progress report on cambodia nism-gpa-pgrfa · 3 | page mr.mom sovanna leaded the discussion among...
TRANSCRIPT
1 | P a g e
KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA Nation Religion King
() Cambodian Agricultural Research and Development Institute Training and Information Center
Progress Report on GCP/RAS/240/JPN project
(The Establishment of the National Information Sharing Mechanism for the Monitoring the GPA Implementation in Cambodia)
I. Introduction
With the accordance to the letter of agreement (LoA) between CARDI-FAO, the project
“Capacity Building and Enhanced Regional Collaboration for the Conservation and Sustainable Use
of Plant Genetic Resources in Asia” to be conducted in Cambodia. The project funded by
Government of Japan and aims to support Cambodia in strengthening its activities related to
information on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA), partticularly in relation
institutionalizing regular updating of NISM-GPA the main monitoring mechanism of the Global
Plan of Action.
The project has been undertaken on the beginning of January, 2010, and will be closed on
September, 2011. The ten activities will be implemented on the National Information Sharing
Mechanism of Global Plan of Action for the conservation and sustainable use of plant gentetic
resource for food and agriculture in Cambodia. The inputs of the project will help Cambodia to
facilitate the information from the stakeholders into the Cambodia-GPA database and provide the
term basis for monitoring progress in Cambodia related the Global Plan of Action.
II. Activities
The midterm report on the implementation of NISM-GPA project in Cambodia is respected to
the activities and workplan which developed for achieving the project.The activities are foused on:
1. Training of staff related project
On the job training of staff related project was held on 18-19 January 2010. The training conducted
at the Cambodian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) and lectured by Dr
Duncan Vaughan, Chief Technical Adviser on Plant Genetic Resources (GCP/RAS/240/JPN
project) and Dr. R.C.AGRAWAL, Offcer-in-Charge ARIS cell, PI, Agroweb project (NAIP). The
training foused on the software of National Information Sharing Mechanism on the implementation
of the Global Plan of Action for the conservation and sustainable use of GPRFA which contained
2 | P a g e
the common tables, priority activity areas and documents supported. There staffs of CARDI
participation, included Mr.Mom Sovanna (IT Techical), Mr.Thorng RA (Data input of NISM-GPA-
GPRFA-Cambodia project) and Miss Ouk Sothea (Research Assistant of Plant Breeding Division).
2. Hiring of one contractual staff to assist with data input:
Mr. Thorng Ra, was recruited by CARDI to be a staff of NISM-GPA project. He’s responsible for
the data input and data gathering from the stakeholders for combination with the National Focal
Point’s data. He has closely worked with the project leader and IT specialist to coordinate and
facilitate the hold of the project implementation.
3. Provision of materials and supplies essential for in-country project activities:
A computer laptop and desktop had been purchased for the project facilitation.
A year internet connection
4. Meeting with stakeholders and policy marker:
The first stakeholder meeting on consultation with stakeholders involved in conservation
and sustainable use of PGRFA establishment of National Information Sharing Mechanism
on monitoring the implementation of GPA in Cambodia was held at CARDI on 24 June
2010. There were 8 of institutions, organization and NGOs participated in the NISM-GPA-
PGRFA consultation included: Plant Breeding Division of the CARDI, Plant Protection
Division of the CARDI, Department of Rice production (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Fisheries), Department of Horticulture and Crops (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries), Department of Crop Industry (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries),
Forestry Administrative (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries), Department of
Natural Conservation and Protection (Ministry of Environment), Department Natural
Resource Assessment and Environmental Data Management (Ministry of Environment),
Graduate School of Royal University of Agriculture, Faculty of Agronomy of Royal
University of Agriculture, Department of Biology (Royal University of Phnom Penh),
Department of Environment (Royal University of Phnom Penh), Community Based Natural
Resources Management Learning Institute (CBNRM-Learning Institute), Srer Khmer
Organization and AQIP Seed Co,Ltd.
During the 1st meeting of stakeholders, Mr. Ty Channa, deputy director of CARDI
mentioned about the significance of NISM-GPA project and it objectives. He continued with
the presentation about the establishment of the National Information Sharing Mechanism for
the implementation of GPA. The presentation is focused on the 20 priority activity areas of
GPA, significance of NISM-GPA and the key of stakeholders involved.
