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To ensure high-quality proposals, the Executive Directorate will provide capacity-building training for research teams.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iai-000832#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Capacity-building efforts for 2016/17 include professional seminars on tropical forest ecosystem services (July 2016 in Costa Rica and April 2017 in Chile) and interdisciplinary approaches to integrate science and policy for sustainability (November 2016 in Dominican Republic and May 2017 in Canada). 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This mechanism allows member countries to fund their specific portions of international research; three countries had confirmed agreement with the legal text at the time of the report.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iai-000837#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Science Policy Liaison Directorate (SPLD), established in May 2015 in Buenos Aires, is conducting impact analyses to quantify how IAI science influences national and regional policies. Preliminary data from CRN3 projects shows interactions between 155 investigators and 17 projects with decision-makers, with 33% of investigators belonging to non-academic institutions.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iai-000837#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The IAI has increased its engagement with global policy frameworks, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement. 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