Eastern and Southern Africa Higher Education Centers of Excellence Project

Proposal Submission Form

This form should be filled electronically in reference to the Eastern and Southern Africa Higher
Education Centers of Excellence Project (ACE II) description and the evaluation criteria outlined
in the ACE II Evaluation Protocol, both of which are available at http://ace2.iucea.org. The
proposal length should not exceed 40 pages (Times New Roman font 12 and font 10 in tables, single
space).

This Proposal Submission Form comprises 13 Sections as follows:

1. Basic Institutional and Proposal Information, including a summary of the proposal that should
not exceed 350 words
2. SWOT Analysis of the Proposal
3. Development Challenge to be addressed by the proposed Center of Excellence (ACE) and
Objectives of the proposed ACE
4. Expected Results of the Proposed ACE
5. ACE Action Plans for each core activity:
5.1 Learning excellence
5.2 Research excellence, predominantly student centered applied research
5.3 Quality Assurance
5.4 Equity dimensions
5.5 Attracting regional students and academic staff
5.6 Regional and national academic partners
5.7 Regional and national sector partners including the private sector
5.8 International academic partners
5.9 Management and governance
5.10 Sustainable financing
5.11 Monitoring and Evaluation System
6. Use of Existing Physical Resources
7. Academic Staff Resources and Training
8. Implementation Capacity, Arrangements and Plans
9. Implementation Plan of Each Action Plan
10. Main Cost Items of the Proposal
11. Implementation Risks
12. Additional Information
13. Agreement of Key People in the Proposal Implementation Team

Required Attachments:
1. Strategic Plan
2. Curriculum Vitae of key personnel:
a. The Institutional Leader
b. The proposed Center Leader
c. The 2-4 Principal teaching and research members
3. Letters of Support:
a. From regional and national partners
b. From companies and knowledge partners involved in the industry/sector
c. From partner international universities and institutions
4. List of large project(s) which were implemented by the institution/proposed ACE in the
past five years (2010-2014) including total funding of the project(s) in US$.
5. List of other large project(s) which will be implemented by the institution/proposed ACE
over the 2016-2019 period including total funding of the project(s) in US$.

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 6. External auditor’s reports and annual reports for the last two fiscal years

As a general guidance, proposals are expected to address regional development priorities in the
areas of STEM1, agriculture, health, and STI2 and quality of education, and applied statistics, as
listed below. In each of these four areas, proposals should strive to achieve a balance of programs
that address critical developmental needs especially in the areas of energy, extractives,
manufacturing, and railway engineering.

STEM:
 Energy – wind/hydro-power, geothermal and solar-energy, energy generation/transmission etc.
 Value addition / Extractives – oil and gas sector, mining
 Urban design and construction/Infrastructure, transportation and logistics
 Disaster/risk analysis and management, hydrology and water purification
 ICT – soft/hardware, applications, services, and teaching/learning,
 Product design, manufacturing,
 Railway engineering
 Marine and ocean engineering
 Unspecified (room for innovation)

Agriculture:
 Agribusiness (crop and livestock sciences, agricultural engineering, agro/food processing and
packaging; value chain)
 Climate and environmental smart agriculture
 Agricultural land management
 Water resource management, hydrology and irrigation
 Marine and ocean sciences
 Unspecified (room for innovation)

Health:
 Pharm-bio technology – drug discovery, science-driven traditional medicine, and development
 Bio-medical engineering – implant development, hospital infrastructure, and tissue-engineering
 Bio-physics / bio-chemistry – diagnostic tools
 Molecular biology – infectious diseases, vaccine development
 Emergency medicine and trauma (with a focus on traffic injuries and deaths) and nutrition
 Unspecified (room for innovation)

STI and Quality of Education, and Applied Statistics:

 Quality of Education – including innovations in STEM teaching/learning/curriculum development,
assessment and management tools, e-learning and education tools, and creative design thinking
 Applied statistics – big data, bioinformatics, data mining, reliability modeling, research design,
evidence-based policy analysis

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Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
2
Science, Technology and Innovation
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Summary of the ACE Proposal (should not exceed 350 words)

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Section 1: Basic Institutional and Proposal information

Originating Institution (s):

Center of Excellence Name (and acronym):
Total Amount Requested (US$):
Co-Financing from other sources both cash and in-kind contributions (including core funding) (US$):
Main Departments/Units involved in the Center
Contact Details

Position Name Address Office Phone Mobile Email

Head of Institution
Proposed Center Leader
Deputy Center Leader/Principal
investigator

