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| Title | Cooperation in Agroforestry between Ministry of Forestry of Indonesia and International Center for Research in Agroforestry | | Author | Fahmuddin Agus, Taulana Sukandi, Christine Wulandari and Apul Sianturi | | Year | 2008 | | Publisher | World Agroforestry Centre - ICRAF, SEA Regional Office | | City of Publication | Bogor, Indonesia | | Series Number | Working Paper no 77 | | Number of Pages | 63 | | Call Number | WP0116-09 | | Keywords | Action research, tree crop propagation, payment for environmental services, capacity
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| Mutual benefits between a host country and an international organization can be enhanced if both parties are mutually abreast about each other mandates, rights and responsibilities and targets and achievements. This monitoring was aimed at (i) enlightening the status, mandate and strategic research priorities of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Southeast Asia Regional Research Programme and those of the Forestry Research and Development Agency of the Republic of Indonesia (FORDA) and (ii) revealing ICRAF’s achievement of the targeted collaborative outputs as stipulated in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two parties ratified on 5 October 2006. This monitoring was conducted through field observation of selected ICRAF research and development activities, literature search of strategic plans, and consultative meeting with key officials and researchers of the two organizations. Existing differences and similarities in the visions and mission of the two
organizations form the basis for complementarity in research and development agendas.
The monitoring exercise concluded that ICRAF is on target in its action research on
community forest (Hutan Kemasyarakatan, HKM) in Sumberjaya, nursery support and tree planting techniques, economic and environmental analyses of agroforestry, payment for environmental services, analysis of coastal area protection as well as in developing networks in agroforestry education. There are opportunities of further exploration of new collaborative research, especially on hydrological impacts of the National Movement of Forest and Land Rehabilitation (GERHAN) and on climate change mitigation and adaptation. Finally, communication needs improvement. ICRAF has developed and disseminated guidelines on tree crop propagation and rapid techniques for carbon stock, biodiversity, tree marketing, hydrology and land tenure appraisal. However the collaboration has not been successful in increasing the proportion of FORDA researchers who pursue their PhD studies abroad. Commitment and determination of the candidates and strong supports from FORDA and ICRAF are crucial for achieving such a competitive target. Other cooperation targets such as replicating live examples of the HKM success story will require more direct involvement of FORDA, and other related directorate generals. |
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