REPRESENTATIVE; ADDRESSES 6.01. The Recipient’s Representative is its minister at the time responsible for finance.
6.02. The Recipient’s Address is: Ministry of Economy and Finance 17 P. O. Box 670 Abidjan 17 Republic of Côte d’Ivoire Cable: Facsimile: MINFIN (▇▇▇) ▇▇-▇▇-▇▇-▇▇ 6.03. The Association’s Address is: International Development Association ▇▇▇▇ ▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ of America Cable: Telex: Facsimile: INDEVAS ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ (MCI) (▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ AGREED at Abidjan, Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, as of the day and year first above written. REPUBLIC OF CÔTE D’IVOIRE By INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION By The objective of the Project is to generate and accelerate adoption of improved technologies in the Participating Countries’ agricultural commodity top priorities areas that are aligned with the sub-region’s top agricultural commodity priorities as outlined in the ECOWAP. The Project constitutes part of the first phase of the Program, and consists of the following parts: Part 1: Enabling Conditions for Sub-Regional Cooperation in Generation, Dissemination and Adoption of Agricultural Technologies Carrying out of a program to strengthen the mechanisms and procedures for generation, dissemination and adoption of improved agricultural technologies and tools by the Recipient so as to allow the Recipient and other ECOWAS member countries to benefit from the said technologies within the framework of a sub-regional technical and scientific cooperation, encompassing the provision of goods, consultants’ services, training, and the financing of operational costs required for:
1. the development of a sustainable financing mechanism for the existing Competitive Agricultural Research Grant (CARG) systems and an appropriate institutional arrangement for the generation, dissemination and adoption of improved and resilient agricultural technologies, through: (i) the development of suitable legislation harmonized with legislation of the other Participating Countries; (ii) the preparation of similarly harmonized manuals of procedures for such financing mechanism’s effective, transparent, and participatory management; and (iii) the setting up of suitable monitoring and evaluation systems adequate to supervise and, thereby, ensure the profitable performance of the financing mechanism and its accompanying institutional arrangements;
2. the strengthening of CORAF’s knowledge management, information and communication systems through: (i) the establishment of an efficient communication and information network system linking the Participating Countries; (ii) the upgrading of skills in information and communications technology and knowledge management, the consolidation of information available in various other data bases both at the national and sub-regional levels, and the provision to end-users of easy access to appropriate responses in real time; and (iii) the development of a data base on agricultural research skills;
3. the establishment of sub-regional regulations on genetic materials and agrochemicals through: (i) the development and adoption of regulations on fertilizer use and handling under preparation by ECOWAS which are harmonized with regulations of the other Participating Countries and the dissemination of the existing regulations on pesticide and genetic materials management; (ii) the evaluation of existing policies, rules and procedures on the exchange of technologies; and (iii) the delivery of workshops and seminars designed to ensure the participation of producers and agro-industrials in the formulation of regulations;
4. the strengthening of the Comité Technique d’Inscription au Catalogue and the Comité Interministériel des Pesticides to ensure the effective release of genetic materials, pesticides and management of intellectual property rights (IPR), through: (i) the revision, as necessary, of the Recipient’s procedures thereon in order to align them with sub-regional directives; (ii) the implementation of these procedures for the release, dissemination and adoption of new technologies; (iii) the documentation and the recording of the characteristics of technologies and the constitution of catalogues for proven and released technologies; (iv) the promotion of these technologies through various media; (v) the strengthening of the harmonization of procedures and analysis of IPR issues; and (vi) the promotion and the facilitation of access by non Participating Countries to improved technologies developed in the Participating Countries; and
5. the development by CORAF of a strategy to mainstream climate change considerations in research and development programs carried out by the Participating Countries, including: (i) the organization of a training program for researchers on climate change; (ii) the adoption of a screening tool for the CARG schemes to ensure research proposals take into account climate change issues;