Dear Vanessa,

Certainly, IWMI would like to have visiting scientists on sabbatical, work with our researchers. It is good that you put him in touch with William because someone at IWMI needs to "sponsor" the visitor, arrange for an office and office support, and discuss what research can be conducted in the time spent here.

In principle, we reserve Capacity Building funds for people from universities in the South, who might need more support to be able to work abroad, and so we would expect that others would be self-funded. Having said that, it may be that the person is able to fill a "Regional Research position" within a project for that term, and be granted a comparable salary and certain benefits, but definitely not the full benefits that an Internationally recruited staff member gets. Those costs would of course be met out of the project that wishes to host the scientist.

We have a standard agreement (attached for your information) for visiting scientists.

A proposal to host someone can be made in the format provided, to be reviewed and approved by the Committee.

Hope I've answered your question?

Jake
