Training highlights CIP’s training program is designed to support our mission to contribute to the achievement of healthy and sustainable human development. It focuses on disseminating new and appropriate knowledge and technologies, and on enhancing institutional research skills to improve collaboration in CIP’s research agenda. The program also targets farmers in developing countries.
CIP leads training sessions and workshops, organizes and sponsors international conferences, and develops training materials. Participants from more than 30 countries attended the 16 main-group training events conducted across the world in 2003. These activities focused on research methodologies; tools and techniques for developing-country scientists; and on capacity building for sustainable production, targeted at NGOs, government organizations and development agencies. At CIP headquarters, individual training was provided for participants from 10 countries. CIP also supported training in distant locations by distributing publications and manuals, as well as via electronic media, including downloads of manuals, articles, and reports from CIP’s training website (www.cipotato.org/training), and electronic conferences and workshops. During 2003, CIP successfully completed a distance-learning project with Texas A&M University, USA, to develop a Web-based course on potato seed-tuber production.
CIP continues to develop its website and interactive CD-ROMs to support training organized by CIP headquarters and regional offices, and by CIP-related networks.
| Summary of training events |
| Group training & conferences |
Individual Training |
Total |
| Events |
Duration |
Participants |
| (number) |
(days) |
(number) |
| 19 |
110 |
921 |
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| Events |
Duration |
Participants |
| (number) |
(days) |
(number) |
| 20 |
721 |
32 |
|
| Events |
Duration |
Participants |
| (number) |
(days) |
(number) |
| 39 |
831 |
953 |
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| Summary of training events |
| M.Sc. |
Ph.D. |
Interns (B.Sc.) |
Total |
|
|
| Total |
Male |
Female |
| 138 |
68 |
70 |
|
| Total |
Male |
Female |
| 144 |
74 |
70 |
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| Principle group training events |
| Event (number of participants in parentheses) |
External partners |
Participating countries |
| III. International Workshop “Guatemala’s potato tuber moth Tecia solanivora” (16) |
CORPOICA |
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Germany, Venezuela |
| Workshop “Strategy development for the germplasm homologation of Andean roots and tubers” (5) |
PROINPA, INIA Peru, INIAP, UNC |
Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru |
| Workshop “Introduction to the farmers’ field schools methodology” (21) |
PRONAMACHS |
Netherlands, Peru |
| IPM training course (15) |
Ministry of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Center (ARC), Egypt |
Egypt |
| Workshop “Integration of urban agriculture to the sustainable development of the municipalities” (45) |
Aguila, UNDP, PGU-ALC, HABITAT, Municipalidad de Lurigancho, Chosica |
Cuba, Ecuador, Peru |
| Course “Participatory improvement and production of decentralized seed of Andean crops” (19) |
INIA, Peru |
Peru |
| Potato production course for Asian countries (129) |
Rural Development Administration (RDA), Korea |
China, Indonesia, Korea, Myanmar, Vietnam |
| Workshop “Processing and export potential of potatoes within Asia” (300) |
Central Potato Research Institute, India |
Australia, Bangladesh, Germany, Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan |
| Workshop “Analysis of the integrated management of the Andean weevil (MIP-GA)” (19) |
INIA, SENASA, PRONAMACHS, Peru |
Peru |
| Workshop “Intellectual property and access to genetic resources” (69) |
Ministerio de Agricultura, Peru |
Canada, Colombia, Indonesia, Peru, Uruguay |
| Workshop “Research project on climatic variability and family welfare in the Andes” (27) |
SENAMHI, UNALM, CIRNMA, PROINPA |
Bolivia, Peru, USA |
| Seminar “Access to phytogenetic resources in the Andean Region” (43) |
Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental |
Argentina, Belgium, Boliva, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Spain, Venezuela, USA |
| Workshop “Auto-evaluation of the collaborative program on ARTCs biodiversity” (18) |
INIA Peru, INIAP Ecuador, PROINPA |
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Switzerland |
| Workshop “Day of the potato-improver” (12) |
INIA, Peru |
Peru |
| Workshop “Strategies for the use of sweetpotato in human and animal nourishment” (25) |
FONTAGRO |
Argentina, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Nicaragua Peru, Venezuela |
| Training course on potato production (29) |
Ministry of Agriculture, Afghanistan |
Afghanistan |
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