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June 1-30, 2007
ACIAR taps Philippines to conduct joint impact assessment studies
by Jude Ray P. Laguna
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| Dr. Jeff Davis, ACIAR’s program manager on policy linkages and impact assessment |
The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) conducted a seminar-workshop in collaboration with the Philippines through the Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC) on 29-30 May 2007 in Pasig City.
ACIAR has long been a partner in the development of the Philippines in responding to the needs of the farming and fishing communities. It addresses emerging issues and concerns within the Southeast Asian region, including the Philippines.
Since the Philippines and the Australian government, began cooperating through ACIAR, numerous programs and projects have been implemented to address the problems facing the country. ACIAR is committed to continue its role as a partner in the overall growth of the Philippines.
To come up with programs that will focus on emerging issues and concerns in the country, ACIAR tapped the expertise of partner-institutions that it has worked with before to evaluate the impact of projects that have been implemented in the past. Assessment of previous endeavors will help ACIAR develop better plans and strategies for its ventures in the Philippines.
The two-day seminar-workshop focused on identifying studies conducted previously and assessing their impacts on agriculture and fisheries in the country. It paved the way for coming up with a program of activities for the upcoming collaborative work between the Philippines and ACIAR.
Dr. Danilo C. Cardenas of the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources and Development of the Department of Science and Technology (PCARRD-DOST) gave a welcome message while Dr. Jeff Davis, program manager on policy linkages and impact assessment of ACIAR, gave a background on the agenda of the meeting. Ms. Cecille Honrado, ACIAR Philippines country manager, gave an overview of the issues and concerns discussed during the previous meeting at the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) on 27 September 2006.
Dr. Davis has worked on a number of projects in the Philippines in the past. He presented the developments at ACIAR with increased emphasis on the Philippines. This was followed by the different agencies invited to the occasion to present the ACIAR-funded projects implemented by their respective institutions.
Present during the seminar-workshop were representatives from PCARRD, Philippine Council for Aquatic and Marine Research and Development (PCAMRD), BAR, Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS), Bureau of Postharvest Research and Extension (BPRE), Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), SEAMEO Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), and Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS).
Ms. Josefina Lantican, technical adviser of BAR, presented the Research Prioritization for Philippine Agriculture Project (RPPAP), which was conducted from March 1988 to April 1991. The objective of project was to design, develop, and utilize an information system that would support research priority assessments in agricultural research. Also present were Dr. John Mullen, economics coordinator and principal research specialist at the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries and James Corbishley of the Centre for International Economics (CIE). Dr. Mullen spearheads the conduct of impact assessment of ACIAR-funded projects in the Philippines, while Mr. Corbishley serves as observer and consultant to the group. 
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