Basic Institutional Information (this institutional data should include data from the last 5 years):
Main Departments participating in the proposed ACE: Academic Staff and Students

Academic Name of No. of Academic Non- Academic Staff Qualifications No. of Students
year Department/ Units Staff (full- time National PhD Master Bachelor Others Total Female Non-
equivalent) (% of total) (% of total) (% of total) ( Specify) (% of total) national
Segregated at (% of total)
BSc, MSc and
PhD level
2014/15
2013/14
2012/13
2011/12
2010/11

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 Academic Programs offered for 2014/15 relevant to the proposed ACE:
Enrolment No. of Program Accreditation Last Year of
Level (Bachelor, Duration
S/N. Title of Program 2014/15 Graduates (Yes/No) Accreditation
Master or PhD) (Years)
(all classes) 2013/14
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Note: add rows as required.

Institutional budget [in national and international (where applicable) currency] for the last two fiscal years:

FY 2013/14 Other revenue (if large include

Government Revenue from source; include international
Total budget Tuition and other student fees
subvention consultancies funding for both education and
research projects/programs with
from international partners)
National

International

FY 2014/15 Other revenue (if large include

Government Revenue from source; include international
Total budget Tuition and other student fees
subvention consultancies funding for both education and
research projects/programs with
from international partners)
National

International

Note:

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Section 2: SWOT Analysis of the Institution/Proposed ACE

Briefly provide a SWOT analysis of the proposal using the table below:

Strengths Weaknesses

Opportunities Strategic question: which opportunities Strategic question: which

can be explored through the strengths of opportunities may help overcome
the institution/proposed ACE? weaknesses of the
institution/proposed ACE?

Threats Strategic question: how can the Strategic question: to which

institution/proposed ACE use its threats is the institution/
strengths to reduce its vulnerabilities? proposed ACE particularly
vulnerable and how can it
overcome these?

Guidance: The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that arise from internal and external
factors: government policies, industry needs, international best practices. This should be an analysis
at the institutional level (host institution).

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Section 3 Development Challenge and Objectives of the Proposed ACE
.
1. Briefly state the development challenge that the proposal is designed to address in your
institution.
Guidance: Describe the importance of the development problem

2. Describe how this proposal if funded would contribute to addressing the development
challenge
Guidance: In the description kindly keep in mind expected results from the project, notably
describe how graduates, applied research and outreach/collaboration proposed will
address the development challenge. It is very important that there are clear and logic
causality between stated challenges and suggested actions to address these challenges.

3. Describe the role of partner institutions in successfully addressing the development

challenge, jointly with and under the guidance of your own institution.

It might be useful in assessing partnerships to use the sorting matrix below:

Category/type of Key Partner Partner Associate Partner

partnership
Advanced knowledge institution

Private sector national

Private sector international

Peer universities national

Peer universities regional

Peer universities international

Research institutions national

Research institutions regional

Research institutions
international

Others

Be sure that you clearly define what you mean by the different types of partnerships. The different
types of partnerships are as follows:
 A Key Partner is one that brings added value to the program, helps to define the partnership
goals, benefits from budget allocation and contribution, and is involved in decision making.
 A Partner is one that brings added value to the program but does not necessarily get financial
benefit e.g. industrial partner
 An Associate Partner is a community partner that helps in the implementation of the
program, e.g. outreach program partner.

What do you expect from each partner? What can they expect from you as the host institution?
How/to what degree will you involve them in decision making? Are Key Partners represented in
your governing bodies? Will Key Partners be invited to the annual meetings and will you cover the
cost? Can Partners and Associate Partners participate in annual meeting as observers at own cost?

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4. All decisions, except the initial screening, should to the degree possible, be discussed and
agreed upon with the partner in question.

5. Describe existing similar centers of excellence in your country or in neighboring countries

with the same objective (if any)
Guidance: Describe (i) initiatives by other higher education institutions in Eastern or
Southern Africa that train people and perform research within the proposed areas and (ii)
to which degree are these institutions part of the proposal?

6. Describe how your Center’s proposal fits into (i) your Institution’s overall Strategic Plan,
(ii) your overarching/parent institution’s/line ministries Strategic Plan and (iii) your
country’s or regional organization’s Strategic Plan (attach Strategic Plans if and when
appropriate).

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 Section 4: Expected Results of the Proposed ACE

Guidance: Please fill in the table below (being as precise as possible). See the project description, development objectives and results framework for more
clarity in the reference material. Insert annual targets and milestones. All proposed activities should align to this.

