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MICROFICHED
REGIONAL
ANNUAL REPORT
1994/1995
Regional Office for Latin
America and the Caribbean
(LACRO)
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Coordination & Translations:
Design & Layout:
Duplication & Binding:
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Our thanks to the Regional Office staff who contributed
with information and data included in this publication.
INDEX
Chapter 1. Latin America and the Caribbean Current Conditions
and Centre Strategy
Chapter 2.
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7
2.8
2.9
LACRO
Programs
Urbanization and The Environment
Natural Resources Management
Information and Communication Systems and Networks
Innovation Systems Management
Health Systems
Social Policies
The Regional Comptroller
WETV, The Global Access Television Service
Other Activities: Canadian Links, Special Initiatives
Chapter 3. Office Activities
3.1
Introduction
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
Chapter 4.
Regional Office Premises
Relationships with Staff
Staff Training
Publications and Dissemination
LACRO
Program Support
Operations Coordination
Library and Information Centre
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
Information Services
The Office of the Treasurer
Appendices
A.
A.
A.
A.
A.
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2
3
4
5
A. 6
A. 7
A. 8
A. 9
A.10
A.11
A.12
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49
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Program Appropriations
Projects Approved - LACRO Administred
Research Support Activities (RSAs)
Head Administered Projects in the Region
Latin America and the Caribbean: Evolution of the
Canadian Dollar (Price increase in CAD - in 0/0)
Uruguay: Purchasing Power of the Canadian Dollar
and the American Dollar April 1994 - March 1995
Publications
RPOs Travels
Meetings/Seminars
Visitors to LACRO
IDRC Visitors to LACRO
LACRO Staff
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1. LATIN AMERICA AND THE
CARIBBEAN CURRENT
CONDITIONS AND CENTRE
STRATEGY
1.1
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN CURRENT CONDITIONS
AND CENTRE STRATEGY
A.D.
TiIlett
The period covered by this report, between Apri11994 and March 1995, will be remembered less for
its achievements than its assault on the region's psychology and the consequent treatment The
calender year opened, and not only for Mexico, with a euphoria about Latin America and the
Caribbean's (henceforth LAC) return to fast growth, open economies and foreign investment From
mid December, as Mexico began its first devaluations to the end of March 1995, there was a growing
economic disorientation which quickly spread to the other major economies, as short term restraint
turned to long term retrenchment, apparently wiping out gains made over the last ten years. Global
benefits had turned into global costs as foreign investors turned to their own markets and other
regions. El efecto tequila has begun and will take more than a financial aspirin for most patients to
recover. Indeed the economic doctors and politicians were neither sure of the diagnosis or the
prognostication.
Economic Change and Impact
The key elements for 1994 are to be found in the following table (T.1) showing respectable per capita
growth, (measured by dividing the total value of a nation's goods and services by its population),
when compared to long term trends. Between 1985-94 only Chile, Uruguay and Colombia showed per
capita growth rates above two per cent per annum. In 1994, nine Latin American countries were
showing rates above two percent with only one major economy, Venezuela, (in the middle of a
banking crisis) showing a substantial contraction. The Caribbean economies, highly dependent on
commodities, showed a more mixed pattern, although it could be argued that Guyana and Trinidad,
were returning to a growth path. The Haitian economy was suffering the consequences of a
prolonged political crisis, as in different ways was another small economy, Nicaragua. However
between January and March, the major Latin American economies, with the exception of Chile and
Colombia, were showing reduced growth as their governments attempted to constrain public
expenditure and maintain the value of their currencies. In Argentina, probably the economy most
affected after Mexico, industrial production fell by almost fifteen per cent and employment was
increasing.
of the most important achievements of recent Latin American economic policy has been to
reduce inflation rates - indeed it could be described as the objective. When comparing the consumer
price indexes (CPI) for 1993 and 1994, which are to be found as columns four and five in the same
table, one can see the scale of this achievement. The grand exception is Brazil which seemingly was
used to living with permanent inflation. However in July 1994, the govemment introduced a new
currency and the Plan Real not only sharply reduced inflation rates but its popularity pushed its
author, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, to electoral victor/ and the Presidency.
One
of the Brazilian currency is being maintained by high interest rates and imports and
both dimensions are likely to have an effect on one of its principal trading initiatives, the Mercosur
customs union. Most govemments are determined not to let inflation get out of hand and it remains
again a key economic policy objective.
The stabilization
The sudden series of misfortunes following the Mexico devaluations and their effect on Latin America
and the Caribbean recalled the debt crisis of 1982. LAC economies continue to owe substantial public
debt as the figures for the total and annual debt payments show (see column six and seven of the
same table). Since 1985, three countries (Bolivia, Costa Rica and Paraguay) have reduced their total
debt and two (Chile and Jamaica) have managed to keep it stable; debt has increased for other
countries sometimes by quite alarming amounts. Debt has to be serviced and is a weighty constraint
on public expenditure plans.
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Table 1. Latin America and the Caribbean: Socio Economic Data
Population
(Thousands)
Argentina
per capita
1985-94
199
4
Inflation
1993
External Debt*
(CPU
1994
Total
Service
33,875,
1.2
5.9
10.6
3.9
82,331
7,383
7,238
0.2
1.7
8.5
8.3
4,303
446
Brazil
159,000
0.8
4.1
2,184.4
2,668.7
134,865
13,498
Chile
14,02E;
4.6
2.7
12.1
11.1
20,884
2,616
Colombia
34,545
2.4
4.0
22.6
22.8
19,124
3,123
3,347
1.7
2.0
9.8
13.5
3,831
586
11,226;
0.5
1.7
45.0
27.3
13,232
921
Salvador
5,641
1.6
3.7
18.6
2,245
345
Guatemala
10,322
0.1
1.1
11.9
3,112
381
5,497
0.2
-4.3
10.8
21.7
4,172
391
88,431
-0.2
1.4
9.7
7.0
124,192
24,539
Nicaragua
4,275
-4.8
-0.6
20.4
7.8
10,704
169
Panama
2,583
0.5
2.9
0.5
1.3
6,919
222
Paraguay
4,767
0.6
0.8
18.2
1,648
248
23,381
-1.0
10.5
48.6
23.7
20,950
942
3,167
3.1
4.0
54.7
44.7
7,289
1,103
21,051
0.5
-5.3
38.1
60.8
37,813
4,024
Barbados
260
1.0
1.2
1.0
581
93
Belize
211
3.9
1.5
2.3
205
29
7,769
0.2
2.3
5.3
8.3
4,141
459
825,
1.1
7.3
10.0
16.1
1,995
102
-12.4
18.9
36.1
843
22
Bolivia
Costa Rica
Ecuador
El
Honduras
Mexico
Peru
Uruguay
Venezuela
Dominican
R.
Guyana
Haiti
7,035
Jamaica
2,521
1.3
-0.3
22.1
35.1
4,299
516
Surinam
455,
-1.4
-4.0
143.5
368.6
208
6
Trinidad
1,292
-2.4
2.6
10.7
8.8
2,149
575
Source:
IDB, Basic Socio
Economic Data, 1995
Millions of dollars
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GDP
Social Change and Impact
The adjustment to more open economies, which is being undertaken by almost all LAC countries, is
having a major impact on most societies and it is a matter of debate and research as to whether these
policy changes have exaggerated or caused social change. The process has seen reduced average
earning, migration and unemployment. Wage compression, the obverse of labour flexibility, has been
expected to increase employment rates and yet where figures are available for the major economies
(Argentina, Brazil and Mexico) unemployment has increased. In a number of smaller economies such
as Bolivia, Panama and Paraguay, unemployment rates have declined when compared to 1990 and this
has been associated with their ability to export goods and services as well as wage reductions. At the
same time, in an already highly urbanized continent, migration to cities is increasing, so putting
additional pressure on relatively poor urban (water and drainage) and social (education and health)
services. People are looking for work in other countries too, so that international migration is
growing for example, from Central America and Mexico to the United States and from Paraguay,
Uruguay and Bolivia to Argentina and leading to similar xenophobic reactions.
the past, most Latin American states would have had some kind of, admittedly arbitrary, safety net
but one feature of current stabilization policies is the reduction of public expenditures and so of
social services. The reduction of state services is proving to be quite different from their (previous)
expansion with unknown political consequences. The politics of lost "rights" or expectations is playing
an important role in Argentina and Peru and where targeting the poorest of the poor is reducing
benefits for the middle class. In Argentina, where most surveys have shown that urban dwellers
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perceive themselves as "middle class", there is a growing discussion about the "new poor", who can
no longer afford - as they could in the recent past - adequate housing, medical attention and even
food. Data produced by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAO for
their invaluable Panorama Social de América Latina (1994), show increasing income concentration, a
slow improvement of the very poor, and with the major losses being sustained by the middle income
households in most countries.
Research Impact
There is no discussion about the value and need for applied and policy research in times of change.
However as most research is funded by public agencies, then the fiscal problems facing Latin
American states are passed on to research institutes and universities. In most countries, universities
(and public universities in particular), are facing a double bind as they are asked to raise both money
and enrollments. The result is unsatisfactory (often part time) teaching and large classes. More
students are turning to private universities, which are often as expensive as their North American
counterparts, often providing a stable and therefore more satisfactory environment. In the past,
public universities had the important social function of providing a meeting place for the rich and
the poor; the division of higher education into those that can pay and those that cannot, could have
important long term political consequences.
In February 1995, Science
produced
a
editor, in his introduction, described
useful survey of scientific research in Latin America which the
as:
study in contrasts; ambitious research done on meagre, uncertain funding; vast
scientific resources with just a handful of scientists to tap them; small groups doing world
class work while large scientific bureaucracies produce little."
"a
The editorial ended on a positive note with scientists encouraged by Latin America's democratic
revolution and new economic strength. Now the latter is no longer available and resources for
research are being sharply reduced.
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Table 2. Western Hemisphere, Latin America and the Caribbean and Asia. Selected Variables.
Consumer Prices
Real GDP
1994
1994
1994
1995
1995
Western Hemisphere
4.6
2.3
225.8
36.1
-3.0
-1.9
Argentina
7.1
2.5
4.1
4.3
-3.6
-2.0
Brazil
5.7
4.5
2,407.3
-0.3
-2.2
Chile
4.2
5.5
12.7
11.4
-1.4
-0.8
Colombia
5.3
5.5
22.6
19.2
-4.2
4.4
5.0
5.0
4.6
3.5
-2.1
-1.4
Ecuador
3.2
4.2
25.5
14.8
-3.2
-4.7
Guatemala
5.0
5.0
10.0
5.0
-3.3
-2.9
Mexico
3.5
-2.0
7.0
30.6
-8.0
-0.9
12.9
4.5
23.7
10.8
-5.6
-5.3
2.1
2.6
42.1
30.0
-2.1
-1.5
-3.3
-2.0
60.8
64.8
6.5
3.9
8.6
7.6
13.5
9.9
Dominican
R.
Peru
Uruguay
Venezuela
1
1995
Current Account*
Asia
Source:
IMF.
l
I
-0.5
1
-0.8
I
ii
World Economic Outloolk, May 1995
As GDP %
IDRC has attempted
of this report.
to respond to these concerns in a variety of ways, described in the second section
Canada
Although Canada reaffirmed its commitment to international developmentassistance in the report
of the Parliamentary Committee, Canada's Foreign Policy.- Principles and Priorities for the Future and
La Politique étrangére du Canada - Principes et priorités pour l'ayenir, the govemment, facing difficult
economic circumstances announced a reduction in the overseas development assistance (ODA) budget
of twenty percent to take effect over three years. (A summarized Spanish version appeared in
Compartimos - vol. II, n. 1, Feb. 1995).
Although IDRC constitutes only four percent of this envelope, its parliamentary grant
be reduced to approximately $90 rnn (CAD) per year.
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is
expected to
At the same time Canadians were paying greater attention to Latin America. The Prime Minister, the
Rt. Hon. Jean Chrétien, led a delegation to Trinidad, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Costa Rica
in January and Canadian interest in both the continent and regional organizations, such as the
Organization of American States, is expanding. One consequence, reflected in IDRC programs, are the
activities of non governmental agencies, universities and researchers in both Canada and Latin
America, in developing partnerships for policy discussion, applied research and other joint activities.
IDRC
The changes in Centre funding, described above, have also brought changes to Centre practice. In
February, as a Precaution, project support was reduced by approximately $20 mn on a world wide
basis, and given the long term impact of this change, the Board called for a re-examination of both
the scope of IDRC's support and its current method of concentrating on disciplines rather than
development problems. These development problems were, by the end of March, being described
as "clusters" or concentrations of projects dealing with a particular problem or issue. The impact of
reduced resource cuts has not lessened the Centre's commitment to development but will require
greater flexibility and organizational change in the coming year.
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2. LACRO PROGRAMS
2.1
URBANIZATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Dann° Antón
of globalization have continued their inroads in the continent at various levels. As a
result of the new regional free trade agreements and the effect of the decisions of the Uruguay
Round of the GATT, market-driven economic activities have expanded throughout the region. Soy
bean and rice agriculture have encroached into former cerrado, forest and wetlands environments
displacing small farmers and indigenous communities. New dams for hydroelectric supply of large
industrial cities are being inaugurated or are in the planning stages, producing or threatening to
produce floods in cities, farming and wildlife areas and deeply disturbing aquatic ecosystems. At the
same time, migration to large cities has continued practically unabated. These phenomena are
putting unsustainable stress on urban and peri-urban environments. Rivers and coastal waters are
contaminated, atmospheric pollution is increasing and quality of life is deteriorating.
The processes
This regional program is trying to deal with the two aspects of the problem: 1) environmental
degradation at the local level in areas of low density of population and high biodiversity produced
by encroachment of centrally-decided "productive" activities and 2) environmental problems related
to the concentration of economic activities in small areas with high density of population (urban
centers).
Environmental Degradation in Areas of Low Density of Population and High Biodhrersity
It is generally accepted that many local communities have developed highly sustainable systems,
adapted to the ecosystemic conditions and their social needs. This is particularly true in the case of
traditional and indigenous societies. In addition, these communities are particularly vulnerable to
decisions made in far away governmental or bank offices. Many of these groups do not have the
elements to express their points of view or to defend their rights. For this reason the thrust has
addressed this issue mainly aiming to empower these local communities to become actors in the
decisions that may affect their own destinies, promoting the rescue of appropriate knowledge and
the development of effective channels for their participation in policy and decision-making.
This sub-program is being developed in the framework of the INTESEP and BIODIVERSITY themes and
is supporting a large number of new initiatives, including some research projects presently underway.
The main project is now entering in its second year and is funding the organization and coordinated
action of grassroots environmental centers in Paraguay, Bolivia and Uruguay (Environmental Action
Centres project) with high success. In addition, important support has been provided to the indian
organizations of Southern Mato Grosso and the Upper Orinoco, Venezuela. The Centre has funded the
first all state congress of KAGUATECA (confederation of indian groups of Mato Grosso do Sul) and is
supporting a project in the Guarani village of Pirakuó At the same time, LACRO is supporting a
network of NGOs and indian groups endeavouring to ensure that the mega-project hidrovia (network
of navigable canals proposed for the Paraguay-Paraná basin) does not affect local communities
throughout the valley and the valuable wildlife ecosystems of the Pantanal and other wetlands.
Several meetings have been organized on this issue and a project proposal has been preliminarily
prepared.
addition the Centre is supporting the efforts of the indian communities of the State of Amazonas,
Venezuela to deal with the problem caused by increasing incursions of tourist groups. The Centre has
supported several activities such as a general meeting of ORPIA (Organización de Pueblos Indígenas
de Amazonas) comprising nineteen indian nations of the Upper Orinoco region in the city of Puerto
Ayacucho. A project proposal will be submitted in the near future.
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Environmental Degradation in Urban Areas
Urban environmental problems have been the subject matter of this program from its beginning.
There is now general agreement that the excessively fast and unplanned urbanization of the LAC
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has produced some of the main environmental and social problems of the region, and
probably the most critical ones. For some time, now, the centre has been supporting activities in this
field in several Latin American and Caribbean cities. The focus has been and still is the urban water
problem as a part of the Sustainable and Equitable Development Programs of the Centre. The project
on artificial recharge in Santa Marta is reaching its end with interesting findings (including the
construction and operation of the first artificial recharge stnicture of Latin America on the river
Manzanares). The Water Management Network is starting the Master Program in Water Management
in the University of Costa Rica promoting the interest and the participation of many water
professionals not only in Central America but also in other Caribbean and South American countries.
The research project on Aquifer Management in Recife has finally started in September 1994 and is
expected to produce interesting results. And finally, a regional congress on the huge and
international aquifer of Botucatu (typically an "urban" aquifer due to its potential yield) took place
supported by the Centre in the University of Paraná, Curitiba. Ttie participants of this meeting have
organized a network which is preparing an action-research project proposal to be submitted for
support to the Centre during the next fiscal year.
continent
Unbroken Knowledge
interdisciplinarity took place in Montevideo with the
participation of twenty-five researchers and personalities from the region. The event was organized
by the Office of the President and LACRO and held at the Regional Office of Montevideo. Its outcome
was considered highly successful. About ten papers were produced for the workshop and substantive
discussion proceedings are now available. A publication is being prepared.
In February 1995, a regional workshop on
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2.2
NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Carlos Seré
Natural resources management activities in fiscal year 94/95 were expanded with the hiring of a
Regional Program Officer (RPO) as from August 1, 1994. Responsibilities assigned included the strategic
planning of the Centres activities in this field in the LAC region, monitoring of ongoing projects and
the development of new projects. Activities were undertaken in close collaboration with
headquarters based staff, particularly from the Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENR).
Strategic Planning
effort in this area is related to the development of an approach to arrive at a more focused
project portfolio in the field of environment and natural resources mangement (NRM) for the region
and an implementation strategy. This has involved consultation with persons and institutions
participating in priority setting exercises in related areas, particularly the Consultation Group of
International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) experience in setting global priorities for international
agricultural research, and extensive information gathering through Internet electronic networks such
as INFOTERRA (UNEP), Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Forum (SARD), and ELAN-L
(Environmenl Discussion for Latin America Network). These consultations have provided valuable
insights into approaches taken in a range of sectors and at different levels of aggregation (from
individual watersheds or sectors to whole countries).
The main
to the planning of a workshop on environmental priorities for the LAC region to be held
at the Regional Office from June 21 to 23, 1995. This meeting will bring together policy makers and
researchers from the region, donors, experts and IDRC staff. It is expected to produce a set of
guidelines for IDRC's involvement in the environmental and NRM field and to establish mechanisms
for enhanced donor collaboration to implement the focused agenda. A limited number of papers
have been commissioned and participants are being provided prior information on the issues to be
discussed in order to run the workshop in a highly interactive manner.
This has led
Other related activities have been the planning and execution of a survey of IDRC staff perceptions
of the role and function of the LAC regional office (LACRO Survey, The Role of the Regional Office,
LACRO Discusçion Series 2), as a further input into the planning process and the development of
project clusters for the 1995/96 budget allocations.
Monitoring of On-Going Activities
of NRM related activities implemented in the region in the past, it took
considerable effort to deliver a minimal amount of attention to ongoing projects, particularly those
where decisions about extensions, supplements and assessments of technical reports were required.
Given the backlog
Particular attention was allocated to backstopping the Andean Systems Results (93-5197-07) activity,
where results of several past IDRC projects are being documented and disseminated through the
production of a video and other publications for the general public.
FSR Methodological Network-RIMISP (LA) project did also require particular attention. After a
turbulent period of restructuring, this project has consolidated and is developing a vision of its
activities for the coming years. This involves defining the Centre's degree of commitment in a new
The
RIMISP (Red
Internacional de Metodología de Investigación de Sistemas de Producción).
Project Development Activities
number of NRM proposals were submitted to LACRO during the fiscal year 1994/95. Funding
constraints as well as the ongoing process of priority setting led to the support of very few projects,
A large
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largely related to the consolidation of past Centre investments along research strategies considered
very promising.
The Centre has supported resean:h on integrated pest management (IPM) through several projects
in the LAC region. The IPM Beans (CIAT) II 94-8755 project will allow the International Centre for
Tropical Agriculture (CIAD and national agricultural research institutes of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
to test technologies developed during the previous phase in a participatory fashion with farmers in
their own fields. Methodologies for economic analysis of this technology will be adapted and
transferred to researchers of the region. This is expected to ultimately lead to improved agronomic
practices and reduced pesticide use in beans and in other small farmer crops.
Natural resource management problems of the tropical lowlands and particularly of the Amazon basin
have received substantial attention from the Centre in the past. As research on several technological
components based on the utilization of tropical lowlands biodiversity makes progress towards
commercial applicability, the concern on how to effectively link such new crops to dynamic markets
has gained importance. Therefore, the Centre supported a meeting held in Pucallpa, Peru to take
stock of the opportunities and challenges for sustainable development of the region based on
Amazonian biodiversity. Proceedings of this workshop have recently been published (Toledo, J.M;
1994: Biodiversidad y Desarrollo Sostenible de la Amazonia en una Economía de Mercado, Lima, viii +
295 pp. A participatory planning workshop was undertaken with the involvement of major
institutions and the regional government of the Ucayali region, national institutions related to
Amazonian development, NG05, private sector representatives, farmers and a range of donor
institutions. This group produced a plan for an initiative entitled "Ucayali 2005: Hacia el desarrollo
sostenible" (Ucayali 2005, Towards Sustainable Development) and established a consortium of
interested institutions to promc)te and implement the strategy. The Centre is supporting the
development of this initiative by c:ontributing seed money to catalyze the support from other donors
for the consortium and for individual component projects.
