Most national agencies throughout the world also have international programmes, but these are more likely to be bilateral and collaborative grants require separate approval by both partners.
RD: The Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (grant number SUA 08/12) JB: Bilateral, South Africa/Spain collaborative project (HS2007-0013).
Better collaboration in DRR will make it easier to support existing bilateral and multilateral collaborative mechanisms within sectors, and programs with an effect on DRR such as fire management, water management, forestry, and the environment.
First, interference and dependence are defined, and then different kinds of coordination (reactive versus anticipatory; unilateral versus bilateral; selfish versus collaborative) are characterised.
The first is the desire by most countries to develop national capacity through manpower and institutional strength, a process aided by international, regional and bilateral training, and collaborative programs.
This work has been carried out under a bilateral Indo-Finnish collaborative research programme, and was supported by grants from the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (TEKES), Finland, and Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.
This work was supported by the OTKA grant 67576, 104334 and 106068 and as well as by the bilateral Hungarian-French collaborative project (NFÜ grant TÉT_10-1-2011-0397 from the Hungarian side).
International collaboration should take place within two perspectives: bilateral and multinational collaboration based on clearly defined interests and collaborative objectives.
