| 1. | Discuss your research plans with Dr. Patricia Wright and the staff of ICTE. Review the Project Budgets and Costs and the Permit Requirements. Be sure that your budget to sponsors includes all items. |
| 2. | At least three months before you plan to begin your research in Madagascar, prepare a draft of your ANGAP proposal and send it to the Program Officer at the ICTE/Stony Brook office for review. Please submit your ANGAP proposals by email or on a disk. We suggest that you prepare your ANGAP proposal at the same time that you submit proposals to sponsors. At this time, also send a signed waiver and liability release for each participant on you project. |
| 3. | If you plan to collect and/or export biological samples, include in your ANGAP prposal a preliminary list of samples that you expect to collect or export. Be generous in your estimates, but as specific as possible. (See our discussion on export and collection permits from DEF). |
| 4. | Revise you ANGAP proposal and submit the final copy (by email) to the Program Officer at the ICTE/Stony Brook office. This proposal will be sent to the ICTE/Antananarivo office and Centre ValBio. ICTE/Antananarivo office will provide translation into French and submission to ANGAP and DEF. |
| 5. | Prepare for your trip to Madagascar. Learn some French and Malagasy. Be sure that you have international health insurance (required for all researchers facilitated by ICTE) and medical evacuation insurance (for example, International SOS). Buy small gifts to bring to your students, assistants, Malagasy officials, and others that may help you (suggested gifts: caps, t-shirts, pens, playing cards, music tapes (few Malagasies have CD players)). Get 2 passport-sized photos (of you!). |
| 6. | At least one month before you plan to go to Madagascar, get started obtaining your visa (see Researcher Field Guide) |
| 7. | Email a copy of your flight itinerary to the ICTE/Antananarivo office, with a copy to the ICTE/Stony Brook office as soon as you purchase your tickets. |
| 8. | Before you leave for Madagascar, confirm with the ICTE/Antananarivo office that your Research Permit has been approved by ANGAP and send a copy of the approval to the ICTE Program Officer at Stony Brook. |
| 9. | Once you arrive in Antananarivo, check in at the ICTE/Antananarivo office, meet the helpful staff, ask questions, and pay the ICTE/MICET Facilitation Fee. |
| 10. | Be sure to meet with traditional, government, DEF, and ANGAP officials in the local area where you will conduct research. Offer to talk to local school children, youth groups, village elders, or others about your research or related conservation issues. We suggest that you offer to give a presentation about your research to the local University (if you are working at Ranomafana National Park, you will give a presentation at the University of Fianarantsoa). |
| 11. | Do your research! |
| 12. | Before you leave Madagascar, write a brief exit report (2 pages) describing where and when your research was conducted and what was done, and outlining any results obtained so far. The ICTE/Antananarivo staff will translate the report into French and submit it to ANGAP for you. Also, meet with ANGAP officials for a debriefing. We suggest that you offer to give a presentation about your research to students and professors at the University of Antananarivo. |
| 13. | Upon returning home, send a copy of your exit report to the Program Officer at ICTE/Stony Brook. |
| 14. | Within 6-8 months of leaving Madagascar, submit a Final Report to the Program Officer at ICTE/Stony Brook. It will be sent to the ICTE/Antananarivo office for translation and then submitted to ANGAP. This final report might be a copy of a report sent to a sponsor. |
| 15. | Send 8 copies (5 for ANGAP, 3 for ICTE) of all publications to the ICTE/Stony Brook office. |
