Projects listed under "All Projects" are ordered according to
timeline, starting with Agriteam's most current projects.
Sector: Education and Education Reform
Region: South Asia
The CSR is a tightly focused education initiative designed to complement larger efforts supporting Bangladesh's education reform agenda. The project works with the Bangladesh Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education, Ministry of Education, and provides teaching and learning support materials to teachers of mathematics and English in 100 pilot junior secondary schools. These teachers receive professional development in subject-area knowledge and pedagogic practices through workshops designed and delivered by Canadian and Bangladeshi specialists. The project also provides targeted training opportunities for head teachers and members of school management committees.
Sector: Governance and Public Sector Reform
Region: South East Asia and Pacific
The goal of the project is to assist the Government of the Philippines and the Government of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in reducing poverty and attaining and sustaining peace and development in ARMM by developing the capacity of regional and local governments and fostering an enabling environment for peace. Agriteam is implementing the project in association with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
Sector: Gender Equality
Region: South East Asia and Pacific
The Trah Vinh Improved Livelihoods Project focuses on increasing the living standards and the productive capacity of poor households and villages in the province through an integrated set of agricultural and rural development initiatives. Targeted sectors include capacity development for government in planning, management and implementation of agriculture and rural development policies and programs in support of poverty reduction as well as village-level activities related to off-farm income generation, crop and livestock production, dairy and aquaculture.
Sector: Agriculture and Agribusiness
Region: South East Asia and Pacific
This project is designed to improve the agricultural market information system and capacity to provide useful market intelligence to farmers and agribusiness. Improvements in the collection, analysis and dissemination of agricultural market information will be linked to initiatives around grading and the production of higher valued crops. These initiatives will work with existing commodity organizations, where possible, in the development of grading systems and with farm organizations at the community level. Key project activities include: improvement, upgrading and expansion of existing agriculture market information systems including hardware and software infrastructure, data collection and data processing; upgrading national government capacity in market analysis and provision of market intelligence; upgrading both government, non-government and private extension providers' capacity to produce and disseminate agriculture market information to producers and marketers; and increased farmer understanding of agriculture market information and application to farm activities through development of community farm organizations and lead farmers using Farmer Field School methodologies.
Sector: Governance and Public Sector Reform
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
GAP supports institutional development of Malawian public sector agencies by providing technical support and assistance to specific ministries in the key areas of education, health, water supply, and gender equality. Through a responsive funding mechanism, Agriteam supports Malawian government partners to identify their own critical capacity needs and design results-based initiatives to address those needs. Agriteam then facilitates access to Canadian and African technical assistance and capacity development providers to meet these needs. Additionally, the project supports public sector institutions to develop HIV/AIDS strategies and assists partners to mainstream gender equality into all initiatives. GAP is a flexible, demand-driven and participatory mechanism that provides strategic interventions that are in line with the priorities of departments, ministries. It focuses on results-oriented, high impact, low-cost initiatives that lead directly to improved human resource development management and more efficient, effective, equitable and transparent delivery of services. Examples of successful initiatives supported by GAP include a country financial accountability assessment with the Ministry of Finance, strategic planning with every ministry and key department; gender budgeting with the Ministry of Gender, Youth and Community Services, and leadership development with the Ministry of Human Resource Management and Development.
Sector: Private Sector Development
Region: South East Asia and Pacific
PEARL2 supports the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to create a meaningful jobs for both men and women in the Philippines. The principal clients are Business Support Organizations (BSOs) and Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs). PEARL2 is a five-year project, with a budget of approximately C$8.6 million provided by the Canadian International Development Agency in conjunction with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and National Economic Development Authority.
Sector: Education and Education Reform
Region: North and Central Asia
SCBEWC was a bilateral project between the Government of Canada and the People's Republic of China. It took place in six rural counties within three western provinces selected because of their linguistic and culture diversity and their levels of poverty. The Government of China identified the creation of a system for effective teacher education through distance education as a strategic priority within its Western Development Strategy, which had particular resonance for remote areas. Agriteam led a consortium that included Alberta Learning and the Universities of Alberta, Athabasca and Calgary. Together we assisted our Chinese partners to enhance their capacity at three levels: effective policy and planning; the production of quality teacher education materials; and the development of a Learning Support Center in each of the 360 project schools to support school-based teacher education via distance.
Sector: Governance and Public Sector Reform
Region: North and Central Asia
The BHNP is an integrated rural development project that is piloting new participatory models for poverty alleviation in the Tibet Autonomous Region. The project comprises seven sectors, including water and sanitation, heath and hygiene, agriculture and rangeland, income generation, community forestry and watershed management. The BHNP takes a holistic approach to the multi-faceted issue of poverty and links sectors through integrated planning and implementation. Our approach uses water and sanitation as the key entry point for village-level development, which is always accompanied by health and hygiene promotion delivered by health promotion teams trained by BHNP specialists and local staff. The BHNP has been extremely successful in the water and sanitation sector, due in many respects to its embracing the principle that village ownership of and responsibility for maintaining water resources greatly enhances sustainability. In recognition of the success of Phase One, the project was recently extended for two years (Jan. 2006–Dec 2007) to enable it to work at the regional level with the Poverty Alleviation Office in Lhasa to extend and replicate the models developed in the first phase throughout Tibet.
