9. How can I get involved in DutchDFA programmes?
External ideas can be submitted as proposals. However, the requirement is that the proposal clearly adheres to the aims and objectives of the DutchDFA programme.

In principle, projects from external parties need to be proposed via Steering Group members. The decision to include these projects in the DutchDFA programme will be subject to the normal routes of preparation in the Programme Group and agreement in the Steering Group.

Requirements project proposals
Project proposals are expected to provide an insight in aims, outline and approach. The budget should give an indication of the project's implementation, in which costs for permanent employees can be accounted for as support in kind. The budget should also show other income streams.

A project proposal should at least consists of:
-    A project outline with information on its objectives:
o    What is the starting point (how does it relate to DutchDFA's programme framework of idea, network, enterprise) and how will the project contribute to it?
o    How does the project contribute to collaboration within the Netherlands?
o    How will the realisation of objectives be assessed?
o    How will the project be implemented (concept, organisation, planning) including a work-plan, timeline and collaborations etc.?

-    A communications strategy;
-    A budget including expenditure and income;
-    An overview of support in kind and other income streams (and how they will be found)*;
-    Cvs of the international experts involved;
-    Desired contribution from DutchDFA applied for;
-    Contact en bank details of the main executing organisation;
The proposal is to be signed by the Chair or the Director of the submitting organisation. Proposals can only be submitted by legally registered organisations (not by individuals).

Forms for the submission of project proposals can be applied for via info@dutchdfa.nl from mid-June 2009 onwards

* The basic principle of all DutchDFA projects is that they will be co-financed by the proposing organisation. The level of co-financing will be assessed on a case-by-case basis by checking the proposals against the agreed organisation's tasks and activities for which the applicant already receives public funding.
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