3 | P a g e
Mr.Mom Sovanna leaded the discussion among the stakeholder participation. The
stakeholder agreed to establish the NISM-GPA and they required the benefit when take
apart of NISM-GPA. Moreover, it should be agreed and approved by institution or head of
institution with the NFP. In this case, the head of institution will appoint the staff to work
with NFP. Stakeholder
Mr.Thorng Ra had presentation about the establishment process of the NISM-GPA for
conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA. He pointed on, what is the NISM-GPA,
objectives and outputs of NISM-GPA, types of information (indicators and reporting format,
guideline for national process), common tables, and computer application.
5. Production of a training manual on NISM and information for Cambodian:
3,000 copies of brochures published for distribution and dissemination to the stakeholders.
The copy of questionnaires was translated into the Khmer aims to compromise for the
stakeholder reading and understanding.
Training Manual was translated into the Khmer from documents, the guide toward the
National Information Sharing Mechanism of the Global Plan of Action for the Conservation
and Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resource for Food and Agriculture and its
establishment and PGRFA -10/04/inf05 Indicator and Report Format for monitoring the
implementation of GPA. The manual was used as the guide how to use the computer
application and its procedure during the Training.
6. Production of public awareness/relations materials regarding PGRFA in
Cambodia.
The stakeholders attended in the meeting of stakeholders had received 100 copies of
brochures to continue distribution and dissemination to coworker in their institutions and
organizations.
The brochure were distributed to the leader of Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries (MAFF), Departments of MAFF, provincial departments of agriculture,
institutions, libraries, NGOs and other stakeholders targeted as definite notice below:
Table 1: list of institutions and stakeholder s received the brochures
No Institutions/organizations of Key Stakeholders
1 The leaders of Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF)
2 Departments and provincial departments of Agriculture (MAFF)
3 Departments of Ministry of Environment (MoE)
4 All division of CARDI
4 | P a g e
5
Education institutions (Royal University of Agriculture, Royal University of Phnom
Penh, School of Agriculture Prek Leap, Kompong Cham School of Agriculture and
Maharishi Vedic University…)
6 NGOs (FAO, Cambodia IRRI office, Srer Khmer Organization, CDRI, UNDP…)
7 All library (public libraries, university, institution and NGOs libraries)
8 TV Broadcast stations
9 Private seed companies
The brochures were disseminated during conference/workshop/other events
10 Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) annual conference
11
The consultation workshop on the identification of the most important local rice varieties
prioritized for productivity and export increase. It’s the national event conducted by
MAFF and CARDI and participations were from both public and private sections.
12 The brochures were disseminated to delegations who visiting CARDI during the 32nd
AMAF, the 10th AMAF+3 meeting.
13 The workshop on “the Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture and adaptation strategy”
The NISM brochure for conservation and sustainable used of plant Genetic Resource for
Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) in Cambodia will be inserted also into the CARDI’s website
aims to disseminate its information to the visitors who visited the CARDI’s website.
7. Support for MSc student related plant genetic resource for food and agriculture
(PGRFA)
In the 9th activities of LoA, one MSc student will be supported for the the capacity building
relateded Plant Genetic Resource for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA). The CARDI’s
management assigned Mr.Thorng Ra to be a student study at on weekend for MSc degree in
the Natual Resource Management and Rural Development at the Royal University of
Agriculture.
8. The Second Stakeholder Training Workshop on the Establishment of the National Information Sharing Mechanism for the Monitoring the GPA Implementation in Cambodia
The second Stakeholder Training Workshop, involved in conservation and sustainable use of Plant
Genetic Resource for Food and Agriculture for the establishment of National Information Sharing
Mechanism on monitoring the implementation of The Global Plan of Action in Cambodia was held
5 | P a g e
at Cambodian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI), Phnom Penh, Cambodia
during November 29-30th, 2010.
Mr. Ty Channa indicated about the establishment of the National Information Sharing Mechanism
for the Implementation of the GPA in the context of the current project exercises will have the
following purposes:
Enhance the ability of the countries to assess the current status of PGR and monitor the GPA
implementation, including changes in the status of their PGR over time.
Establish a national mechanism for gathering and sharing information on GPA
implementation to enhance coordination of plans and activities on conservation and
sustainable utilization of PGRFA amongst stakeholders at national and regional levels.
Increase understanding among stakeholders about the status of the PGR in their countries,
and build stronger partnerships among stakeholders.
Improving the ability of countries on decision-making on the conservation and sustainable
use of PGR, including priority setting and resources allocation.
