Day 1: 20 September 1999
Session 1
09.00 hours |
Statement by FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa Official opening by Ghana Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture |
10.00 |
Refreshments |
Session 2
10.30 hours |
Introduction of Chairman and other participants |
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10.35 |
Workshop rationale and objectives |
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10.45 |
Review of IIA research and development in participating countries |
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· Burkina Faso · Côte d'Ivoire · Mali · Zambia · Ghana |
12.00 |
FAO Special Programme for Food Security and IIA |
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12.25 |
Questions and answers |
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13.00 |
Lunch |
Session 3
14.30 hours |
Definition of expectations of participants for IIA |
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· Research · Development |
15.20 |
Networks and networking |
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15.30 |
Examples of some existing African networks |
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- Regional Association for Irrigation and Drainage |
16.10 |
Coffee break |
Session 4
16.30 hours |
Examples of existing networks (continued) |
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- West African Rice Developt. Assoc./Inland Valley Consortium - International Institute of Tropical Agriculture/Ecoregional Progr.
for Humid and Subhumid Tropics of Subsaharan Africa |
17.00 |
Questions and answers on related networks |
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17.30 |
Demonstration of ALCOM Water Resource Database |
Day 2: 21 September 1999
Session 5
08.30 hours |
Recap of Day 1 and discussion |
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09.00 |
Elaboration of IIA network proposal |
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· Objectives · Orientation · Context of operation |
10.30 |
Coffee break |
Session 6
10.45 hours |
Network structure and linkages |
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11.15 |
IIA Network activities |
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· Possible network activities · Prioritize IIA Network activities ·Develop chronology for initiating activities |
12.30 |
Lunch |
Session 7
14.00 hours |
IIA Network structure and operations: final definition |
14.15 |
Plan for IIA Network establishment |
15.30 |
Coffee break |
16.30 |
Review of participants' expectations for IIA |
16.45 |
Conclusions and recommendations |
17.30 |
Closure of the workshop |
18.30 |
Reception at Shangri-La Hotel for all participants |