Collaboration with Sister Institutions
During the reporting period LACRO contributed the RPO's time to participate at a meeting of the
steering committee of the FAO/IBRD coordinated study of "Livestock EnvironmentInteractions", where
the results of the study on "World Livestock Production Systems, Current Status, Issues, Trends", by
Carlos Seré and Henning Steinfeld was presented.
Between September 94 and January 95 the RPO participated in the Fourth Extemal Program and
Management Review of the International Potato Centre (CIP), Lima, Peru. This involved extensive travel
in the LAC region and China. Natural resource management was one of the core issues examined by
the review team. CIP is an important recipient of IDRC.
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2.3
Fay Durrant
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS
The principal research issues addressed were related to development and analYsls of information for
policy formulation. The focus was on two areas of the CPF program Information Policy Research.
Information technology policy research and Small and Medium Enterprises
The role
(SMEs),
and
of information in social policy making.
of Information and Communication Technologies on the Productivity and
Competitiveness of SMEs (Ecuador and Argentina)
The impact
With the focus throughout the region on market-based resource allocation, owner managers of SMEs
have recognized the need to increase their capacity to differentiate products and services, and to link
electronically with customers and suppliers. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have
been recognized as instruments of this change, but the degree of impact is still being researched at
a global level.
The Universidad de Buenos Aires, Maestría en Política y Gestión de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (UBA) and
the Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-Económicas y Tecnológicas (INSOTEO will jointly implement a
research program focussed on guiding managers of SMEs in Argentina and Ecuador, in determining
the value of information and communication technologies, and in deciding on the effective selection
of ICTs for maximizing factors for productivity and competitiveness.
the short term the researchers in collaboration with associations of SMEs, will analyze the factors
influencing adoption of ICTS; determine the characteristics of the decision making process which
promote or hamper the adoption of information and communication technologies by SMES; evaluate
the impacts of such adoption on the productivity and competitiveness of SMEs.
In
The development and testing of a methodology for determining the value of ICTs will be an
important output of this research, and the delivery of this methodology to the participating
enterprise associations will be the principal result.
The research will establish a typology of SMEs in relation to use of ICTs, and the case studies will
analyze in depth the impact of ICT adoption in selected SMEs. The participation of the owner
managers, /CT suppliers, support organizations, and govemment officials will guide the researchers
in the interpretation of the findings and in the dissemination of results.
The research will be implemented in collaboration with the Cámaras de la Pequeña Industria de
Pichincha and Guayas in Ecuador, and the Unión Industrial Argentina, the Cámara de Industria de
Procesos (CIPRA), and Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica de la Nación in Argentina.
Information and Social Policies
Several activities have been carried
out in this area, which are described below.
Information for policy formulation
the basis for the definition of the scope of information for social policy making, an analysis
entitled the Role of information in the process of social policy making: proposals for Latin America and
the Caribbean examined the requirements of policy makers at the central, local or communiW levels.
This is seen as a good entry point for subsequently determining also the needs of practitioners and
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Information for decentralization
in recognition of the fact that municipalities are being required to take decisions and to manage the
administration of key sectors, particularly health, education, and social services, as well as defining
and implementing local level investment policies, an assessment was begun of the information needs
of local level organizations. The Centro Latinoamericano de Administración para el Desarrollo (CLAD),
undertook the review of its in-house databases, and has produced a research report: Descentralización
y Municipios en América Latina: Necesidades de información de los gobiernos locales.
Assessing the impact
of information on policy formulation
Strengthening the link between research and policy formulation has been identified as a major issue
in the development of the regional program. The related research issues for assessing the impact of
information on policy formulation, therefore are being defined in this program area. A first step has
been taken in the project "Assessing the impact of information on policy formulation" for the
implementation of indicators initially developed in the global IDRC program "Measuring the Impact
of Information on Development".
Integrated policy research: capacity building
Centre support combined with funds from other donors, has, over the past nine years, enabled the
establishment of a successful program for multidisciplinary research, which is particularly relevant to
the development of small states as the basis of integrated policy making.
The Consortium Graduate School of Social Sciences (CGS), University of the West Indies has trained 73
graduate professionals in research methodologies, and has produced 73 research projects on
Caribbean development policy issues. There is still the need, however, to identify more clearly the
channels for impact on policy making. A study evaluating the contribution of the CGS to the policy
making and policy research capabilities in the Caribbean is an important component of the grant
These results are expected to be instructive not only for the CGS, but also for assessing the impact
of other similar programs.
This project provided a terminal grant for institutional support to the Consortium Graduate School
of the Social Sciences (CGS), a joint program of the University of the West Indies (UWI), and the
UniversiW of Guyana. This grant therefore supported fourteen student fellowships for the initiation
of the new cycle in the MSc in Development Studies. Complementary funds were provided from the
CIDA/CAN/UWI Project and ongoing negotiations with the European Union (Ell) are expected to result
in support to the CGS from the Lome IV grant to the UWI. It is planned that the grant from the EU
will be implemented by the CGS commencing in the academic year 1995/96.
Other Activities
Development of value added products
In the context of making information more accessible to policy makers and other users, the
international Development Information Network (UN) coordinated by CLACSO has undertaken the
preparation of state of the art reviews in support of interregional dialogue. These reviews on
"Governance"; "Ethnicity" and "Cultural Conflicts"; and "Poverty", will be assessed in the project
evaluation in the context of their impact on the researchers and policy makers as users of IDIN. The
evaluation of IDIN and of the CD-ROM produced by the Network of Networks, will be used to provide
the basis for the commercialization of the products of these projects.
Electronic networking and computer conferencing
Several projects have now incorporated electronic networking and computer conferencing asa means
of enhancing their capacities for collaborative research and for management of the activities of the
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multi institutional projects. The members of the Network of Networks have used AlterNex and other
Internet access points for maintaining regional or global dialogues. Similar use of electronic
networking has been made by the International Development Information Network, and by the
experimental conference of the Social Policy Network in the conference on decentralization.
The increased access to Internet in the region has increased the capacity of project leaders to
communicate more regularly, and to undertake collaborative research activities.
Evaluations
of Networks - Latin America (91-0214) has been undertaken on an
experimental basis, during the second and third years of the project This experiment has been
remarkably successful as it has provided detailed monitoring and feedback on the project activities
to enable the participants to make modifications before the end of the project.
The ongoing evaluation "Network
of the "Information System on Children (SIR" has been undertaken on the basis of the
management of the regional system by the Inter American Children's Institute, the implementation
in Uruguay and in Ecuador, and the potential for a sub-regional application which could be
implemented in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Honduras.
An evaluation
Sustainability and revenue generation
In an effort to ensure that the investments are sustained, and were feasible move toward revenue
generation, the institutions have been encouraged to explore channels for self financing and
commercialization of the project outputs. This has mainly been translated into the marketing
components of the Network of Networks and IDIN, and the development of the accounting
mechanism for the on-line service developed at the Universidad Nacional de Chile, Facultad de
Medicina.
The project on Environmentally Friendly Technologies for Andean SMEs has also begun the sale
information services to provide a base for future services after the end of the project.
of its
Discussions with the Inter American Development Bank have begun in relation to possible funding
for the projects on the Impact of the ICTs on SMEs, and on further support to electronic networking
in the region, via the "Network of Networks".
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2.4
INNOVATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
Charles Davis
Salami Fahmy
Latin American countries are becoming increasingly aware that sustainable industrial development,
especially in the small and medium size enterprise (SME) sector, is a leading venue for job creation and
economic growth. It could serve as a means to reduce the prevalent poverty trends in the region and
provide the necessary resources to sustain the emerging social and environmental agendas.
Recent globalization trends and trade liberalization measures have drastically increased the pressure
on the industrial as well as the science and technology infrastructure of the region. This on the one
hand, threatens the survival of SMEs and, on the other, increases the demand and expectations on
scientific and technological outputs at a time of reduced government funding in these areas.
The international development community is moving away from issues of innovation for
competitiveness and sustainability, and focusing instead on the symptoms of underdevelopment:
environmental degradation and social dislocation. Unless the countries of the LAC region can
generate economic activity that is environmentally sound and socially accessible, the great policy and
political gains of the past decade could be lost.
Research Orientation
This program was designed to complement and consolidate national
issues and is focussed on the following:
efforts addressing the above
increasing the effectiveness of intermedian/ institutions (universities, research centres,
government laboratories) in developing and delivering programs and services to SMEs.
Strengthening linkages between knowledge procedures and the productive sector.
Supporting the development of strategies, policies and tools to enhance firm competitiveness and
increase the effectiveness of science and technology research.
Supporting the utilization and application of new technologies including those resulting from
Centre activities.
94/95 Activities
The program has supported the following activities:
Industrial Support Unit - Honduras. The Honduran Support Unit project was developed in
cooperation with the Consejo Hondureño de Ciencia y Tecnología. The Unit will provide services
to the industries similar to those provided by the established units in Costa Rica and Guatemala.
Work will continue in fiscal year 95/96 to establish additional Units in Nicaragua and El Salvador.
Both the established and the planned Units constitute the Central American Industrial Support
Network also funded in 94/95 by PRISM (Program for Innovation Systems Management).
Negotiations continue with Trinidad and Tobago's Minister of Industry and the Executive Director
of CARIRI (Caribbean Industrial Research Institute) for the development of a project to be funded
in the fiscal year 95/96, concerning the transformation of CARIRI.
In
addition, development work concerning projects on the following subjects continued:
introduction of Disease Resistant Bananas and Plantains by Hybrids in Central America.
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The Development
of a Technology Policy for Central America.
The Establishment
of Industry Support Units in Nicaragua and El Salvador.
R&D
for Innovation of a
Grain Harvester
for Small and Medium Farmers
in Colombia.
Research on Industrial transformation in Latin America and sectoral application
of results.
a regional complement to the proposed Canadian Network
Excellence on Trade, Innovation, Competitiveness, and Sustainability.
Establishment of
of Centres of
Extension of the guided community-based enterprise approach to several other indigenous
cooperatives in southern Mexico and Central America.
Management of industrial technology research institutions.
Integration of science, technology, and innovation policy with policy planning for socially and
environmentally sustainable development.
Development banks and industrial innovation.
Science
for sustainable development in the Summit of the Americas.
Management of technology and innovation training and seminars.
SMEs
and cleaner industrial production in Latin America.
Three studies were conducted. The first study mapped activities funded by other donor agencies
concerning SMEs in the English speaking Caribbean. The second was a feasibility study on the
Changing Role of Women in Latin America aiming at the preparation of a 50 minute documentary to
be presented at the Beijing Conference. The third concerned the feasibility of a proposed initiative
on R&D for agricultural mechanization in Colombia.
Three researchers from the LAC region participated in the Trinational Summer Institute on Innovation,
Competitiveness and Sustainability in the North American Region. This Institute, the first of its kind,
was sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the National Science
Foundation (U.S.A), the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Mexico), IDRC, and others.
At the request of the National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand, Charles Davis
spent two weeks working with NSTDA officials and Thai researchers on issues of S&T policy and
management in Thailand in March 1995.
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2.5
51ivi0 Gómez-Arango
HEALTH SYSTEMS
The Health program in the region pursued similar goals to the ones set for fiscal year 94/95 focussing
on the following areas: variability of the epidemiologic profile among different countries; social
response to the most important health problems; efforts to fulfil the mandate of the UN Conference
on Environment and Development; acknowledgement of the priority of health promotion; changes
in the role of the State as provider of health assistance, and the newly established health policies in
the region.
Projects
for the region were approved during the fiscal year. 'Three of them were approved
with funds of the regional budget and four in Ottawa, with funds of the Health Sciences
Division budget. The projects approved in the Regional Office were:
Seven projects
in
LACRO
Health Research in Latin America: A Horizon (94-8756)
Changes in the epidemiologic profile and in economic and social conditions in the region require to
renovate and develop high quality health research and to analyze the present health challenges. The
review of the scarce literature on 'health research status in the region, shows a notorious insufficiency
of both health quantitative and qualitative research development, its concentration in a few
countries and its low relevance for the region's most important health needs. A group of experts of
different countries will analyze the research situation in the region, will identify the most important
challenges that health research will face in the future, and will also provide proposals for the design
of research policies according to necessities ancl potentialities of the countries.
Integrated control of malaria, phase
II (Colombia 94-8750)
This project is based on the results of a previous phase (Community Control of Malaria). Its objectives
are related with two priority areas: control of endemic diseases transmitted by vectors and the
decentralization of health services in remote areas. As a result it is expected to evaluate the relative
importance of the different control strategies and the feasibility of delegating programs of malaria
control to local communities in remote areas.
Health Systems in the Southern C'one (Latin America 94-8754)
Most of the prevalent health problems in the region require for its solution the generation and use
of new knowledge on systems and health services. These problems include the epidemiologic
transition to chronic diseases, accidents and violence, changing models of organization and financing
the national health systems, inequitable distribution of access to health care and often of low quality.
Among the factors that influence the lack of good quality research in the region are: the need of
experienced researchers and an adequate infrastructure for health research; financial support and
communication between the researchers. The research network in health systems and services in the
Southem Cone (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay) was founded in August 1994 with IDRC's
support and the participation of 'health research and academic institutions. The network's general
purpose is to promote research and improve quality and use of results through: 1) a program of small
grants; 2) joint projects in different countries; 3) educational activities in research methodology; 4)
results dissemination; 5) the implementation of a mechanism for exchange of ideas, information, and
technical assistance between researchers, and 6) search of financial and political support for research.
The following projects were approved by the Health Sciences Division in Ottawa. The regional
program actively collaborated during the development of the Medical Technology project:
1. Caribbean Hospital based
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Injury Surveillance System (Trinidad
& Tobago, 94-0213).
Land Use and Health (Brazil, 94-0206).
Medical Technology (Uruguay, 94-0205).
Mercury Contamination (Brazil, 94-0203).
Other activities
Due to budget restrictions and following the President's instructions, activities for fiscal year 19951996 have been developed including the "cluster concept and establishing strict priority schemes.
Projects listed below are in an advanced stage of development and it is expected that some of them
will be approved during the next fiscal year. This will depend on the allocation of funds to the
clusters:
Non Conventional Epidemiologic Surveillance - Gender Perspective- (Ecuador).
Research Capacity Building in Public Health (Latin America).
Strengthening Family and Community Response -AIDS- (Dominican Republic).
Mining and Health (Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela).
Tobacco and Health in Colombia.
Small Grants Program for Research in Occupational Health. masters Program in Latin America.
Health Improvement in School Children (Colombia).
Health Policies (Chile).
Health Policies in Latin America (Phase II).
Women's Health Care OualiW (Latin America).
Network on Health Systems Research in Central America.
Amazonian Forum.
The first Latin American Workshop on Gender and Health was held at the Regional Office in Apri11994.
The Regional Health Program also participated in the second workshop held in Barbados in December
of this same year.
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2.6
SOCIAL POLICIES
Mario Torres
Consultant
order to support the activities of LACRO Social Policy Program for 1994/95, Jorge Papadópulos (MA
in Sociology and PhD candidate in Political Sciences at Pittsburgh University) was hired as consultant.
In
Electronic Conference on Decentralization
This Conference took place between July 14, 1994 and January 31, 1995. Alfredo Rodríguez, from SUR
Asociados (Santiago de Chile), acted as moderator and prepared the position paper to open the
conference. The final version of this document, "Decentralization and Integration of Social Policy for
Sustainable Development", is being prepared. The conference was organized with the technical
support of the Instituto del Tercer Mundo (ITeM), Montevideo, which was in charge of training local
participants; creating an electronic conference with specialists from different countries; identifying
local coordinators in each country; Preparing training materials; and organizing an on-line data base.
report prepared by Alfredo Rodríguez includes the original position paper, the comments
made by the participants (by theme order) and a revised version of the position paper which takes
into account the most important: contributions made by the participants.
The final
Seminar on Decentralization and Integrated Policies
This seminar was held in Quito, Ecuador, on November 28-30, 1994. It was organized by CIUDAD in
coordination with
IDRC.
The seminars report was prepared by Mario Torres and circulated via electronic mail to all
participants. Once their comments were received, a final version was prepared and distributed. The
English version of this document was sent to IDRC Ottawa staff and to all Canadian participants.
José Blanes, director of CEBEM (Bolivia) and leader of the project "Implementing Integrated Local
Social Policy in Bolivia" (93-8762), was assigned by the participants to prepare a proposal for the
consolidation of IDRC's research activities on decentralization. Blanes prepared a draft which was
circulated to the participants for comments.
World Summit for Social Development
This activity aimed
at promoting, in several countries of the region, a national dialogue on the core
themes of the Summit.
Nine national seminars were organized in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru,
Uruguay and Mexico. Representatives from the civil society, the State, and donor agencies were
invited to analyze the United Nations' document "Declaration and Program of Action for the Summit".
The seminar organized in Chile obtained support from ECLAC. The document "La Cumbre Mundial para
el Desarrollo Social: Una visión desde América Latina" was distributed among the participants in all
national seminars. All the meetings were held between October 1994 and January 1995, with
exception of the one in Mexico. This meeting took place immediately before the Summit, and its
results were extremely valuable for the official Mexican delegation.
report of this activity, entitled Cumbre Mundial para el Desarrollo Social. El debate en América
Latina: Informe de los seminarios nacionales", was finalized in January 1995 and distributed to all the
institutions that participated in the process. A new version including the conclusions of the Mexican
seminar is being prepared and will be translated into English.
The
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The report has been introduced in two electronic conferences of the APC node related to the Summit
issues: "un.socsummit" and "un.socclev.docs". They can be accessed through usual electronic mail
connection. Its inclusion in IDRC's gopher has also been requested.
The Social Policy Network
With the aim of consolidating the Social Policy Network, the following workshops were organized
during 1994 at IDRC's office in Montevideo:
"Training requirements for social policy making", June 16-17.
"The role
of social policy advice in social policy decision-making", July 4-5.
"Information needs for social policy making", August
4-5.
"Third regional coordination meeting", September 12-13.
Additionally, two regional meetings were organized:
"Social Policy in a Global Society. Canada-Latin America", held in Ottawa, October 26-28.
"Social Policy Research in Latin America: Opportunities and Challenges", held in Washington on
October
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with the collaboration of the Inter-American Dialogue.
Simultaneously to the Ottawa seminar, an exhibition of books and documents produced by members
of the Social Policy Network was organized.
During the fiscal year, LACRO and the Social Sciences Division at Headquarters approved the following
projects:
94-8751, Youth Policy Evaluation
Juventud).
& Design in Latin
94-8760, Latin American Network
Población,
America (Organización Iberoamericana de
of Education and Work.
la
Phase III (Centro de Estudios de
CENEP).
94-8761, Social Policy Planning Phase (Centro de Información y Estudios Sociales del Uruguay, CIESU).
The following Research Support Activities were also approved:
94-5757, Social Policy in Mexico (El Colegio de México).
94-5758, Social Summit (Regional).
94-5764, Preparatory activities for new phase of the Education and Work Network (Regional/CENEP).
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2.7
REGIONAL COMPTROLLER
Alejandro Rebolledo
Administrative functions
the Regional Comptroller was in charge of negotiating the lease contract of
Montevideo. In October and after analyzing different alternatives, the lease
contract of the 10th. floor of the Torre Libertad building was rescinded. The Regional Comptroller
supervised the relocation of the offices which were then concentrated in the 9th. floor.
During
FY 1994/1995,
IDRC's premises located in
The coordination of a plan for the selection of local university students who receive training in the
financial-administrative field of the Regional Office, is also carried out under the responsibility of the
Regional Comptroller
The Regional Comptroller maintained several meetings with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Colombia in relation to the status of this Centre with the Colombian government. Furthermore, the
Regional Comptroller visited the Bogota office which remains active for legal and administrative
purposes due to pending legal cases against the Centre.
Financial functions
During this fiscal year, the Regional Comptroller negotiated and implemented the operations with the
Bank of America for the international transfer of funds.
Also during this period, the Centre started operating with the Banco Holandés Unido (currently ABNAmro) for its local banking operations. Besides, the Centre negotiated with this bank the opening of
personal bank accounts for the staff.
Project monitoring
The Regional Comptroller performs the follow-up and control of both LACRO and Ottawa originated
projects, with his own program of project monitoring visits. The purpose of these visits, which
involve both the institutions and sites where the projects are being carried out, is to assess the
financial and administrative operations of current projects, and especially those projects which have
shown some difficulties or require an additional support.
FY 1994/1995, project monitoring visits were made to 100 projects in approximately 70
recipient institutions in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Ecuador and
During
Venezuela.
