NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION PROJECT

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NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION PROJECT

• The Project Vision Science with Social
  Commitment

Stakeholder Sensitization WorkshopatCIBA,
Chennai
PIU-NAIP, ICAR http//www.icar.org.in/naipdir/inde
x.htm August 19, 2006
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Objective

• The overall objective of the NAIP is to
  facilitate accelerated and sustainable
  transformation of Indian agriculture in support
  of poverty alleviation and income generation by
  collaborative development and application of
  agricultural innovations by the public research
  organisations in partnership with the farmers'
  groups, the private sector, the civil society
  organisations and other stakeholders.

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• Its different

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Innovation

• Something Newly introduced, such as a new method
  or device
• The act of innovating

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Innovation System

• An innovation system is a network of
  organizations, enterprises, and individuals
  focused on bringing new products, new processes,
  and new forms of organization into economic use,
  together with the institutions and policies that
  affect their behavior and performance. Creation
  of knowledge is tagged with factors affecting
  demand for and use of knowledge in novel and
  useful ways.

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Basic planks of NAIP

• Agriculture research with a development and
  business focus
• Poverty alleviation, income and employment
  generation
• End-to-End approach to problem solving
• Consortium
• Competition
• Model building

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Consortium

• A formal coherent group of partners to jointly
  identify problems, plan and execute tasks to
  solve the problem (s) within a mutually agreed
  time-frame, sharing resources and benefits within
  the frame work of a contract
• Inclusive partnership-everybody having a stake in
  agricultural research can enter into a consortium
  but with a proven background and credentials

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Components

• To build the critical capacity of the ICAR as a
  catalyzing agent for management of change in the
  Indian NARS
• Project Mode US 46 million
• To promote production-to-consumption
  systems(value chains) in priority areas/themes to
  enhance productivity, nutrition, profitability,
  income and employment
• Consortia 15, US 73 million
• To improve livelihood security of farmers living
  in selected disadvantaged regions through
  innovation system led by technology encompassing
  wider process of social and economic change
  covering all stakeholders
• Consortia 20, US 75 million
• To enhance capacity and attain excellence in
  basic and strategic research in the frontier
  areas of agricultural sciences.
• Consortia 15, US 56 million
• Total budget US 250 million

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Component 1

• Make the NARS led by ICAR dynamically and
  continuously innovating to respond to the ever
  changing needs of agricultural research

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ICAR as the catalyzing agent for management of
change in the Indian agricultural research system

• Strengthening communication ability information
  capacity
• Enhanced dialogue and interaction with public at
  large, farming community, private sector and
  within ICAR system between all key functionaries
• Business development units (BDU) and IPR
  management
• System-wide institutionalization of organization
  and management reforms like ME and Financial
  management, incentives and awards
• Learning and capacity building
• Visioning, technology foresight and policy
  analysis
• Emphasis on SAUs who will be the partner in model
  building
• Project Mode operation excepting BDU

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Critical Dimensions of a PCS

• Conception-Inputs-Production-Processing-Distributi
  on-Consumption-Disposal

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Value Chain Approach

• There is no mechanistic way of applying value
  chain methodology
• Focus is on value chain analysis and upgrading
• Typically, four or five key steps are identified

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EXAMPLE VALUE CHAIN ON MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS
Potential Consortium Partners
Important Aspects
Most Critical Missing Links

• Identification and estimation of pesticidal and
  antibiotic residues
• Packaging of meat and meat products

Consumption (Safety Quality)
IVRI, NCL, IIP

• Demand supply (domestic global) analysis
• Market intelligence

NCAP, IEG, DMI, NCAER
Marketing
NRC (Meat)/IVRI, Vety.College, Tirupati, CFTRI,
DFRL, Hind (Agro), Al-kabeer, Allanasons

• Slaughter house byproducts utilization
• Tenderization of spent animals meat

Processing
IVRI, TNVASU, BAIF

• Research on Feed supplements and micronutrients
• Research on health cover

Production
KVKs, E-chaupals, ATMAs, FOs, PRIs, VKCs, SHGs
Farmers
Processors
Traders/Exporters
Consumers
Government
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Examples of Possible Value Chains