Objective Indicator Baseline Baseline Annual Targets Annual Targets Annual Targets Annual Targets
(2014) (2015) (2016) (2017) (2018) (2019)
1. Strengthen Number of new students in
Education ACE courses (30% must be
Capacity regional students*):
excellence –
quality and  New PhD students (%
productivity female) (% regional)

 New Master students

(% female) (%
regional)

 New short term (min.

40 hours) (% female)
(% regional)

2. Strengthen No. of academic staff with

Education at least 1 month internship
Capacity & in a private sector company
Development or a local institution
Impact relevant to their field/
sector (% female)

No. of Students with at

least 1 month internship in
a private sector company
or a local institution

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 relevant to their field/
sector (% female)

No. of internationally
accredited education
programs including sub-
regional accreditation

No. of students employed

by industry

No. of students who create/

start businesses

No. of students employed

by universities as faculty
members

3.Strengthen Number of internationally

Research peer reviewed research
Capacity publications in disciplines
excellence – supported by the ACE
quality and Program
productivity
No. of new research
collaboration in region

No. of students employed

by research organizations

No. of patents, invention

disclosures, trademarks
and copyrights

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4.Strengthen Amount of externally
education and generated revenue by the
research ACEs
capacity
(through
increased
financial
sustainability)
and
demonstration
of value to
students and
partners

*This refers to students from outside the ACE hosting country

Presence of Innovation and Industry Clusters in Geographical Proximity to the Institution

Are there any innovation/industry clusters that collaborate with your institution?
If yes:
1 Where are they located?
2 What types of activities are they doing?
3 Are there any existing interactions between
the cluster (s) and your institution?
4 Institutional set up, focus, structure and on-
going activities of the cluster (s)
5 Contribution of the cluster (s) to SMEs and
entrepreneurship development
6 Financing arrangements and sustainability
strategies for the cluster (s)

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Section 5: ACE Action Plans (Limited to 22 pages in total – 2 pages maximum per action
plan)

Guidance: Develop, for each action plan, key activities that will be undertaken during the project,
their purposes, and the ways in which they will interact (based on your institution´s results
framework for this proposal). This should include, for instance, a description of new courses and
electives to be offered as part of the Center of Excellence; the credentials, role, and length of stay
of any visiting professors or technical experts; the contribution of any visiting professors; use of
any requested pedagogic and library materials; and the role and expected use of any laboratory
equipment requested.

5.1 ACE Action Plan to achieve Learning Excellence (Maximum 2 pages for this section)

Guidance: Describe key activities that are needed for achieving learning excellence. These include
offering new masters and PhD programs, new electives, short term courses for industry and
government professionals, finishing courses, new and innovative ‘teaching & learning’ approaches
(e.g. team-based learning, case based learning, experiential learning) and/or methods, reviewing
curricula [both the content (what they learn) and the context (how they learn)], institution and/or
program accreditation, investment into new laboratories, purchase of learning equipment, and
minor rehabilitation of existing facilities, upgrading of academic staff, amongst others. Please
include the use of ICT in delivering Learning Excellence.

Describe briefly to which Objectives and Results each action plan will contribute:

Describe in detail what this action plan entails:

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5.2 ACE Action Plan for Research Excellence (Maximum 2 pages for this section)

Guidance: Describe key activities that are needed for achieving research excellence. These include
scaling-up masters and PhD programs, industry and/or international research collaboration, joint
research programs, purchase of research equipment, academic staff development, research grant
pools, incentives based on achievement such as publications in highly ranked journals, and field
studies, amongst others. (Note that incentives do not have to include direct monetary benefits, but
can include study abroad, research visits and other non-salary incentives). Please include the use
of ICT in delivering Research Excellence.

Describe briefly to which Objectives and Results each action plan will contribute:

Describe in detail what this action plan entails:

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5.3 ACE Action Plan for Quality Assurance (Maximum 2 pages for this section)

Guidance: Describe key Quality Assurance instruments and processes to ensure maintenance
of teaching and research excellence. This would include policies, guidelines, benchmarks,
quality assessment tools, data collection, peer review processes, financing of quality assurance
systems and processes.

Describe briefly to which Objectives and Results this action plan will contribute:

Describe in detail what this action plan entails:

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5.4 ACE Action Plan regarding Equity Dimensions (Maximum 2 pages for this section)

Guidance: Describe key activities that are needed to ensure an equitable distribution of excellent
and high-quality teaching & learning and research efforts among qualified national and sub-
regional academic partner institutions. Include the leading role of the ACE to ensure broad-based
approaches to: gender equity; engagement of people with disabilities, marginalized rural
communities, and scientific capacity-building across the country and possibly sub-regionally,
preventing isolated academic ivory-tower excellence, ensuring social relevance and enhancing as
wide a joint scientific constituency as possible.

