Background
The Grants and Collaborative Project Management (GCPM) is among the directorate offices established under the vice President for Research and Community Cooperation, Arba Minch University (AMU).
Mission
The GCPM office has a mission to cultivate a dynamic and grant-winning research culture at AMU by equipping its scientific community with the skills, resources, and strategic support needed to develop competitive proposals, foster interdisciplinary collaboration, and position AMU as a continental hub for impactful research and innovation
Vision
To establish AMU as a premier Ethiopian research university by driving excellence in grant acquisition, fostering high-impact collaborative projects, and building a globally connected scientific community that advances innovation, development, and societal transformation.
Main activities of the GCPM office
è Plan and monitor grant and collaborative project activities.
è Encourage staff to write grant proposals through all possible media.
è Identify potential grant and collaborative project proposal writers from staff members.
è Conduct capacity building training for academic staff on designing "Grant Proposals" for different calls.
è Facilitate supporting documents (letter of intent, staff profile, audit reports and related, trends of managing grant projects, etc.) to the grant application.
è Subscribe to links from different companies which post "Call for Grant Proposals" in various disciplines and share them with staff.
è Create links with local institutions (Universities and Research Institutes) known for winning projects and establishing partnerships for joint collaborative projects.
è Establish panel of experts for searching and writing collaborative research project proposals.
è Lobby funding agencies (Embassies, NGOs, GOs, Associations, Industries, Foreign Academic Institutions, etc.) towards collaboration and joint project initiation.
è Monitor the progress of ongoing collaborative and joint projects and recommend adjustments to the project-owning office as needed.
è Sort projects into research and development categories and connect them to the appropriate offices for further action and support.
è Register and send collaborative and joint projects to the appropriate offices for coding.
è Allocate and manage Seed Fund for grant proposal development in response to the calls appearing on various webs. In this case, a team can be proposed by the GCPMD director and approved by the VPRC. The team shall publicly defend the proposal in the presence of invited senior staff in field, GCPM coordinators and director and VPRC, to gather input for improving the proposal before submission. The chairperson of the team will be the PI, submit the proposal and be a focal person for follow-up and communications.
è Initiate the amendment of the Grant and Collaborative Project Management guideline.
è Facilitate logistics for project implementation.
è Produce annual reviews and booklets on collaborative projects.
è Facilitate establishment of donor-recipient forum [collaborative project day] and holds annual stakeholder meetings (project review workshop) to review progress and acknowledge granters.
è Keeps the history (institutional memory) of collaborative projects on the university website.
è Facilitate the signatory processes of collaborative projects and assure the overhead cost (10%) of collaborative projects is included in the proposals.
è Prepare reports on the progress of grant and collaborative projects quarterly.
è Encourage best grant winners by facilitating provision of university level award; and certifying all project awardees in the budget year.
è Perform other related duties provided by the Vice President for Research and Cooperation.
Contact Address
Director’s Name: Ashenafi Hailu Gunnabo (PhD)
Plant-Microbe Interactions
PhD Coordinator in the Biology Department
College of Natural Sciences, Arba Minch University
E-mail:
Phone no:
Office: +251-46-8810299
Mobile: +251 924 700 565