Institutional visits
During FY 1994/1995 the Regional Comptroller performed visits with the purpose of assessing the
capacity of universities, ONGs and research institutions to undertake and manage research projects.
A new format was designed, oriented towards obtaining results useful not only in the financial area
but also for a broader group of people.
Other functions
The office and staff of the Regional Comptroller provided financial and administrative information
about the region, required by both Ottawa and LACRO, regarding exchange rates, salary levels in
different countries, institutional assessments, etc.
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2.8
WETV, THE GLOBAL ACCESS TELEVISION SERVICE
Carl McPaulIin
the Global Access Television Service, established its Regional office for Latin
America, at LACRO, in Montevideo, Uruguay. Because of Uruguay's location in the Southern Cone, it
was decided to concentrate first on that part of Latin America, to save time and money.
In July 1994, WEN,
During its first few months, WETV met with independent producers at regional festivals and through
established contacts in order to identify key allies; to work with selected producers to identify NGO'S
and development organizations working in the region and explore with them some of the stories
behind their projects. A number of stories were identified that could make good videos and WETV
assisted their producers in the search for development funding, using its connections in other
countries to implicate additional organizations and encourage key producers to work together.
Strategic funding assistance was arranged during the year for the dubbing/subtitling into Spanish, of
vENTRE LIVRE, a documentan/ on women's health issues, which won four awards at the Gramado Film
Festival, so that this important film could be seen in the rest of Latin America. As well, funding was
approved to assist the Instituto Nacional de Cine en Argentina, to send representatives to Canada to
visit Telefilm, VISION TV and WETV, to investigate how these organizations function and administer
their funds.
As an expression of their commitment to WETV, five independent producers signed an agreement at
the Havana International Festival of Film, in December, to invest the value of rights to five of their
best productions in
WETV.
the above contacts began to develop, WETV began to meet with key broadcasters, cable operators
and satellite companies, to convince them that WETV was real, unique and working now in their
region, with the objective to ensure that at least one broadcaster is ready to go on the air with WETV
in September 1995 and others will be ready to follow. Letters of interest were provided by
broadcasters in Argentina, Chile and Peru, and negotiations are ongoing as well, in Brazil, Uruguay,
Venezuela and Mexico, to establish affiliation agreements, to carry the WEN signal.
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During this time as well, WETV began to identify potential investors in WETV who have a vested
interest in success of the service because of their involvement in the broadcasting field.
As the fiscal year came to an end, a major television series concept was developed (TIERRA MADRE) and
plans were finalized for a meeting with independent producer allies from Brazil, Argentina, Chile and
Uruguay to form a Producers Advisory Group, to advance the WETV agenda in Latin America to the
operational stage.
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2.9
OTHER ACTIVITIES: CANADIAN LINKS, SPECIAL INITIATIVES
Several activities were carried out to encourage and develop effective and mutually advantageous
links between Canadian and Latin American and Caribbean institutions and organizations within the
context of the Centre's goals. The range of planned and executed activities entailed non-
governmental organizations, universities and community colleges, public sector and private sector
bodies.
The initial activities included visits and research of consultants from the Association of Universities
and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) and the Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CICC).
to countries in the region favoured the discussion of the work of the Centre in the region; the
meaning of development; our relationship with recipients and the current role of research and
resource constraints; Canadian policy initiatives (such as the Foreign Policy Review) and new modes
of partnership being pioneered in different Canadian universities and NG0s.
Visits
The reports prepared by the consultants present proposals and recommendations upon which
projects are being developed, with the hope of building a close working relationship based on a
realistic sense of the needs of development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Centre Training and Awards
Closely related to the Special Initiatives Program is the Centre Training and Awards Unit which has
developed information systems iFor the administration and tracking of training activities sponsored
by IDRC. In this respect, on November 94, LACRO received the visit of Cathy Mak from Ottawa who
presented a new system for tracicing training and follow-up awardees. At the same time, C. Mak had
the opportunity to interview past IDRC's awardees and benefitted from this interchange of ideas and
experiences.
Diffusion Activities
to the region's client group led to
the publication of the Bulletin "Compartimos" and other diffusion materials such as the LACRO
Discussion Series and the LACRO Annual Report (see 3.5 Publications/ Dissemination).
The idea of explaining IDRC's activities and informing about them
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3. OFFICE ACTIVITIES
3.1
INTRODUCTION
A.D. Tiileft
The regional office continued to run smoothly demonstrating again the considerable professionalism
of the Uruguayan staff. They are the foundation on which our regional work is based and they show
commendable skills of language, computer based communication and, not least, diplomacy. Their
loyalty to the Centre is exemplary and as a relatively new Regional Director, we owe them a great
deal.
Salama Fahmy and his family returned to Ottawa to take up a position in the Program for Innovation
Systems Management (PRISM), after five years in Montevideo and his commanding presence and lively
opinions are still missed. In August he was replaced by an experienced researcher, Charles Davis,
coming from Headquarters. Carl McMullin also arrived in August as the first regional representative
of the WETV, affiliated with IDRC, to the region and appointed Graciela Haro as his assistant. Carlos
Set* also joined the Centre to take the position of Hugo Li Pun who had left for Ottawa in August
1993.
There were fewer changes among local staff. Virginia Cervieri became the receptionist and other
staff were given greater responsibilities partly to cope with a greater and more varied workload and
partly to account for maternal absences. Sy/via Albela gave birth to Ignacio in November. Our
congratulations. In addition the office assisted the Ambassador and the Honorary Consul (Uruguay)
by providing services and hosting Ottawa based staff associated with the Prime Ministers visit.
Relationships with local staff, which I feel are excellent in spite of budget constraints, are described
in Chapter 3.3.
In order to enhance links with other international development agencies with offices in Uruguay and
NG05, a series of informal seminars were initiated. Invited speakers were: Vladimir Radovid, IDB
representative in Uruguay; Jorge Caballero, ALADVFAO; and Alma Espino and Rosario Aguirre of CIEDUR.
The speakers presented interesting issues related to development which were then followed by a
highly participative debate of the audience.
Likewise, the Regional Office received a considerable number of visitors form Headquarters and the
(See list on Appendixes A.10 - A.11).
region.
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3.2
Adriana
REGIONAL OFFICE PREMISES
R.
de Henderson
to the first five year office lease contract expiration in the Torre Libertad building, contacts with
the landlord representatives were initiated in May. At the same time, other locations were identified
for a feasible move of LACRO's office.
Close
In June, Albert St-Amand (Ottawa's Administrative Services Director) visited LACRO with the specific
mission of analyzing the office premises situation, and to offer us his advice. Mr. St-Amand went
through the premises considered as feasible ones for the office move, made a thorough analysis on
those, as well as on the present location. His was a very valuable contribution and assessment.
Based on these recommendations, it was decided to rescind the lease for the 10th floor and to accept
the two year extension period offered for the 9th floor in Torre Libertad building, dismissing the
option of a move during this period. Consequently, the Regional Office has concentrated its
operations in the 9th floor since October.
The Centre, together with the Canadian Consulate, began taking steps to identify and introduce to
the landlord representatives, new occupants for the 10th floor that was being returned to them,
participating also in the negotiation of the new lease terms.
Bell Canada International occupied the area and received the Centre's assistance and assessment in
the initial installation stages. By means of contracts, the lease (with purchasing option) of Centre's
property installations that were left in Bell's leased offices was regulated.
The Canadian Consulate remained in the same offices that were lent to them by the Centre on April
1993.
The Travel Agencies are presently operating from
their own offices due to the Centre's space
reduction.
In July, Carl McMullin, WETV representative, arrived in Montevideo,
initiating his activities assisted by
Graciela Haro.
Office Reorganization
of planning, hiring and coordination began in order to implement the
location changes that the move from the 10th floor, the planned arrival of WETV and of the two new
RPOs to LACRO (Carlos Seré and Charles Davis) required.
In May, an intense process
of changes needed to make the best use of the available space was done under the
supervision of Adriana Henderson. It consisted of:
The series
Move and replacement of the Library and Information offices. Move of the Library collection to
the 9th floor, where a novel wheeled-carriages system was installed, allowing a better disposition
of the collection.
Central projects filing replacement, leaving an additional office available.
Projects and budgets analysis for fitting and refurbishing the Meeting Room in the 9th floor.
Refurbishing of the offices assigned to the new RPOs' that were to be relocated to
Seré and Charles Davis).
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LACRO (Carlos
Identification of an office for WETV operations and a supplementary working area for his assistant,
well as the corresponding equipment and furniture.
as
Move of
a
Meeting Room to
a
smaller office.
Move of Mónica Voss and Adriana Henderson to
a
shared, bigger office.
Move of a Program Assistant and a consultant's office.
Furniture and computer equipment re-distribution, identification of material to be sent to
deposit, installation changes (alarms, telephone extensions, computer network cabling).
a
Artificial lighting improvement, mainly in the Filing area, Reading Room and Library locations.
The office's walls and partitions were painted, coordinating stages that allowed the normal
operation of the office during the works.
Security/building services
the inquiries on security matters and service quality were again raised to the Torre
Libertad building administrators.
On May 1994,
Insufficient operation of the present telephonic installation in the building.
In July, the Administration contracted a company, to carry out the total reconditioning of the
internal telephonic installation of the building.
Inappropriate security system in case of evacuation and/or fire
The Administration set up a new exit to the building roof terrace that eventually may allow a more
adequate evacuation and that may allow a passageway to the adjoining building to exit in case of
an emergency.
It is important to remark that the building does not count with a designed system to deal with
emergency situations (fire stairs, sprinklers, etc.) which is the reason why its security continues being
insufficient, since from the architectonic point of view the building does not allow the incorporation
of changes that may guarantee a safe evacuation.
Local Personnel
Virginia Cervieri joined the Regional Office in the Receptionist position in July (confirmed as of
January 1995).
New responsibilities were assigned to former receptionist, Mónica Voss, which initially implies the
visitors' attention, as well as support to the Regional Director and Personnel & Administration
offices.
Redistribution of tasks among the Program Support group.
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3.3
RELATIONSHIPS WITH STAFF
A.D.
Tinett
The uncertainty of the Centre's funding and the continued public sector salary freeze did not permit
an increase in the salaries of any staff. The Local Staff Association, APELC, continued to represent the
interest of staff with competence and it is a tribute to their abilities and loyalty that the work of the
Montevideo office contributed to strengthen the Centre as a whole.
Besides representing the LACRO local staff, APELC participates in the administration of two specific
funds: the Retirement Fund and the Health Fund. The first one is made up with the contribution of
This fund is
a seven percent of each individual salary and a equal contribution from IDRC.
administered by a Committee composed by APELC representatives and the Centre's Management.
Besides the provision for retirement or resignation allowances, staff can ask for loans from this Fund,
which are regulated by norms established by the Fund Administration Committee.
The Health Fund is made up with the staff and the Centre's contribution (although the proportion
differs, being the Centre's somewhat higher). This Fund is also administered by a Committee
integrated by representatives of the staff and the Centre. The Health Fund complements sick leave
or maternity leave pay.
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3.4
STAFF TRAINING
Alicia Richero
Training activities for LACRO staff were programmed to respond, on the one hand to everyday tasks
and responsibilities and on the other, as stimuli for the acquisition of skills, specially in the new
communication technologies.
English Courses
LACRO local staff received training in English, as this language is used in 100 % of the communications
with Headquarters in Ottawa and with other regional offices, and in a 30-40 % with institutions in
other countries. During 1994 two parallel courses were given. Groups were formed after a placement
test. Both groups dealt -at different levels- with writing skills (reports, mail, E-mail messages,
manuscript reports, summaries); usage of English language structures, grammar and conversation.
Software
Training in Windows (basic introductory course) was completed for some members of the staff. OT
personnel and selected employees received special training in an advanced course of QPro for
Windows (version 6.01). A short course on instructions to send fax messages via Banyan Vines Mail was
given to the whole staff. Staff also received training on RADIUS (Research Activity Database System).
This system is intended to meet the Centre's requirements for information on its program activities,
both in head and regional offices. Training was delivered by Fran Anderson, Data Administrator
(Management Information Services- MIS) of Ottawa, in December 1994. RADIUS became effective for
the Regional Office as of January 1995.
CD
Roms Training
The Library and Information Centre prepared a course for LACRO staff on the contents and use of this
new information tool. People were briefed on the CD Roms which are available at the Regional Office.
Individual Training
LACRO systems analyst went to Ottawa at the end of September, to attend the Annual Conference of
the Association of Banyan Users International (ABUI) and to participate in the upgrading activities of
communication and information technologies at headquarters (MIS Group) (see Chapter 4.3).
The Library and Information Assistant participated in the Conference "Information Canada" which was
held in Toronto, Canada, in September. The Information Assistant also received training at the Central
Library of IDRC in Ottawa (see Chapter 4.2).
The Operations Coordinator attended a course on "Managerial Techniques" which had as main
objective the correct management of group relations, leadership and teamwork.
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3.5
Ruben Svirsky
PUBLICATIONS AND DISSEMIINATION
the publication of the "LACRO Discussion Series" with the purpose of
promoting the exchange of views and reciprocal consultation on development issues. These are
internal documents of relatively restricted distribution.
In 1993/94 LACRO launched
Three documents of this series were published during the present fiscal year:
"Potential for Partnership. International Cooperation Institutions and Latin American NGOs", by Tim
Draimin.
"LACRO Survey. The Role of the Regional Office", by Roberto Bazzani, Carlos Seré and A.D. Tillett.
"A New Research Dialogue. Canadian and Latin American Research Communities", by Eva EgronPolak, Jean-Pierre Lemasson arid Gregg Macdonald.
first and third of these documents are the result of research on the subject carried out by the
authors in a visit to the region. The second one is a collection of the input received through a survey
on the subject carried out by the authors among program, financial and administrative professional
staff from Head Office. These publications were distributed among the individuals and institutions
which contributed to said resean:h activities.
The
At the beginning of this fiscal year, a consultant was hired to undertake an evaluation on the
feasibility and convenience of editing a Regional Office bulletin, with the objective of informing about
activities and individuals and organizations associated to IDRC.
Further to this consultancy study which demonstrated the convenience and viability of the bulletin,
the office estimated the financial and human resources requirements to carry out this activity. The
Regional Office then decided to launch a sample of this bulletin. The title was chosen in a
competition among the staff. The bulletin is edited under the title "COMPARTIMOS. Un aporte de
Canadá para el desarrollo".
first three issues of this bimonthly bulletin were published during this fiscal year. It is sent to
more than a thousand addressees (scientists and researchers asociated with IDRC, governments and
international aid agencies officials) in Canada, the United States, France and twenty-seven countries
in the region. The mailing task is facilitated by a data base produced for this specific purpose.
The
of the first six bulletin issues that were initially planned
will evaluate the results to decide the continuation of "COMPARTIMOS".
Once the publication
is
completed, the office
At the end of 1992/93, the Regional Director decided to publish, for the first time in LACRO's history,
a complete report about the activities carried out by the Regional Office during the fiscal year. The
distribution of this Annual Report has contributed to disseminate information on the tasks
undertaken by the Regional Office and its results. As the report has proved useful, its publication will
be continued.
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4. LACRO PROGRAM
SUPPORT
4.1
OPERATIONS COORDINATION
Alicia Richero
Coordination and support activities of the Operations Coordination ensures quality control of the
procedures which regulate Programs' delivery.
Responsibilities within this area comprise: initial contacts with researchers or institutions by providing
guidelines for the preparation of research proposals; assistance or substitution to Program staff when
necessary; support to meetings, seminars or workshops held at the LACRO premises in Montevideo;
information delivery on IDRC's Programs and projects.
Procedures
The Operations Coordination is in charge of updating regulations and procedures communicated from
Headquarters in Ottawa, or which are the outcome of the exchange of ideas of teamwork at the
Regional Office. Procedures and guidelines are circulated to all staff concerned, ensuring -in this way-
more coordinated and efficient Program delivery. Periodical meetings of Program Assistants and
the OT team have been held with the objective of coordinating and updating the Centre's procedures.
a
Above-mentioned procedures include, among others, the Centre's legal documentation: the
Memoranda of Grant Conditions (MGCs) signed between IDRC and the recipient institutions. The
Operations Coordination supervises the clauses included in the text and the editing and proper
distribution of the final version. Follow-up of the MGCs (not only regional but also of Head Office
administered projects) entails corrections, timing, signatures, additional information requested, and
the relationships and communications with the coordinating agencies. The latter are the
governments' offices in charge of international cooperation. Even if the Centre's procedures are
being modified with the launching of a new corporate database (RADIUS- Research Activity Database
System) intended to meet the requirements for information on its program activities, two databases
with legal information are kept updated (LEGAL and PRODOCS SHORT), until the transition to the new
system is completed. This information is also kept in a centralized hard-copies file.
Institutional Database
Information on institutions is basic to the Centre's activities. CONTACTS is a database where
information on institutions, project leaders and specialists is input. Until the corporate database on
institutions is completed in Ottawa, this database is kept open and updated.
What is
IDRC?
How to Apply
for IDRC Funding?
Researchers who are approaching IDRC for the first time and are interested in the Centre's mandate
and objectives, research priorities and in sending research proposals are assisted through the
Operations Coordination. These initial contacts are then followed-up by the different regional
Programs.
The proposals received in the Regional Office are numbered and entered in a local database called
PRODOCS.
Centralized files, editing of documents
The support staff is responsible for maintaining a centralized file of the projects and Research Support
Activities (RSAs) of LACRO. Bob Soutar, Office Services Manager in Ottawa, visited the Regional Office
last August. The purpose of his visit was to introduce the new project file structure to the regional
office and to provide guidelines on the retention and disposal schedules for project records.
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Likewise, the support group prepares the final versions of documents, papers, charts, tables and other
printed materials which result from the Programs activities.
Editorial Committee
An Editorial Committee was created to advise on the different activities related to publications in the
Regional Office, such as the bulletin "Compartimos", the "LACRO Discussion Series", and the Regional
Annual Report. This Committee holds weekly meetings and consists of the following members: the
Regional Director, the Editor and the Operations Coordinator. Other members of the staff have been
invited to the meetings when the documentation under discussion concerned them.
Information Centre and Library
two services support Program activities and the Centre's projects providing the necessary
information and data.
These
order to enhance the information services, contacts were initiated with the Informatics Central
Service (SECIU) of the University of the Republic to obtain access to Internet. The RO has obtained a
direct line with the University which has allowed the connection of one work station and the access
to the net.
In
Initial steps are being taken in the use of this important information tool.
An Information Committee has been created with the objective of supporting initiatives and
facilitating decisions which affect the Information Centre, the Library and the use of new
communications technologies.
Substitution of Local Staff
During this year the support staff has actively collaborated in substituting local staff assigned to
programs and the Regional Directors Office when they were on matemity leave, annual holidays or
sick leave.
Staff Training
The Operations Coordinator was in charge
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of the training activities of
LACRO
staff (see Chapter 3.3).
4.2
Andrea Puppo
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRE
During the current FY both the Library and the Information Centre collections suffered big changes.
In September, the Libran/ was moved to the 9th floor and as a result of the lack of office space the
collection was reduced approximately 50%. Publications to be drawn as well as universities and
institutions interested in receiving the discarded material were identified. Among others, Ministerio
de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca; Facultad de Medicina; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología and
Facultad de Humanidades. The selection criteria used for the weeding were: themes, obsoleteness
and future uses. The serials portion of the collection was the one which suffered the most drastical
weeding. A retention period for the serials was setup, based on the guidelines established by Ottawa
Library. The Institutional archives were also revised, updated and reduced.
During this period an Information Committee composed by six members (Regional Director,
Information Sciences Program Officer, a Program Assistant, Information and Projects Operations
Coordinator, Management Information Services Supervisor and the Library and Information Assistant)
was created. Some of the responsibilities of the above are among others:
discussion on information needs of LACRO staff;
discussion on new information tools and initiatives and the access to/from
database, RADIUS, IDRIS, PROMIS, Internet);
prices study;
training on new technologies;
advice and discussion on the acquisition of new publications.
LACRO
(institutional
Said Committee wrote the basis to set down a policy for the Information Centre which was studied
and discussed together with Directors in the Ottawa Library.
Publications Received
Projects (34.09%)
total of 971 publications were received. 331 were
project reports and 640 were miscellaneous publica-
A
tions.
Miscellaneous (65.91%)
CD-ROM's
The following CD-ROMs were received:
DA! CD-ROM. Produced by IDRC - Third Edition (April 1994)
Red de Redes. Financed by
IDRC - First Edition (December 1994)
Produced by BIREME - Brazil - 21 Edition (January 1995)
Comercio Exterior 1973-1993- Produced by the Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior, Mexico (July
ULACS. -
1994).
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Databases
3.5" diskettes containing the "Social Indicators of Development 1994" and the "World Development
Indicators 1994" produced by the World Bank were bought and installed on the TAdrive so as to
become accessible by
LACRO
staff.
Serials
Seres were selected considering the new policy for the Information Centre. Although the budget for
acquisitions was reduced, general interest publications were bought as well as serials and newspapers
published in the region. Among others Noticias (Argentina); Veja (Brazil); Comercio Exterior (Mexico);
Ecuador Debate (Ecuador), etc.