Describe briefly to which Results this Action Plan will contribute:

Describe in some detail what this action plan entails, either comprehensively across sectors and
academic disciplines, or individually per sector and academic discipline, or by scientific topic
selected:

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5.5 ACE Action Plan for Attracting Academic Staff and Students from the Region (Maximum
2 pages for this section)

Guidance: Describe key activities that are planned to attract academic staff and students from the
region. These include information outreach/marketing to potential students, academic staff and
researchers from around the region, potential student, academic staff and researchers flows from
academic partner institutions in the region, partnership agreements with companies (regarding
both R&D relevant to the companies concerned and targeted education for graduate needs of the
companies concerned), sector organizations, and governments for short term training of working
professionals, etc. This section could also describe the activities planned to facilitate broad
regional student attendance, such as language support and support for relocating, as well as
institutionalized academic staff and students exchange and mobility, regional or international
academic programs or research projects. Similarly, outreach programs to strengthen academic
partner institutions in more remote areas, fragile states and neighboring countries may be included
here.

Describe briefly to which Objectives and Results this action plan will contribute:

Describe in detail what this action plan entails:

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5.6 ACE Action Plan for National and Regional Academic Partners (Maximum 2 pages for
this section)

Guidance: Describe key activities that would engage with and contribute to enhanced learning and
teaching performance and research performance in national academic partner institutions (specific
national academic partners – e.g. by discipline or specific inter-disciplinary orientation), and,
where suitable, regional academic, scientific or professional partner institutions (e.g. in
neighboring countries).

Describe briefly to which Objectives and Results this action plan will contribute:

Describe in detail what this action plan entails:

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5.7 ACE Action Plan for National and Regional Sector Partners (Maximum 2 pages for this
section)

Guidance: Describe key activities that would engage with and contribute to enhanced learning and
teaching performance, and research performance, in national sector partner institutions (specific
national academic or research sector partners – e.g. by sector or specific inter-sectoral orientation,
such as national agricultural research institutes or national medical research institutes that may
not be directly affiliated with an academic or university establishment), and, where suitable,
regional academic, scientific, industrial and private sector or professional sector partner
institutions (e.g. in neighboring countries). This also includes collaboration with line ministries.

Describe briefly to which Objectives and Results this action plan will contribute:

Describe in detail what this action plan entails:

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5.8 ACE Action Plan for Collaboration with International Academic Partners (Maximum 2
pages for this section)

Guidance: Describe key activities envisaged to ensure close collaboration with high-quality
international partners. These include both short-term and long-term academic staff exchange and
joint research projects and scientific publications between the ACE and universities and research
institutions elsewhere in Africa and in other continents worldwide.

Describe briefly to which Objectives and Results this action plan will contribute:

Describe in detail what this action plan entails:

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5.9 ACE Action Plan for Management and Governance (Maximum 2 pages for this section)

Guidance: Describe key measures, structures and activities (to be) undertaken to ensure that
academic governance remains free from political or ‘special interest’ influence (e.g. regarding
academic appointments) and allows the pursuit of both learning & teaching and research in as free
an academic and scientific environment as possible. In addition, describe management activities
designed to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of teaching and research performance,
including the enabling environment for both. Please include the use of ICT management and
governance of the grant.

Describe briefly to which Objectives and Results this action plan will contribute:

Describe in detail what this action plan entails:

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5.10 ACE Action Plan for Sustainable Financing (Maximum 2 pages for this section)

Guidance: Describe key activities that are needed to ensure sustainable financing. These include
core financing, tuition for popular professional development courses, contracted research,
consulting fees, research grants, funding for joint international research projects and programs,
fundraising and donations, e.g., alumni contributions.

Describe briefly to which Objectives and Results this action plan will contribute:

Describe in detail what this action plan entails:

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5.11 ACE Action Plan for Monitoring and Evaluation (Maximum 2 pages for this section)

Guidance: Describe mechanisms for setting up a reliable and functioning monitoring and
evaluating activities and results of action plans of the ACE. This is vital for your ability to verify
that you have achieved the Disbursement Linked Indicators3.

