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R&D Priority Areas
1.
Sociological database, including:
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Benchmarking; inventory on what data are available by what agency
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sociological structures (institutions, support services, resources)
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needs/inventory of technologies used
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profiling of Filipino farmers
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linkages (institutional and knowledge domain, communities)
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inventory, analysis and development of innovative methodologies
and tools in R&D capability building (ex-ante and ex-post
analysis, process documentation, profiling of institutions providing
capability training, establishment of database on innovative
participatory methodologies
2.
Alternative modalities for effective R&D delivery system
- Constraints
to adoption and utilization of technologies at the farm and
community levels
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Privatization of extension: prospects and issues in the Philippines
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Public and private sector roles in agriculture and natural resources
service provision (credit, market, technology promotion)
3.
Community Organizations/Rural-Based Organizations and Development
Programs and Local Governance
- Strengthening
and harnessing COs/RBOs in development planning, decision making,
information dissemination, and technology transfer
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Institutionalization and operationalization of participatory
approaches in development
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Viability and sustainability of approaches used in rural development
(cooperatives vs. forms of social organizations, institutional
coalition/partnerships, training, policy intervention, livelihood
enhancement activities, and other forms of intervention)
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Effectiveness of decentralization policy
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Evaluation of linkage of LGU and relevant line agencies in the
implementation of ANR programs
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Evaluation of SCU and LGU linkage in RDE activities
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Empowerment and accountability in development
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Strengthening of partnership and roles of households, school
system and local government in agricultural and rural development
4.
Security Mechanisms of Rural Household
- Coping
mechanism of rural communities to resource degradation/economic
crisis/natural disasters
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Assessment of household food security interventions (approaches/methodology/
models; level/extent of participation of intended beneficiaries;
consequences on household across varied social and economic
strata)
5.
Social Policy
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