Program Formulation In National Agricultural Research

The National Agricultural Research Process; Scope and unity of program formulation; Criteria for priority setting quantification.

The present volume is an english translation of ISNARs Research Man-agement guidelines no. 2, guide d'elaboration de programmes et d'establissememt de priorites. That original publication describes a methodology coming out of years of collaboration between INRA and ISNAR. The history of that effort is well described below by the director general of INRA of that time. Since 1993, ISNAR has extended its collaboration with in a number of new domains with the ful support and guidance of INRA's present director general, a. Arifi. Recognizing that the approaches developed jointly with Morocco can serve other developing countries, he has allowed INRA experts to participate in program-formulation and priority-setting exercieses in other are forthcoming in the framework of this continued collaboration.

Research planning; programme formulation; national science policy and allocation of funds for research; allocation of funds for agricultural research; responsability and procedures for formulation of the agricultural research policy and programme; policy formulation at the national level; policy formulation at the material level; policy formulation at the institutional level; evaluation methods; the proble; steps in evaluation; techniques for evaluating research projects; evaluation graphs; the planning programming budgeting system; the evaluation graphy of the department of agronomy of INRA.

Background; What to evaluate; How to evaluate; Writing and using the report.

This report provides a brief review of recent trends and key policies in strengthening national agricultural research systems. Chapters provide a brief overview of the recent evolution of national research systems and a synthesis of policy issues and good practices for developing these systems including the involvement of universities and the private sector. They also focus on key policy and institutional reforms for strengthening public research institutions including funding, research management, and client orientation. Finally they discuss implications for the World Bank in its ongoing efforts to strengthen national research systems.

Priority identification and setting national policies; Program formulation; Program implementation and monitoring; Technology transfer and delivery.