Foro Regional de las Américas para la Investigación y el Desarrollo Tecnológico Agropecuario

Foro Regional de las Américas para la Investigación y el Desarrollo

Tecnológico Agropecuario



From Priority-Setting to Project Implementation

By Compton L. Paul

Methodology

R&D priorities for CARICOM

R&D programme formulation for CARDI

Project implementation

Lessons learnt

Evaluation Criteria (Scoring Method)

Economic importance 0.4

Social importance 0.3

Institutional importance 0.2

Environmental importance 0.1

Establish Working Group

Compile Baseline Information

Send to clients and stakeholders, IICA, ISNAR

Conduct priority-setting exercise

Regional Workshop of CARDI staff and key stakeholders

(IICA and ISNAR Consultants assist)

SMC finalizes options PREFERRED OPTION

Dispatched to BOD

50th BOD

Recommendations to BOG

Implementation

(2001-2006)

Priority Setting Exercise

Steps in Research Programme Formulation Steps in Research

Programme Formulation

LeewardsSt Kitts/Nevis,

Montserrat, Antigua

•Water use•Agronomy (fruits,vegetables)

•Entomology

Approved Strategic Option for CARDI 2001-2006

(R&D Focus)

Belize

•Seeds (Hot Pepper, Cereals, Grain legume)

Seeds

Jamaica

•IPM•Land & Water Use•Goats

Barbados

•Improved Plant Germplasm•Blackbelly Sheep•T/C material

Trinidad & Tobago

•Sheep•Organic FarmingBiometricsMarketingAgribusiness

Headquarters (Trinidad)

•Executive Management•PROCICARIBE•R&D Directorate•Corporate Services (HR, Fin.)•Info & Comm•Resource Mobilisation•Biometrics•Marketing/Quality Assurance•Agric Economics

WindwardsSt Lucia, Dominica, Grenada,

St Vincent/Grenadines

•Agronomy (fruits, roots, vegetables)

•Pathology•PHT

DryEcozone

Seeds

Wet, hillyEcozone

Seeds

Relationship between Operational, Medium-Term and

Strategic Plans at CARDI

Expected ImpactExpected Impact

Expected Impact

Partnerships Strategic Alliances Information systems Technical Assistance Institutional Capacity

Development Farmer Participatory Research Resource Mobilization Research Coordination Commercial and Subsistence

Farmers, Other Clients /Stakeholders

Lessons Learnt

Cross-section of stakeholders Preparation of stakeholders Databases Dubious previous priority-setting

methodologies Commodity bias Constraints analyses lacking Political bias Countries jockey for political clout

Continued

Lessons Learnt (Ctd)

Large number of countries complexity of

process Donor preferences Commodity vs constraints





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