Describe briefly to which Objectives and Results this action plan will contribute:

Describe in detail what this action plan entails:

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Disbursement Linked Indicators (DLIs) are used by performance-based financing to ensure
certain development objectives are achieved. Funding will be disbursed once DLIs are fulfilled.
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Section 6: Use of Existing Physical Resources

List existing and relevant major resources in your department, unit or institution that will be used
in the project. These may include special equipment, existing laboratories, library collections or
journal subscriptions. These will be important for judging the proposal’s potential contribution to
efficiency improvement.

Resource Currently Used For and By Proposed Project Use

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Section 7: Academic Staff Resources, Capacity Building and Visiting Academic Staff
/Industry Experts Plan

First, please summarize the main existing academic staff expertise that the Center of Excellence
will use and further build upon, to provide up-to-date high quality teaching to students and conduct
novel applied research (reference could be made to the CVs attached). Please also include their
teaching and supervision expertise and their experience with student centered learning techniques
such as experiential leaning approaches as well as use of ICT in learning.

Second, please list in summary form, the main areas where you see need for further capacity
building of your academic staff through formal and informal training.

Third, what are the expected benefits of receiving visiting academic staff from within the region
and from international collaboration as well as use of industry experts in teaching and training?
(Relate these to the relevant action plans in Section 5).

Type of Academic Area of Expertise Comment (benefits)

Staff/Experts
(existing, visiting,
new, industry etc.)

Note: Add lines as needed

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Section 8: Implementation Capacity, Arrangements and Plans

1. Describe the overall implementation capacity and arrangements set up to implement this
proposal.

Guidance: (i) Describe which colleges/academic departments will be involved in the operations of
the Center of Excellence, how will the coordination be managed, and specifically who will be in
charge of the center. (ii) Describe actions, if needed, to ensure adequate capacity, including
necessary hires, systems, purchases, policy changes, or training programs.

2. Academic management

Guidance: Describe how academic quality will be ensured in research and teaching. Will the
university’s existing policies apply to the center? Will existing university offices have a monitoring
function? Specifically which offices and which functions will be involved?

3 Administration, including financial, procurement, and environmental aspects

Guidance: How will the administration of the Center of Excellence be undertaken? Will the
university’s general administrative policies apply to the Center? How is the central
administration’s current capacity to service the Center, especially in regard to financial
management, procurement and HR/staffing? If inadequate what are the mitigation strategies for
this? Will the Center management have the necessary fiduciary capacity in terms of staffing and in
terms of knowledge both centrally and locally, including financial management, procurement and
environmental capacity? Summarize prior experiences with donor-funded projects to the extent
relevant.

Specific questions on Financial Management include:

a) Provide the qualifications and experience in accounting of the staff who will account for the
Centers of Excellence funds (centrally and locally).
b) Provide the audited account reports for the last two years of the institution

Specific questions on Procurement include:

a) Provide the qualifications and experience of the procurement staff (procurement officers, head
of procurement department and other responsible designated officials) who will process
purchases for the proposed Center of Excellence
b) Provide a typical example of a recent challenge in procurement at your institution (for
example how bottlenecks are overcome, how timelines in procurement are adhered to, how
technical requirements are prepared, if an outside technical consultant is used, how laboratory
equipment is purchased, etc.)

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 Section 9: Implementation Plan of each ACE Action plan

Description of Activities Year 1 Year 2 Year 3

1st 2nd Qtr. 3rd 4th 1st 2nd Qtr. 3rd 4th 1st 2nd Qtr. 3rd 4th
Qtr. Qtr. Qtr. Qtr Qtr. Qtr. Qtr Qtr. Qtr.

Example: Program Cont. Start of one week one one week one week
Start of short term training programs design and one course week course course
of faculty of nursing schools in outreach week course
emergency obstetrics course
Example: Start of new electives Curriculum Lab and Cont. Installation Offering Cont. 2 PhDs Offering Cont. In-service
/courses in petroleum engineering design and equipment to3rd enrolled to 3rd program
visiting procurement year in the year for prof.
faculty students new area students engineers
and start
of new
Master
program

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 Description of Year 4 Year 5
Activities
1st 2nd Qtr. 3rd 4th 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
Qtr. Qtr. Qtr. Qtr. Qtr. Qtr. Qtr.

