CDRP allocations
Six proposals from five government departments have been approved for funding from the Cross-departmental Research Pool (CDRP) for the 2006/07 financial year. The CDRP was established in 1997 to support cross-departmental research undertaken in government departments.
The 2006/07 allocation process was run by the Foundation for Research Science and Technology with input from the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, the Social Policy Evaluation and Research Committee, Health Research Council and Statistics New Zealand.
The Ministry of Health has $100,000 for 2006/07 to measure the social, economic and cultural outcomes of Maori-based collectives. The Department of Conservation has two contracts: the first for quantifying the relationships between measures of human pressure and the freshwater condition ($1.05 million over three years) and the second for interpreting biodiversity indicators ($1.2 million over three years).
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has $158,00 for 2006/07 for the development of diagnostic capacity and capability for vector-borne diseases of significance to humans, wildlife and domestic animals. Police has $125,000 for developing a New Zealand Drug Harm Index and the Department of Internal Affairs has $80,000 for improving policy-related research and analysis about and with ethnic communities.
