nurturing partnerships with national programs: why should you care?

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Julian Alviar Lapitan

IRRI Rice Seminar Series

Current position:National Programs Relations Manager

Education and training:1982-2010 Trained in mentoring, gender and dignity advising; leadership and management development; performancemanagement; participatory research and technology development; planning for sustainable rural development; targetoriented project planning.1981 Post-Masteral (7 Months) Course International Agriculture, Cornell University, USA, (DA-USAID Scholarship Award).1980 MSc (Extension-Education), UP Los Baños, Philippines. (NFAC Scholarship Award).1971 BSc Agriculture (Animal Science) UP Los Baños, Philippines (RFChandler Jr. Scholarship Award).

Work experience: With IRRI (April 1984-Oct 85, Jan 1987 to date)Project coordination: RSSP R&D Support Project, Cyber Village, and URGENT (Philippines); LEARN IT (Cambodia, Thailand,

and Vietnam); Prosperity thru Rice Phase 2 (Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand); Cyber Extension (Sri Lanka); RiceFarming Systems Project (Bhutan).

Managing and supervising IRRI Country Offices without IRRI Representative/Liaison Scientist (Cambodia, China, Myanmar,Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka).Facilitating support to countries without an IRRI country office (Bhutan, East Timor, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, PNG).Training development and management: Rice Technology Transfer Systems for Asia (Korea, China), Project leadership andmanagement and strategic planning (Bhutan and Cambodia).

Applied/adaptive research management: Multilocation testing and pilot production programs.Project (Concept Note) development (North Korea, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bhutan).Event management (Farmers and NGOs Day, CORRA, NARES VIPs, National Rice R&D PhilRice, etc)

Research highlightsAdding social and cultural capital to nurture productive partnership with NARES.Partnerships with various stakeholders can effectively address many NARES problems in the farm.Understanding local conditions and knowledge is equally important in providing solutions to NARES problems.IRRI must stay relevant to be needed and appreciated by NARES partners.



The top 3 IRRI things most valued by our NARES partners

Germplasm

Partnerships

Training



IRRI’s Mission

“To contribute to food security, povertyreduction, and environmental sustainability

by generating technologies for rice-based

farming systems through collaborationand further development of the capacityof national agricultural research and

extension systems”

IRRI BOT Vision Statement, December 2004.



IRRI has the NARES in mind since it’s foundation



It has established and cultivated new andbetter relationships with more NARES

partners regardless of ideology



It used programs, organizational units, and staff members ininitiating important investments that have since made IRRI-NARES partnerships more fruitful.



Better off NARES partners, becoming donorsand leaders



IRRI, now more than ever with the adventof GRiSP, will need active involvement of and support from its NARES partners



Nurturing Partnerships

with National Programs:Why should you care ??



The National Programs

Relations:Office of External Relations



Overview

• The way we were• What are we doing• Nurturing partnerships• Our plans



The way we were• 1981: Training and Technology

Transfer Department (T3D); – Technology Transfer Division

(Dr. Glenn L. Denning):Multi-location testing of IRRI’s research products;

– 1984: Externally fundedbilateral projects (Bhutan,

Cambodia, Vietnam andLaos) Prosperity thru RicePhase 2 (Bangladesh,Indonesia, Thailand, SriLanka);

• Pre-1990: most country relatedaffairs and concerns werehandled by DDG (Dr. MVega)Office and informally throughsome senior staff.



The way we were• 1990: TTD became the International Programs

Management Office (IPMO) headed by Dr.GLDenning (under DDG InternationalServices/Partnerships);

– IPMO coordinated planning, implementation ,monitoring, and evaluation of IRRI’s countryprojects with special funding (Bangladesh, Egypt,India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Madagascar,Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam);

– Served as the front office of IRRI Country Offices atHQ (provide support to ICO’s operations from HQ)

–

Involved in technology transfer activities underIRRI’s MTP in view of staff’s in house technicalexpertise.



