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ACIAR-Indonesia
Fisheries consultation
February 2007
John Skerritt
Deputy Director
ACIAR
• ACIAR’s Mission: “To achieve more
productive and sustainable agricultural
systems, for the benefit of Developing
Countries and Australia, through
international agricultural research
partnerships”
• ACIAR does not carry out R & D itself
• Total projects value in Indonesia –$9.6m
in 2006/07, $11.8m in 2007/08
• ACIAR bilateral and IARC projects
• Australia-Indonesia Partnership
funding of $3.5-5.4 m (Aceh and
SADI-SMAR)
• Plus short-course and scholarship
training
Three consultation meetings aim to:
(agriculture/livestock, fisheries, forestry)
• determine a framework for
collaborative research for
development activities over the next
four year period
• drive ACIAR’s contribution to the
new country development strategy
that guides all Australian
development assistance activities
• finalise ACIAR Annual Operational
Plan for 2007-08
Overall Australia-Indonesia
development cooperation strategy
• The April 2006 White Paper ‘Australian Aid: promoting
growth and stability’ placed emphasis on:
• economic growth as being central to poverty reduction
• strengthening support for private sector-led rural and business
development
• development of lagging regions such as Eastern Indonesia
• Other emphases: fostering functioning and effective states,
investing in people and promoting regional stability and
cooperation
• Single “Whole of Government” strategy being produced
for cooperation with Indonesia by mid-2007
• investment in agriculture and rural development will
form only a few percent of the $ 400m per year program
The way we work…
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Funding collaborative R&D –
between Indonesia and Australian
R&D organisations
Contracts developed/managed by
discipline specialists covering:
crops, livestock, fisheries, forestry,
agricultural economics, policy and
systems
Projects of 1-5 years duration
across six research themes
Outputs include: new agricultural
technologies, stronger institutional
and researcher capacity,
identification of policy options
Program focus
• Move from a set of individual projects to support a small
number of larger, integrated themes or subprograms
• This means that we cannot operate across all areas of
agriculture, forestry, fisheries and natural resource
management in Indonesia
• The identification of the themes for the ACIARIndonesia program is based on:
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Indonesia’s agricultural priorities
issues amenable to a practical solution through research
presence of systems for adoption of the research results
priority to Australia and availability of Australian expertise
availability of ACIAR staff and budget resources
Program issues for discussion
• Sub-sectoral balance (e.g. between aquaculture,
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capture fisheries, resource management, quarantine,
product processing)
Alignment of Australian and Indonesian interests
Opportunities for greater involvement of
communities and the private sector in the program
Complementarities with major Indonesian
Government programs and donor initiatives
How to improve the adoption of research results by
end-users (e.g. farmers, industry, policymakers)
Priorities for capacity building
Priority setting: top-down and bottom-up
Problems that R&D may help to solve
Shared
Indonesian
Australian
expertise
expertise and
expertise and
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interest Problems amenable to research interest
interest
Geographical focus
alignment with the overall Australian aid program
• Program includes Nusa Tenggara Timur, Nusa Tenggara Barat,
South, Southeast and North Sulawesi
• Australian experience in working in similar environments
• Collaboration with R&D organisations and policymakers in Java
and Western Sumatra important in policy research, biosecurity
collaboration and aquaculture
• Difficult for ACIAR to expand the geographic scope of the
program without a major contraction elsewhere
• In response to the 2004 tsunami, ACIAR commenced
some medium-term projects in Aceh
Australia is a major partner in projects
Australian benefits of involvement
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Direct benefits to Australian
aquaculture productivity
Market information – openly
obtained
Development of personal
networks that are important in
trade and fisheries resource comanagement
Staff development - igniting
leadership skills, thinking more
broadly across disciplines
Understanding policy
environment in the region
Developing agribusiness:
a common objective
• It is proposed that the ACIAR program will maintain a
focus on high-value commodities
• for which there is strong export or domestic market demand
• that are identified as priorities by the GOI
• for which major constraints require addressing through research
• In addition to supporting research on productivity
enhancement, ACIAR projects will also address related
pest, disease, postharvest and market development
issues.
Current strategy
ACIAR’s Indonesian Program has
a strong emphasis on R&D to
improve farmer and fisherfolk
livelihoods
• to improve production systems
and add value to Indonesian
agricultural (livestock, fisheries,
forestry and horticultural)
products
• develop market linkages through
greater emphasis on farming as
agribusinesses
Indonesia – six program themes
and current priorities
1. Policy options for Indonesian agribusiness
2. Pest and disease management
3. Productive smallholder aquaculture
• Sustainable shrimp and finfish farming systems (genetic
improvement, disease management, feeds and nutrition)
• Improved processing, packaging and transport technologies which
extend product life and increase market value
4. Sustainable utilisation and management of fisheries
and forestry resources
• Stock assessment and management of shared and common–interest
fisheries in Arafura and Timor Seas
• Development of co-management approaches for aquaculture and
wild fisheries in inland open waters
5. Profitable agribusiness systems for Eastern Indonesia
6. Technical cooperation to underpin post-Tsunami
rehabilitation of agriculture and fisheries
• Redevelopment of human capacity and infrastructure for
brackishwater aquaculture of shrimp and finfish
• Needs assessment and resource status of fisheries
Smallholder agribusiness development
initiative
Four provinces (NTB, NTT, S and SE Sulawesi)
An integrated 10 year program:
1. Enhanced smallholder production and marketing
(implemented by the KDP Secretariat/ World Bank)
2. Strengthened private sector agribusiness and Small Medium Enterprise development
(implemented by International Finance Corporation)
3. Support for market-driven adaptive research
(implemented by ACIAR)
Smallholder Agribusiness
Development Initiative Subprogram 3
Support for Market-driven Adaptive Research
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Adaptive Research and Development
• market chain and institutional assessments and project funding
• initial projects identified in workshops (Nov 06-Jan 07)
Improved Knowledge Transfer (extension) Processes
• assess current research-extension linkages and methods
• develop improved linkages and extension methods
• utilisation in “pilot extension” trials
Institutional Development
• assist with R&D policies and procedures
• improved human resources and physical resources
Capacity development priorities
also for review and discussion at this meeting
• Investment in institutional development in Eastern Indonesia
• Training for researchers/managers involved in ACIAR projects
• Up to 35 places for postgraduate training in Australia are
available for Indonesians at any one time
• Consultations during 2006 included requests for the following
short courses to be provided by ACIAR:
• Research Management training
• Commercialisation of research results
• Integrating social and economic methods for biophysical
agricultural researchers
• Fostering agricultural research-extension linkages
• Information and Communication Technology
• Scientific Writing
Increasing project impact
Some lessons learnt by ACIAR
• Collaboration strongest if the topic is a high priority of both
Indonesian and Australian partners
Engage the ‘right’ technical people
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• Consider fewer and larger projects
• Involvement of extension organisations and identification of
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dissemination pathways should be included from project start
Involvement of the private sector and NGOs has been
successful in other countries
• Technology-focussed research projects often also need to
address cross-cutting issues, including:
• lack of integration between production and marketing
• poor access and use of technical and market information
• policy and regulatory constraints