Example: Program design Cont. Start of one week one week

Start of short term and outreach one week course course
training programs of course
faculty of nursing
schools in emergency
obstetrics
Example: Start of new Curriculum Lab and Cont. Installation Offering to Cont. 2 PhDs
electives /courses in design and equipment 3rd year enrolled in
petroleum engineering visiting faculty procurement students the new area

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Section 10: Main Cost Items of the Proposal

Provide an indicative list of all major budget items whose value exceeds US$ 200,000 along with a statement of their purpose and a teaching, learning, research
or management related performance enhancement/capacity building justification for their inclusion in the proposal. One budget item could be a grouping of a
number of separate items. For instance, capacitating of faculty members and administrative staff through on-the job and/or formal training, participatory
inclusive process for revision of university rules and regulations to allow private sector and civil society representation in academic boards and committees,
institutionalization of field studies and internships as part of post graduates programs, installation of a hydrology laboratory, modernization of soil testing
laboratory, or costs from international collaboration with university X, including travel, visiting academic staff, short term PhD travel scholarship, etc., or costs
from academic and research partnership with institution Y.

Add additional lines as needed.

Estimated Cost
List major Items/group of items that are required to carry out each action plan in Section 5
Action Plan US$

1. Total

2. Dollar equivalent of national currency total

3. Total value of Proposal budget in US Dollars

Note: The total dollar value of the proposal should be inserted in the appropriate space at the top of page 1. Approved expenditures in national currency will
be disbursed to ACE account in the hosting institution.

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Section 11: Implementation Risks (Maximum ½ page)

Guidance: Describe risks to the successful implementation of the Center of Excellence and steps that will be taken to mitigate these risks. Note that the
description of risks differs from a SWOT analysis in that the latter is focused on the institution, while the former deals with the Center of Excellence. How will
the Center ensure that involved academic and administrative staff stay committed and engaged towards improving the quality and relevance of post graduate
educations?

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Section 12: Additional Information Relevant to the Evaluation of this Proposal (Maximum
one page)

Provide any additional information that has not been covered in sections 1 to 11 above, which in
your opinion is important for the evaluation of this proposal.

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Section 13: Agreement of Key Members of the Proposal Implementation Team

Chairperson of the Governing Body

Head of Institution
Leader of the Proposed Center of Excellence
Head of the main unit(s)/department(s)/college(s) involved

We the undersigned have agreed to collaborate in the implementation of this Project;

______________________________________________________________________
Name Designation

_______________________________________________________________________
Role in Project Implementation

_______________________________________________________________________
Signature: Date:

______________________________________________________________________
Name Designation

_______________________________________________________________________
Role in Project Implementation

_______________________________________________________________________
Signature: Date:

______________________________________________________________________
Name Designation

_______________________________________________________________________
Role in Project Implementation

_______________________________________________________________________
Signature: Date:

______________________________________________________________________
Name Designation

_______________________________________________________________________
Role in Project Implementation

_______________________________________________________________________
Signature: Date:

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______________________________________________________________________
Name Designation

_______________________________________________________________________
Role in Project Implementation

_______________________________________________________________________
Signature: Date:

Required Attachments:
1. Strategic Plan (including table with basic institutional indicators)
2. Curriculum Vitae of key personnel:
a. Head of Institution
b. Leader of the proposed ACE
c. Principal teaching and research members (2-4)
3. Letters of Support from:
a. National and regional partners
b. Companies and knowledge partners involved in the sector
c. International universities and institutions
4. List of large project(s) which were implemented by the institution/proposed ACE in the
past five years (2010-2014) including total funding of the project(s) in US$.
5. List of other large project(s) which will be implemented by the institution/proposed ACE
over the 2016-2019 period including total funding of the project(s) in US$.
6. External auditor’s reports and annual reports for the last two fiscal years

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Guidance for attachments:

Attachment 1: Most recent version of the institutional Strategic Plan

Attachment 2 - CVs of key persons for the proposed Center of Excellence

Provide abridged curriculum vitae of not more than 4 pages per key person. The CVs for the
proposed Center Leader and the 2-3 principal faculty members/researchers are mandatory. The CVs
should briefly describe relevant academic qualifications, pertinent professional experience, relevant
publications, current positions and other relevant information.

Attachment 3 - Letters of Support

Name of Partnership Institution/Firm:

Basic Characteristics of the Institution/Firm:

Number of Employees:

Main Products:

Annual Revenues:

Area of Proposed Collaboration:

Budget:

Institution/Firm’s Contribution toward the Proposed ACE:

Potential funding, provision of guidance, internships, industry teachers, etc.

Expected Benefits from the Collaboration:

Letters of Support should be signed by senior management of each partner institution/firm

The Letter of Support or the proposal of a future partnership must include a contact person from
each main partner (with phone and email contacts)

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