WAICENT Outreach Activities in Near East Region

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WAICENT Outreach Activities in Near East Region
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WAICENT Outreach Activities in Near East Region
? Technical Assistance and Cooperation Programmes
? Information Management Resources
Kit(previously presented in the workshop)
? National and Regional Trainings for Human
Capacity Building
? Collaboration and Partnerships and Mechanism
for Coordination
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? Technical Assistance and Cooperation Programs

• Egypt VERCON Pilot Phase
• Virtual Extension Research Communication Network
  Project completed on August 2002.
• Egypt VERCON Expansion Phase
• Rural Development Communication Network
• Project proposal approved for funding and will
  be operational in January 2004.

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Virtual Extension ResearchCommunication Network
VERCON is an information and communication
network that supports research/extension
interaction and flow of information
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Egypt VERCON Pilot Phase
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VERCON Egypt Project

• Goal
• to raise farm incomes by increasing agricultural
  and food production
• Purpose
• to improve agricultural advisory services
  provided to Egyptian farmers, and in particular,
  to resource poor farmers, based on strengthened
  research-extension linkages

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VERCONInstitutional Linkages
RESEARCH
EXTENSION
FARMERS
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VERCON Stakeholders and Structure
Research
Extension
Other
National
Governorate
Local
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What Next - Expansion Phase

• Horizontal expansion
• Research
• National and Regional (at governorate level)
• Extension
• Agricultural Directorates (at governorate level)
• Village-level Extension Offices (170)
• Vertical expansion (FarmNet)
• Community
• Private sector service providers
• Marketing stakeholders

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? Technical Assistance and Cooperation Programs

• Sub Regional Workshop on Information
  Communication Management Systems (ICMS) to
  Strengthen Extension and Research Linkages in NE
  Member States For Sustainable Rural Development
  and Poverty Eradication
• Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon ,and Iraq
• Held on 17 18 December 2003 in CLAES
• Sub Regional Vercon Focal Points
• FAO CLAES
• Sub-regional VERCON (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon,
  Syria and Iraq)
• Project proposal being formulated

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? Technical Assistance and Cooperation Programs

• Egypt National Agricultural Research Information
  Management System (NARIMS)
• Project proposal being formulated
• Jordan National Agricultural Information System
  (NAIS)
• Project proposal being formulated
• Morocco National Agricultural Information System
  (NAIS)
• Project proposal has been approved

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? Technical Assistance and Cooperation Programs

• Regional ICT Expert Consultation Meeting to
• Strengthen Agricultural Information
  Systems/Network
• in West Asia and North Africa
• Held on 24-27 February 2003 in ARC/Egypt
• Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya,
  Morocco, Oman,
• Qatar, Turkey, Tunisia, and Syria
• AARINENA, ICARDA, GFAR, AAPARI, CGIAR, ISNAR,
  CIHEAM, CLAES, Egypt and FAO

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? National and Regional Trainings for Human
Capacity Building in Information Management

• To increase the number of IM/IT professionals,
• To improve information management-relevant skills
  and understanding,
• To coordinate training between institutions and
  organizations,
• To improve partnerships.

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? National and Regional Human Capacity Building

• Two Regional Training Workshops on Electronic
  Document Management and the Use of WebAGRIS Tools
  for Database Management and Development.
• Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Saudi
  Arabia and
• Emirates, Oman, Turkey, Iran, Morocco, Tunis and
  Libya.
• Held in May and October 2002 in ICARDA
• Training of Trainers Approach
• FAO ICARDA

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? National and Regional Human Capacity Building

• Sub Regional Training Workshop on Electronic
  Document Management and the Use of WebAGRIS Tools
  for Database Management and Development
• Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Saudi
  Arabia and
• Emirates.
• Held on December 1-16, 2003 in ICARDA
• Training of Trainers Approach
• FAO AOAD ICARDA

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? National and Regional Human Capacity Building

• Sub Regional Training on Information
  Communication Management Systems (ICMS) to
  Strengthen Extension and Research Linkages in NE
  Member States For Sustainable Rural Development
  and Poverty eradication
• Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq
• Held on 13 16 December 2003 in CLAES, Egypt
• FAO CLAES

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? National and Regional Human Capacity Building

• Information Management and Networking Training
  Needs Assessment Questionnaire.
• Sent on October 2003 through AARINENA RAIS
  Steering Committee
• It is designed to address the Information
  Management and Networking Training Needs of the
  Agricultural Information Centres in the Ministry
  of Agriculture (MOA) and National Agricultural
  Research Centres (NARC) for Human Capacity
  Building in West Asia and Near East Region.

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? National and Regional Human Capacity Building
Information Communication Management systems
Training Needs Assessment
Management Of Electronic Documents
WebAGRIS Information System
Information Management Resource Kit (imark)
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? Regional Collaboration and Partnership

• Cooperation with Arab Organization for
  Agricultural Development (AOAD) for Capacity
  Building in Information Management.
• Regional Agricultural Information System (RAIS)
  for Agricultural Research and Development
  (AARINENA)
• Regional Capacity Building in WebAGRIS
  Information System Training Workshops with AOAD
  and ICARDA.
• Collaboration with CARDNE with regard to further
  development of Regional Vercon Model
• Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and
  Mapping System (FIVIMS)
• Cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and
  Fisheries of the United Arab Emirates to
  strengthen the Agricultural Information Centre
  (UAEAGRICENT) as a national and regional resource
  for agricultural information management.

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WAICENT Outreach Activities for Capacity Building
in Near East Region
Information Management Resource Kit
Technical Assistance and Cooperation Programs
Capacity Building
Human Capacity Building
Regional Collaboration and Partnerships