Publications /  Annual Report 2000

CIP’s training program is designed to meet the needs of its national research partners and clients worldwide. It focuses on disseminating new technologies and enhancing institutional research skills to improve collaboration in CIP’s research agenda. The program also targets farmers in developing countries.

During 2000, CIP provided individual and group training on a wide range of subjects at its headquarters in Peru and at its regional sites around the world. CIP is grateful to the many research and development partners and collaborators (listed in Table 1) who sponsored or supported these training activities. More than 1160 people from 61 countries benefited from CIP’s training program – 934 participants in group training courses, and 234 individual trainees (see Tables 1 and 2).  

CIP constantly monitors new developments in educational and training practices and techniques, in order to provide the best training to its clients. During 2000, with help from education specialists at Texas A&M University, USA, we embarked on developing distance-learning methods and materials, for delivery on CD-ROM or the Internet.

CIP’s Training Unit staff also assist with organizing and running scientific and other meetings and network planning workshops.

Table 1.  Principal group training events

Table 2. Training scholars by country and category