Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC) strategy for agricultural activities with developing countries has identified the provision of capacity building assistance as a priority for action. This strategy outlines activities for collaborating with developing countries to build capacity in key areas including: trade; food safety and food quality; environmentally sustainable production; agricultural policy development; business risk management; and, science and technical exchange.
AAFC has enterred into a multi-year funding arrangement with CIDA, under its Strategic Policy Fund for Agriculture, to conduct “International Capacity Building Activities” for the purpose of “sharing Canadian expertise with developing countries in need to help them address issues in agriculture as these relate to their development and poverty reduction needs”.The main objective of these activities is to develop three capacity building modules in areas such as environmental sustainability, food security, rural development poverty reduction, food safety, competitiveness and market expansion.
This project, which is part of the AAFC “International Capacity Building Activities”, is the second year of work under a 5-year initiative, “Capacity Building for Agri-Environmental Policy in Latin America”. Project 1, Initiative Planning and Design, was completed in fiscal year 2003-2004. In most Latin American countries, to the best of our knowledge, policies relative to environmentally sustainable agriculture are limited or non-existent. Therefore, the primary focus of the initiative is capacity building for agri-environmental policy development and analysis in these countries.
The project will establish a management structure and partnerships for the initiative; design a capacity-building tool for agri-environmental policy; and design a pilot project for application of the tool in Latin America. These activities are expected to require at least 14 contiguous days of travel, primarily in Central America, involving 2 members of the Consulting Team and costing approximately $ 5,000 per person, which is to be included in the value of any resulting contract.
Source: MERX (website requires registration) . Reference: # 105145. Deadline: December 21, 2004
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