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Acronyms


BCR

Benefit - Cost ratio

CIRAD

Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement

CIRDES

Centre International de Recherche-Développement sur L’Élevage en Zone Subhumide

DFID

Department for International Development, UK

ERGO

Environmental Research Group Oxford

EMVT

Elevage et Médecine Véterinaire (CIRAD-EMVT)

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FITCA

Farming in Tsetse Controlled Areas (project covering Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda)

GIS

Geographic Information Systems

IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

IIED

International Institute for Environment and Development

ILCA

International Livestock Centre for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (now ILRI)

ILRAD

International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases (now ILRI)

ILRI

International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya and Ethiopia

IRR

Internal Rate of Return

ISCTRC

International Scientific Council for Trypanosomiasis Research and Control xii

ITC

International Trypanotolerance Centre

NGO

Non-Governmental Organization

NPV

Net Present Value

OAU/STRC

Organization of African Unity - Scientific, Technical and Research Commission

PAAT

Programme against African Trypanosomiasis

PAATIS

PAAT Information Service

PATTEC

Pan-African Tsetse and Trypanosomosis Eradication Campaign

PLA

Participatory Learning and Action

PRA

Participatory Rural Appraisal

RRA

Rapid Rural Appraisal

RTTCP

Regional Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Control Project (covering Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe)

SAT

Sequential Aerosol Technique

SIT

Sterile Insect Technique

SITE

Method for project analysis based on Socioeconomic, Institutional, Technical and Environmental criteria

US$

United States Dollar

WHO

World Health Organization


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