Enhance the capability of countries to meet international reporting obligations (such as GPA
implementation, Second Report of the State of the World’s PGRFA, etc.) and to publicize
their activities internationally.
The Purpose of the Training
To update and revise the nine “Common Tables” of the Indicators and Reporting Format for
monitoring the GPA.
To summarize the importance of completing the information on the “Common Tables”.
To train the Stakeholders on the use of the computer application of the Khmer version
(Khmer-NISM-GPA) to answer the questions and add data to common tables of the
indicators and reporting format for monitoring the GPA.
To create the stakeholder’s version of the computer application of the Khmer-NISM-GPA,
with the information on the “Common Tables” for distribution to stakeholders.
The Expected output
The importance and purpose of establishing the Khmer-NISM-GPA in the country and of
updating of the “Common Tables” as the baseline information before SHs to use the
computer application to the answer the questions are well understood.
SHs are fully committed to establishing the Khmer-NISM-GPA and trained on the use of the
computer application. Information and data for the “Common Tables” revised and updated.
SH CDs of the Khmer-NISM-GPA computer application created for the registered SHs,
with the information in the “Common Tables” updated for use by SHs to answer the
6 | P a g e
questions or add information to the common tables on specific activities that they are
involved, or make comments or suggestions for implementation of GPA in any areas they
wish.
Timelines for submission of data and information from the SHs to NFP developed and
agreed upon by creating the contract between NFP and SHs, including content, format and
timelines for data collection and reporting discussed and agreed, including the procedures
for the compilation and preparation of country mixture reports.
Activities
Mr. Mom Sovanna, IT specialist, and Mr. Thorng Ra, Training Assistant, Training and
Information Center of CARDI, presented the guiding on entering, editing and correcting
data into 9 common tables: Organization Table, Contact Person Table, Project Table,
Variety Table, Area Table, Information System Table, Reference Table, Agreement Table
and Organization Table.
All stakeholders and trainers continuously together practiced operating and using the
Computer Application of Khmer version
Khmer-NISM-GPA software, including of software setting, registering, putting in and
exporting out data. Working with record: adding, correcting, deleting and invaliding. The
use of the Software to collecting and providing data for Khmer-NISM-GPA through answer
to questions of 20 priority activities.
At the end of training session, SHs registered to get CD-GPA software with all the
information that was fulfilled into common tables by SHs.
Table 2: List of institution registered and supplied the data to Cambodia NISM-GPA
No Institutions/organizations
1 Plant Breeding Division of the CARDI
2 Department of Rice production (MAFF)
3 Department of Horticulture and Crops (MAFF)
4 Department of Crop Industry (MAFF)
5 Agricultural Information and Documentation Center (MAFF)
6 Department of Natural Conservation and Protection (Ministry of Environment)
7 Department Natural Resource Assessment and Environmental Data Management
(Ministry of Environment)
8 Graduate School of Royal University of Agriculture
9 Department of Biology (Royal University of Phnom Penh)
7 | P a g e
Conclusion
Following the 1st stakeholder meeting, the 2nd stakeholders Training Workshop was held at
CARDI on 29-30th November 2010, with the main objective is to discuss to establish the
National Information Sharing Mechanism for monitoring the implementation of the GPA in
Cambodia, with Institutions related to Conservation and Utilization of plant genetic resource
for food and agriculture.
Participants discussed continuously on: Requirement of gathering and contents of data of 9
common tables: Institution Table (instable), Person Table (Pertab), Project Table (protab),
Cultivars Table (cultab), Taxon Table (taxtab), System Information Table (systab), Area
Table (Aretab), Agreement Table (Argtab), Reference Table (reftab).
Data of common tables that have been filled by SHs was updated into NFP software. After
that, SHs get the application software with full of information in common tables from other
SHs by CD.
The 3rd SHs Workshop will be conducted on January 2011 aims to collect the data from the
SHs and the 4th SHs workshop is the last Workshop of SHs to synthesizing, correcting and
standardizing data, and at the same time, consulting the SHs' opinions about information
sharing.
III. Lession Learned
During the 6 months implementation of Cambodian NISM-GPA-GPRGA project, we found some
constraints in the software and from the stakeholders as detailed below:
+ Obstacles and difficulties from NISM Software during implementing the project:
Always error when data combination (Data Import) between stakeholder and NFP.
Difficulties when input or compile the data into common table such as Project table, Person
table and Information table.
Information securities
The Khmer NISM-GPA Software is not perfect
The information did not clearly understand the content of data supplied for the common
tables.
