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Summary of Key Accomplishments. This quarter marked significant accomplishments led by the GRAIN team with partners at ARIA and partner Afghan Universities as spring is a busy time for field research and field-based training. Although COVID-19 health concerns slowed activities by the end of the quarter, the period still saw 190 total participants in GRAIN programs, including 108 individuals participating in short-term training programs, and 123 participating in programming related to women’s empowerment in agricultural sectors (while there may be overlap between individuals that participated in short-term training and those that participated in women’s empowerment programming, the 190 represents the non-duplicative, unique participants this quarter; Reference Annex 02 Performance Indicator Table Explanations for further details on program participation).
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Summary of Key Accomplishments. ‌ GRAIN jumped into the start of its third program year with significant emphasis and achievements in research implementation, training, and partner coordination. Even while responding to the constraints of the security situation in Afghanistan, and with comprehensive revisions to GRAIN’s management and implementation approach which required substantial review and revisions to GRAIN’s annual and life-of- project (LOP) work plans, budget, staffing, and partner agreements (reference Section 3.4 and 3.8), the GRAIN field team persevered in implementing high quality programming for GRAIN’s partners at MAIL, ARIA, and Afghan Universities. The notes Use of the ARIA Data Management System continues in PY3 with training and field support for ARIA researchers. below highlight several key accomplishments, with further details of each accomplishment or activity provided in later report sections.
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Summary of Key Accomplishments. A feature this quarter was the MAIL announcement calling for applications for GRAIN’s Doctoral and Master’s Degree Scholarships Program. This will enable qualified postgraduate Afghan women and men to undertake training at international universities recognized as wheat producers, and offering strong research facilities. The activity is primarily designed to directly strengthen MAIL capacity to increase best practice and wheat research technical knowledge. In accordance with GRAIN’s scheduled winter wheat trials, and drawing from the Altai Needs Assessment, 14 wheat breeding trials were initiated by GRAIN in collaboration with ICARDA, and an additional 15 agronomy trials at ARIA and university research sites in Baghlan, Herat, Balkh, Nangarhar, Kandahar and Kabul provinces. Coinciding with this, were three days of combined theory and practical training for AIRA and university technical staff in Kabul, where training ranged from experimental design and field-plot techniques, to the safe use of pesticides. GRAIN met with Faculty of Agriculture administrators from University of Kabul, University of Herat, University of Nangarhar and University of Balkh, to profile the small grants program and provide early orientation in relation to the application process. With a call for concept papers due in FY18 Q3, GRAIN continues to highlight the benefits this will provide, in terms of broadening the overall wheat research scientific knowledge base in Afghanistan. was contracted to commence development of a data management system that will be utilized to collect, analyze and store information on wheat production trials, and associated agronomical experiments. The database will enable MAIL and other government institutions to generate solutions for Afghanistan’s wheat/agricultural sector, and has the potential to meet the needs of a wide range of beneficiaries. GRAIN reviewed a proposal provided by MSU professor Xx. Xxxxx Xx, for the establishment of a Wheat Quality Laboratory at ARIA’s Kabul headquarters that would significantly advance scientific capabilities to test wheat and flour samples in Afghanistan. GRAIN commenced dialogue with Afghanistan Agricultural Inputs Project (AAIP), and MAIL, to discuss feasible options to accommodate the level of financial outlay required for this facility. Recruitment of GRAIN’s Gender and Social Inclusion Advisor prior to MAIL’s public the long- term training program announcement in December, provided strategic planning input to prom...
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