Projects listed under "All Projects" are ordered according to timeline, starting with Agriteam's most current projects.
Sector: Health and Population
Region: North and Central Asia
An analysis and review of findings covering the project rationale, project efficiency, project effectiveness and project outcomes as well as conclusions and recommendations for the future.
Sector: Governance and Public Sector Reform
Region: North and Central Asia
Agriteam was appointed by the Special Representative of the United Nations' Secretary General as one of four International Commissioners on the Joint Electoral Management Body to oversee the parliamentary elections held on September 18, 2005, in Afghanistan. As legal counsel to the JEMB, was responsible for managing the legal staff at the JEMB, drafting the 2005 Elections Law that set in place policies and procedures for the nomination process and candidate selection leading to the establishment of the first elected National Parliament (Wolesi Jirga) and the Upper House (Meshrano Jirga) as well as 34 Provincial Councils. Highlights of the legislation included the entrenchment of one quarter of the seats for women and the creation of an Electoral Complaints Commission and a Media Complaints Commission. We were also responsible for establishing all regulations and procedures related to the conduct of the election, including candidate nomination, voter registration, polling day and counting procedures.
Sector: Governance and Public Sector Reform
Region: North and Central Asia
As Special Advisor to the Office of the Privy Council on Canada's strategic policy options in Afghanistan, Agriteam co-authored a national briefing paper for the security sub-committee providing an assessment of possible election outcomes and their impact on ongoing constitutional developments in the post-election environment.
Sector: Agriculture and Agribusiness
Region: North and Central Asia
This project promoted environmentally sustainable development in China by enhancing its capacity to manage its environment through increasing the capacity of Chinese government institutions and agencies for protected area management, biodiversity protection and promotion of sustainable community development, especially among ethnic minorities. The key outputs of the project included: (1) improved management capacity for biodiversity protection and community development; (2) strengthened communications systems and information sharing; (3) models of community economic development established and promoted; (4) models of sustainable ecotourism established and promoted; and (5) improved capacity for environmental communication and education.
Sector: Governance and Public Sector Reform
Region: North and Central Asia
Agriteam worked with China's Ministry of Commerce on this capacity development program to promote policy reform for Chinese public servants. The purpose of PSRP was to: (1) increase public service capacity to formulate, implement and regulate transparent, consensus-based policies; and (2) provide training and shared experiences for key senior public sector decision-makers. Gender equality, environmental sustainability and democratic development were cross-cutting themes that underpinned all of the PSRP's policy and capacity development initiatives. Agriteam managed the PSRP as a responsive mechanism to fund locally identified sub-projects that matched Canadian expertise with Chinese capacity development needs. The sub-projects ranged across diverse sectors from livestock waste management and agricultural vocational training to fiscal reform in order to develop the capacity of senior-level Government of China officials to implement policy reform.
Sector: Agriculture and Agribusiness
Region: North and Central Asia
The project increased the efficiency of pork production in China by establishing, in three Chinese provinces, a modern, commercially viable and integrated lean pork industry.
Sector: Agriculture and Agribusiness
Region: North and Central Asia
This project supported the establishment of an enabling environment for the development of China's animal feed industry by setting up strong linkages with the feed industry and providing training for industry and associated institutions.
Sector: Agriculture and Agribusiness
Region: North and Central Asia
This project provided technical assistance and training to demonstrate low-tillage wheat production systems on commercial farms. Technology was adapted to the Mongolian context through applied research partnerships between private farmers and university researchers. The project included extensive agronomic studies, environmental assessment, baseline economic study, social/gender impacts and an intensive training program. Practical training included in-Canada training, conferences, trade-shows, on-farm demonstrations, training of trainers and skills-based courses in weed-control management for farm agrologists and workers. As a result, minimum tillage practices gained acceptance in the academic and commercial fields and conservation agriculture was introduced to the GoM's policy program. Effective public, private partnerships were demonstrated and long-term linkages established between Mongolian and Canadian institutions.
Sector: Agriculture and Agribusiness
Region: North and Central Asia
On behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture (People's Republic of China), Monsanto and IMC Global, and in cooperation with the National Agrotechnical Extension and Service Centre (MOA) and Agriculture Canada, Agriteam established and managed a village-level project to demonstrate and promote sustainable technologies.
Sector: Agriculture and Agribusiness
Region: North and Central Asia
Agriteam was contracted by Heilongjiang Province to provide training services in support of the World Bank-funded US$240 million Heilongjiang Agricultural Development Project. We identified training needs, developed training objectives, formulated detailed programs and recruited Canadian specialists, training institutions and commercial businesses to provide necessary expertise to implement the programs. We managed a government-private sector partnership and developed working linkages with one agricultural college and four agribusinesses interested in developing commercial activities in northern China.