The software required input the data many steps
+ Obstacles and difficulties learned from stakeholders
Depended on data requirement for the common table, it’s so hard for stakeholder collect or
classifies the available data for input into the common tables.
The responsibilities to provide the data form SHs is limitation
difficulties for SHs to implement (SHs do not tolerate by time limit of providing the data)
8 | P a g e
Some of stakeholders participated does not meet the project expectation (The organization
appointed the wrong person to participated, so they need to review the information related to
priority activity areas of the GPA with their key person than inform later to the NFP).
The problem on benefit sharing among stakeholders (incentive to encourage when they take
apart of NISM-GPA).
+The solution of above Obstacles and difficulties
The Software of NISM-GPA, however complex but enable for implementation.
During meeting of stakeholder, we learned many experiences from the stakeholders, and we
expect that amount of stakeholders will be increase for the future.
Promote understanding the value of NISM-GPA for conservation and sustainable use of
Plant Genetic Resource for Food and Agriculture and the benefit of participation with the
NISM-GPA.
Fixing the deadline for data gathering from SHs.
Enhancing and promoting ability and responsibility of stakeholders for providing the data to
NFP
NFP will arrive and get the data from the stakeholders.
Should be having packaging budget or other incentive for the stakeholders for active
participation.
+The Needs for MSc supporting
MSc student supporting is the part of project activities. To conduct the mission of data
collection for the thesis writing is the main purpose of the needs. The mission requires the
field practical skills and the budget for conducting. Currently, the thesis proposal and
mission of the crop wild relative collection are processing preparation and will send to the
advisors as soon as possible aims getting the comments.
IV. Conclusion
In short, the midterm report provided the bullet points of the progress being made in areas of the
project activities, constraints and the needs for the future. The project well progress currently,
however met some constraints and obstacles. In the preparation phase, we learned a lot of
experiences from the NISM-GPA software and stakeholders. The project plays as the important rule
to increase the ability of the country to assess the current status of Plant Genetic Resource and
monitoring the GPA implementation. Moreover, the project helps the country build a strong
9 | P a g e
relationship among the stakeholders and enhance the capability of the country to meet international
reporting obligation. We expect that, the project will be improved the capacity of the country in the
decision marking on the conservation and sustainable use of Plant Genetic Resource for Food and
Agriculture.
Verified by Prepared by
Project Leader/Deputy Director of CARDI
Ty Channa Thorng Ra
10 | P a g e
Appendix I: List the Stakeholders/Policy Marker attended in the first stakeholder meeting:
No Name/ Status Status /Organization E-mail
1 Dr.Ouk Makara Director of CARDI [email protected]
2 Dr. Send Veng Deputy Director of CARDI [email protected]
3 Mr.Ty Channa Deputy Director of CARDI [email protected]
4 Dr.Khy Sathya Deputy Head of Plant Protection
Division (CARDI)
5 Ms.Thun Vathany
Deputy Head of Plant Breeding
Division (CARDI)
6 Mr Mom Sovanna
Duputy Head of Training and
Information Center
7 Ms.Pol sathny Department of Rice Production
(Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Fisheries )
8 Mr.Chy Norom Department of Crop Industry
(Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Fisheries)
9 Mr.Tuot Sokoeurm
Department of Horticulture and
Crops (Ministry of Agriculture,
Forestry and Fisheries)
10 Meas Virak Ministry of Environment
11 Mr.Kim Sobben Graduate School of
Royal University of Agriculture
12 Ms. Hing Thida Deputy Dean of Agronomy faculty
of Royal University of Agriculture
13 Mr.Kob Math Department of Environment of
Royal University of Phnom Penh
14 Kong Putha Department of Biology of
Royal University of Phnom Penh
15 Mr.Noun Tum Srer Khmer Organization [email protected]
16 Mr.Nin chariya AQIP Seed Co,Ltd [email protected]
11 | P a g e
17 Mr.Thorng RA Training Assistant of Training and
Information Center (CARDI)
18 Miss. Ouk Sothea Research Assistant of plant
breeding Division
19 Mr. khor Tieth CEDAC [email protected]
20 Ms. Peou Youleang Royal University of Phnom Penh [email protected]
21 Mr. Tauch Ung CARDI [email protected]
12 | P a g e
Appendix II: Photos of 1st and 2nd stakeholder’s workshop
13 | P a g e
14 | P a g e
Appendix III: brochure of Cambodian NISM-GPA for the conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA
15 | P a g e