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We offer various services in capacity development to our partners and other institutions interested in our research. These services comprise planning and information exchange/analysis workshops and training in the general areas of:

  • Enabling rural innovation (ERI), including the development of agroenterprises at the community and district levels.
  • Participatory research methods for integrated natural resource management (INRM), including, for example, the linking of soil fertility improvement with participatory market research.
  • Participatory plant breeding (PPB).
  • Marker-assisted selection (MAS) for improving the performance of crop breeding programs.
  • Use of biotechnology in the diagnosis of plant diseases.
  • Integrated pest and disease management (IPDM), primarily of beans but often with a broader application, including methods for scaling out and up to reach large numbers of farmers across diverse environments.
  • Seed systems, including cost-effective approaches for the wide dissemination of new varieties of crops and forages, and the diagnosis of seed systems in situations of stress leading to the design of appropriate interventions.
  • Scaling up of INRM approaches and complex technologies, for example in soil fertility and pest/disease management.
  • Participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) at a range of levels (community, district, project, or national agricultural research system).

Many of the training and workshop events in which we participate are initiated by regional agricultural research networks, and almost all are hosted and locally organised by a local national research organisation or NGO.

Workshops and Training Offered During 2006

Title

Date/Location

Participants

Workshops
Orange Fresh Sweet Potato Partners

24 January 2006

Kampala, Uganda

8
Enabling Rural Innovation (ERI) Retreat 2006

2-4 February 2006

Kampala, Uganda

17
Bean IPM Promotion Project Review

13 February 2006

Nairobi, Kenya

19
ECABREN Planning Meeting

19-22 February 2006

Nairobi, Kenya

18
PABRA Planning Meeting

23-24 February 2006

Nairobi, Kenya

12
Biofortification Workshop

3-7 March 2006

Kampala, Uganda

19
PABRA Steering Committee Meeting

26-29 March 2006

Lubumbashi, D.R. Congo

25
Harvest Plus Planning Meeting

10-12 April 2006

Kampala, Uganda

18
Successful Taskforces Workshop

23-29 April 2006

Entebbe, Uganda

39
Africa Regional Workshop on Biofortification for the Improvement of Human Nutrition and Health

4-5 May 2006

Mombasa, Kenya

48
Lake Kivu PLS CGIAR Steering Committee -Review 1

19 June 2006

Entebbe, Uganda

20
Lake Kivu PLS CGIAR Steering Committee -Review 2

20-21 June 2006

Kigali, Rwanda

15
BMZ Meeting on Drought and Aluminium Toxicity

26-28 June 2006

Kigali, Rwanda

15
Gates Project Planning Meeting

28 June-2 July 2006

Kigali, Rwanda

18
Enabling Rural Innovation (ERI) Research Meeting and Writeshop

3-7 July 2006

Kampala, Uganda

17
CIAT Rural Sector Support Programme (RSSP) Partnership Planning Workshop

10-14 July 2006

Kigali, Rwanda

24
Enabling Rural Innovation (ERI) and Partners Writeshop

23 July 2006

Kampala, Uganda

11
Dietary Assessment Methods for Eastern Africa Workshop

2-3 August 2006

Kampala, Uganda

34
Bean Stakeholders Consultative Meeting

17-19 August 2006

Gure, Mozambique

29
Bean Breeding Strategy Workshop

22-25 August 2006

Cali, Colombia

12
Consortium for Improved Agricultural-based Livelihoods in Central Africa (CIALCA)

29 August - 1 September 2006

Kigali, Rwanda

39
CIAT Africa Administration and Finance Workshop

4-5 September 2006

Nairobi, Kenya

19
CIAT Africa Staff Meeting on CIAT Products

6-8 September 2006

Nairobi, Kenya

16
Enabling Rural Innovation (ERI) Research Strategy Meeting

9 September 2006

Kampala, Uganda

14
PABRA Mid Term Evaluation (JEEP)

10-15 September 2006

Kampala, Uganda

29
SABRN Annual Steering Committee Meeting

16-26 September 2006

Lilongwe, Malawi

12
PABRA FARA Meeting

4-6 October 2006

26
Innovation Africa Symposium

20-23 November 2006

140
Training Courses

Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Programme -Lake Kivu Pilot Learning Site

3-10 February 2006

Kampala, Uganda

32
Agroenterprise

20-26 March 2006

Njoro, Kenya

22
Participatory Diagnosis and Action Planning for I-LIFE Partners

29 May-4 June 2006

Lilongwe, Malawi

28
6th Learning Alliance Workshop for Agroenterprise Development with CRS

5-9 June 2006

Nairobi, Kenya

35

Agroenterprise Learning Alliance and Launching of Chain Empowerment Guide

17-19 June 2006

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

25
PRGA Training in Asareca

10-17 June 2006

Nairobi, Kenya

16
Participatory Diagnosis and Community Action Plan Development with RSSP

24 August-1 September 2006

Kigali, Rwanda

29
Enabling Rural Innovation (ERI) Training Workshop for Southern Africa

19-29 September 2006

Harare, Zimbabwe

25
Participatory Approaches and Scaling Up. Linking ISFM to Markets.

19-30 September 2006

Nairobi, Kenya

37
Upscaling Natural Resource Management (NRM) Innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa

2-13 October 2006

Nairobi, Kenya

33
Forage Evaluation and Forage Management

3-10 October 2006

Rubona, Rwanda

15
RSSP Mentoring in Participatory Diagnosis and Community Action Plan Development

25-27 October 2006

Ruhengeri, Gikongoro and Kigali, Rwanda

21
Preparatory Workshop for Trader Writeshop

9-11 October 2006

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

8
Agroenterprise Development for I-LIFE Partners in Malawi

10-15 October 2006

Blantyre, Malawi

24
CAT-RSSP PMR Training Workshop

10-15 December 2006

Kigali, Rwanda

20


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