OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORK

Committee structure: three-tier system

LOCAL STEERING GROUP

Local Steering Groups (LSGs) will be constituted at each of the eight sites.

For Latin America:
Porto Velho, Rondonia, Brazil Yurimaguas, Peru Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

For Africa:
M'Balmayo, Cameroon Kasama, Zambia

For Asia:
Bogor, Indonesia Chiang Mai, Thailand Claveria, Mindanao, Philippines

LSG membership

Representatives from farmer producer associations, community leaders, state governments, national government, nongovernmental organizations, public and private universities, and participation of local, national and international research and extension staff.

Terms of reference for LSG members

• Problem identification and prioritization

• Activity planning, implementation and evaluation

• Financial requirements including counterpart funding

• Preparation of activity reports

REGIONAL STEERING GROUP

Three Regional Steering Groups (RSGs) will be constituted, one each for Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia. An ecoregional approach will be followed; CIAT, IITA and IRRI will be the coordinating institutions for their respective regions.

RSG membership

• Chairman from the LSG

• Representatives from the Slash-and-Burn consortium

• Representatives from regional organization and institutions

• One NARS representative from each benchmark site

• Global coordinator

Terms of reference for RSG members

• Activity appraisal, endorsement and approval

• Resource allocation: counterpart, grant and cofinancing

• Regional coordination, monitoring, evaluation and dissemination of results

• Identification of institutional responsibilities

• Setting regional research priorities

• Preparation of annual reports

GLOBAL STEERING GROUP

Global Steering Group (GSG) membership

• Chairman of RSGs

• Benchmark site country representatives

• International Consortium on Slash-and-Burn

• Representatives of NGOs

• Donor agency representatives

• Global coordinator

Terms of reference for GSG members

• Setting of global research priorities

• Project activities and budget approval

• Project monitoring and evaluation

• Receipt of annual reports from RSGs and concurrence on a comprehensive annual report

• Dissemination of information