Mode of collaboration
How we
work together
Membership
CORRA member countries are represented by senior officials of
selected national agricultural research and extension systems (NARES) in Asia.
Countries are selected based on the importance of rice in their national
agricultural plans and for their representation of rice ecosystems. IRRI is
represented by the IRRI director general. CORRA raises policy issues that run
across the existing partnership mechanisms for rice research in Asia.
CORRA - specific
objectives
- To promote more effective partnership on rice research in the Asian
region, and guide formulation and sharing of responsibility in its
implementation;
- To guide and promote strong partnership between NARES, IRRI, and other
relevant institutions; and among NARES – strengthen established
mechanisms; such as research consortia and networks;
- To provide policy guidelines to the Steering Committees of Networks
(including the Asian component of INGER) and Research Consortia, and to act
as a Steering Committee for policy setting and implementation of the newly
established Ecoregional Activities for Sustainable Resource Management in
Tropical Asia;
- To promote new initiatives, as appropriate, and to seek donors’ support
for the partnership activities;
- To harmonize NARES views and provide feedback to IRRI in particular, and
to the CGIAR in general, on agricultural research needs of the Asia region;
- To develop concepts for an ecoregional approach to research in rice and
rice-based farming systems that is relevant to the Asian region; and
- To facilitate linkages with advanced institutions conducting relevant
research.
CORRA’s role is evolving as evidenced by the output
from the CORRA meeting, Beijing 2002:
- CORRA is an umbrella framework, focusing on policies,
strategies, directions and opportunities
- IRRC
and CURE are subset networks, focusing on technological interventions and
their impact, technology transfer and information dissemination
- Identify issues and directions for
regional R&D networks, e.g., IRRC, CURE
- Streamline and coordinate IRRI-NARES
partnership and research agenda - help identify priorities for
member-countries
- Provide advice and feedback to IRRI
on its research priorities and strategic activities
- Build collaboration and promote
sharing of information and technology among the member-countries
- Address key issues for the rice
industry and rice research and influence policy
- Promote sharing of research
capacities and/or facilities among member-countries, e.g., biotech, high
throughput and genomic research
- Identify opportunities for sharing
research capacities and potential funding source
- Advise on mechanisms and seeking
consensus among members
- Fund
raising
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