Evaluation and Endorsement of Proposals

The Project Monitoring and Evaluation Section (PMES) of OVCRE received a total of 135 proposals, 105 of which were submitted to outside funding agencies, and 30 for UPLB funding under the UPLB Basic Research Program.

It also conducted the pre-screening of 67 capsule research proposals for DA-BAR funding on July 2006 wherein 10 proposals were endorsed for funding.

Through UPLB's Office of the Chancellor, 93 proposals were endorsed to 20 government, private, and international funding agencies. About 91% (85 of 93) proposals were endorsed to government agencies which is 60% (12 of 20) of the total number of funding agencies.

Only fourteen research proposals out of 30 which were submitted, were given funding under the UPLB Basic Research Program.

Evaluation of Ongoing Projects

The OVCRE conducted an evaluation/ review of a total 48 R and D projects for the period of January 2006 to November 2006. Evaluated were 41 externally-funded projects, and 7 individual studies.

The PMES also attended in May 2006, the PCARRD-coordinated review of biotechnology projects which were mostly conducted by UPLB researchers.

The PMES started in 2006 the quarterly review of ongoing projects, scheduled in February, May, August, and November of the year.