• Category Income Augmentation and Employment
  Generation
• Sorghum in SAT
• Milk and Milk Products in Rainfed Areas
• Marine Fish
• Category Export Promotion
• Fruits viz., Mango, Grapes, Passion Fruit etc.
• Spices and Value Added Products
• High Value Fish (Tunas, Pomfrets, Crabs) in
  Coastal/ Island Areas and Mariculture

• Category Agro-processing
• Potato
• Buffalo Meat/ Fishes
• High value Soya Products
• Category Resource use efficiency
• Conservation Agriculture
• Water productivity (Multiple Use)
• Bio-fuel

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Research on Sustainable Rural Livelihood Security

• Focus on 150 disadvantaged districts selected by
  Planning commission on the basis of index of
  backwardness
• Disadvantaged districts may lie in dry land, hill
  and mountain, tribal, coastal and island areas
• Emphasis on participatory approaches for defining
  and implementing the agenda.
• Integration with the activities of rural
  development projects, Agricultural Technology
  Management Agencies, other State extension
  initiatives and NGOs

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Research on Sustainable Livelihood Security

• Development validation of sustainable farming
  systems based on on-farm action research and
  diversification
• Natural Resource management
• Food , nutritional, employment and income
  security
• Strong Knowledge Management Activities
  information expert systems for farmers
  forward and backward linkages
• Use of promising technologies developed under
  NATP and other sources including ITK to be
  emphasized
• Formation of SHGs
• Both competitive and sponsored (5050)

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GROUPING OF 150 DISTRICTS IN 13 Clusters
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EXAMPLE DROUGHT PRONE/RAINFED AGRICULTURE AREAS
In-situ soil moisture conservation Drought
proofing technologies
ICAR, SAUs, CGIAR, MOEF
NGOs, Banks, MOSW, Insurance Companies
Resource scarcity and lack of self mobilisation
risk
Drought prone rainfed agriculture
Technology refinement, demonstrations in all
enterprises including post-harvest processing
structures
Private Sector, IITs, Line Deptts., APMC,
Development Banks
KVKs, ATMAs, CAPART, NGOs
Poor-adoption of appropriate package of practices
Insufficient and inefficient livelihood support
system
Under employment
Alternate land use Integrated farming systems
Production to Consumption system with emphasis on
diversification Improvement of CPRs
ICAR, SAUs, ATMA, Line Deptts., Private Sector
Only Field crops, less diversified farms
Less access to knowledge/ information
ICAR, SAUs, ATMAs
Potential Consortium Partners
Potential Consortium Partners
Interventions
Causes
Causes
Interventions
Problem
BIO-PHYSICAL PART
SOCIO-ECONOMIC PART
Interventions
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Constraints affecting farmers

• Inadequate access to production and post-harvest
  technology
• Limited market information on prices and
  alternative buyers
• Limited negotiating and bargaining skills
• Delayed receipt of payments
• Lack of access to financial services high cost
  of financial services
• Insufficient farm business support services
• Limited availability of inputs high cost of
  inputs

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• Overcoming constraints
• Increase farmers' income by producing the right
  products, taking advantage of their comparative
  advantage-physical and/or socio-economic
• Expand employment throughout the agri-food system
  
• Growth of domestic markets in which remunerative
  prices permit innovations and new skills
  development
• Ensure processes and products meet consumer
  demands within the context of sustainable farming
• Ensure that benefits in one part of the food
  chain are not negated by other parts of the chain

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• Furnish crucial inputs and services to farmers
• Induce and support productivity gains
• Reduce costs including transactions costs and
  inputs supply uncertainty
• Self sustainability of the farming system
• Improve logistics through standardization
• Reduce product losses and improve product quality
  and safety
• Disseminate technology, capital and knowledge

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Component 2 3

• Component 3
• More complex
• Smaller distributed role of industry
• Smaller scale of distributed operation
  profitability
• Lesser volume and dimension of market
• Security the key word

• Component 2
• Lesser Complexity
• Bigger role of Industry
• Bigger scale of operation profitability
• Larger value extent of market
• Profit business key word

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Component 4

• Basic and strategic research to fill the
  knowledge gaps in the chains in applied research
  leading to technology generation
• Present and anticipated gaps.
• An ever responding repository of knowledge

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Examples of Areas under Basic Strategic Research