The above listing contains some of the periodical publications
that are presently received either as
gifts or subscription:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
Actualidad Económica del Perú - CEDAL (Peru)
América Economía (Regional)
Análisis Internacional - CEPEI (Peru)
Boletín de la OPS
Boletín INFOLAC - UNESCO (Venezuela)
Boletín ALIDE - ALIDE (Peru)
Caribbean Week Newspaper (Caribbean)
CIEPLAN - Colección Estudios (Chile)
Comercio Exterior - Banco Nacional de Comercio
Exterior (Mexico)
Coyuntura Económica - FEDESARROLLO (Colombia)
Coyuntura Económica - CPES (Paraguay)
Coyuntura Social - FEDESARROLLO (Colombia)
Cuadernos Laborales - ADEC-ATC (Peru)
Desarrollo Económico - IDES (Argentina)
The Economist - (General)
Ecuador Debate CAAP (Ecuador)
Estudios Públicos - CEP (Chile)
Far Eastern Economic Review (General)
Globe and Mail (Canada)
IMF Survey - (General)
Informe de Coyuntura
Universidad de la
República (Uruguay)
22. Informe Latinoamericano (Regional)
23. Interciencia (Venezuela)
24. Quantum - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
y de
Administración (Uruguay)
25. Kellogg working paper series (General)
26. The Lancet (General)
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
Latin Finance (Regional)
L'actualité (Canada)
Maclean's (Canada)
Medio Ambiente y Urbanización-IIED (Argentina)
Notas sobre economía y Desarrollo - ECLAC (Regional)
Noticias (Argentina)
New Scientist (General)
OECD Observer - OECD (General)
Prisma - Universidad Católica del Uruguay (Uruguay)
Revista de la CEPAL - CEPAL (Regional)
Síntesis - Edisa (Regional)
Tierra Amiga - Red Amigos de la Tierra (Uruguay)
El Trimestre Económico - Fondo de la Cultura
Económica (Mexico)
Veja - (Brazil)
Visión - (Regional)
World Bank Research Observer - World Bank (General)
World Bank Economic Review - World Bank (General)
Information Centre
A computer with a CD-ROM lecturer was installed in the Reading Room
do their own searches.
to allow
LACRO
personnel to
direct line with SECIU, Universidad de la República, was connected to the Information
Centre computer with full access to Internet .
In February a
Regarding the Reference section of the collection, an attempt was done to maintain it updated.
Steps were taken to receive discarded copies from the Ottawa Library reference collection (statistic
yearbooks, directories, etc.)
Two training courses on the use of the CD-ROMs and other databases were given. The attendants were
divided into two groups of eleven persons each and the training lasted two hours approximately.
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Seminars and Presentations
During the meetings "Network of Networks Evaluation", IDRC, Montevideo, 10-11 November 1994 and
"The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Productivity and Competitiveness
in SMEs", IDRC, Montevideo, 4-5 February 1994, presentations were done on IDRC Gopher; access to IDRC
Library DDBS: new IDRC products such as DA! and Earth Summit CD-ROMs.
Reports
current awareness service was implemented. A daily summary highlighting titles on magazines and
newspapers received is electronically sent to LACRO staff.
A
A new report entitled "Publicaciones recibidas en la Biblioteca IDRC-LACRO" was first issued on April
1994. Said report, published quarterly (January-March; April-June; July-September and OctoberDecem ber) is distributed among LACRO staff as well as Ottawa Library personnel and Regional Offices
Library Managers. The main objective of the report is to alert staff on newly acquired publications
and reports.
The "Inventario de publicaciones resultantes de proyectos financiados por
prepared, once
a
1DRC"
continued to be
year, as well.
Support Staff
The Library continued with the support of a Librarianship student (part-time basis) who was assigned
new duties such as loans, current awareness and processing of incoming material.
Travel and Conferences
The Library and Information Assistant attended the "Information Canada 94" Conference held in
Toronto, 27-30 September 1994, which highlighted the use of new tools and technologies available
for Libraries and Information Centres.
Subsequently she participated in a three-weeks training course organized by the Ottawa Libran/ staff
(3-21 October 1994). Training comprised upgrading in areas such as: indexing and cataloguing, loans,
internal and external requests, acquisitions, bibliographic searches and new information communication technologies (Internet, CD-ROMs, etc.). It should be stressed the excellent working spirit of all
Headquarters Library staff during the Information Assistant's stay in Ottawa.
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4.3
María Noel Irazoqui
INFORMATION SERVICES
Purchase of Equipment
installation of a New Server and Upgrade of Banyan Vines
The old server was replaced by new equipment with
higher speed, more storage capacity and further
growth possibilities.
Features:
Trademark and model:
RAM Memory:
Disk space:
Dell 4066 XE,66 MHz, EISA
32 Mb, RAM Memory
2 Gbytes
Installation of this more potent and fast server increased the speed when running any application in
the net and with quicker response time to users. At the same time, a new version of the LAN (Banyan
vines 5.52) was installed which allowed, among other things, the installation of a more complete E-Mail
system (Banyan intelligent Mail) and the support for Windows environment applications.
New Uninterrupted Power System
lUPS1
for the Server
Power Conversion- APC; Model Smart UPS 1250) was bought as well as the interfase
kit with Banyan Vines. This new UPS model is connected to the server by a data cable.
A UPS (American
in case there is an electric failure, the server can be fed with the energy of the UPS batteries. If the
batteries run down, the UPS generates a "server shut down". This means that before turning off the
server, all open files and pending processes are automatically closed, preventing the generation of
corrupted files. In this way, security and reliability of data in the server have been improved.
Purchase of a High Speed Modem for Communications
for connecting the server with the data line X.25 (line which connects us with
Ottawa and the other Regional Offices) was substituted by a faster and more reliable one. Due to bad
quality of the telephone cables and noises in the lines, the previous modem used to lose the
connection and it was necessary to re-establish communication manually. The problem generally
occurred during the night or weekends damaging the connections with HO and the other Regional
Offices. As the new modem is stronger, it is less probable that the above-mentioned problems can
occur. Likewise, if a communication were interrupted, the new modem can recover it automaticallY.
The modem used
Purchase of 2 Laser Pfinters - Hewlett Packard Laserjet
4S1
Features:
Trademark:
Model:
Memory:
Hewlett Packard
Trays:
letter and legal
direct, by way of Extended Systems adapter
Connection with net:
The purchase of these
Laserjet 4SI
8 Mbytes
two printers which are shared by all staff has relieved the work-load on a third
printer which has been the only one available up to now. At the same time, the connection through
the adapter ExtendNet makes the process faster as data go directly from the server's printer queue
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to the printer. If, on the contrary, the printing tasks were sent directly from each workstation to the
printers, then it would have been necessary to purchase more software.
The three printers were located in key places so as to be accessible by all staff. In this sense, according
to the physical location of staff, each person has access to two printers which provide:
double-sided prints (blank paper
letter and legal paper prints
&
letter-headed)
Enlargement of RAM Memory
An enlargement of 4 Mb of memory was installed in all workstations. With this upgrading, 95% of the
office equipment has a 8Mb memory. This allows the use of the Windows environment and all related
software.
Purchase of a Full Text Scanner
A
full text color scanner was purchased during this fiscal year.
Features:
Trademark:
Model:
Scanning area:
Resolution:
Hewlett Packard
Scanjet color
Legal paper (8"x14")
600 cpi
This equipment processes graphs, drawings and photographs
inserted in documents by the word processor.
to produce graphic files which can be
Notebooks
Four notebooks were purchased.
Features:
486 processor
386 processor
monochrome screen
color screen
modem and mouse modem
8 Mb RAM
360 Mb disk
4 Mb RAM
60 Mb disk
Software Installation
.
.
.
Word Perfect 5.2 for Windows (word processor).
Quattro Pro for Windows (Spreadsheet).
Harvard Graphics for Windows (Graphs and presentations).
RADIUS (Information system HQ developed. To be installed in all regional offices).
All modules were developed using Paradox and Object Vision (based in Windows) and are compatible
in relation to data bases, screen format, help options, etc.
.
PCR.
It
is a
Paradox based system which allows generation of the "project completion reports".
Training
The following training courses were given:
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Windows.
Word Perfect 5.2 for Windows.
RADIUS.
PCRs.
Faxes
sent by E-Mail.
Other issues
instafiation of a Computer and CD Rom in the Reading Room
Until now, only one CD Rom reader was available at the Library. The installation of a computer with
a CD Rom reader in the Reading Room has facilitated the access of the staff to the data banks and
information stored in the different CD Roms.
Faxes sent by E-Mail
At present, staff can send faxes by using the E-Mail. This has helped because employees do not need
to leave their workstations in order to send faxes.
Meeting of MIS Group and Participation In ABUI Conference
The MIS (Management Information Systems) Group met in September. People from HQ and the
Regional Offices contacts participated in the meeting with the following agenda:
RADIUS:
in-depth review of data structure as well as installation and utilization
Crystal: training on the utilization
of Crystal
(a
tool for reports generation based in
Library: interaction and support with Library information systems (ddbs,
IDRC
RADIUS)
Gopher, etc.)
Review of purchase criteria of software and hardware according to IDRC's corporate standards
Internet: discussion on each regional office situation in relation to the installation and use of
Internet
End-user support strategy: standards review, deadlines, communication channels
Following the meeting, some of the regional contacts and HQ staff participated in the Annual
Conference of the Association of Banyan Users International (ABUI). The Conference dealt with:
Banyan suppliers presentations which introduced the new technologies applicable
net
Technical short courses and presentations on topics related
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to
Banyan Vines.
to the Centre's
4.4
Silvio Bianchi
THE OFFICE OF THE TREASURER
of Office of the Treasurer at the Regional Office involves not only the control of the
financial resources allocated to LACRO (Program and Office Management resources) but also the
assessment to Program Divisions in all items related to financial administration of the projects
developed.
The work
fulfil its mandate, OT staff is composed by two Project Accountants, a Financial Assistant and the
Financial and Accounting Assistant.
To
Duties of this staff fall under direct control of the Assistant Regional Comptroller.
Management of the Regional Office
Regional Office Management is supported through different activities performed by the Office of the
Treasurer. Said activities involve budget and expenditures control, release of the authorized
payments and registration in the general ledger of all financial operations.
By the end of each operational month, OT and the Regional Comptroller prepare activity reports for
the Regional Director.
During fiscal year 1994/95 OT processed 1,919 payments (1,287 operational payments and 632 project
payments) for a total amount of CADS 10,112,848.
Project Management
Program Divisions receive the assessment on the financial situation of their projects through the
regular analysis of the financial reports sent by recipients, as well as the financial follow up of the
Pipeline and portfolio of active projects of the Regional Office.
During fiscal year 1994/95 137 financial reports submitted by recipients were analyzed and 12 out of
this total were returned to the recipients because of lack of information.
The Portfolio
of Active Projects
as
of the end of the
fiscal year shows that there are 110 active
projects.
During this fiscal year 39 new activities were approved (12 new projects and 29 Research Support
Activities) for a total amount of CADS 3,188,000 while 53 projects reached completion (project closure)
with savings that amounted CADS 307,399.
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APPENDICES
A.1
PROGRAM APPROPRIATIONS
THEME
RC
40167
Integrating Environmental, Social, and Economic
FISCAL YEAR
FISCAL YEAR
93/94
94/95
1,225,990
429,425
340,220
Policies (INTESEP)
40267
Technology and the Environment (T&E)
613,985
40367
Food Systems under Stress (FOOD)
379,207
40467
Information and Communication for Environment and Development (ICED)
730,423
50,507
40567
Health and the Environment (H&E)
512,233
583,521
40667
Biodiversity
50067
Sustainable and Equitable Development
60067
New Initiatives (NI) (LACRO)
56,047
(B10) (LACRO)
TOTAL
AMOUNT ALLOCATED
FOR FISCAL YEAR
PERCENTAGE APPROPRIATED
94/95
(SED)
2,162,523
1,331,632
168,692
396,874
5,793,053
3,188,226
5,800,000
3,189,207
99.88%
99.97%
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A.2
PROJECTS APPROVED - LACRO ADMINISTERED
94-8750
Integrated Control of Malaria, Phase 11
IDRC Division: LACRO - HSD
Recipient:
Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas
Medellín, Colombia
Amount:
Duration:
(CIB)
CAD 470,000
36 months
Based on the results of the previous phase (Community Control of Malaria, 88-0216), the project will
implement an Integrated Malaria-Control Program in twenty communities of the Pacific Coast of
Chocó (Colombia). The project's activities and results will be of high value to support the current
process of decentralization of the medical care services in the counties of Bahía Solano and Nuquí,
as part of the national effort towards decentralization. This project represents an inter-institutional
effort in line with the activities developed by the Pacific Health Network, supported by the local
health authorities, the Foundation for High Education and LACRO ("Health, Environment &
Development in the Pacific Region").
Youth Policy Evaluation and Design in Latin America
Division: LACRO - SSD
Recipient:
Organización Iberoamericana de la Juventud (01J)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Amount:
CAD 220,000
Duration:
12 months
94-8751
IDRC
This project will evaluate Latin American youth policies in order to prepare recommendations for
the design, implementation and evaluation of the "Regional Action Program for Youth Development
in Latin America"; formulate methodologies to reinforce youth policies in the context of economic,
social and environmental policies, and contribute to the technical and institutional strengthening of
the national institutes of youth and the OU's regional cooperation role.
94-8752
Integrated Policy Research: Capacity Building
IDRC Division: LACRO - SSD
Recipient:
University of West Indies (UWI)
Kingston, Jamaica
Amount:
Duration:
CAD 240,000
12 months
This project provides a terminal grant for institutional support to the Consortium Graduate School
of the Social Sciences (CGS), a joint program of the University of the West Indies (UWI), and the
University of Guyana. This grant will support fourteen student fellowships for the initiation of the
new cycle in the MSc in Development Studies. Complementary funds will come from the
CIDA\CAN\UWI Project and ongoing negotiations with the European Union (EU) are expected to result
in support to the CGS from the Lome IV grant to the UWI. It is planned that the grant from the EU
will be implemented by the CGS commencing in 1995.
Centre support combined with funds from other donors (Ford Foundation, UNDP, EU, CIDA and
CFTC) has, over the past nine years, enabled the establishment of a successful program for
multidisciplinary research, which is particularly relevant to the development of small states as the
basis of integrated policy making.
The CGS has trained 73 graduate professionals in research methodologies, and has produced 73
research projects on Caribbean development policy issues. There is still the need, however, to
identify more clearly the channels for impact on policy making. A study evaluating the contribution
of the CGS to the policy making and policy research capabilities in the Caribbean is an important
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component of the grant requested. These results are expected to be instructive not only for the CGS,
but also for assessing the impact of other similar programs.
Health Systems in the Southern Cone of Latin America
Division: LACRO - HSD
Network for Health Systems and Services Research in the Southern Cone
Recipient:
94-8754
IDRC
Amount:
Duration:
(REDE)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
CAD 323,000
36 months
The region is facing numerous challengeswhich require the generation and use of new knowledge
on health systems and services research. These include an epidemiologic transition to chronic
diseases, accidents and violence, accompanied by important demographic changes; rapidly shifting
models of organization and financing of national health systems; inequitable distribution of access
to health care and frequently precarious levels of quality of care; and, regional economic and political
integration characterized by the formation of the Mercosur.
Current constraints to research in the region include a restricted number of experienced
researchers and precarious infrastructure, financial support to research, and access to information
and peers. The Network for Health Systems and Services Research in the Southern Cone of Latin
America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay) was founded in August 1994 with IDRC
support, and involves academic, research and health services institutions. It proposes to promote
research in this area and improve the quality and use of research results by: 1) administering a small
grants fund; 2) articulating high-quality and priority proposals for the region; 3) carrying out or
supporting educational activities on research methods applied to health systems; 4) disseminating
research results; 5) creating a network of exchange of ideas, information and support between
researchers in the Southern Cone of Latin America; 6) mobilizing financial and political support for
research and working as an advocate for research in this area.
94-8755
Beans ¡PM
Division: LACRO - ENR
Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (am)
Recipient:
IDRC
Amount:
Duration:
Cali, Colombia
CAD 224,860
24 months
Insecticide use by small bean farmers has increased substantially and signs of environmental
degradation resulting from these applications are becoming apparent in Central and South America.
The problem of insecticide abuse in beans is more severe in the Andean region where beans is the
most important legume. The misuse of insecticides has made small farmers' crops more vulnerable
to pests thus affecting their productivity and access to food. Pesticide abuse is not limited to beans.
It also occurs in other small holder crops such as potatoes, tomatoes, maize, plantain and other
hillside grown commodities. The first phase of this project aimed at establishing technological means
to reduce the level of insecticide use by bean farmers in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru and to help in
reestablishing the ecological equilibrium through the development of integrated pest management
(IPM) systems. Technology for the development of IPM systems has been generated. In some areas
IPM systems have already been succesfully tested. In others, some aspects of research and intensive
testing of the systems netd to be finished. The general objective of this project is to reduce
insecticide use by small bean farmers in the Andean zone while promoting sustainable productiviW.
Specific activities will include: a) testing of the IPM system in all work sites; b) development of
methodologies for economic analysis of IPM (risk analysis, adoption and impact studies) using the case
of small farmers bean production; and c) training of researchers and extension personnel from
national institutions on methodologies to develop IPM components.
94-8756
IDRC
Division:
Health Research in Latin America. A Horizon
LACRO
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Recipient:
Grupo de Estudios en Economía, Organización y Políticas Sociales
Montevideo, Uruguay
Amount:
Duration:
CAD 135,000
12
months
Latin America's epidemiological and socio-economical profile is undergoing rapid changes.
Although previous health threats, such as malaria and other infectious diseases are still important,
new menaces are rapidly increasing their incidence. Health research does not represent, in general,
a genuine priority for most countries in Latin America; and is highly concentrated in a few countries:
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela are responsible for 90% of the region's scientific
production. This study will examine health research as an essential factor confronting the main public
health challenges in the region; and will emphasize the design of relevant research policies. it will
contribute to the identification of the most important health challenges facing Latin America during
the next fifteen years. The process will include a series of periodic meetings of the task force,
bibliography review, analysis of the available information from secondary sources, elaboration of
intermediate papers, synthesis and elaboration of a final publication aimed at politicians, the
academic community and financing agencies.
Indigenous Environmental Management Pirakua (Mato Grosso)
Division: LACRO
Recipient:
Centro de Documentaç5o e Apóio aos Movimentos Populares
94-8757
1DRC
Amount:
Duration:
Associaçáo de Indios Kaguateca "Marçal de Souza"
Campo Grande, Brazil
CAD 121,500
12
months
The guarani population of Mato Grosso do Sul, one of the largest indigenous populations of Brazil
lives in conditions of poverty as a result of the non recognition of their land rights and of the lack
of substitutive development alternatives for their communities. As a result of these processes their
traditional knowledge and cultural identity are being lost at a rapid pace threatening future
possibilities of reversing this situation. The Associaçáo de Indios Kaguateca, organization of the
indigenous people of Mato Grosso do Sul has proposed a project to study the actual problems faced
by the Guarani village of Pirakuá, with participation of the community and the collaborative support
of the Instituto Brasileiro do Patrimonio Cultural (Mato Grosso do Sul office). The project will
investigate the present structure of the Guarani groups in Southern Mato Grosso and more
particularly in the zone of Pirakuá. The research will characterize the community, its territory and
culture through an in-depth inventory of its basic natural, agricultural and trading resources and
activities as well as related archeological and anthropological elements. It is expected that all the
acquired information will provide the basic elements necessary to formulate strategic plans for the
community as seen by the members. The project could represent the first step in a larger scope
initiative to assist in the development of locally-developed strategies for environmental and social
management in indigenous communities of the Upper Paraguay basin and surrounding areas.
Fellowship Support (Chile)
Division: LACRO
Recipient:
Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
94-8758
IDRC
Santiago, Chile
Amount:
Duration:
CAD 132,000
24
months
The purpose of this project is to contribute to the Fondo de Becas para Centros Académicos
Independientes of Chile by funding the activities of 12 young research fellows to develop scholarly
work and so increase the research experience and capacity of a group of Independent Academic
Centres from which the pool of research projects are proposed. Funding of grants will be shared by
IDRC and SAREC with an important contribution of the Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica
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y Tecnológica (CONICYT) of Chile who is the responsible Chilean institution for the allocation of funds
and the planning of scientific activities.
Industrial Support Unit (Honduras)
Division: LACRO
Consejo Hondureño de Ciencia y Tecnología
Recipient:
94-8759
IDRC
Amount:
Duration:
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
CAD 244,720
24
months
This project is concerned with the establishment of an Industrial Innovation Support Unit
dedicated to the provision of advisory services to the small and medium-size Honduran enterprises.
The Unit, to be established by a group of five national institutions, will provide technical, managerial
and marketing assistance. The services of the Unit will be provided through pro-active visits to
production units to diagnose problems and offer solutions. It will work closely with the existing
national science and technology infrastructure and will establish a fee for service scheme based on
the firms ability to PaY.
