Government co-operative programme project proposal
Implementation Arrangements
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- Provincial Government of Balochistan’s Planning and Development, Agriculture and Co-operatives, Livestock and Dairy Development, and Forestry and Wildlife Departments
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Implementation Arrangements The implementation process of the AUSABBA Project would be structured, participatory and consultative, while always emphasising the development of marginal and small-scale producers of western Balochistan Province, as well as food processors, traders and exporters of the Province as a whole. The Project would fully engage with the Provincial Government of Balochistan’s Planning and Development, Agriculture and Co-operatives, Livestock and Dairy Development, and Forestry and Wildlife Departments and their district, tehsil and divisional-level extension systems, and national and provincial-level policy and development departments and research centres, while maintaining focus on community development, post-harvest management and marketing, and stakeholder capacity building through the management support and technical assistance of FAO. The Project would be implemented in the field through locally accepted best development practices in community-led development, adaptive research, participatory extension and value chain development which have been tested and validated under the FSPAB Pilot Project Phase and USABBA Project. To enhance local ownership, COs, FMCs and MMOs would be guided by locally recruited men and women District Team Leaders/Marketing Associates, Community Development and Marketing Facilitators, FFS Facilitators and CAHWs. Associates and Facilitators would be trained by the Project (using existing Associates and Facilitators from the USABBA Project as master trainers) and closely monitored by community development, crops, livestock, water management and marketing specialists employed by the Project and assisted by Provincial Government subject matter specialists and district, tehsil and divisional-level extension workers. The Project’s research and development activities would be closely linked to relevant on-going national and provincial programmes of the National Agricultural Research Centre, Arid Zone Research Centre (AZRC) and the Agricultural Research Directorate of the Balochistan Provincial Government’s Agriculture and Co-operatives Department. These activities would be enforced through the sharing of knowledge with relevant agricultural research and development work in similar agro-ecological zones outside of Pakistan through letters of agreement or memoranda of understanding with the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, United States Department of Agriculture and Consortium of International Agricultural Research centres present in Pakistan. The main project review and policy setting mechanism would be semi-annual Project Steering Committee (PSC) meetings chaired by the Secretary of the Federal Government of Pakistan’s Ministry of Food Security and Research and comprising representatives of the National Planning Commission, Provincial Government of Balochistan’s Planning and Development, Agriculture and Co-operatives, Livestock and Dairy Development, and Forestry and Wildlife Departments, and AusAID and FAO Representations in Pakistan, as well as appropriate representatives from the project area and other key stakeholders. The PSC would be supported by a provincial Technical Working Group (TWG) chaired by the Chief of Foreign Aid, Provincial Government of Balochistan’s Planning and Development Department. The TWG would meet on a quarterly basis to harmonise donor and government-funded interventions in the agriculture sector, support the Government of Balochistan in the reform of agricultural policies, and guide PCU for the AUSABBA Project and BAP and project management units of other agricultural development projects in a co-ordinated approach to agricultural development. Membership of TWG would comprise representatives of the Government of Balochistan’s Planning and Development, Agriculture and Co-operatives, Livestock and Dairy Development and Forestry and Wildlife Departments, AusAID, FAO, IFAD, USAID and the World Bank, and the respective programme co-ordination and project management units. The implementation arrangements for the AUSABBA Project would be linked to those of the USABBA Project through the establishment of a joint “FAO in Balochistan” Programme Co-ordination Unit (PCU). The AUSABBA Project would assist FAO to expand and continue maintaining PCU, originally established by the USABBA Project, and six (newly created) district field offices for the overall co-ordination, supervision, management and reporting of project activities and evaluation of project interventions – using development evaluation methods which encourage the adoptions of lessons learned over time. The PCU would continue to be located at AZRC in Quetta.
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