• Biotechnology
• Gene discovery and allele mining
• Bioprospecting the marine biota for bioactive
  molecules and products
• QTL identification, cloning of QTL genes and use
  in MAS of plants and animals
• NRM/IPM
• Enhancement of nutrient use and uptake efficiency
  in plants and animals
• Carbon pool conservation enhancement using
  strategic combinations of physical manipulations
  of soil and, organic inorganic sources of
  nutrients
• Mitigation and adaptation strategies for managing
  the effects of climate change on agriculture

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Examples of Areas under Basic Strategic Research

• Post Harvest Technology and Value Addition
• Quality assurance of agricultural products for
  nutritional value and food safety
• Value addition to agricultural products for
  developing diversified high value commodities
  like health food, nuetraceuticals and
  pharmaceuticals
• Conversion of agricultural residues and
  byproducts into high value products

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CONSORTIUM PARTNERS AND THEIR ROLES
ICGEB
NRCPB
Proteome analysis Global analysis of
expression during boll development under
normal stress conditions Validation of
genes/promoters
Transcriptome analysis Global analysis
of expression during boll development under
normal stress conditions Validation of
genes/promoters
GENOMICS OF COTTON BOLL AND FIBER DEVELOPMENT
UAS, Dharwad
Delhi University
J K Agri-Genetics

• Development of water stress conditions
• Isolation of transcripts
• proteins for analysis

• Development of biotic stress
• (insect pest) conditions
• Isolation of transcripts
• cDNA for transcripome
• studies and proteins for
• proteomic analysis

• Identification of promoters
• for optimized transgene
• expression
• Validation of genes and
• promoters by transgenic
• approach

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Governance Structure for the National
Agricultural Innovation Project
National Steering Committee
Project Management Committee
Research Programme Committee
OM Programme Committee
OM Advisory Group
TAG 2
TAG 3
TAG 4
Project Implementation Unit
National Director
Procurement
Finance
Administration
National Coordinator (Livelihood-
Improvement) Component 3
National Coordinator (Value Chain) Component 2
National Co-ordinator (OM) Component 1
National Coordinator (Basic Strategic
Research) Component 4
As in Component 2
As in Component 2
Project 1
Project 2
Project N
CAC 1
CAC 2
CAC N
TAG Technical Advisory Group
CIC 1
CIC 2
CIC N
CAC Consortium Advisory Committee
Cons 1
Cons 2
Cons N
CIC Consortium Implementation Committee
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Preparation, Evaluation and Selection of Projects
under Competitive Mode

• Call for concept notes under PCS, SRLS BSR in
  leading newspapers other print media after
  regional satellite workshops and other
  campaigning strategies
• 4-6 weeks time for preparation
• Help Desk will assist in providing information on
  institutions/agencies with their interest and
  areas of work and help in match-making
• Eligible institution should assume the role of CL
  and start developing the concept note in the
  prescribed format in wide consultation with
  partners and stakeholders
• The concept note should clearly provide brief
  background of the project idea, rationale,
  objectives, collaboration, review of literature,
  methodology, work programme, linkage with ongoing
  development programme, expected economic impact
  and approximate budget

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Preparation, Evaluation and Selection of Projects
under Competitive Mode

• Evaluation by peers, TAG RPC and may take 4-6
  weeks using scorecard and other means
• The evaluation of the concept note will be in
  terms of scientific/technological and economic
  merit (40 of total score), quality and
  institutional mix of the research team and
  stakeholder participation (25 share), knowledge
  management (20 share) and commercialization and
  LCB (15 score)
• Full proposal to be prepared in prescribed format
  using detailed guidelines provided in PIP
  initially through consultations with committed
  partners and to be finalized in the workshop
  facilitated by PIU-NAIP
• 4 to 6 weeks time
• Evaluation by peers, TAG, and RPC in 4-6 weeks
• Signing of contract and issue of sanction letters

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Schematics for Approval of Research
Proposal (24-32 weeks)
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TECHNICAL ABSTRACT OF THE PROPOSED SUB-PROJECT
FOR PCN UNDER COMPONENT 3(Abstract should not
exceed five pages typed in one-and-a-half space
in 12 point Times New Roman font)

• 1. Title of the sub-project
• 2. Objectives of the sub-project (not more than
  five)
• 3. Why the proposed geographical area has been
  selected and what the major problems are that are
  amenable to science/ technology solutions in
  these livelihood systems?
• 4. What is the status of research and technology
  development with respect to the above major
  problems? What are the major science and
  technology gaps/ problems that this proposed
  sub-project aims to fill?
• 5. What will be the approach to fill in the
  research and technology gaps emphasizing the
  novelties in approach and the process it will
  take to prove the technologies generated and the
  plan for their uptake (not more than one page).
• 6. Give in a table (not more than half-a-page)
  the year-wise milestones of the project. Also
  explain why the proposed partners were selected
  (not more than half a page).