The advisors will be trained in Canada and the Unit will be linked to the Canadian Industrial Support
Network as well as to similar Units in Central America.
Latin American Network of Education and Work Phase
Division: LACRO - SSD
Centro de Estudios de Población
Recipient:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
94-8760
IDRC
Amount:
Duration:
CAD 374,040
19 months
This project supports the consolidation of a successful mechanism for the integration and
dissemination of knowledge in the area of education and work in the region. The general objective
for the Phase III of the Network is to consolidate the implementation of a series of actions to improve
its organizational structure, to strengthen existing spaces for the production and dissemination of
relevant scientific knowledge, and to maximize the flow of information on education and work issues
in the context of the productive transformation of Latin American societies. This phase will focus its
activities on two broad human development issues: the skills that should be leamed by youth and
adults as a means to create an upgraded and competitive labour force, and the methodologies
required to achieve higher quality and greater equity in the training of youth and adults actively
involved in or entering into the labour market. At the conclusion, the Network will have identified
and formulated a comprehensive set of alternatives for future research and will have established a
mechanism for technical assistance and consultancy service.
Social Policy Planning Phase
Division: LACRO
Centro dé Informaciones y Estudios del Uruguay
Recipient:
Montevideo, Uruguay
CAD 96,560
Amount:
8 months
Duration:
94-8761
IDRC
This project will support planning activities for the organization of a regional initiative on social
policy in Latin America, and is based on the results of IDRC project 92-8751, "Social Policy Research
Priorities in Latin America". The specific objectives of the activity are: (a) To recommend, on the basis
of consultation with research centers, international organizations, and donors, the themes and
research, training and information fields which should be undertaken by a regional network over a
two-year period; (b) to propose an effective and flexible program operating structure; (c) to organize
a meeting and an electronic conference in order to discuss both (a) and (b), and which will provide
a program consensus; (d) to prepare a proposal to be submitted to the Centre taking into account
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resources available; and (e) to participate in two meetings to be organized by other agencies in order
to strengthen the program. Expected results are: the identification of a feasible program operating
structure for a regional initiative -network or other modality.; a discussion of specific themes and
research areas; the organization of two workshops for the discussion of inter-institutional
collaboration in research, training and information fields across the region; the dissemination,
discussion and promotion of the network's program proposal among key donors; and a proposal to
be submitted to IDRC for a regional initiative on social policy research, training and information for
a
two-year period.
94-8762
impact of the Information and Communication Technologies on the Productivity and
Competitiveness Of Small and Medium Enterprises (Ecuador & Argentina)
Division:
Recipient:
LACRO
IDRC
Amount:
Duration:
Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-Económicas y Tecnológicas
Quito, Ecuador
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Centro de Estudios Avanzados
Buenos Aires, Argentina
CAD 145,000
18
months
With the focus throughout the region on market-based resource allocation, SMEs have recognized
the need to increase their capacity to differentiate products and services, and to link electronically
with customers and suppliers. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been
recognized as instruments of this change, but the degree of impact still needs to be analyzed. The
Universidad de Buenos Aires Maestría en Política y Gestión de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (UBA) and the
Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-económicas y Tecnológicas (INSOTEC) will jointly implement a
research program focussed on guiding managers of SMEs in Argentina, and Ecuador, in determining
the value of ICTs, and in deciding on the effective selection of ICTs for optimizing factors for
productiviW and competitiveness.
In the short term the researchers in collaboration with associations of SMEs, will analyze the factors
influencing adoption of ICTs; determine the characteristics of the decision making process which
promote or hamper the adoption of information and communication technologies by SMES; evaluate
the impacts of such adoption on the productivity and competitiveness of SMEs.
The development and testing of a methodology for determining the value of ICTs will be an
important output of the research, and the delivery of this methodology to the participating
enterprise associations will be the principal result.
The research will establish a typology of SMEs in relation to use of ICTs, and the case studies will
analyze in depth the impact of ICT adoption in selected SMEs and the participation of the owner
managers, IC suppliers, support organizations, and government officials will guide the researchers in
the interpretation of the findings and in the dissemination of the results.
The research will be implemented in collaboration with the Cámaras de Pequeña Industria de
Pichincha and Guayas in Ecuador, and the Unión Industrial Argentina, the Cámara de Industria de
Procesos (CIPRA), and Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica de la Nación in Argentina.
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RESEARCH SUPPORT ACTIVITIES (RSAS)
TITLE
INUMBER
94-5750
94-5751
Roundtable on Social and Environmental
Impact of Hydroworks
AIESEC Canada - AIESEC
Uruguay Collabor-
COUNTRY
RECIPIENT
/ CAP /
PO
APAOUNT
BO/UY
DA
48,000
AIESEC
CA
FD
4,304
Raúl
lricibar
(Fontex S.A.)
CR
SF
7,086
CREAMOS
Amigos de
la Tierra
REDES -
ation
Evaluation (Costa Rica)
94-5752
CODETICA
94-5753
The Role of Women in Latin America
IMAGENES
UY
SF
19,330
94-5754
League of Intermediate Cities Meeting
(Cordoba)
CAP
AR
DA
5,000
94-5755
Regional Meeting
Areas
ALADI
AR
DA
14,000
94-5756
Congress on Regional Aquifers (Curitiba)
Universidad Federal de Paraná
(Curitiba)
BR
DA
14,450
94-5757
Social Policy in Mexico
El
Colegio de
México
ME
MT
14,000
94-5758
Social Summit
CIESU
RE
MT
70,000
94-5759
Seminar on Environment and Self-Maintenance in Indigenous Areas
Asociación de
Indios Kaguatecas
/ CAP
BR
DA
8,000
94-5760
Second Seminar on Ecotourism
Instituto Goethe
UY
DA
1,500
of Air QualiW of Urban
/ CENEP /
SUR
(Montevideo)
94-5761
Overview Study on Extractive Systems
Processes and Market Issues
Raúl Iricibar / CAP
BR/PA
DA
16,047
94-5762
Workshop: Occupational Health Research
in Latin America
Universidad de
Carabobo
VE
SG
14,000
94-5763
Methodological Workshop on Mining and
Environmental Health
Coord. Red
UNAMAZ / NRC
CO
SG
26,000
94-5764
Preparatory Activities of the Education
and Work Network (Phase III)
CENEP
AR
MT
70,000
94-5765
Information on Health and Environment
BIREME
BR
FD
50,000
UY
SG
9,500
as a
94-5766
Tool
for Decision
/
CAP
Prevention of Hypertension in the City of
CELADU /
Minas (Uruguay)
Ministerio de
Salud Pública
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94-5767
PO
AMOUNT
PE
ADT
30,000
CPES
PA
ADT
15,000
Jorge Katz/Joe
UY
ADT
1,135
CO
CD
3,200
TffLE
NUPABER
RECIPIENT
Public Opinion and Governance (Perú)
Foro Nacional/
COUNTRY
InternacionalAgenda Perú
94-5768
Thirty Year Review
94-5769
Industrial Research: Perspectives
(CPES)
Ramos - ECLAC
Proposal Evaluation: "The research and
Development of Specialized Harvesting
Machines to Improve Modernized and
Diversified Small and Medium Colombian
Farmers"
CIAT -
94-5771
Review of SMEs in the English Speaking
Caribbean
Philip Payne
GU/T&T/BA
CD
4,200
94-5772
Environmental Research Priorities for
Workshop
CAP
UY
CS
50,000
94-5773
CENEP
CENEP
AR
ADT
15,000
94-5774
Private Foundations and NGOs
Elba Luna
AR/UY/
ADT
2,874
94-5770
LAC
(Argentina) Emergency Support
Alvaro
Ramírez
CH
94-5775
Environmental Health Strategy in the
Amazonian Region
Carlos Espinal
CO
SG
22,500
94-5776
Scientific Annual
International Consultants
UY
ADT
22,000
DA
CD
FD
SF
SG
CS
ADT
MT
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Danilo ANTON
Charles DAVIS
Fay DURRANT
Salama FAHMY
Silvio GOMEZ
Carlos SERE
A.D. TILLETT
Mario
TORRES
A.4
HEAD ADMINISTERED PROJECTS IN THE REGION
Resource Management by Fishing Communities (Brazil)
SED, WATER
Theme:
Division: ENR
Recipient:
Museu Paraense Emilio GoeIdi (MPEG)
94-0002
IDRC
Belém, Brazil
Amount:
CAD 135,210
This project will characterize, explain, evaluate, and compare artisanal fishing communities of
Eastern Amazonia in various settings (estuarine; inland lakes and rivers; coastal mangrove). This will
be undertaken in terms of their social organization, productive system, and related customary tenure
and management of land and water resources, and emerging conflicts, so as to advise a variety of
groups (governmental institutions, fishermen movements, community leaders, civil entities) on the
formulation and adjustment of locally appropriate policies. The project will expand knowledge on
peasant societies in Amazonia and strengthen the analytical expertise of the recipient institution's
research program staff.
Local Knowledge of Wild Species in Rio San Juan (Nicaragua)
Theme:
BIO
Division: ENR
Recipient:
Giiises Montaña Experimental (GME)
94-0007
1DRC
Amount:
Managua, Nicaragua
CAD 89,000
The purpose of this project is to identify, with the help of local experts, some of the local useful
plants present in the forest or the adjacent areas, and gather the relevant information present in the
literature. These results will be used to prepare a second phase in which several natural products
from the regions will be selected and developed as economically and ecologically viable income
generation alternatives for the local producers.
Sustainable Andean Development Consortium (CONDESAN)
Theme:
FOOD
Division: ENR
Recipient:
Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP)
94-0014
1DRC
Amount:
Lima, Perú
CAD 1,000.000
Institutions working in the Andean zone met in 1992 to join efforts and launch a regional program
The program is implemented through a consortium
(CONDESAN), in which participation is based on agreed upon objectives, and sharing of costs and
responsibilities. It is coordinated by the International Potato Centre (CIP). This project will support the
consolidation of the consortium, and support research to understand land and water management
dynamics; propose more sustainable land use systems; design and test technologies and policies for
sustainable agricultural production in the High Andes; identify Andean products with comparative
advantages, and the most viable and sustainable value-added options for poverty alleviation and food
security; promote links between research and development endeavours; carry out further work on
biodiversity of Andean crops, pastures, and animals; and train researchers, development agents, small
entrepreneurs, and farmers on sustainable production methods. An evaluation is planned, with
emphasis on the governance by consortium, a novel approach, with potential application in other
regions.
for the sustainable development of the region.
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TRAWL: Central American Network on Medicinal Plants
94-0020
IDRC Division: ENR
Theme:
BIO
Recipient:
ENDA-CARIBE
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Amount:
CAD 238,960
This project will expand the TRAMIL program (Investigación Aplicada y Usos Populares de Plantas
Medicinales en el Caribe) i.e. the applied research and dissemination of the use of medicinal plants in
Caribbean to Central American Countries (Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, and
Panama, and in phase II to El Salvador), and will serve as a focus for the coordination of diverse
activities in the region. The general objectives of the network include: support for research on the
diversity and sustainable use of medicinal plants in primary health care in Central America; support
for research needed to identify safe and effective remedies; and community participation programs
to disseminate research results.
Environmental Degradation: Sodoeconomic and Political Context (Andes) Phase
94-0022
IDRC Division: ENR
Theme:
INTESEP
Recipient:
Instituto de Investigación Universidad y Región (IIUR)
Cusco, Perú
Centro Andino de Acción Popular (CAAP)
Quito, Ecuador
Academia de Humanismo Cristiano. Grupo de Investigaciones Agrarias (CIA),
Santiago, Chile
Amount:
CAD 250,000
Phaselof this project documented the impact of peasant production systems on natural resources
in the context of transformations in the Latin American countryside in Peru, Chile, and Ecuador.
Analysis of the relationship between the macroeconomic variables and peasant production systems
showed the need for further research in terms of the role of institutions; how peasants use their
natural resources; the influence of inter-generational knowledge, gender, and traditions; and
resistance to technological innovations. Phase II will undertake further comparative research to
develop methodologies; strengthen capacity building; and develop appropriate instruments for
resource management (water, soil) by local institutional representatives in the present climate of
decentralization.
94-0023
Biodiversity Research and Capadty Building for the Third World Networks
IDRC Division: ENR
Theme:
BIODIVERSITY
Recipient:
Third World Network
Penang, Malasia
Amount:
CAD 87,000
A number of activities and processes in the wake of UNCED have required that policy-makers and
citizen groups in developing countries keep up-to-date with issues, take appropriate positions in
negotiations and formulate national policies. The overall objective of this project is to provide
research, information and analyses to these groups, by means of developing research capacity in the
area of biodiversity for one of the leading environmentJdevelopment groups based in developing
countries. It represents a key step to insuring the full participation of such groups in policy processes
affecting biodiversity. The research program will focus on key topics such as intellectual property
rights and indigenous knowledge as they relate to biodiversity. A coherent research team with
representatives of every continent will be administered by the Third World Network International
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Secretariat. The researchers will work out a common framework to guide the various research
activities, and will work closely together through a network and with NGOs and community groups.
The outputs of the research will be published and disseminated widely to policy-makers, scientists and
research institutes, NGOs and community organizations.
Environmental Partidpatory Protection (Ecuador)
Division: ENR
Theme:
FOOD
Centro para el Deasarrollo Social, (CDS)
Recipient:
94-0024
IDRC
Quito, Ecuador
Amount:
CAD 50,670
The team of researchers from an Ecuadorian NGO (Centre for Social Development-CDS) and a union
of peasants (North Western Union of Peasants and Inhabitants of Pichincha) will carry out a regional
study, using participatory methodologies in the search for alternative strategies. The expected results
will be an analysis of the existing situation in the region. Solutions and activities will be suggested for
protecting the coping/survival strategies of the inhabitants which are under great stress. Economically
viable projects that are environmentally sustainable will be suggested on the basis of local traditional
knowledge, community participation, and training.
Tobacco Muting Group
Division: CAI, ENR, HS, 1SS, SS, EVA.UNIT,
Recipient:
Centre Administered
CAD 1,250,000
Amount:
94-0200
IDRC
GENDER, PRES., ASRO, EARO, LACRO
Globally, tobacco related disease is the most important preventable health problem with
cumulative mortality exceeding rates forAIDS, tuberculosis, and complications of childbirth combined.
In low income countries, tobacco production threatens sustainable environments while tobacco
consumption threatens sustainable and equitable development. Until now, this threat has not been
seen as a development issue. However, due to success in the North, led by Canada, in arresting and
reversing the smoking epidemic, the focus of the tobacco industry is increasingly centred on
populations in developing economies. The experience of Canada and other industrialized countries
demonstrates that successful measures to reduce tobacco consumption depend upon comprehensive
and consistent public policy, underpinned by substantial multi-disciplinary research. It is important
that Canada and others share their tobacco control experience with developing countries before the
rapidly escalating smoking epidemic in the South evolves to a tobacco related disease pandemic. An
IDRC working group worked for one year to catalogue the resources and international development
and concluded that there is an inter-disciplinary leadership vacuum, and that an urgent need exists
for a coordinated and enhanced effort in support of policy relevant research that will minimize the
negative developmental effects of tobacco production and consumption. IDRC Canada is
advantageously situated to stimulate and facilitate an effective multi-agency initiative towards this
effort.
This project creates a new IDRC initiative in the form of an inter-agency International Initiative for
Tobacco Policy Research with the mission to provide a strong funding, research, analysis, and
knowledge base for the development of policies which would minimize the threat to sustainable and
equitable development posed by tobacco production and consumption in the developing world. The
Initiative will support the strategic research and partnerships required for the development of
effective tobacco control policies and programs in the developing world and support an investment
in Southern capacity to sustain such programs.
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Mercury Contamination Risks 03razi&
Theme:
Division: HS
Recipient:
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
94-0203
IDRC
Amount:
HE
Cuiaba, Brazil
CAD 303,530
The purpose of this project is to estimate the risk of mercury poisoning to the Brazilian fish-eating
riverside population of the Baixada Cuiabana, and to determine its nature. Investigators will collect
fish and other material used in human diets in the area; and investigate the mercury concentrations
in them. At the same time, human populations dependent on fish diets will be defined. Their
mercury absorption will be estimated by suitable testing of hair, breast milk, and urine. In addition,
suitable clinical testing of the function of the central nervous system designed to detect the specific
poisonous effects of mercury will be carried out Questionnaires appropriate for the local language
and customs will be administered to detect toxic symptoms among the study population.
940205
Medical Technology (Uruguay)
Theme:
SED, SRHN
IDRC Division: HS, LACRO
Recipient:
Centro de Informaciones y Estudios del Uruguay (CIESU)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Amount:
CAD 120,530
This project will explore the supply and use of medical technology in Uruguay in relation to
changing health needs. The study is exploratory in making use of both qualitative and quantitative
data on health needs, availability, and use of medical technology.
940206
Land Use and Health (BraziD
Theme:
IDRC Division: HS, ISS, SS, CAI
Recipient:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Amount:
HE
CAD 798,350
identify interrelationships among ecological, social, and economic characteristics
use; formulate and implement community-based
land management and community health programs;
identify and evaluate the major determinants in migration and land use choices made by new frontier
settlers; develop surveillance methodology for disease risk assessment at the municipality level using
remote information sensing, ground-based assessments including geographic systems (GIS) and
simulation modelling; and engage the National Health Foundation (FNS), colonization companies, local
NG05, and state and regional public agencies as cooperating partners. Integrated health and
environmental policies will be developed starting from the local community level and reaching
The project will
of communities, human health, and land
development strategies to integrate results in
municipal, state, and national govemments.
Caribbean Hospital-based Injury Surveillance System (Trinidad & Tobago)
Theme:
SED, SRHN
Division: HS
Recipient:
Panamerican Health Organization
94-0213
IDRC
Amount:
CAD 130,870
This project will establish an injury surveillance system that seeks to capture relevant data on all
injuries presenting at the major hospitals of four CAREC-member countries. National staff involved in
the project will be trained in the collection and extraction of injury data, its coding and processing.
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They will use instruments, software and processing guidelines that have already been developed and
are operating in Australia and Canada, but which have been modified for the Caribbean setting.
By rotation of three different methods of administration of the surveillance instrument
(self-administration, interview by hospital staff or a combination of both), the project will determine
the most efficient means of establishing and sustaining such a surveillance system in the constrained
environment of developing countries. This will be complemented by close, frequent internal and
external monitoring according to specified procedures. These procedures will not only assess facility
of operation of the system, but also the quality of data generated - data which will be used to
generate reports for the information of planners and decision-makers. Indirectly, the project would
serve to improve the record-keeping of the Accident and Emergency Departments of the hospitals,
in addition to standardising the data collected on injuries.
of the software IDEA-VAC
94-0215
Vacdnation use level and implementation
IDRC
Division:
Recipient:
HS
Amount:
Mali. Ministère de la santé, de la solidarité et des personnes ágées
(MSSPA), Bamako, Mali
Centro de Investigación y Estudios de la Salud
(CIES), Managua, Nicaragua
CAD 101,324
Theme:
SED, SRHN
The purpose of this project is to study the field effectiveness and impact due to the utilization of
computerized tool, the software IDEA-VAC, upon the management of vaccination activities in two
countries, Mali and Nicaragua, with different cultural and organizational characteristics. The research
methodology will undertake a quasi-experimental trial including pre and post tests and comparison
control groups in both countries. The research will take place in two districts (experimental and
control), El Sauce and Mantica-Berio, in Nicaragua, and Kati and Baroueli, Mali. The research results will
allow managers and field personnel to better understand the bottle-necks inherentto the vaccination
programs and to include adequate measures in order to achieve a more efficient and effective
operation. In addition, due to its merits after testing and confirmation of its efficiency and efficacV,
this instrument may be distributed and adapted to other countries, where similar management
problems are present.
a
Economics and the Environment (Colombia)
INTESEP
Division: SS
Theme:
Recipient:
Fundación para la Educación Superior y el Desarrollo
Bogotá, Colombia
94-0400
IDRC
Amount:
(FEDESARROLLO)
CAD 240,960
In this project, one of the leading and most influential economic research centres in Latin America
will undertake an ambitious program in environmental economics. The project consists of four
interrelated subprojects, of which IDRC will fund the first, second, and fourth. These are: the
construction of a large database for environmental planning; an extensive comparative risk
assessment of the damages caused by various types of environmental degradation; general
equilibrium modelling of the Colombian economy to incorporate measures of expenditure on
pollution control and the output of pollution; and detailed analysis of the use of economic incentives
for pollution control in Colombia.
94-0402
IDRC
Division:
Competitivenes.s and Environmental Performance of SMEs (Latin America)
SS
Theme:
T&E
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Recipient:
Corporación Promoción de la Pequeña Empresa Ecoeficiente Latinoamericana (PROPEL),
Bogotá, Colombia
Amount:
CAD 347,880
This project will help improve the competitiveness and environmental performance of SMEs in
Latin America, by demonstrating the feasibility of production models that are both "cleaner" and
economically more efficient. More specifically, it will evaluate the environmental impact of SMEs in
various sectors in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Ecuador, and investigate the links between environmental
performance and productivity; implement a pilot program to design and test production models
incorporating new technologies, improved management practices, and human resource development;
and, develop and diffuse a methodology to guide efforts to improve the competitiveness and
environmental performance of SMEs, which can be applied in different sectors and countries of the
region. The project will be carried out in close collaboration with sectoral industry associations and
individual enterprises to strengthen managerial and outreach capabilities.
