Common use of Specific Terms of Reference Clause in Contracts

Specific Terms of Reference. In order to meet these general Terms of Reference, and recognizing that the joint study will be multifaceted and complex, it will be important that there be some flexibility for the specific Terms of Reference, described below, to be amended during the course of the study, as needed and as mutually agreed by the parties to the MoU. This study will, naturally, draw lessons from and improve upon previous attempts at costing the maintenance of genebanks in the CGIAR, such as GPG2. Many areas to be considered in the joint study will require establishing boundaries on what to include, or exclude from the study (crops, specific activities etc.); agreeing standards, norms and targets (e.g. regarding safety duplication, person hours required for a particular task, the extent of molecular characterization to be covered, etc); and making assumptions (e.g. on how fast a collection is likely to grow, or when a particular cryopreservation protocol might become available). Guidance on some of these ‘grey’ areas is given in the specific terms of reference below. However, there will still be a need for those carrying out the study to make pragmatic decisions on a number of issues, drawing on their own individual expertise and experience. All such decisions should be fully documented,