An underlying component here is the exchange of information and experiences - in short, networking. Increased attention should be paid, it was felt, to making more information available on best practices in policy processes in ACP countries and elsewhere, including guidelines, methodologies and networking. This follows a training workshop on the PITA methodology held at CTA in November 2000, where a team of seventeen trainers was set up, including a coordinator for each of the six ACP regions. The workshop was the penultimate stage of several years of painstaking preparations for the methodology, which aims to embrace the full circle of agricultural stakeholders in defining priority needs. Its task was to decide on 'best practice principles' for an MIS, drawing on experiences with pilot projects in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda.
Integration is the key.
That local information should in turn be linked into national and regional systems. May health and happiness be with you too. Get your answers ready, because in Spore 92 we shall ask you about this in detail, and offer you some encouragement to write in. One morning I was called away from my breakfast and I left half a cup of tea on the table. When I came back after an hour, the glass was full of dead honeybees.