94-0408
Nnandal Liberalization Network (Global)
Division:
Recipient:
SS
IDRC
Theme:
SED, MP
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
Bombay, India
Bilkent University
(IGIDR)
Ankara, Turkey
Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Centro de Investigaciones Económicas (CINVE)
Montevideo, Uruguay
University of Jos
Amount:
Jos, Nigeria
CAD 610,910
This project, a combination of country case studies (for Argentina, India, Nigeria, Turkey, and
Uruguay) and thematic studies, will examine issues pertaining to the policy implications of the process
of financial liberalization. In particular, the role of the central bank (typically the chief institution
involved in money and finance issues in developing countries), and the enabling environment within
which the process of financial liberalization, regulation, and development occurs, will be the entry
points for the research. CEDES-Buenos Aires will hold a two-week training course for project
participants, where CEDES faculty as well as a faculty member of the University of Toronto, will
present a series of seminars on stabilization and adjustment policies, finance and capital market
theory, and regulation, institutional, and political economy issues pertaining to financial sector
reform.
MIN1S1S Resource Centre (Latin Amenca) - Phase
SED, ICB
Division: ISS
Theme:
Recipient:
Centro de Información Científica y Humanística (CICH)
Mexico D.F., Mexico
94-0600
IDRC
Amount:
CAD 184,380
This phase II project will build upon the MINISIS Resource Centre (MRC) established at the Centro de
Información Científica y Humanística (CICH) in Mexico in the first phase of support. Activities will
include distribution of and training in MINISIS and MINISIS applications; troubleshooting and support
for MINISIS users; support for a Latin American MINISIS Users' Group; and support of Spanish language
tools for MINISIS. This second phase will include the decentralization of MINISIS support to up to five
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other countries in Latin America, and introduce the idea of charging for MINISIS services and products
with the goal of becoming financially self-sufficient. Existing Hewlett Packard-based users will be
assisted in migrating to the new version of MINISIS.
Earth Coundl information / Communication System
ICED
Division: 1SS
Theme:
Recipient:
Earth Council
94-0601
IDRC
Amount:
San José, Costa Rica
CAD 413,450
This project will provide program support for the EC to identify its information and communication needs to enable it to meet its program objectives; strengthen its links with NGO agencies in the
sustainable and equitable development domain; research specific information needs of NGOs and
other partners in sustainable and equitable development, and identify cases where the EC could
collect and package the appropriate information and make it available to this community through
the provision of products ancl services; and design and initiate the implementation of the necessary
information and communication systems to address these needs.
Impact of Information on Development A Path Analysis Approach (Global)
SED, IPR
Theme:
Division: ISS
Recipient:
University of Western Ontario
Ontario, Canada
CAD 249,600
Amount:
94-0605
IDRC
For several decades, institutions in developing countries and development assistance agencies have
supported the evolution of information infrastructures in developing countries. Although a steady
growth of the provision of information services in developing countries has been witnessed, a
number of fundamental questions remain unanswered and the extent to which information services
actually contribute to the empowerment of people and accountability of the institutions concerned
are subjects of controversy and concern.
This project will support the next step in an innovative research process initiated by IDRC in March
1992 (project 91-0249) and followed in November 1993 (project 93-0605). It is to perform an
exploratory study of the feasibility of measuring the impact of information on development, and in
the process, to develop a methodology of measurement by use of the technique of "path analysis".
The research study will undertake two pilot test studies in Canada, followed by a developing country
study undertaken by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai (ISTIS).
The study will rely on a statistical analysis of broadly-based indicator data, coupled with more
specific information about inputs and outputs of information services and other potentially
contributing factors. The technique used is known as causal modelling, implemented in the Linear
Structural RELations (LISREU software package.
The results of this project are expected to improve understanding of the impact of information
on development, improve the design of information activities to better serve the needs of clients,
and reinforce the allocation of resources to those information activities that are able to demonstrate
their usefulness. The project should therefore have a practical impact at the level of effectiveness
and sustainability of information services.
94-0609
Gender and Infotmation Technology (APO: Women's Networidng Support Program
(Global)
1DRC
Division:
ISS
Theme:
SED, IPR
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Recipient:
GreenNet Educational Trust
London, UK
Amount:
CAD 240,360
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and partner networks will implement a
two-year program focused on increasing women's access to training, technology, information and
networking tools, with specific emphasis on women in the South. In the short term the goal is to
better equip women with the necessary technical and informational capacity for participating in the
UN's Fourth World Conference on Women (UNWCW) in Beijing. In the longer term, the goal is twofold;
to support and facilitate the establishment of on-going world-wide women's networks that enable
women to act effectively in numerous global fora, and, to support and facilitate the development
of a pool of highly skilled women technicians in technology, information management and policy
advocacy, thus providing an impetus and stimulus for the greater inclusion, recognition and fuller
participation of women within society. Six modules will be implemented within the framework of the
UNWCW process:
UNWCW Outreach and Networking Support; II) UNWCW On-Site Technical
Operations; III) Gender and Information Technology; IV) African Networking Support Program; V) Latin
American Networking Support Program; VI) Asia/Pacific Networking Support Program.
This project is providing support for Module III - Gender and Information Technology: the
implementation of a broad and diverse range of activities incorporating gender-sensitive technical
training, outreach and information sharing, policy stategies and planning, research and evaluation.
The project seeks to proactively support the advancement of more women from entry-level to
technical management and policy decision making in the field of computer communications. The
project, through its primary focus on facilitating and supporting women from developing countries,
aims to stimulate the echange of experience between women and men, South-South and South-North,
thereby highlighting the perspective of women and the impact of information and technology on
their lives and on their societies in developing countries.
94-1002
Leaf-Cup Machine TechnologY
IDRC Division: ENR
Recipient:
Amount:
Centre Administered
CAD 24,958
In India, and in other places marked by Indian cultural influence, it is a tradition at large gatherings
to serve food on large leaves or on plates made from leaves woven together. However, in the last few
years, a simple machine has been devised to make for the same purpose plates, bowls and other
utensils out of leaves and palm sheathes. 'These utensils are affordable, hygienic and biodegradable
(they are usually fed to cattle after use). They could also have a variety of domestic and commercial
uses, nearly all of which would replace expensive, polluting and imported plastics.
This project will test the possibility to use this same technology in the Caribbean. If it is found that
suitable plant species are availabe and that the products are acceptable for local markets, another
project will be dedicated to the dissemination of the technology in priority to women groups.
94-1003
EIADA 21: Biodiversity Volume of the Electronic Alias (Global) - Phase II,
Part
Division:
Recipient:
IDRC
1
ENR
Theme:
Rome, Italy
Environmental Information Centre GRID
Warsaw, Poland
Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INbio)
Heredia, Costa Rica
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BIO
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute
(IPGRI)
College of the Bahamas
Nassau, Bahamas
Office of Environmental Policy and Planning (OEPP)
Thailand
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
Ottawa, Canada
National Museums of Kenya (NMK)
Nairobi, Kenya
Amount:
CAD 239,380
The Electronic Atlas of Agenda 21 (RADA 21) initiative is a response by IDRC to the Agenda 21
concern about collecting and presenting effectively data and information concerning environment
and development. IDRC support will consist of two interrelated project phases: phase I deals with the
atlas shell and software issues (93-1153); phase II with the content of the biodiversity volume. Selected
institutions from Kenya, Costa Rica, Thailand, Bahamas, Poland, Italy, Great Britain, and Canada will test
a Canadian-developed, user-friendly graphical interface software, GEOSCOPE, for its functionalities and
its applicability to biodiversiW information. GEOSCOPE is the Interactive Global Change Encyclopedia
developed for the International Space Year in 1992 by the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, which
integrates multimedia and geomatics technologies. A network of cooperating institutions, from both
North and South, will be established to test and validate the potential use and application of the
ELADA concept through hands-on-experience, using relevant existing information.
94-1004
Management of Natural Resources and Biodiversity
Division:
Recipient:
ENR
IDRC
Amount:
Theme:
BIO
University of Guelph
Guelph, Canada
Universidad Centroamericana
Managua, Nicaragua
CAD 294,220
(UCA)
This project will focus on the relationships between the complex ecosystems (rich in biological
diversity) of Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast and the ways of life/cultures of the different ethnic and
indigenous groups (Miskitos, Sumas, Ramas, Creoles, Garifonas and Mestizos) located in this remote and
isolated region. The project will have four main interrelated components: a field course; a small
grants program; an environmental education program; and a training program. The project will make
an important contribution for the improvement of human resources in the country in the fields of
natural resource management and conservation of wild and domesticated biodiversity.
for Earthworks (Bazil)
94-1005
Scrap Tires
Division:
Recipient:
ENR, LACRO
Amount:
CAD 358,940
IDRC
Theme:
SED, URB
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada
Pontificia Universidade católica do Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro (Rio) generates well over 3 million scrap tires. This project will develop, test, and
evaluate a resource recovery technology enabling communities in landslide-prone, low-income areas
of Rio to recycle scrap tires into low-cost earth retaining walls and reinforced earth fills. The project
will build upon Brazilian expertise and capacity developed under another IDRC-supported project
"Slope StabiliW, Brazil (87-1006)". With the collaboration of a Canadian expert and Brazilian social
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scientists, it will complement the work of a Central American network on "Urban Community-based
Natural Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (92-0024)".
Biotechnology, Environment and Development (Latin America)
Division: ENR
Theme:
T&E
Recipient:
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico D.F., Mexico
Amount:
CAD 1,000,000
94-1007
IDRC
This project will promote, facilitate and support collaborative activities among Latin American and
Canadian researchers, entrepreneurs and key institutions to expedite the introduction of
biotechnology-based products and applications in the agrifood and environmental management
sectors of selected Latin American countries, in critical areas of socio-economic and environmental
need. The Technology Innovation Centre of the National Autonomous University of Mexico will
coordinate activities in Latin America. The project will creatively integrate a number of activities viz.
brokering of partnerships, seed funding, monitoring of markets and technologies, executive seminars
on management of biotechnology for Canadian and Latín American entrepreneurs, policy advice,
foresight exercises in target product areas such as biopesticides and waste treatment. Results will
benefit Latin American countries through new business and research relationships with Canadians, job
creation and increased use of biotechnology based products with positive impacts on the environment. Canadians will benefit through enhanced business and research relationships with their Latin
American counterparts.
94-1009
IDRC Division:
Recipient:
Amount:
ELADA 21
Biodiversity Volume; Prototype Content Development -Phase II, Part 2
ENR
Theme:
BIO
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute
(IPGRI)
Rome, Italy
Instituto Nacional de Bioversidad (INbio)
Heredia, Costa Rica
Office of Environment Policy and Planning, Bangkok
Thailand
Canadian Biodiversity Informatics Consortium (CBIC)
Ottawa, Canada
National Museums of Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya
CAD 236,886
(See 94-1003)
94-1010
Development of Graduate Programmes in Agroforestry
Division:
Recipient:
ENR
IDRC
Theme:
FOOD
Université Laval. Faculté de foresterie et de géomatique
Ste-Foy, Canada
University of Alberta. Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry
Edmonton, Canada
Centro Agronómico de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE)
Turrialba, Costa Rica
Amount:
CAD 243,970
This project will support the development of teaching and research programmes in agroforestry
at the Master's level at the Université Laval and at the University of Alberta. It will develop and present
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specific courses in a programme which overall reflects the social, cultural, economic and biological
aspects of developing country agroforesty; develop collaborative field-based research programmes
at CATIE; and, strengthen East-West and North-South collaboration. This will be beneficial to
developing country students (especially Africans, Latin Americans), Canadian students and staff at both
universities; ultimately international, national and Canadian agencies and NG0s.
94-1011
Participatory Farmer Research for Sustainable Hillside Agriculture
Division:
Amount:
Recipients:
ENR
CAD 148,100
IDRC
Theme:
FOOD
University of Guelph
Guelph, Canada
Programa de Reconstrucción Rural
Zacapa, Honduras
(PRID
This project will aim to find viable natural resource management alternatives for small hillside
farmers in Honduras, which break the vicious cycle of poverty and environmental degradation. In so
doing, the project will contribute to improved livelihoods. The research will use the successful
meriences and methodology obtained from farmer participatory research in Colombia. The project
reldtes directly to IDRC's "Food Systems under Stress" theme and will contribute to the knowledge on
low-input sustainable agricultural systems.
Sustainability of Non-Timber Forest Products
Division: ENR
Conservación Internacional
Recipient:
94-1012
IDRC
El
Amount:
Petén, Guatemala
CAD 229,900
This research is designed to assist and coordinate the efforts of governmental and
non-governmental groups working towards balancing biodiversity conservation with the economic
needs of communities and forest harvesters. The researchers will analyze current policies regulating
land tenure and access to forest land for agricultural and extractive purposes, paying special attention
to communal rights and gender issues, to develop action plans for the revision of such policies and
consequent implementation with the participation of all stakeholders. The researchers will develop
and implement monitoring and evaluation systems to ensure the sustainability of the utilization of
non-timber forest products (NTFP), as well as tourism, taking into consideration ecological,
socio-economic and institutional factors. They will also investigate criteria and factors affecting the
development and commercialization of value-added products from the forest, using traditional
products as examples and will apply those criteria to develop and test new products with an emphasis
on training local groups in the productive cycle. The immediate beneficiaries will be the local
communities living in El Petén, who will be given an opportunity to participate in the design and
testing ways to raise their standard of living and conserve their environment.
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners Training: Evaluation (Canada/Belize)
Division: HS
Amount:
CAD 19,630
Recipients:
Memorial University of Newfoundland
94-1051
IDRC
Halifax, Canada
The study intends to evaluate this training program in terms of the professional performance of
the trainees, patient satisfaction with their services and the impact of this program on the broader
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mental health system as viewed by health administrators, community leaders and trainees themselves.
It will not only evaluate a training program financed by Canada (CIDA) and managed by a Canadian
institution (Memorial University), but will also provide valuable information to the decision makers in
Belize about the effectiveness of this program. The study will be invaluable in further strengthening
the training program to better serve the mental health/psychiatric services needs of Belize.
94-1052
Mercury and human exposure to this contaminant (Brazil)
IDRC Division: HS
Arnount:
Recipients:
Theme:
HE
CAD 313,780
Université du Québec à Montréal
Montréal, Canada
Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
Belém, Brazil
The purpose of this project is to quantify the mercury contamination of the food, soil, sediments,
and water in the Tapajos region of the lower Amazon basin; determine its origin; and explore the
prevalence and severity of resulting toxic effects among the local inhabitants. The project will be
complementary to a similar project at the University of Mato Grosso (94-0203), which has been funded
by IDRC. Together the projects will focus upon investigating the origins of environmental mercury,
to establish the relative contributions of gold mining and of other sources, such as forest burning,
which have recently been incriminated in water pollution by mercury.
94-1100
Masters in Economics (Cuba)
IDRC Division: SS
Amount:
Institutions:
CAD 449,050
Carleton University,
Universidad de la Habana
Habana, Cuba
In this project the economics departments of the University of Havana and Carleton University will
join forces to develop and offer a Masters in Economics at the University of Havana. The curriculum
and course material will follow those used by Carleton University, adapted, however, to the
developing country situation in which it will be located. About 50% of instructors will be Canadians
with the rest being from Latin American countries. While there may be a small number of Cuban
instructors right from the beginning - especially in areas like econometrics - it is likely that they will
not play a large role until the Master's has been in place for 4 or 5 years. Eventually most of the
courses would be taught by Cubans. Note that in the first two years the students would almost all be
professors from various universities in Cuba. The proposed grant includes a small grants competition.
While this will be primarily aimed at graduates of the first year, it would also be open to other Cuban
social scientists affiliated with Cuban institution.
94-1202
Industrial Support Network Central America
IDRC Division: CAID
Recipient:
Federación de Cámaras y Asociaciones de Industrias de Centro América, Guatemala
Cámara de Industrias de Costa Rica
Amount:
San José, Costa Rica
CAD 394,000
The project supports the creation of a Central American Industrial Support Network comprised of
national units, established in support of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs), linked to the
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emerging Canadian Technology Network. The two Networks will interface through the Association
of Provincial Research Organizations (APRO). Networking activities designed to increase the
effectiveness of the technical advisory services provided by the National Units, include the
development of common diagnostic and technology transfer tools, training of advisors, staff
exchange and the provision of information and technologies specific to firm needs. Through APRO,
the Central American Network will access the expertise, information and technologies available at the
Provincial Research Organizations and their clients.
Hemispheric Partnerships for Sustainable Development
Division: CAID
Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC)
Recipient:
Toronto, Canada
CAD 225,000
Amount:
94-1550
IDRC
The overall objective of the project is to research and develop North/South linkages that enhance
Canadian and Latin American NGO knowledge and capacity and build longer-term partnerships at the
continental level. Partnerships and exchanges will focus on the emerging role of NGOs in the
formulation of social policy. The specific objectives are: to support institutional strengthening of both
Latin American and Canadian NGOS; to enhance the democratization of policy formulation and
implementation; and, to provide regional/continental level NGO interactions. The core activity
supported by the grant will be a series of exchanges between NGO personnel in Canada and Latin
America. The purpose of the exchanges is to initiate conversations that will reveal the opportunities
for sharing knowledge, experience and practice. An initial six-month phase will determine the details
of the exchanges, the process of selection of NGOs and individuals, and the topics/issues/themes which
the exchanges will explore. A second meeting, one year into the project, will enable all parties to
evaluate the initiative and to make adjustments as required for the second year.
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN: EVOLUTION OF THE CANADIAN DOLLAR
(Price increase in CAD - in %)
LATIN AMERICA
1
1990
Argentina
182
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
1992
1991
1993
6
31
1994
10
8
2
4
13
3
9
32
-6
15
10
89
1
13
22
3
23
11
14
14
12
25
3
-4
28
3
17
10
5
22
32
12
-22
15
20
14
15
1
8
19
7
21
-11
54
32
14
5
18
14
24
10
-37
59
210
22
-1
4
1
2
13
4
7
Paraguay
30
2
20
9
19
Peru
Uruguay
84
22
7
10
23
13
19
24
26
21
Venezuela
15
11
11
13
13
Panama
CARIBBEAN
I
1
Antigua
Barbuda
7
2
12
5
Bahamas
4
7
17
6
Barbados
Belize
Dominica
Grenada
Guyana
Jamaica
2
7
17
5
2
6
14
5
4
2
15
5
3
1
16
6
10
-26
16
9
-0
-38
71
-2
Montserrat
6
9
14
6
St. Lucia
5
8
15
4
Vincent
Trinidad & Tobago
8
3
15
11
11
4
18
-12
St.
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PURCHASING POWER EVOLUTION OF THE CAD
IN LATIN AMERICA 1989-1994
1.2
Mexico
0.8
0.6
Chile
0.4
Brazil
Peru
0.2
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1944
PURCHASING POWER EVOLUTION OF THE CAD
IN THE CARIBBEAN 1989-1994
1.2
Guyana
T. & Tobago
0.8
Dominica
Bahamas
0.6
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
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APRIL 1994 - MARCH 1995
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DATE
CAD
USD
March 1994
100.00
100.00
April 1994
98.47
95.37
May 1994
97.89
95.42
June 1994
97.32
96.42
July 1994
96.23
93.95
August 1994
97.44
93.42
September 1994
99.09
97.60
October 1994
92.31
96.11
November 1994
90.87
89.99
December 1994
89.44
87.51
January 1995
88.45
87.85
February 1995
88.49
84.48
March 1995
87.35
84.28
URUGUAY: PURCHASING POVVER EVOLUTION
CAD-USD 1994-1995
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100
90
80
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The
PUBLICATIONS
following publications and papers produced by LACRO Regional Program Officers were published:
Antón,
D. (1995), Diversity, globalization
and the ways of nature, IDRC-Books, Ottawa.
Bazzani, R., Seré, C. & Tillett, A.D. (1994), LACRO Survey. The Role
LACRO,
of the Regional Office,
Montevideo.
Davis, C.H. (1994a), "Canadian Science Policy and the North American Regional System of
Innovation", in Science and Technology Policy 7(4), pp. 12-18.
Davis, C.H. (1994b), "Innovation, Competitiveness, and Sustainability in the North American Region",
paper submitted at the Trinational Summer Institute on Innovation, Competitiveness and
Sustainability in North America, Whistler, BC, August.
Davis, CH. (1994c), "The Earth Summit and the Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Industrial Innovation in the Developing World", paper submitted at the ORSTOM/UNESCO Conference on Science Outside the Metropolis, Paris, September.
Davis, C.H., Tiffin, S., & Osotemehin, F. (1994), "Developing Educational and Training
Capacity in Management of Science, Technology, and Innovation in Africa", in International Journal
of Technology Management 9(1), pp. 43-60.
