| Date |
Past
News/Event |
|
July 2005 |
Tabo
On the Rise - DMP Regional Coordinator
for West and Central Africa, Dr. Ramadjita Tabo is assigned greater responsibility at
ICRISAT. |
|
July 2005 |
Djoghlaf gains lofty post
- DMP ardent supporter and
friend Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf is to become the next Executive Secretary
of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). |
|
June 2005 |
A New Livestock Research Partnership
in East/Southern Africa - The DMP is leading a
priority-setting investigation for a new ILRI/ICRISAT
livestock-cropping system partnership in the ESA sub-region. |
|
June 2005 |
FIRM-ly Placing Communities in the
Driver's Seat - Namibia has pioneered the
much-admired 'Forum for Integrated Resource Management' (FIRM)
approach to putting communities in charge of their own development,
and applied it to DMP goals. How does FIRM work its magic? |
|
May 2005 |
CERAAS: CORAF/WECARD's Unique Dryland
Research Institute
- CERAAS is a unique
sub-regional research institution with excellent facilities seeking
broad partnerships to advance dryland agricultural research in WCA. |
|
May 2005 |
Keeping on Track through DMP Monitoring
Visits - Monitoring visits are
part of the DMP process. They bring outputs and milestones to the
forefront, and highlight success stories and lessons learned. Case
in point: Senegal. |
|
May 2005 |
DMP wins CORAF/WECARD Projects
- DMP members won 3 out of
4 African Development Bank competitive grants approved through CORAF/WECARD's
competitive bidding process. |
|
May 2005 |
CORAF/WECARD Sixth General Assembly Builds WCA Ties
- CORAF/WECARD provides the
framework that links the DMP (and others) to regional priorities,
and to national and international partners. The Sixth Assembly took
an activist approach. |
|
April 2005 |
Launch of On the Edge,
the new DMP e-newsletter |
|
April 2005 |
New
DMP Website - A rich new information
resource for the DMP: our very own website. Visit, click through,
review, and give us feedback. |
|
April 2005 |
DMP Steering Committee
Charts the Course Ahead - The DMP
Steering Committee praised Phase I accomplishments while noting
needs for improvement, and challenged members to scale up and out
for impact in Phase II. |
|
March 2005 |
NEPAD and G8 Meet in
Bamako to jump-start NEPAD's
Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP).
The DMP was in the thick of it. |
|
March 2005 |
Measuring Global
Benefits from Local Actions - DMP
contributes to GEF discussion on how the
world benefits from local efforts to combat land degradation. |
|
January 2005 |
Translating Biodiversity Policy and Science into Action
in
Senegal - policymakers, researchers and local communities play
a reality game |
|
2004 |
Desert Margins Program Bags Two 2004
ICRISAT Millennium Awards - DMP's second award for effective resource mobilization;
plus, the outstanding partnership award |
|
November 2004 |
Getting the Numbers Right
- Members identified statistics
as a prime training need—and ILRI
delivered |
|
June 2004 |
Decision
support systems workshop organized by IFDC in
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso |
|
May 2004 |
Plant
genetics workshop co-organized by IPGRI and the DMP in
Ibadan, Nigeria |
|
2004 |
On-the-job
training of of four DMP partners from Kenya at ICRISAT-Niamey
(Niger) on tree grafting and the African Market Garden |
|
2003-04 |
Three soil
fertility workshops (NUTMON nutrient monitoring
approach; participatory research; and modelling) organized
by TSBF-CIAT in Kenya and Tanzania |
|
2003 |
Agroforestry technologies workshop organized by ICRAF in
Mali |
|
6-8 December 2003 |
First DMP
Annual Steering Committee Meeting, Niamey, Niger |
|
2002 |
DMP wins
ICRISAT Resource Mobilization Award |
|
November 2002 |
Official
DMP
GEF/UNEP Phase I launching and methodology workshop held
in Nairobi |
