Implementing Climate and Global Change Research A Review of the Final U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan (2004) / Chapter Skim
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3. Implementing and Managing the Program
3. Implementing and Managing the Program
Pages 21-28
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, but decided that it would continual attention should be paid to refining strategic plan provide independent program oversight through "a number priorities; applying priorities and criteria in the program of external advisory mechanisms, including periodic overall selection and budgeting process of the participating program reviews by the NRC or other groups, rather than a agencies; and defining measurements (metrics) that can single body" (CCSP, 2003, p.
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The plan states: "CCSP believes that essential program oversight is better provided by the use of a number of external advisory mechanisms, including periodic overall program reviews by the NRC or other groups, rather than a single body. Additional mechanisms to seek external scientific input, such as workshops, steering committees, ad hoc working groups, and review boards, will be employed as needed.
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Revisions to the CCSP Strategic Plan Chapter 16 of the revised plan includes a much improved discussion of program management and review. The chapter describes the cabinet-based management structure, program criteria, principal areas of focus for CCSP agencies, and responsibilities of the CCSP Office.
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This activity will require independent plan not be resolved in the near term, develop a mechanism for evaluation to measure progress against plan goals, making the necessary investments today to enable longerassessment of stakeholder input and feedback, and a review term payoffs, and create adaptive management mechanisms of the degree to which the individual program elements are that transcend individual administrations, events, or integrated to form a larger and more useful overall conditions. perspective.
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involvement in international climate change research programs. The chapter describes international frameworks established to coordinate global change research, international assessment activities, bilateral discussions the United States has had with other countries, international efforts to build observing systems and shared data management, and capacity building in developing countries.
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A fourth approach would be to prospective budget information and because many of the have the interagency CCSP make recommendations about objectives in the plan are too vaguely worded to determine funding and program allocations to the Interagency what will constitute success. However, the present budget Working Group on Climate Change Science and for the CCSP does not appear to be capable of supporting Technology, which is the process described in the strategic all of the activities identified in the strategic plan.
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Within the agencies, the capability and inclination to In reviewing the draft strategic plan, the committee provide decision support -- as opposed to basic scientific recommended that the revised strategic plan "explicitly results -- may be limited. Given the expanded attention to address the major requirements in building capacity in decision support, communication with stakeholders, and human resources that are implied in the plan" (see Box 3- interagency coordination, the committee sees a much larger 4)
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