Cristian Nicolau M

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Cristian NicolauMEAgricultural Support
Services - Romania
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Agricultural Support Services - Romania

• Project Value 18 mil. USD (11 mil. IBRD Loan)
• Components
• Applied Research Extension
• Institutional Building

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Agricultural Support Services Project

• Objectives
• 1 to provide immediately needed technology,
  information and training for private farmers to
  increase their agriculture productivity,
  sustainability and income
• 2 to improve efficiency, cost effectiveness and
  client relevance in management of research and
  extension.

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Agricultural Support Services

• The applied research extension component is
  applying a Competitive Grant Scheme
• 125 projects are finances (management, marketing
  and agribusiness, field crops, horticulture,
  livestock)
• the 125 projects receive 25 percent of the total
  sum upon signing the Grant Agreement
• the rest of the funds are disbursed upon approval
  of the periodic progress report.

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Management Information System

• the system is monitored through a MIS system
  designed by me using MS Access
• the system records all parameters of the CGS
  financed projects (activities, deadlines,
  procurement, financial progress)
• the system have the capability of monitoring that
  the things are done right
• My interest is to create a basis (computerized)
  to assess if the right things were done

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Monitoring Focus

• Monitoring focus ? technology transfer
• Type of activities accounted for technology
  transfer
• 1 Training Courses
• 2 On farm demonstrations
• 3 Publications brochures, leaflets etc.

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Evaluation

• Now is done by using a 6 points questionaire
• list the technologies forwarded to the farmers
• number of farmers who applied in their own farms
  the technologies proposed in your project
• What is the area / what is the number of animals
  upon which the technologies were applied
• How many partnerships were formed as a result of
  your project (farmer associations, number of
  members, etc)
• What are the economic effects appeared as a
  result of applying the technologies proposed in
  your project, in respect with the farmers who
  applied them (increase of productivity, decrease
  of production costs, increase of income, etc).
  Please enter actual data (the productivity
  increased from X before the project to Y after
  applying the proposed technologies).

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Learning Interest

• Current trends in planning and ME theory and
  practice
• Design ME systems that support adaptive and
  flexible project and program management
• Principles of participatory and learning oriented
  planning, monitoring and evaluation

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Cristian Nicolau

• Department of Engineering Sciences, Polytechnic
  University of Bucharest, Romania
• MBA
• Master Degree in Modeling and Simulation of
  Systems