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TECHNICAL ABSTRACT OF THE PROPOSED SUB-PROJECT
FOR PCN UNDER COMPONENT 3

• 7. Please list five major outputs expected to be
  delivered at the end of the project (not more
  than half a page)
• 8. Human capacity building efforts
• i. Training to be given by the
  scientists/technician involved in the project
  (five subject areas relevant to the sub-project
  and the number of person/months of training in
  each area) for knowledge and skill empowerment
  for the stakeholders.
• ii. Training to be taken by the
  scientists/technicians working on the project.
• a. Within the country
• (five subject areas relevant to the sub-project
  and the number of person/months in each)
• b. Abroad
• (five subject areas relevant to the sub-project
  and the number of person/months in each)

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Evaluation of the Concept Note for Component 3
Title of Concept Note Code No. Lead
Consortium Scientific/ Technological and
Economic Merit (35 of total score)
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Quality and Institutional Mix of the Research
Team Stakeholder Participation (25 of total
score)
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Linkage with On-going Developmental Programmes
(20 of total score)
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SWOT Analysis of Target Regions and Group (20
of total score)
Registration of NGO should be at least for five
years standing In order for a CN to qualify for
NAIP funding, at least a score of 20 out of 35
under Scientific Merit and 15 out of 25 Under
Quality Institutional Mix of Research Teams
should be attained

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What is ME?

• Monitoring
• The gathering of evidence to show what progress
  has been made in the implementation of programs.
  Focuses on inputs and outputs.
• Evaluation
• Measuring changes in outcomes and evaluating the
  impact of specific interventions on those outcomes

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Purpose of ME

• Improve design or implementation during project
  planning and allocating resources
• Measure demonstrate results
• Inform future decision-making and project design

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Complementary Roles for Monitoring and Evaluation

• Monitoring
• Routine collection of information
• Tracking implementation progress
• Measuring efficiency
• Is the project doing things right

• Evaluation
• Analyzing information
• Ex-post assessment of effectiveness and impact
• Confirming project expectations
• Measuring impacts
• Is the project doing the right thing

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Meaning of results

• At the core of results is the concept of the
  results chain, i.e. the intended casual
  relationships among various elements ( from input
  to output to outcome to impact)
• Within this chain, the main conceptual
  distinction lies between the supply side ( which
  transforms inputs into outputs, entirely within
  the control of the implementing agency) and the
  demand side ( which is outside the control of the
  implementing agency and where a response to the
  delivered outputs, in the form of a behavioral
  change is expected).

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Explanation of project related terms with in a
results hierarchy
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Explanation of project related terms with in a
results hierarchy
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Outcome Indicators NAIP
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Outcome Indicators NAIP
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Arrangements for Results Monitoring Output
Indicators Component 2
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Levels of Monitoring and Evaluation in NAIP

• Bank led Implementation Support Review missions/
  Completion mission
• PIU assisted by an external ME consultant at the
  national level
• Consortium Monitoring Units
• ( PME Cells if existing)

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Focus in monitoring includes

• Financial management
• Procurement
• Research implementation
• Knowledge management activities
• Capacity building activities
• Development activities
• Based on indicators
• ( to be fixed primarily by the consortium)

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Monitoring and Evaluation Milestones and Learning
in NAIP

• Baseline survey
• Quarterly Finance and Procurement reports,
  Half-yearly progress reports, Annual progress
  reports
• Annual workshops
• MTR(2) and ICR by WB
• Scorecards on the web for each consortium
• Documentation of successful approaches for
  immediate consumption by others and cross talks
  among consortia and components

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Impact assessment activities to document
outstanding success

• Towards the end of the project
• Standardized methodology to enhance
  credibility
• Consortia teams NCAP
• Not at random, but for interesting cases
• More emphasis on economic and social
  contributions of the sub-projects than on
  feedback
• External assessment

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• PIP may be changed based on experience

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• Thanks