 (Drawing on the best knowledge production globally)
Capacity building in the South as a part of the
development cooperation.
A knowledgeable Norwegian population.
Development research in Norway
 Historically
 not poorly funded
 a small share to long term competence building
 a small share allocated through national competitions
 HE-institutions committed
 Ministry of research committed
 Research Council funding
 increasing
 periods of consolidation and of fragmentation
 2014: Globvac + NorGlobal + country spec. + open arenas
NORGLOBAL 2009-2014
 Poverty and Peace (PovPeace)
 CGIAR-fellowship
 Women and gender in development
 Globalisation of the environmental- energy and climate research
(Globmek)
 Research on Economic Growth, Poverty Reduction, Reproductive
Health and Population Dynamics (Econpop)
 Western Balkan Countries development research
 Tax havens, capital flows and development (TaxCapDev)
 Humanitarian policy (HUMPOL)
 Effect of aid
 Democracy and Governance in Malawi
 (NORGLOBAL/INDNOR)
NORGLOBAL-2
time line
Winter 2013/14 Summarizing experiences
Dialogue (research community)
Program development group
Summer 2014
Consultation MFA/NORAD (strategy processes)
Sept. 2014
The CEEN Report
October 2014
Divisional board: Programme committee –
Program plan basis
Winter 2014/15 First call (hopefully)
April 2015
Program plan
Sept. 2015
First projects running
NORGLOBAL-2
recommendations (1)
Programme combining long perspectives and topical
priorities
 Long perspectives on building strong research
groups/sector on prioritized long term thematic
areas within the field through
 a variety of instruments: Traditional projects, scholarships,
mobility grants, centres, infrastructure, international cofinancing, incentives for international funding
 based on a concrete analysis of the needs in the specific
area.
 Flexibility for profiling more topical priorities
without jeopardizing the long term building of solid
foundation for research of high quality.
NORGLOBAL-2
recommendations (2)
 One consolidated programme with solid funding for 8-10
years
 Knowledge and competence to understand and meet the
global development challenges, focussing on reduction of
extreme poverty
 Broad thematic areas – researcher initiated projects (+
innovation projects?)
 Support research in cooperation with countries in the South
and the best research groups in the North.
 Meeting place for researchers, policy makers and other users
On Whose Terms?
 Who should make the priorities?
 Whose perspectives are most useful to formulate and analyse
the problem?
 Useful for whom?
 Who should be involved to make the studies successful –
given their objectives?
 In terms of knowledge
 In terms of change
 What rights have people to be involved when they are
studied?
 What are the roles of the policymakers, of the academic
institutions and of the scientist?
What kind of research?
High
quality
Interesting
Valuable
Low
quality
Waste
Low relevance
Damaging
High relevance
Thank you for your attention