Regional programs / EARTH
Project to upgrade professional agricultural training in Central America and Panama by establishing a Regional Agricultural College (RAC) and by strengthening the training capacity of the Center for Tropical Agricultural Research and… DEC abstract (PD-AAS-491)
Key prj:5960129
24 facts shown; 1 unconfirmed link; 0 support mechanisms (not programs); 8 documents cite this program.
The one-paragraph answer: years, implementer, funder and purpose, each from document metadata.
Project to upgrade professional agricultural training in Central America and Panama by establishing a Regional Agricultural College (RAC) and by strengthening the training capacity of the Center for Tropical Agricultural Research and Training (CATIE). CATIE will implement the project with ROCAP and contractor assistance. Patterned after the successful "learning-by-doing" approach of the Pan American Agricultural School in Honduras, the RAC will be established in Costa Rica as a 4-year, undergraduate school with primary focus on practical training in lowland humid agriculture. A U.S. university will recruit faculty and other administrative personnel (including a fundraiser) and will provide special training for faculty upgrading. Physical construction - an administrative building, classrooms and laboratories, animal and crop production units, faculty and student housing, and recreation and maintenance facilities - will be accomplished over the first 5 of the project's 10 years. A B.Sc. curriculum providing equal time for classroom instruction and practical applications will be developed for the RAC, which is expected to open in 1/87 and to train 400 undergraduates and grant 100 B.
Source: DEC abstract, PD-AAS-491 (1985). This is the source's own text, not a cited summary of the documents.
Operated in: Central America, Costa Rica, Panama.
Districts, regions and facilities the program's own documents name, with what the document says it did there. Source: sentences in the program's documents
not in the map yet: no district, region or facility is named for this program yet; only Malawi and Guatemala have place data so far
No district, region or facility is named in this program's documents yet. Place dots exist for Malawi and Guatemala only so far. Towns and natural features are not drawn.
Countries where this program operated, set by the countries its documents name most often. Countries only tagged on documents are listed apart. Source: document tags, scope rule
Scope: regional. How the scope was set is not described yet. High confidence.
How sure we are: 0.9.
When the program ran, from its start year to the latest document year. A hatched bar means the start is our estimate. Source: award and document years
Axis: years in documents. The start year comes from design document year; the end is the latest document year, so the program may have run longer.
Who started the program, and which administration it began under. Timing only; it does not say who started it. Source: initiative records, start year
Organizations that ran this program, from award records and document authors. Prime and sub roles are not split yet. Source: award and document records
not in the map yet: no implementer recorded for this program
None recorded. Evaluation studies linked to this program are listed under Evaluations and lessons.
| Name | Role | Years | Basis | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government of the Republic of Costa Rica | co signer | 1985 | Likely, not confirmed |
Identifiers of the awards and the organizations that funded it. Amounts are under Money. Source: award records
Basis: read from a record field
| Name | Years | Basis | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAC-0032-C-9036 (contract, fiscal year not recorded) | 1991 | Stated in a document | 1 source |
| PDC-5517-I-0103 (idiq, fiscal year not recorded) | 1992 | Stated in a document | 1 source |
Basis: read from a record field
Labels on the program's documents, not a description of what the program did. Source: DEC document tags
Sector profile (computed): Agriculture: research, extension, training, technology 53%; Higher education, universities and scholarships 15%; Agriculture: crop production, inputs, pests, irrigation 11%
DEC topic and subject tags. They describe the documents, not what the program was. Each tag opens its evidence in the drawer.
Programs worth reading next, by topic, implementer, country and years. Similar by facets (topic, implementer, country, years) and, when available, description. It says the programs look alike, not how they are related in time. Source: catalog facets
Looking for similar programs.
Studies that assessed this program, and the lessons taken from them. Source: linked evaluation documents
| Title | Year | Document | Why listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audit of the regional agricultural higher education project, USAID/Costa Rica project no. 596-0129 | 1991 | PD-ABC-560 | linked as an evaluation of this program |
| Coming down to E.A.R.T.H. : Escuela de Agricultura de la Region Tropical Humeda (E.A.R.T.H.) -- a strategic evaluation | 1991 | PD-ABD-444 | evaluation-stage document (eval midterm, weak classifier) |
| Regional agricultural higher education : Agricultural College for the Humid Tropical Region (EARTH) | 1992 | PD-ABH-629 | linked as an evaluation of this program |
Not recorded yet: support mechanisms, money rows. A missing record is not a finding. USAspending records start in FY2007; earlier obligations are missing, not zero.
Every document that cites this program, grouped by a stage label from a weak classifier. Source: document library
| 1 source |
No implementer is recorded, so no organization is listed as running this program.
| Name | Years | Basis | Evidence |
|---|
| USAID. Bur. for Latin America and the Caribbean. Regional Ofc. for Central American Programs (ROCAP) | 1992 | Stated in a document | 1 source |
| USAID. Mission to Costa Rica | 1991 | Stated in a document | 1 source |
| USAID. Bur. for Latin America and the Caribbean. Regional Ofc. for Central American Programs (ROCAP) | 1985 to 1995 | Stated in a document | 4 sources |
Basis: read from a record field
| 1992 |
| XD-ABI-948-A |
| evaluation-stage document (eval final, weak classifier) |
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