The way we were• 2002: Training Center and

IPMO were merged againunder Dr. MABell (under DDGfor Partnerships);

• 2006: Dr. MABell’s departureand new structuring, IPMOseparated again with TC andplaced under DDG Research(Drs. RWang, TPTuong,

ADobermann);• 2010: Under Office of

External Relations (Ms.CGuerta)



Transformation of NPR

TechnologyTransferDivision

NPR IPMO

DDGOffice of ExternalRelations (OER)

DDGPartnership/Research



Two main components of our tasks:

1. International programsmanagement (bilateral projectsand supervision of country offices);

2. Involvement in action research,

training and extension (in-housestrength)• Effectively use research and training

opportunities and facilitating assistancethrough Country Offices in nurturingrelationship with NARES (ex. Sri Lanka);



NPR’s Vision

• Productive and sustainablecollaboration among IRRI, thenational agricultural research and

extension system (NARES), andother partners in the developmentof rice science and adoption of its

products for the benefit of ricefarmers and consumers.



Mission

• We initiate and capture the fullpotential of IRRI’s relationship withnational program partners andprovides advice on importantdevelopments in national programsand policies in countries where IRRIremains or wishes to establish riceresearch collaboration



What are we doing

• Facilitate support toHQ staff, ICOs, andNARES partners

•Identify partners andneeds andbuild/maintainrelations

• Public Awareness• Resource generation



What are we doing• Ensure that MOUs and work

plans capture the full breadthand potential of our

relationships with nationalpartners.• Provide advice to senior

management on importantdevelopments in national

programs and policies incountries where IRRImaintains or wishes toestablish researchcollaborations.

• Plan higher-level country visitsand events.

• Focal point for CORRA and allprogrammatic research andextension activities in thePhilippines.



Researchers:Los Baños/

Outreach

Role of NPR/

ICO

NARESPartners

•Let scientists dowhat they do best;•Help them in areaswhere they needsupport in country &at IRRI

•R & Development

•Res Infra Dev’t•Capacity building•Other needs



How can we further help??

• Advise you on country protocol beforestarting your visit and collaboration;

• Introduce you to our Country Office

staff and NARES partners (for newstaff);

• Help you in developing MOU, MOA, or

LOA with NARES partners;• Assist in “Trouble shooting”



Do you know where our Country

Offices are?



IRRI Country Offices

1. Philippines2. Bangladesh3. Cambodia4. China5. India

6. Indonesia7. Korea

8. Lao PDR9. Myanmar 10. Nepal11. Sri Lanka12. Thailand13. Vietnam

14. Africa-Mozambique

15. Africa-Tanzania16. Africa- Burundi

14

15

11

16



IRRI Country Offices and Number of Staff

Region (No. of CountryOffices)

Total ResearchStaff

Admin staff

1. Africa (3) 17 13 4

2. East and Southeast Asia(9)

25 7 18

3. South Asia (4) 109 77 32

Total (16) 151 97 54



What can our Country Offices do for you??• Makes collaboration easier and

quicker;• Facilitates your collaborative

arrangements and requirements with

the scientists in these countries;• Facilitates your visit, meetings, and

fund transfers to your collaborating

institutions; and• Advises you on the country protocoldetails.



Nurturing present and future partnerships:Some suggestions

•

Pers o nal touch: Addgenuine social andcultural capital;

• Respect and treat well

our scholars, trainees,collaborators, andvisitors;

• Be kind and interested

(career and sometimesfamilies);




• Broaden our partnership base. It’salways wise to havemore partners in thecountry as

partnerships withvarious stakeholderscan effectivelyaddress many NARESproblems in the farm;If one fails, the otherscan be tapped.




• Understand andappreciate ourpartners’ localconditions andknowledge




•

IRRI must continueto be relevant;• Work on challenges

and opportunitiesmutually important.




•

Add value to whatthey are doing;• Keep in touch

regularly.



Plans• Continue to improve our support

services to internal and externalpartners;• Improve and update our data base

(NARES directory, donor and medialist, etc);

• Pursue the establishment of “CountryChampions” (Resource Advisors)among IRRI Staff;



Plans• Capture recent country developments

(occurrence of typhoons and other calamitiesaffecting rice) and plan for IRRI’s assistance;• Capture IRRI’s investment in country and vice

versa;• Continue develop business plan for the

sustainable operations of ICOs; and• Initiate opportunities to open or re-invigorate

partnership (Malaysia, Iran, North Korea,Bhutan)



The Office of External Relations

Family



NPR Team

MargaretMarlyn

Manny

MaricelMaan

Jojo

Ben



Where can you find us??

• We are currently located at theOffice of External Relations (besidethe cashier’s Office) FFHill building;

• Tel No. 2424; 2871; 2756• [email protected]



The National ProgramsRelations:

Office of External Relationsat your service !!

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