(1995), "The role of information in the process of social policy making: proposals for Latin
America and the Caribbean", in Morales-Gómez & Torres (1995), op. cit.
Durrant, F.
J, Wijeyaratne, P., Kitts, J., Jones Arsenault, L., "Gender, Health and
Sustainable Development: A Latin American Perspective; Proceedings of a Workshop held in
Montevideo, Uruguay, April 26-29, 1994", IDRC, Ottawa.
Hatcher-Roberts,
MacKenzie, D.R., Dagg, M., Paul, L., Seré, C. & Plucknett, D. (1995), Fourth External Programme and Management Review of CIP, FAO, Rome.
Morales-Gómez, D. & Torres M. (eds.) (1995), Social Policy in a Global Society.
and Lessons from the Canada-Latin American Experience, IDRC, Ottawa.
Parallels
Seré, C. & Neidhart, R. (1994), "Stadt- Land- Integration im Rahmen periurbaner Tierproduktion", in Entwicklung und landlicher Raum, vol. 1, núm. 2/94, págs. 10-14. Same paper was published in english entitled "Urban-Rural integration in periurban animal production", in Agriculture and
rural development, vol. 2, n. 1/95, pp. 19-23.
Seré, C. & Steinfeld, H. (1995), World livestock production systems:
trends, FAO, Rome (In press).
Tillett, A.D.
current status, issues,
(1994), "The Baltic states:
Higher education and science", in Hafner,
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RPOs TRAVELS
LOCATION
FROM
TO
A.D.Tillett
Halifax, Canada
Mar.25
Apr.03
Dalhousie University
S.Gómez
Medellín, Bogotá
Mar.27
Apr.01
Workshop on Malaria Control 93-5227
S.Gómez
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Apr.03
Apr.07
Workshop on Health Systems in the South
NAME
INSTITUTIONS
Cone 93-5227
A.Rebolledo
sao Paulo, Brazil
Apr.10
Apr.11
RIMISP
A.Rebolledo
Campinas, Brazil
Apr.12
Apr.12
CODETEC
D.Antón
Cochabamba, Bolivia
Apr.12
Apr.17
Roundtable on Social & Environmental
Impact of Hydroworks 94-5750
A.Rebolledo
Sio Paulo, Brazil
Apr.13
Apr.14
Facultad de Salud Pública
Geociencias (USIM / IDESP
A.Rebolledo
Campinas, Brazil
Apr.15
Apr.16
RIMISP
A.D.Tillett
Ottawa, Canada
Apr.16
Apr.20
IDRC HO
A.Rebolledo
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Apr.17
Apr.19
CEMINA / COPPE
&
Instituto de
¡Centro de Estudios e
Pesquisa em Saúde Coletiva / A.JUP / PUC /
CETEM
A.Rebolledo
Recife, Brazil
Apr.20
Apr.21
ATEPE
/ CEPENE-SUDEPE / Fundación Joaquim
Nabuco
A.Rebolledo
Salvador, Brazil
Apr.22
Apr.23
Universidad Federal de Bahía
F.Durrant
SI)
Apr.22
Apr.23
BIREME
M.Torres
Buenos Aires,
Apr.26
Apr.28
CENEP
Paulo, Brazil
Meeting
/ IDB
Argentina
D.Antón
sao Paulo, Brazil
Apr.29
May.01
Monitoring 92-0009 / 93-1550-02
D.Antón
San Salvador, El
May.02
May.05
International Conference on Environmental
Salvador
Issues
F.Durrant
Port of Spain,
Trinidad & Tobago
May.02
May.04
ECLAC
F.Durrant
Bridgetown,
May.05
May.08
SIDS
May.06
May.17
Conference
Barbados
D.Antón
Ottawa, Canada
Meetings at
NGOs
S.Gómez
Chicago, USA
May.07
May.14
Sick Leave
S.Fahmy
Santiago, Chile
May.08
May.11
PUCC
A.D.Tillett
Ottawa, Canada
May.08
May.13
IDRC HO
F.Durrant
Belize City, Belize
May.09
May.12
CDB
F.Durrant
Ottawa, Canada
May.13
May.18
IDRC HO
78
Board
IDRC HO
/ Visits to Canadian
LOCATION
FROM
TO
A.D.Tillett
Halifax, Canada
May.14
Jun.05
S.Gómez
Bogotá, Colombia
May.15
May.16
NAME
INSTITUTIONS
Annual Leave
CCRP
/ Prepare Workshop on Health and
Environment
S.Gómez
Medellín, Colombia
May.17
May.17
Monitor of Integrated Control of Malaria
Project
A.Rebolledo
Buenos Aires,
May.17
May.18
Canadian Embassy
Argentina
S.Gómez
Bogotá, Colombia
May.18
May.18
Meeting with Carlos Espinal
D.Antón
Halifax, Canada
May.18
May.19
Dalhousie University (ECOPLATA)
F.Durrant
Kingston, Jamaica
May.19
May.22
University of the West Indies
D.Antón
Ottawa, Canada
May.19
May.23
IDRC HQ
S.Gómez
Bogotá, Colombia
May.19
May.28
Annual Leave
D.Antón
Washington,
May.24
May.26
Bank Information Centre / PAHO
A.Rebolledo
Santiago, Chile
May.25
May.26
Universidad de Chile (Fac. de Medicina) /
USA
PAESMI
/
IICA
A.Rebolledo
Miami, USA
May.27
May.28
MARCELIN
D.Antón
Río de Janeiro, Brazil
May.27
May.29
Scrap Tires project
S.Gómez
Caracas, Venezuela
May.29
May.31
Meeting of project 93-8750 / UNAMAZ
A.Rebolledo
Ottawa, Canada
May.29
Jun.15
IDRC
F.Durrant
Quito, Ecuador
May.30
Jun.06
National Workshop.
S.Gomez
Lima, Peru
Jun.01
Jun.02
Monitor 91-0089
S.Górnez
Piura, Peru
Jun.03
Jun.03
Project site visit 91-0089
S.Gómez
Lima, Peru
Jun.04
Jun.07
S.Fahmy
Ottawa, Canada
Jun.15
-
Monitor projects: 91-0022 / 90-0322 / 90-0081
A.Rebolledo
Miami, USA
Jun.16
Jun.18
Bank of America / CITICORP / MARCELIN / CIAT
/ Lawyers
Buenos Aires,
Jun.21
Jun.23
D.Antón
Argentina
/ Lawyers
Comptrollers Meeting
SIPI
Project
Relocation
Meeting with FUCEMA / Air Quality Seminar
(94-5755-00)
D.Antón
Campo Grande,
Brazil
Jun.24
Jun.29
Pirakuá Project 94-8757-00
D.Antón
Corumbá, Brazil
Jun.30
Jul.01
Seminar on Environment (94-5759-00)
D.Antón
Campo Grande,
Brazil
Jul.02
Jul.03
Project Development (Pirakuá)
A.Rebolledo
Buenos Aires,
Jul.03
Jul.04
Canadian Embassy
Argentina
D.Antin
Ottawa, Canada
&
Consulate /
CLACSO
/
CITICORP
Jul.04
Jul.24
Annual Leave
..
79
NAME
F.Durrant
S.Gómez
LOCATION
FROM
TO
INSTITUTIONS
Santiago, Chile
Jul.10
Jul.11
Monitoring (92-8759 / 92-0601)
Buenos Aires,
Jul.10
Jul.11
Visit to IIED-AL (Project: Health and Habitat)
Jul.12
Jul.14
Instituto de Estudios Urbanos / Jorge Katz
Argentina
S.Gómez
Santiago, Chile
(CEPALO
F.Durrant
Lima, Peru
Jul.12
Jul.18
Canadian Emb.
/ Monitor 91-0214
M.Torres
Bogotá, Colombia
Jul.18
Jul.19
FEDESARROLLO
/
SOS /
Universidad Nacional
de Colombia
F.Durrant
Cusco, Peru
Jul.19
Jul.19
Bartolomé de las
Casas (Proposal)
M.Torres
Quito, Ecuador
Jul.19
Jul.20
CIUDAD / INSOTEC
/ FLACSO
F.Durrant
Trujillo, Peru
Jul.20
Jul.20
90-0019-02 (PROIND) / 93-8753
F.Durrant
Bogotá, Colombia
Jul.21
Jul.25
ACOPI
M.Torres
Lima, Peru
Jul.21
Jul.27
CIUP / GRADE
A.D.Tillett
Asunción, Paraguay
Jul.22
Jul.29
CERI
A.Rebolledo
Bogotá, Colombia
Jul.23
Jul.26
CLADEI / SCANDIA
FES / ACOPI
D.Antón
Curitiba, Brazil
Jul.25
Jul.26
94-5756-00: Congress on Regional Aquifers
F.Durrant
Caracas, Venezuela
Jul.26
Jul.28
PESICRE
A.Rebolledo
Medellín, Colombia
Jul.27
Jul.27
CIB
A.Rebolledo
Cali, Colombia
Jul.28
Jul.30
CIAT / CIMDER
A.Rebolledo
Bogotá, Colombia
Jul.31
Aug.03
PUJ
A.Rebolledo
San José, Costa Rica
Aug.04
Aug.10
IICA / FLACSO / Cámara
/ FEPAFEM / SER
/ DESCO / Canadian Embassy /
Red Científica Peruana / UPCH / TAREA
/ CADEP /
Meeting
CPES
/
/ Indigenous People
PROPEL
/
FEDESARROLLO
/
/ 92-0619 / 90-0045
/ Univ. Nacional
de Colombia
/ Universidad del Valle /
CRATER / FES / FUNDAEC / CIDEIM
/ Fundación Etnollano / Univ. de los
Andes / INPA / CORPOICA / Lawyers
de Industrias /
Consejo de la Tierra / Universidad de Costa
Rica / CSUCA / CATIE / FUNDATEC / CONICIT /
INCIENSA
A.Rebolledo
Guatemala,
Guatemala
Aug.11
Aug.13
IICA
M.Torres
Washington, USA
Aug.18
Aug.25
IDB
S.Gómez
Bogotá, Colombia
Aug.20
Aug.28
Methodological Workshop on Mining Sector
(94-5763) / CCRP / 94-0200 / F.Yepes
M.Torres
Tegucigalpa,
Honduras
Aug.26
Aug.27
BCIE
San José, Costa Rica
Aug.28
M.Torres
/ INCAP / Federación de la Pequeña Y
Mediana Empresa Guatemalteca
/ Interam. Dialogue (IAD)
/ POSCAE / Univ.Pedagógica / Secretariat
of Planning
Aug.31
ICAP
/
CRAS / Univ. de Costa Rica / Univ. Nal.
FLACSO Gral. Secretariat / CSUCA
Heredia /
S.Gómez
80
San José, Costa Rica
Aug.29
Aug.30
Project "V Latin America Workshop" 92-0213
LOCATION
FROM
TO
INSTITUTIONS
S.Gómez
Sto.Domingo, Dominican Republic
Aug.31
Sep.04
"Impact Evaluation of Community Home
Care for AIDS Patients" 92-8756 / Proposal on
L.A. Research Network on Sexual Health
M.Torres
Managua, Nicaragua
Sep.01
Sep.01
Univ.Centroamericana / INIES - Universidad
Autónoma de Nicaragua
C.Sere
Lima, Peru
Sep.02
Sep.11
CIP
S.Gómez
Chicago,
Sep.05
Sep.10
Sick Leave
C.Sere
Quito, Ecuador
Sep.12
Sep.13
CIP
Ch.Davis
Paris, France
Sep.12
Sep.24
OECD
C.Sere
Managua, Nicaragua
Sep.14
Sep.15
CIP
C.Seré
Sto.Domingo,
Rep.Dominicana
Sep.16
Sep.17
CIP
D.Antón
Ottawa, Canada
Sep.16
Sep.18
Annual Leave
D.Antón
Edmonton, Canada
Sep.19
Sep.21
HABITAT'94 World Congress
D.Antón
Ottawa, Canada
Sep.22
Sep.30
IDRC HQ
Caracas-Pto.
Oct.01
Oct.06
Indigenous Ecotourism - Project Dev.
NAME
D.Antón
IL, USA
/ ORSTOM /
UNESCO
Ayacucho, Venezuela
D.Antón
Bogotá-Sta.Marta,
Colombia
Oct.07
Oct.10
Launching of new artificial recharge
A.D.Tillett
Washington, USA
Oct.09
Oct.12
USAID / OAS
/ World Bank / Inter-American
Foundation
C.Seré
Pucallpa, Peru
Oct.09
Oct.15
FUNDEAGRO, NITA
D.Antón
Rocha, Uruguay
Oct.12
Oct.12
Atlantic Coast, Wetlands, etc. (Visit with
Chusa Gines)
A.D.Tillett
Halifax, Canada
Oct.12
Oct.16
Dalhousie University: Baltic Economic Management Course
C.Seré
Washington, USA
Oct.16
Oct.21
FAO
A.D.Tillett
Ottawa, Canada
Oct.17
Oct.28
IDRC HQ
F.Durrant
Ottawa, Canada
Oct.18
Oct.28
Social Policy
Ch.Davis
sao Paulo, Brazil
Oct.23
Oct.25
Brazilian Management of Technology and
Innovation Conference
M.Torres
Ottawa, Canada
Oct.24
Oct.29
IDRC
Ch.Davis
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Oct.26
Oct.28
IBGE
F.Durrant
Washington,
USA
Oct.29
Oct.31
Workshop Interamerican Dialogue
M.Torres
Washington, USA
Oct.29
Nov.01
Interamerican Dialogue
F.Durrant
S5o Paulo, Brazil
Nov.01
Nov.02
BIREME
M.Torres
Ottawa, Canada
Nov.01
Nov.13
IDRC HQ
&
Global Soc.Workshop
81
NAME
LOCATION
FROM
TO
INSTITUTIONS
F.Durrant
Punta del Este,
Uruguay
Nov.04
Nov.06
ELATT-VI
Ch.Davis
Santiago, Chile
Nov.06
Nov.11
CEPAL /
C.Seré
Brazilia, Brazil
Nov.09
Nov.12
CIP
M.Torres
Sto.Domingo, Dominican Rep.
Nov.13
Nov.15
Universidad
A.Rebolledo
Quito, Ecuador
Nov.14
Nov.19
Academia Ecuatoriana de Neurocienclas /
Fundación Desarrollo Innovativo /
Universidad Católica
CDEP
/ CEAS / CEPP / CIUDAD / INIAP / CEPLAES
/ CDS / FLACSO / Fundación Natura / IICA /
CAAP
INSOTEC
Ch.Davis
Buenos Aires,
Nov.15
Nov.17
Biotechnology Policy Meeting
Argentina
S.Gómez
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nov.18
Nov.26
Workshop on Health Policies in LA / Meetings with Sonia Fleury & Lynn Silver
A.Rebolledo
Bogotá, Colombia
Nov.20
Nov.22
Suprema Corte de Justicia / Ministry of
Foreign Affairs / Lawyers / SKANDIA
C.Seré
Beijing, China
Nov.22
Dec.04
CIP
A.Rebolledo
Caracas, Venezuela
Nov.23
Nov.24
ALTEC
A.D.Tillett
Santiago, Chile
Nov.23
Nov.27
AGO / CONICYT / CIEPLAN / Canadian Embassy
/ UNESCO-CRESALC / CENDIF-UNIMET
/ Ford Foundation /
CIDE
M.Torres
Quito, Ecuador
Nov.24
Nov.30
CIUDAD
A.Rebolledo
Valencia, Venezuela
Nov.25
Nov.26
Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud
A.Rebolledo
Caracas, Venezuela
Nov.27
Nov.28
IICA / FONDIBIECA
S.Gómez
Maracay, Venezuela
Nov.27
Nov.29
Workshop on Occupational Health
A.D.Tillett
Lima, Peru
Nov.27
Nov.30
CIP
/ ALIDE / GRADE /110 / Consorcio de
Investigaciones Económicas / Canadian
Embassy
A.Rebolledo
Puerto Ayacucho,
Venezuela
Nov.29
Nov.30
ORPIA
S.Gómez
Caracas, Venezuela
Nov.30
Dec.04
Workshop on Mining and Health
M.Torres
Lima, Peru
Nov.30
Dec.04
CIP
Singapore, Republic
Dec.04
Dec.06
ASRO
Dec.05
Dec.07
Seminar on "Fondos Privados, Fines
Públicos; el Empresariado y el
Financiamiento de la Iniciativa Social en
América Latina'
Dec.05
Dec.09
Gender Workshop
C.Seré
/ CIUP
of Singapore
A.D.Tillett
Buenos Aires,
Argentina
S.Gómez
Bridgetown,
Barbados
82
LOCATION
RtOtA
TO
D.Antón
S5o Paulo, Brazil
Dec.08
Dec.11
International Seminar on
S.Cómez
Bogotá, Colombia
Dec.10
Jan.15
Annual Leave
Ch.Davis
Punta del Este,
Uruguay
Dec.15
Dec.16
MERCOCYT
F.Durrant
Sab Paulo, Brazil
Jan.01
Jan.13
BIREME
S.Gómez
Bogotá, Colombia
Jan.16
Jan.19
CCRP
NAME
INSTITUTIONS
HIDROVIA.
