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Vol. 12 No. 4 (October - December 2009)

NARI Wins Three Grant Awards from EU/ACP programme

By Keshav Kshirsagar and Raghunath Ghodake

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THE enhanced productivity, efficiency, stability and sustainability of the smallholder agricultural sector can be largely achieved by promoting scientific advancement. Obviously, such advancement requires human resource capacity in science and technology (S&T) for conducting focused research and promotion of agricultural innovations. However, most R&D institutions in the Pacific lack qualified and trained scientific personnel. To mitigate this constraint, NARI provides training opportunities aimed at building a pool of agricultural researchers. To mitigate this constraint, NARI provides overseas opportunities to its staff for training and higher studies and operates the Cadet Programme for building a pool of agricultural researchers. Besides, NARI has also decisively included “Capacity Building” as one of the important Sub-programme across all the Programmes in the realigned organisational structure of the Institute.

To further strengthen its capacity building process, NARI has achieved an important milestone by winning three capacity development projects in a highly competitive call from the European Union (EU) for African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of states. This call was open to all the national and regional S&T organisations, universities, and research networks in 79 ACP member states, 27 member states and three candidate countries of EU, and the three member states of the European Free Trade Association.

The ACP S&T programme is an ACP – EU co-operation programme to support ACP countries in formulating and implementing S&T policies for sustainable development and poverty reduction. The main objective of the programme is to strengthen the internal S&T capacity of ACP countries to support research, development and innovation in the ACP region at the levels of institutional, administrative and policy making; academic research and technology, and business and civil society. NARI along with its partners, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Solomon Islands) and the Vanuatu Agricultural Research and Technical Centre (Vanuatu) would be implementing the projects on:

  1. capacity building in core research-related competencies among staff;
  2.  capacity development in conservation and utilisation of invaluable plant genetic resources; and
  3.  capacity development for research planning, programming and implementation of the three institutions.

These three projects costing about K8 million are focused on developing research-related competencies among researchers, planners, research managers, disseminators, and farmer innovators from partner and associated institutions in the three countries. The final beneficiaries would be the wider agricultural research communities in these countries since the training given would be passed on to other personnels within their respective organisations, thereby strengthening the organisational R&D capacity in Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and PNG.

NARI and its Partners appreciate and recognise the untiring efforts of all those who were involved in the development and submission of the proposals as well as responding to the numerous queries from the Evaluation Committee. This is a unique accomplishment for NARI and its partners. It also comes with a greater responsibility – the responsibility of successfully implementing the projects over the next three years in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. The implementation of the projects will start from the beginning of 2010.

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