Scale up! Highlights and synthesis of proceedings of the CGIAR
NGO Committee Workshop on Scaling Up Sustainable Agriculture Initiatives

Scale Up! is a synthesis of the highlights of discussions of the 38 participants
from some 25 institutions who attended the Workshop on Scaling Up Sustainable
Agriculture (SA) Initiatives held 22-23 October 1999 at the World Bank. The Workshop
was organized by the NGO Committee of the Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research (CGIAR) with support from the Global Forum on Agricultural
Research (GFAR) with the general assumption that there are successful local level SA

Strengthening the professional capacity of southern NGOs. Request for sponsorship

The aim of the present proposal addressed is to facilitate the participation of Southern organizations in the InterDev-NRM information service through: > the organization of a number of training sessions in Africa, Asia and Latin America on the use of
the InterDev software, > the effective participation of Southern organizations in the experimental phase of InterDev (definition of norms and procedures, choice of the classification system, etc.) and inputting a first set of data into the system.

Dissemination and Use Plan

¿The aim of the present dissemination plan is to review the options for the extension of the service
once the experimental phase funded by the EC is over. Extension will be considered as an
increasing range of issues being covered by the service, whether within or outside the three
themes that are taken into consideration in the experimental phase. Extension will also be
considered as an increasing number of organisations being involved in the exchange network,
specially from the South. Finally, the dissemination plan will consider the question of the

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