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March 1-15, 2001
BAR to support FIDA in reorienting its R&D focus
by Mary Charlotte O. Fresco
The Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR)
recently pledged to support the Fiber Industry Development
Authority (FIDA) in its first Corporate Planning Workshop
on 1-6 April 2001. The support is part of BAR's commitment
to provide institutional development support to members
of the National Research and Development System for
Agriculture and Fisheries (NaRDSAF).
The workshop will serve to reorient FIDA's
research and development focus of becoming a more effective
and efficient body in the fiber research and development
system in the country.
Participants include management officers
and staff of the FIDA and representative of ten regional
offices. They shall convene to collectively determine
the internal and external environmental factors that
would help FIDA's management and staff at the central
and field offices towards becoming an R&D oriented
FIDA. Also, the group will review its current corporate
objectives and refocus its vision and mission in accordance
to the AFMA's mandates.
The six-day activity will also serve as
a venue for the members to identify a set of strategic
priorities and measures that will be the basis for managing
institutional transition and planning process.
The Corporate Planning workshop will adopt
an extensive use of participatory planning strategies
and techniques for consensus building. This is found
important to facilitate exchange of views and recommendations
that will broaden perspectives and new insights on research
and development needs of the target clientele.
The expected output of the planning workshop
includes the restructuring of the FIDA vision, mission,
and goal and the common understanding of these core
values among its management and staff; significant changes
in R&D-oriented FIDA and its implications; and organizational
functions, responsibilities and structure.
Support for this activity is under the
Bureau's Institutional Development Program (IDP) in
the form of a professional fee for the organizational
management expert who will act as as the over-all facilitator
for the activity expenses.
This corporate planning workshop is the
second BAR funded strategic workshop under the non-degree
program. 
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