Entities related to Guyana’s agriculture sector shared their technical viewpoints to enrich the document that will guide the Institute’s cooperation actions over the next four years.
Georgetown, Guyana March 20, 2018 -- A series of consultations saw 38 counterparts of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) from the public and private sectors, academia, producers and agro-processors participating in the preparation of the Institute´s Medium Term Plan (MTP) 2018-2022, which will guide the work conducted by this international organization for the benefit of local agriculture.
The consensus of the stakeholders is that IICA should focus its contributions in rural well-being, competitiveness and agribusiness, agricultural health and food safety and climate change.
Stakeholders mentioned that IICA should focus on horizontal and south-south cooperation, increase collaboration with other partners to increase impact of results and engage in regional exchanges to support technology transfer and adaptation.
“The overall purpose of IICA, as a specialized agency for agriculture in the Inter-American system is to support the efforts of its Member States to more intensely achieve a competitive, sustainable agricultural sector with rural well-being and inclusiveness,” stated Mrs. Nisa Surujbally, from the CARICOM Secretariat.
The administrator of the Women’s Agro-processors Development Network (WADN), Jennifer Spencer, stated that the network benefited from IICA’s interventions, which resulted in the scale up of their operations. The WADN is certain that the new MTP will be inclusive and that additional support is forthcoming.
The IICA Representative in Guyana, Wilmot Garnett, emphasized the need for active participation by all stakeholders for the development of the new MTP, which will serve as a platform for IICA to continue being the partner of choice for agricultural development in the hemisphere. “This process ensures inclusiveness and ownership by all partners and beneficiaries”, he assured.
Towards these sessions, the Director General of IICA, Manuel Otero, stated that the participants’ recommendations would be crucial in the development of a road map aimed at meeting country needs.
“When we understand the way our countries think and what their priorities are, we are able to efficiently target and distribute our resources, while working together to address national demands. This process guarantees IICA’s institutional strengthening moving forward,” he stated.
On the other hand, Diego Montenegro, Director of Management and Regional Integration of IICA, stated that the participatory preparation of the new MTP began with an internal consultation process involving Institute personnel. The second phase consists of a broad consultation process with counterparts that work with IICA’s Delegations.
“In addition to the consultation processes currently underway in each of the Member States, we have identified the Delegations that work closely with the regional integration mechanisms, and have requested their input in order to develop the MTP’s regional scope,” he stated.
This consultation process will be replicated in all other IICA Member States, to ensure that each country’s vision is taken into account in the preparation of national and regional plans.
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