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Empowering Pacific Communities Through knowledge . CTA Partnership Opportunities
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EMPOWERING PACIFIC COMMUNITIES THROUGH KNOWLEDGE
CTA PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
EMPOWERING PACIFIC COMMUNITIES THROUGH KNOWLEDGE
CTA PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
By Judith A. Francis, Senior Programme Coordinator, S&T Policy, CTA, The Netherlands
It’s an exciting It’s an exciting time to be in time to be in agriculture!!agriculture!!
To take advantage of the positive
TREND
To take advantage of the positive
TRENDand ... Empower ACP communities Empower ACP communities
through knowledgethrough knowledge
CTA plans
Our MissionTo advance food and nutritional security,
increase prosperity and encourage sound natural resource management by
providing access to information and
knowledge, facilitating policy dialogue and strengthening the
capacity of agricultural and rural development
institutions and communities in ACP
countries
To support well informed, inclusive agricultural policy processes and
strategies in each ACP region to empower
smallholder producers, women and youth
Strategic Goal 1
Food security, climate change & agriculture, regional trade & markets, agricultural innovation
Multi-disciplinary/multi-stakeholder knowledge exchange platforms
Tools, methods and approaches to facilitate policy formulation and analysis
Synthesis studies for evidence-based policy & decision-making
Publications, web sites
e.g 2012 Pacific university dialogue on climate change
Themes & Activities
To promote innovation, value To promote innovation, value addition, investments, trade addition, investments, trade and markets that nurture the and markets that nurture the development of ACP priority development of ACP priority value chains, especially for value chains, especially for smallholder producerssmallholder producers
Strategic Goal 2Strategic Goal 2
Themes & Activities Research-extension-market linkages;
marketing support systems; post-harvest handling, processing & standards
Technology transfer/exchange Public-private partnerships Integrated information systems and
communities of practice Case studies and best practices
To strengthen the information, communication
and knowledge management capacities of ACP institutions
and networks
Strategic Goal 3Strategic Goal 3
Themes & Activities Promoting access to ACP-generated content Increased focus on electronic content
generation Promoting and supporting use of innovative
ICT tools and approaches Building skills of ACP partners Promoting information, communication and
knowledge management policies & strategies
ICT based community of Information and Knowledge
CTA Pacific Focus Goal – Enhanced regional policy processes & value chain
development Target - youth, women, farmers, scientists, academics, private
sector, policymakers Partner with - regional (e.g. SPC, USP) & national organizations
(e.g. NARI-PNG) Priorities – climate change, food & nutrition security, fisheries
Intra-ACP Project (2012-2014)
Objective – Enhance capability of regional institutions and actors through mutual learning between Caribbean & Pacific Priorities – Policy networking, intra-regional trade, capacity development in policy analysis, formulation and advocacy on key issues
ConclusionProfound changes are taking place
in the external environment with emerging challenges and opportunities
Partnerships will strengthen our impact on ARD –
knowledge sharing, networking, capacity building and advocacy are
key!!
CTA is re-focusing its efforts to ensure it takes advantage of the emerging opportunities
Contact detailsJudith Ann Francis
Senior Programme Coordinator Science & Technology Strategies, CTA
P.O. Box 380, NL 6700 AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands
Agro Business Park 2, NL 6708 PW Wageningen, The Netherlands
Tel: 31 (0) 317 467 190; Fax: 31 (0) 317 460 067
Email: [email protected]: www.cta.int; Webportal:
http://knowledge.cta.int/Facebook & Twitter
Thank You!Thank You!