Projects listed under "All Projects" are ordered according to
timeline, starting with Agriteam's most current projects.
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.
Sector: Gender Equality
Region: North and Central Asia
Gender Equity Training Program, Canada/China Oil and Gas Technology Transfer Program (TransCanada Int'l Ltd./CIDA) in association with the University of Calgary, developed gender equity awareness and gender analytical skills with Chinese representatives of oil and gas research centres across China. Facilitated adoption of gender equity principles and opportunities for women in the sector.
Sector: Gender Equality
Region: North and Central Asia
Agriteam provided gender equity advisory services for a joint viability study. We conducted preliminary research on sectoral issues, developed TORs for integrating gender equity into the study, and developed a gender equity strategy for the downstream project.
Sector: Governance and Public Sector Reform
Region: North and Central Asia
Provided the human resource development and capacity building components of a project to enhance the organizational capacity of the Ministry of Electric Power for strategic energy planning and policy development in southern China.
Sector: Environment
Region: North and Central Asia
We assisted the World Bank and the Shaanxi Water Conservancy Bureau to prepare environmental impact assessments and environmental management plans.
Sector: Agriculture and Agribusiness
Region: North and Central Asia
Agriteam assisted the Government of Mongolia in formulating policies and strategies for sustainable management of the extensive livestock sector. We prepared an action plan for the sector addressing promotion of competitive markets, livestock production and risk management, pasture land productivity and co-management, and institutional strengthening. We facilitated extensive stakeholder consultations using PRA, poverty assessments, and primary field research, including herding household surveys, and a series of six participatory workshops involving more than 250 stakeholders. Findings were used in policy formulation working groups. Through an iterative and participatory process, the Action Plan for the Extensive Livestock Sector was developed. Project leader Ms. Rasmussen was specifically commended by the ADB for her success in involving a wide range of stakeholders in developing the action plan, which drew tremendous support from government and herders.
Sector: Environment
Region: North and Central Asia
We provided advisory services to UMA Engineering Ltd. on a project aimed at developing sustainable water use patterns in the Aral Sea Basin.
Sector: Agriculture and Agribusiness
Region: North and Central Asia
Agriteam assisted the World Bank and Chinese provincial bureaus of animal husbandry in project identification, pre-appraisal and appraisal of a beef project to be implemented in Hebei, Shaanxi, Henan and Anhui provinces. We identified opportunities and constraints for beef industry development and assessed the technical and economic viability of the proposed projects. We investigated small-scale beef production as a means of income generation and poverty alleviation in rural areas; assessed technologies, marketing methods and contracting systems with regard to their impact on household incomes and risk levels; investigated the role of women in beef production; determined the needs for micro-credit and investigated modes of micro-credit and revolving funds operated by the Women's Federation and other organizations. The final project report addressed government policy, current and projected beef demand, beef and by-product processing, cattle production, financing and risk management, poverty alleviation and environmental protection.
Sector: Agriculture and Agribusiness
Region: North and Central Asia
We provided specialists in cropping systems, farm business management, agricultural support services, livestock management and environmental impacts to design and implement baseline data surveys and train Uzbek students of Tashkent Agricultural University in survey techniques.
Sector: Agriculture and Agribusiness
Region: North and Central Asia
In association with Consortium for International Development, we provided technical assistance to improve the ecology of grasslands in Inner Mongolia and Liaoning Province by conducting trial experiments to demonstrate technologies and management methods for rehabilitating degraded grasslands.