Meeting
Meeting
(Tobacco and Health / Health Environ& Development 92-8770 / Health Prior-
ment
ities 92-0203)
Meeting / UWI
F.Durrant
Kingston, Jamaica
Jan.21
Jan.24
ISER
C.Seré
Lima, Peru
Jan.21
Feb.12
CIP
A.Rebolledo
Bogotá, Colombia
Jan.23
Feb.06
Annual Leave
A.D.Tillett
Buenos Aires,
Jan.23
Jan.24
Meeting with Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
and Canadian delegation
Argentina
F.Durrant
Port of Spain,
Trinidad & Tobago
Jan.25
Jan.28
ECLAC
M.Torres
Lima, Peru
Jan.26
Mar.05
Annual Leave
F.Durrant
Kingston, Jamaica
Jan.29
Feb.04
Annual Leave
A.Rebolledo
Bogotá, Colombia
Feb.07
Feb.09
Lawyers / Ministry of Foreign Affairs /
Suprema Corte de Justicia
A.Rebolledo
Miami, USA
Feb.10
Feb.18
Annual Leave
A.Rebolledo
Bogotá, Colombia
Feb.19
Feb.20
Lawyers
A.D.Tillett
Bogotá, Colombia
Feb.20
Feb.24
CLADEI / COLCIENCIAS / FEDESARROLLO /
CORPOICA / Univ. de los Andes / Ministry
Meeting
of
Foreign Affairs
A.Rebolledo
Santa Marta,
Feb.21
Feb.22
Universidad de los Andes / INPA
Feb.23
Feb.24
CLADEI
Colombia
A.Rebolledo
Bogotá, Colombia
/ Lawyers / Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
/ Meet with Dr. Paganini
S.Gómez
Washington,
USA
Feb.25
Mar.01
PAHO
Ch.Davis
Toronto, Canada
Feb.26
Feb.28
TICS
Meeting
Ch.Davis
Mexico City, Mexico
Mar.01
Mar.03
CIDE
/ IMIT
S.Gómez
Chicago,
Mar.02
Mar.06
Sick Leave
Ch.Davis
Mérida, Mexico
Mar.04
Mar.06
YUCAPE
IL, USA
Project / INAH / University of
Yucatán
Ch.Davis
La Paz,
Bolivia
Mar.07
Mar.11
Academia Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología /
CFA / CONACYT / CIDA / New Technologies
Monitoring Project (Sucre) / INASET / Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development / Milenio Foundation
83
LOCATION
FRONI
TO
S.G6mez
Ottawa, Canada
Mar.07
Mar.11
IDRC HSD
A.D.Tillett
Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Mar.08
Mar.09
GADIS /
C.Seré
Santiago, Chile
Mar.12
Mar.16
RIMISP, CIA, IICA, PUCC
S.Gómez
Mexico City, Mexico
Mar.12
Mar.14
Dr. Sepúlveda: Health Research in LA
S.Gómez
Bogotá, Colombia
Mar.15
Mar.21
COLCIENCIAS:
NAME
INSTITUTIONS
Meetings
Meeting with Ford Foundation representatives
Health Research in LA /
Tobacco or Health Proposal / Meeting with
Carlos Espinal
84
Ch.Davis
Bangkok, Thailand
Mar.18
Apr.03
NSTDA / NCGBE / NECTEC / MOSTE /
Chulalongkom U. / Mahidol U. / Brooker
Group / TRF / Workshop on Innovation and
Globalization
S.Gómez
Bogotá, Colombia
Mar.22
Mar.23
Annual Leave
A.9
MEETINGS / SEMINARS
Planning Activities on Wetland Management and Hidrovia
March 1, 1994
Workshop organized by the Program of Studies on Integration, Competitiveness and Development
(INCO) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)
April 21, 1994
Gender, Health and Sustainable Development Workshop
April 26-29, 1995
Training Requirements for Social Policy Meeting
June 16-17, 1994
The Role
of Social Policy Advice in Social Policy Decision-Making
July 4-5, 1995
Workshop on Information Needs
4-5 August, 1994
for Social Policy Making
Environ mental Action Centres Coordinating Committee Meeting &Social and Environmental Impact
on Hydroworks Working Group Meeting
August 21-25, 1994
Third Regional Coordination Meeting
September 12-13, 1994
"Network of Networks" Evaluation Meeting
November 10-11, 1994
Meeting on the Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Productivity and
Competitiveness in SMEs
January 4-5, 1995
Regional Seminar on Interdisciplinarity "Unbroken Knowledge"
15-18 February, 1995
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A.10 VISITORS TO LACRO
APRIL
_ Doris Acevedo, Proffesor, Unidad Salud Ocupacional, Venezuela
_ Gisela
Argenti Researcher, Centro de Informaciones y Estudios del Uruguay
_ lrmajean Bajnok, Director, World Health Organization (WHO), Canada
María Bonino, Sociologist, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Jaime Breilh, Director, Centro de Estudios y Asesoría en Salud, Ecuador
Jaime Calmet, Centro de Investigación y Promoción Amazónica (CIPA), Peru
_ Clara Cárdenas, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru
Teresa Castillo, Sección de Ecología Humana, Centro de Investigaciones y de Estudios Avanzados
(CINVESTAV), Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Giovanna Chiarella, Director,
CIAES,
Bolivia
Constanza Collazos, Centro de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias en Desarrollo
(CIMDER),
Colombia
Jenny Dávalos, Instituto de Maternidad "Dr. Perry Boland", Ministerio de Previsión Social y Salud
Pública, Bolivia
Ximena Díaz, Director, Centro de Estudios de la Mujer, Chile
Elsa Do Prado, Centro Salud y Sexualidad ALTERNATIVAS, Uruguay
_ Alvaro Dobles, Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica
77m
Draimin, Director, Development Policy, Canadian Council
for International Cooperation
(CCIC),
Canada
Teresa Durán, Director, Departamento de Antropología, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile
Claudia Durana, Universidad de los Andes, Brazil
Aleya El Bindari Hammad, Special Councellor, Health and Development Policies, Switzerland
_ Luis Fatal, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Nea RIgueira, General Coordinator, Grupo de Estudios sobre la Condición de la Mujer en Uruguay
(GRECMU), Uruguay
Rafael García, Instituto de Sexualidad Humana, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic
86
Carmen Guimaraes, Programa de Post-Grado en Antropología Social, Universidade Federal de Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil
Xochitl Herrera, Fundación para el Etnollano de los Llanos Orientales, Colombia
Jeniffer Kitts, Consultant,
_ lita Lange, Director,
IDRC -
CEDIUC,
Ottawa, Canada
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Miguel Lobo-Guerrero, Fundación para el Etnodesarrollo de los Llanos Orientales, Colombia
_ María Molina Cabrera, Centro de Estudios y Formación para el Ecodesarrollo, ALTER-VIDA, Paraguay
_ Freddy Peña, Instituto de Maternidad "Dr. Perry Boland", Ministerio de Previsión Social y Salud
Pública, Bolivia
Leda Pesce, Coordinator, Area Salud, Movimiento Paulina Luisi, Uruguay
Alicia Pfnud, Evaluation Office, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington
Alice Pineda, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores de la Salud, Nicaragua
_ Arletty Pinel,
GENOS
Internacional, Brazil
Paulina Pino, Departamento de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Graciela Sapilza, Grupo de Estudios sobre la Condición de la Mujer en Uruguay (GRECMU), Uruguay
Elsa Sarti, Director, Investigación Epidemiológica, Ministerio de Salud, Mexico
Cristina Sosa, Director, Movimiento Paulina Luisi, Uruguay
_ Jasna Stiepovich, Dean of Nursing, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
Juan Trimboli, Director, Educational Area, International Organization of Consumers Unions (10CW,
Uruguay
José Vargas, Regional Director, International Organization
of Consumers Unions,
(10CU),
Uruguay
MAY
Raúl lricibar, Consultant, Argentina
Dan Turner, Ottawa, Canada
JUNE
José Bonifacio, Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública (INAP), Argentina
José Casanova, Instituto Nacional de la Administración Pública (INAP), Argentina
_ Nuria Cunill, Consejo Latinoamericano de Administración para el Desarrollo,
CLAD,
Venezuela
87
Regina Faria, FUNDAP, Brazil
Argelina ngueiredo, Universidade de Campinas, Brazil
Canos Filgueira, Centro de Informaciones y Estudios del Uruguay (CIESU), Uruguay
Laura Colbert, Maestría en Política Social, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Pedro Krotsch, Maestría en Política Social, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos
Aires, Argentina
_ Mano Lombardi, Centro de Informaciones y Estudios del Uruguay
"Warn Ryan, Consultant,
IDRC,
(CIESU),
Uruguay
Ottawa - CAID
Raúl Urztia, Centro de Análisis y Políticas Públicas, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Chester Zelaya, Executive Secretary, Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia
(IPGH),
Mexico
JULY
Javier Abugattás, Consultant, Asesor del Comité Interministerial, Peru
_ Cecilia Braslaysid, Ministerio de Educación-FLACSO, Argentina
_ Jorge Chateau, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales,
FLACSO, Chile
Carlos Correa, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
_ Carlos RIgueira, Centro de Informaciones y Estudios del Uruguay
(CIESU),
Uruguay
Mario Lombardi, Centro de Informaciones y Estudios del Uruguay
(CIESU),
Uruguay
Cecilia López, FEDESARROLLO, Colombia
Lynn SiNer, Escola de Saude Pública FlOCRUZ, Brazil
_ Carol Vlassoff, World Health Organization (WHOtTDR), Geneva
Derek Webb, Consultant, Chile
AUGUST
Gonzalo Abella, Coordinator, Proyecto Centros de Acción Ambiental, Uruguay
Cristina Blohm-Seewald, Instituto Goethe, Uruguay
Patricio Cariota, Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de
la
Educación
(CIDE),
Chile
Audrey Chambers, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of West Indies
Jamaica
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(UWI),
Arthur Conning, Centro Latinoamericano de Demografía, Comisión Económica para América Latina
Y el
Caribe (CELADE/CEPAU, Chile
_ Julio Cubillo, Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAU, Chile
_ Jorge de los Santos, Hidrovía Paraguay-Paraná, Uruguay
_ Carlos Filgueira, Director, Centro de Informaciones y Estudios del Uruguay
_ Ramón Fogel, Director, Centro de Estudios Rurales de Itapuá
(CERO,
Paraguay
_ Marcela Gajardo, Coordinator, Agencia Canadiense de Cooperación Internacional
_ Antonia Gallart, Researcher, Centro de Estudios de Población
Ximena Gómez, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología,
(CENEP),
CONICYT,
Uruguay
(CIESU),
(AGCI),
Chile
Argentina
Chile
Penny Houghton, Inter-American Organization for Higher Education
(10HE), Canada
Isabel Izquierdo, Proyecto Centros de Acción Ambiental, Uruguay
Frederick Keenan, University of Western Ontario, Canada
_ Mario Lombardi, Advisor, Centro de Informaciones y Estudios del Uruguay
(CIESU),
Uruguay
Elba Luna, Director, Grupo de Análisis y Desarrollo Institucional y Social (GADIS), Argentina
Gonzalo Martner, Facultad de Administración y Economía, Instituto de Gestión Pública, Universidad
de Chile, Chile
Yuri Matsunaka, Centro de Documentacáo e Apoio aos Movimentos Populares, Asociación de Indios
Kaguatecas, Brazil
Ernesto Miranda, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Karin Nansen, REDES-Amigos de
la
(ECLAC), Chile
Tierra, Uruguay
Ruben Prieto, REDES-Amigos de la Tierra, Uruguay
Vladimir Radoyic, Representative, Inter-American Development Bank
(IDB),
Uruguay
Víctor Ricaldi, Executive Director, Centro Regional de Acción Ambiental y de Organización Social
Bolivia
(CREAMOS),
_ Iffilson Riet, Hidrovía Paraguay-Paraná, Rocha-Uruguay
Homero Rodríguez, MundoAfro, Uruguay
aaudia Romagnoli, Bank of America, Buenos Aires, Argentina
_ Julio Rosenblatt, Inter-American Children's lnstitute
_ Hillary Sandison,
IMAGENES,
(lACI),
Uruguay
Uruguay
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Marco Shaubach, Bank of America, Miami, U.S.A.
SEPTEMBER
Javier Abugattis, Presidencia de la República, Peru
Jorge Chateau, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
Eva Egron-Polak, Vice-President, Association
(FLACSO),
Chile
of Universities and Colleges of Canada
Vilmar Faría, Centro Brasileiro de Analisis e Planejamento
(CEBRAP), Brazil
_ Antonia Callan, Researcher, Centro de Estudios de Población, Argentina
Jean Pierre Lemasson, Director, Bureau de la Coopération
A
l'Université du Québec
A
Montreal,
Canada
Gregg Macdonald, Executive Director, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Genoveva Ocampos, Area de Estudios,
BASE, Paraguay
Andrés Pérez, Departamento de Ciencias Políticas, Universidad de Western Ontario, Canada
Felipe Portocarrero, Centro de Investigaciones de la Universidad del Pacífico (ClUP), Peru
Dagmar Raczynsld, Corporación de Investigaciones Económicas para Latinoamérica (CIEPLAN), Chile
Glenn Switkes, Director, Latin American Campaigns, International Rivers Network, U.S.A.
Raúl Urztja, Centro de Análisis de Políticas Públicas, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Carlos Vergara, SUR, Chile
Luis Yarzabal, Director, Oficina Regional de la UNESCO, Venezuela
OCTOBER
Ray Cranston, Bedford Institute
of Oceanography,
Canada
Carolina da Silva, Universidad Federal de Mato Grosso, Brazil
Graham Dabom, ACADIA University, Canada
Alddes de Farta, Director, Ecología y Acción, Brazil
Robert Fournier, Dalhousie University, Canada
Sergio Guimaraes, Instituto Centro de Vida, Brazil
Peter Wells, Dalhousie university, Canada
Kees ZWannenberg, Bedford Institute
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of Oceanography,
Canada
NOVEMBER
Rommel Acevedo, Director, Network of Networks Project, Asociación Latinoamericana de
Instituciones Financieras de Desarrollo MUDE), Peru
_ Dominique Babini, Coordinator, Area Documentación e Información, Consejo Latinoamericano de
Ciencias Sociales (REDINCO/CLACSO), Argentina
_ Marta Bryce, Coordinator, Centro Panamericano de Ingeniería Sanitaria y Ciencias del Ambiente
(CEPIS/REDISCA),
Peru
_ Juanita Cammarata, Coordinator, Centro de Documentación y Análisis de Información (CEDAI/CLAD),
Venezuela
_ Ricardo Campos, Consultant, Sistemas de Comunicaciones Instituto Brasileiro de Analises Sociales
e Economicos (IBASE/ALTERNDO, Brazil
_ Alejandra aurlizza, Coordinator, Network of Networks Project, Asociación Latinoamericana de
Instituciones Financieras de Desarrollo (ALIDE), Peru
_ Carol Collins, Manager, Information Resources, Caribbean Community Secretariat (CARICOM), Guyana
Waldir Duarte, Universidad Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
aaudinor Evangelista, Director, Centro Latinoamericano de Documentación Económica y Social
(CEPALC/CLADES), Chile
_ Jorge Katz, Regional Advisor in Industrial & Technological Development, División de Desarrollo
Productivo y Empresarial, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Chile
_ Emique La Hoz, Executive Secretani, Red de Investigación de la Amazonia Peruana (CE&DAP/RINAP),
Peru
_ Jorge Osorio Vaccaro, Executive Secretani, Programa Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Infomación
Comercial y de Apoyo al Comercio Exterior (PLACIE)0, Peru
Abel Packer, Coordinator, Systems and Data Processing, Centro Latinoamericano y del Caribe de
Información en Ciencias de la Salud, (BIREME), Brazil
_ Joe Ramos, Director, División de Desarrollo Productivo y Empresarial, Economic Commission for
Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
AlfredoRojas Figueroa, General Coordinator, Red Latinoamericana de Información y Documentación
en Educación (CIDE/REDUC), Chile
_ Celine Romero, Coordinator, Proyecto Estado de Situación de
Económico Latinoamericano (SELA), Venezuela
la
Cooperación Regional, Sistema
_ Manuel Ruiz, Executive Secretary, Red de Investigación en Sistemas de Producción Animal de
Latinoamérica y el Caribe, (RISPAUISAPLAC), Costa Rica
_ Warren Thomgate, Consultant, Psychology Department, Carleton University, Canada
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DECEMBER
Gary Newldrk, Dalhousie University, Canada
JANUARY
_ Enrique Alegría, SERCOTEC, Ecuador
Carlos Correa, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lude Deschenes, Centre of Information Technology Innovation
_ Francisco Gatto, Economic Commission
(CIT1
Secretary), Canada
for Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAO,
Argentina
Roberto Hidalgo, Program Coordinator, Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-Económicas y
Tecnológicas
(INSOTEC),
Ecuador
José Lanusse, Director, Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-Económicas y Tecnológicas (INSOTEC),
Ecuador
FEBRUARY
Gonzalo Abella, Coordinator, Proyecto Centros de Acción Ambiental, Uruguay
Rosa Blanco, Centro de Estudios Rurales Interdisciplinarios (CERO, Paraguay
Ramón Buzeta, Director, Integrated Coastal Development Company Chile S.A. (ICDEVC0), Chile
Samaria Chavamá, Instituto de Tecnología, Autogestión y Medioambiente, Universidad Luterana
Salvadoreña, El Salvador
Alfredo del Valle, Instituto de Desarrollo Innovativo, Chile
Ramón Fogel, Director, Centro de Estudios Rurales Interdisciplinarios
(CERO,
Paraguay
Claudia Gonçalves, Instituto de Patrimánio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, Campo Grande, Brazil
Guillermo Guevara, lndigenous Leader, Organización Regional de los Pueblos Indígenas de Amazonas
(ORPIA), Venezuela
Miguel Holle, Coordinator, Collaborative Program: Biodiversity, Andean Roots and Tuber Crops,
International Potatoe Centre (IPO, Peru
Enrique Leff, United Nations Environment Program, UNEP, Mexico
Barbara León, Asociación Tecnología y Desarrollo, (TECNIDES), Peru
ligia Malagán, Centro de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias en Desarrollo
Víctor Mares, Consultant, Panama
Camita Montecinos, Centro de Educación y Tecnología (CET), Chile
92
(CIMDER),
Colombia
Ruben Prieto, REDES-Amigos de la Tierra, Uruguay
Silvia Ribeiro, REDES-Amigos de la Tierra, Uruguay
Víctor RicaIdi, Executive Director, Centro Regional de Accion Ambiental y de Organizacion Social
(CREAMOS),
Bolivia
Héctor Sejenovich, Environmental Accounting, Argentina
Ramón Vargas, AKANI, Argentina
MARCH
Daniel Chudnovsky, Director, Centro de Investigación para
la
Transformación
(CENIT),
Argentina
Marcela Jiménez de la Jara, Ministerio de Planificación y Cooperación, Chile
Jesse P. Flis, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Canada
Robin Ruggles, International Centre
Luis Sanint, International Centre
for Tropical Agriculture OCTAL Colombia
for Tropical Agriculture OCTAL Colombia
Luis Yarzábal, Director, UNESCO, Regional Office, Venezuela
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A.11 IDRC VISITORS TO LACRO
APRIL
_ Rosina Wiltshire, Program Representative, Gender and Development, Corporate Affairs and
Initiatives Division (CAID)
Janet Hatcher-Roberts, Program Specialist, Health Systems, Health Sciences Division
_ Lori Jones-Arsenault, Research Assistant, Health Sciences Division,
(HSD)
(HSD)
Panduka Klijeyaratne, Program Officer, Health Ecology, Health Sciences Division
(HSD)
MAY
_ Carl McMullin, WETV Secretariat
JUNE
Albert St-Amand, Director, Administrative Services, Finance and Administration
(F&A)
JULY
Sitoo Mukerji, Director, Program for Innovation Systems Management, Corporate Affairs and
Initiatives Division (CAID)
AUGUST
Bob Soutar, Manager, Office Services, Finance and Administration (F&A)
SEPTEMBER
Chris Smart, Director, Special Initiatives Program, Corporate Affairs and Initiatives Division (CAID)
OCTOBER
Chusa Gines, Program Officer, Biodiversity, Environment, Environment and Natural Resources (ENR)
NOVEMBER
John Hardie, Director, Policy and Planning Group, Presidents Office
Michel Seguin, Director, Human Resources, Finance and Administration (F&A)
_ Brent Herbert-Copley, Program Officer, Technology and Economics, Economic and Technology
Policy, Social Sciences Division (SSD)
Daniel Morales-Gómez, Director, Social Policy, Social Sciences Division
(SSD)
CathyMak, Human Resources Development Program, Corporate Affairs and Initiatives Division (CAID)
94
DECEMBER
Fran Anderson, Data Administrator, Management Information Services (MIS)
JANUARY
_ ;Miriam Edwardson, Program Officer, Food Systems and Enterprises, Technology and Environment,
Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENR)
MARCH
_ Terry Smutylo, Head, Evaluation Unit, Coporate Affairs and Initiatives Division (CAID)
95
A.12 LACRO STAFF
Regional Director
for Latin America and the Caribbean
Executive Secretary to the Regional Director
A.D. TILLETT
Sylvia ALBELA
Regional Comptroller's Office
Regional Comptroller
Alejandro REBOLLEDO
Asisstant Comptroller
Silvio BIANCHI
Finance
Project Accountants
Laura GARCIA
Inés CIBILS
Financial and Projects Assistant
Selva BALESTIE
Accounting and Financial Assistant
Sandra CHIAPELLA
Management Information Services
Management Information Services Supervisor
María Noel 1RAZOQUI
Administration
Personnel and Administration Coordinator
Adriana
Administrative Secretary
Mónica
HENDERSON
VOSS
(From August 1994)
Recepcionist
Mónica VOSS
(Until July 1994)
Virginia
CERVIERI
(From July 1994)
Driver
José Manuel NOGUEIRA
Messenger
Mario TORTORELLA
Support Group
Information and Projects Operations Coordinator
Alicia
Library and Information Assistant
Andrea PUPPO
96
RICHERO
Executive Secretary
Adriana
Secretary
Bárbara MILES
Support Assistant
Rosina SAAVEDRA
Library Support
Ivana BOUVIER
BORDABEHERE
Natural Resources Management
Regional Program Officer
Carlos SERE
(From August 1994)
Program Assistant
Helen RAIJ
Urbanization and Environment
Regional Program Officer
Danilo ANTON
Program Assistant
Carmen BOIX
Information and Communication Systems and Networks
Regional Program Officer
Fay DURRANT
Program Assistant
Silvana
FERRER
Health Systems
Regional Program Officer
Silvio GOMEZ-ARANGO
Program Assistant
Roberto BAZZANI
Social Polio/
Regional Program Officer
Mario TORRES
Program Assistant
María Dolores MONGE
Innovation Systems Management
Regional Program Officer
Salama FAHMY
(Until June 1994)
Charles DAVIS
(From September 1994)
Program Assistant
María SCHERSCHENER
97
Through support for research,
Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
assists scientists in developing
countries to identify long-term,
workable solutions to pressing development problems. Support is
given directly to scientists working
in universities, private enterprise,
government, and nonprofit organizations.
Priority is given to research aimed
at achieving equitable and sustainable developinent worldwide.
Projects are designed to maximize
the use of local materials and to
strengthen human and institutional capacity.
Led by the dedication and innovative approach of Third World scientists often in collaboration
IDRCwith Canadian partners
supported research is using science
and technology to respond to a wide
range of complex issues in the developing world.
IDRC is directed by an international
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move tdward implementation of
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soutient des travaux et des activités de recherche dans les pays en
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et équitable à l'échelle mondiale.
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Le CRDI contribue au renforcement
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de recherche des pays en développement pour lutter contre la pauvreté
et pour améliorer les conditions
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populations affectées.
Le CRDI est dirigé par un Conseil
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fonds proviennent du gouvernement du Canada. La Conférence
des-Nations unies sur l'environnement et le développement
(CNUED) a choisi le CRDI pour
participer à la mise en oeuvre du
développement durable A l'échelle
planétaire. Le CRDI yerra à concrétiser le programme Action 21
élaboré lors du Sommet de la
Terre.
Con el fin de asegurar un desarrollo
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países en desarrollo. Las investi-
gaciones están a cargo de científicos que trabajan en instituciones,
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Los proyectos apoyados financiera
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los investigadores de los países en
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El CIID contribuye al fortalecimiento
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desarrollo para luchar contra la
pobreza y mejorar las condiciones
de vida y el medio ambiente de las
poblaciones afectadas.
Un Consejo de Gobernadores Internacional tiene a su cargo la dirección del CID, cuyos fondos
provienen del Gobierno de Canadá.
La Conferencia de Naciones Unidas
sobre el Medio Ambiente y el Desarrollo (CNUED) ha seleccionado al CIID para participar en la
realización del desarrollo sostenible
a escala mundial. El CIID se encargará de hacer realidad el programa Agenda 21, elaborado
durante la Cumbre de la Tierra.
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