General Conclusion on Institutional Support Sample Clauses

General Conclusion on Institutional Support. The activities implemented by PROPLANALTO have already shown good results and World Vision staff involved have shown great competence and interest in this component. In terms of impact, effectiveness and efficiency, valuable scientific results are now available. The IIA and XXX technicians involved in the program acquired good skills in field trials implementation. The cost of the component (around US$1.4 million) was very reasonable in relation to the numerous outputs. Major deficiencies resulted from an inadequate participation of partners in the program. IIA should have played its role as counterpart of WV. That means that IIA should have engaged senior staff with high qualifications and working fulltime at the Chianga station. Equipment provided by the program should have been used only for the planned activities. The IIA vehicle was used for other purposes and the IIA technician’s were de-motivated and unable to manage the On-farm trials. The sustainability of PROPLANALTO activities in “Institutional Support” closely depends on the institutional capacities to replace World Vision supervision and in the GoA to fund its own services. PROPLANALTO highlighted the fact that MINADER institutions need strong institutional reforms in both organization and accountability. XXXXXXX should move away from its centralized organization and give more responsibility and initiatives to the decentralized services. For IIA, the research station and/or research teams would benefit from autonomy in management and accountability. Current centralized organization prevents the research station from doing valuable work. IDA’s Provincial Department has no budget and no financial autonomy. Working under these conditions, XXX staff have limited opportunities to take any initiative or to plan any activity by themselves. A future critical issue for any international cooperation is to support an effective decentralization of national administration. A criticism of paternalism may be made on initial PROPLANALTO budgeting and WV supervision. To make the local partners take more responsibility, the annual budget should have been defined based on a working program and these budgets should have been made known to all the partners. The partners should have collaborated more closely in making the expenditures. To achieve this, future programs should give priority to local management and accounting capacity building, and in giving more responsibility to the local institution. The PROPLANALT...