Apart from the introduction and conclusion, the contents of this book are organised around a number of case studies, grouped into two main chapters. Firstly, in a chapter on capacity development with case studies on the capacity development of regional consultants exploring innovative approaches to improving and expanding the regional skills base across a number of continents, the studies examine capacity development of in-country partners which implement HIV programs, provide new and exciting approaches to ensure a more evidence-informed and adopt strategic approaches to maximizing beneficial outcomes of national and regional HIV programmes. Secondly, in the chapter on Technical Assistance Management, the scene is set for approaches to ensure that the process of providing well planned, efficiently organised and result oriented technical assistance to country programs is achieved.
This guide is mainly for researchers already involved in natural resource management (NRM). It assumes some familiarity with the often complex and chaotic reality of NRM projects, and tries to provide a systematic treatment of all the issues that may...
This book contains a collection of papers that discuss the experience of an Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) capacity building program in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The program was the AusAID-funded Agricultural Research and Development Support Facility (ARDSF), which ran...
This volume is devided into three parts. The first part describes on-going
processes of change within, or aside, the socio-technical regime that we have
inherited from the modernisation and industrialisation process of agriculture,
which took part after...
The emergence of a globalised knowledge economy, and the contemporary views of innovation capacity that this trend enables and informs, provides a new context in which development assistance to agricultural research and development needs to be considered. The main argument...
Sustainable food systems are fundamental to ensuring that future generations are food secure and eat healthy diets. To transition towards sustainability, many food system activities must be reconstructed, and myriad actors around the world are starting to act locally. While...
