Research Associate Deliverables and Schedule

Research Associate Deliverables and Schedule

Contractor deliverables include attendance at the annual general meeting, presentation materials for that meeting, and annual or final reports.

All IFPRI contractors (principle investigators and review authors) are expected to attend the first four days of the AGM.  Review authors summarize their reviews in a 30-minute presentation.  Principle investigators summarize their projects in a combination of a short presentation and a “round-robin” poster session.

Meeting materials are distributed electronically to all attendees of the meeting.  These include:

  • Review authors: presentation slides
  • Principle Investigators: presentation video, presentation slides; poster; written abstract

These items should be emailed to the VP as PDF files at least two weeks before the AGM.

Principle investigators submit annual reports in the first two years of their projects and final reports in the third year.  These are due at the end of November.  Finalized reviews are also due at this time.

Research Associate Schedule:

February

Member feedback on review outlines provided to review authors

May

Project presentation, poster, and abstract due.  Review presentations due.

June

Annual general meeting (date set in prior year)

July - September

Member feedback on projects and reviews provided.  Annual project contracts sent to RAs.  (Review contracts sent on acceptance of commission).  Contract payment issued on receipt of signed contract

November

Project reports due.  Final version of current-year reviews due.  Detailed outline of next-year reviews due.