The DURAS CGS is established to encourage innovation, allow scaling-up of successful
innovations and/or best practices developed in the South, and to further develop and explore
scientific potentials. It also aims to create opportunities for historically disadvantaged stakeholder groups in the South to develop and enhance their scientific capacities through the provision of start-up funds, via a competitive process, that will bridge funding gap that usually exist between the initial stages of research/innovation process and implementation or scaling-up. The funds are expected to allow Southern partners who have developed interesting and innovative proposals but have not received donor support to access and attract additional funding. It will also raise awareness on SD-related initiatives among ARSD stakeholders, especially advanced research institutions, international agricultural research centers and
donor community, and, eventually, encourage their involvement in its implementation.