SAARC
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
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SABONET
The South African Botanical Network
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SADC
Southern African Development Community see SAR
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SADC
Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation
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SAES
State Agricultural Experiment Stations
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SAR
Southern African Regional (country grouping formerly referred to as Southern African Development Community SADC)
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SATCC
Southern African Transport and Communications Commission
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SBA
Small Business Administration
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SBIR
Small Business Innovation Research Progam - NIH
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SBSTTA
Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice. Functions include: providing assessments of the status of biological diversity; assessments of the types of measures taken in accordance with the provisions of the Convention; and responding to questions that the COP may put to the body. How SBSTTA carries out its work is described in its modus operandi, which can be found in Annex 1 of decision IV/16 (as amended by decision V/20).
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SCB
Statistical Capacity Building
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SCBD
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
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SCIAF
Scottish Council International Aid Fund
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Science IP
Provides information suitable for supporting decisions on prior art/patentability for the prosecution of new patents, freedom-to-practice/operate for new and existing technologies, and patent validity for infringement litigation. The search draws upon CAS scientists with knowledge of specialized areas, including nucleic and amino acid sequences, polymers, molecular biology and genetics and pharmaceuticals.
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SCOPE
Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment
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SDR
Special Drawing Rights - The SDR is a composite currency unit defined in terms of five international currencies (dollar, DM, yen, franc, and sterling). So far SDR 21.4 billion has been issued by the IMF whose accounts are also maintained in SDR units.
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SEA
Strategic Environmental Assessment - Commonly abbreviated to SEA, this is a process using similar techniques to Environmental Impact Assessment but is applied at a strategic level to policies, programmes and sectors, rather than specific projects. The development and implementation of SEA techniques and procedures is currently at an early stage, but likely to increase in importance. The most common use of SEA is currently at a sector level or within a specific spatial area.
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SECAP
Soil Erosion Control & Agroforestry Project
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SFD
Saudi Fund for Development
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SHO
Self Help Organisation
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SIA
Social Impact Analysis
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SIAA
Software and Information Industry Association - provides white papers and articles about intellectual property and software-related issues.
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SID
Statistics on International Development
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SIDA
Society for International Development
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SIDA
Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency
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