THE SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA TRAINING DATABASE
Fourteen international research centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) have conducted training in sub-Saharan Africa during the last two decades to strengthen the capacity of national agricultural systems.
Centres recorded the training provided in their own databases. The centres met during 1994 and agreed to consolidate their records into one central database. The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) was assigned the responsibility of co-ordinating the creation and management of the CGIAR sub-Saharan Africa Training Database.
The centralised database serves the following functions:
- Analysis of CGIAR contributions to NARS capacity building
- Providing samples for surveys and impact studies
- As an aid in follow-up support to the former trainees
- Aid in networking and collaborative research between NARS and centre staff.
The database provides information about the former trainees from sub-Saharan Africa trained by 14 CGIAR centres. The database is owned by the 14 centres and is managed on their behalf by ILRI. The following is the list of the 14 centres:
The database is an archival one with many centres having to dig into old records to provide the data that has gone into the database. Thus there are gaps in the data collected and differences in the way different centres have recorded the information, e.g. abbreviated names of employers by some centres as compared to another centre which has recorded the names in full. The gaps in the data will result in apparent differences in retrieved records when the same search is done in a single table, e.g. Trainee Table as compared to the results when two tables are used, e.g. the Trainee-Course Tables.
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