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Restructuring AR4D Group 2. Participants ICARDA Egypt Turkey Morocco Jordan IRAN GFAR Tunisia AARINENA. How we can change the functioning of research institutions to impact on development and become more inclusive?.
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Restructuring AR4DGroup 2 • Participants • ICARDA • Egypt • Turkey • Morocco • Jordan • IRAN • GFAR • Tunisia • AARINENA
How we can change the functioning of research institutions to impact on development and become more inclusive? • Merging more research & extension; all stakeholders should be involved. • Review and reinforce policies that govern, research , extension and end users. • Learning from Regional experiences( Egypt, Tunisia,Morocco, Turkey, Jordan,…). • Decentralization of the funding and decision making.
How we can change the functioning of research institutions to impact on development and become more inclusive? We should have a policy to address the national agricultural needs. • Reinforce the link between research & developing services to reach the research outputs to the end users. • Establishing a high policy makers forum including all stakeholders to review the policy , to innovate the system and setting the priorities.
How we can change the functioning of research institutions to impact on development and become more inclusive? • When restructuring any system or process we can change the financial flow, the information flow and capacity. • Need to increase the capacity and to improve it. • Involving private sectors in financial investments.
How we can change the functioning of research institutions to impact on development and become more inclusive? • For financial aspects • Competitiveness (competitive grant mechanism) • Inclusiveness • Transparency • Participatory • There are different experiences in the region , but are we learning from each other? • Running high quality research ( we should prepare the needed conditions to ensure that).
How we can change the functioning of research institutions to impact on development and become more inclusive? • Better qualified people to undertake the research. • A need for a system that provide better incentives for researchers (competitive grants which gives the researchers the opportunity to conduct the applied research to address specific problems based on the national strategy, e.g., Egypt)