Informe resumido de actividades de la Dirección Ejecutiva mitad del período entre sesiones 2021-2022

The IAI Executive Direction reports progress on transdisciplinary research, particularly regarding climate-sensitive infectious diseases in the Caribbean and drought monitoring in the La Plata basin. The report highlights the expansion of the Science, Technology, and Policy (STeP) Fellowship program and the launch of the IAI Transdisciplinary Academy to improve the interface between science and public policy in the Americas.

• The IAI is implementing transdisciplinary projects in the Caribbean focused on vector-borne diseases and climate variability, funded by the Inter-American Development Bank via the University of the West Indies (2020-2021). However, these projects have faced severe delays because the COVID-19 pandemic limited the capacity of Health Ministries to participate in research.
• The IAI has secured funding of approximately 1.3 million euros for the SISSA project (Drought Information System for the south of South America) for 2021-2024. This project, led by the National Meteorological Service of Argentina, aims to provide critical information on drought occurrence in the La Plata basin.
• The Science, Technology, and Policy (STeP) Fellowship program is expanding by over 50% for the 2021-2022 period, adding 24 new Fellows and 3 new countries. The second generation of Fellows includes participants from Brazil, Panama, the Caribbean region, and the United States, with a call for new Fellows also launched by Mitacs Canada.
• The IAI has established the Transdisciplinary Academy (TD) to provide training in transdisciplinary approaches and skills, holding its first webinar on September 10, 2021. This initiative is designed to support the delivery of scientific information to both public and private sectors.
• To improve the science-policy interface, the IAI has implemented several communication strategies, including the relaunch of its newsletter in July 2021, the creation of a standardized presentation template, and a partnership with Latinoamérica 21 to publish columns by project members and Fellows.
• The IAI contributed specialized knowledge on climate effects on health in the region to the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (WGII, Chapter 12 on Central and South America) and the WCRP report 'Science Underpinning Sustainable Development in the Andes'.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (2021). Informe resumido de actividades de la Dirección Ejecutiva mitad del período entre sesiones 2021-2022. https://archive.iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/IAI-EC-52-4-es.pdf

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. Informe resumido de actividades de la Dirección Ejecutiva mitad del período entre sesiones 2021-2022. 2021. https://archive.iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/IAI-EC-52-4-es.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearch2021informe, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{Informe resumido de actividades de la Dirección Ejecutiva mitad del período entre sesiones 2021-2022}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, year = {2021}, month = oct, url = {https://archive.iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/IAI-EC-52-4-es.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }