2004
Mid-year Report
Uganda Country Programme
Formation
of National Steering Committee
The nominees for the National Steering Committee were proposed and
letters requesting their participation on the committee dispatched.
Half have positively responded to-date.
The full list is namely:
-
National Agricultural Research Organisation
- National
Agricultural Advisory Services
- Uganda
Local Authorities Association (local government)
- Makerere
University Institute of Environmental Natural Resources
- CIAT
(IARS) – Local Innovator
- Private
Sector Development Foundation
- Uganda
National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST)
Communication
and information
A
PROLINNOVA brochure is in the process of being updated and published.
Institutionalisation
The
Africa Highland Initiative committed itself to partner with PROLINNOVA
in the area of exhibitions on local innovations. Furthermore, meetings
were held with the Deputy Director of NARO on PROLINNOVA and synergies
were identified. NARO accepted to participate actively in PROLINNOVA
work at the level of Core Team and National Steering Committee.
Coordination and management
Ronald Lutalo has been recruited on a part-time basis as PROLINNOVA
Uganda Coordinator.
The Africa Highland Initiative came on board as a core team member
to promote synergism between the initiatives.
Two Core Team meetings have been given the task of planning the
implementation of the project and constituting a National Steering
Committee.
PROLINNOVA Uganda has finalised the 2004 workplan details and the
MOUs have been developed and finalised with Core Team partners.
PROLINNOVA Uganda is currently in the process of writing a project
concept to tap on the
DURAS funding.
Local innovation practices
A survey of local innovations in the country will be completed by
the end of August.
Training of facilitators
Two
persons, one from the secretariat office (Environmental Alert) and
another from the Africa 2000 network, participated in a two-week
training of facilitators in Participatory Innovation Development
held at IIRR in the Philippines.
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