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IICA Supports the Institutional Strengthening of the PCB

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The Pesticides Control Board (PCB), who is the agency responsible for regulating pesticides in the country, presented its first five-year Strategic Plan 2017-2021 to its stakeholders at an official launch in April 2017. 

This Plan is one of seven key outputs from a package of technical cooperation services provided by IICA to support the institutional strengthening of the PCB to address its needs of strategic planning, improve its programming, monitoring and review system, improve governance and management practices and build its personnel capacity to implement and manage better administrative support systems.  IICA’s intervention over a period of more than 10 months of direct collaboration has contributed to a more modern PCB that is now able to respond to the dynamic circumstances surrounding the regulation of all aspects of pesticide management to ensure that pesticide use in Belize does not present unreasonable adverse effects to human health or the environment.

The Strategic Plan serves as a road map to guide the PCB and to better position itself to anticipate and address future challenges and needs within the context of its mandate. The Plan together with the six other products developed which include a set of guidelines for implementation of the Strategic Plan, a two-year Action Plan, an Annual Work Plan, a report on the Annual Planning, Monitoring, Reporting system, a Board and Executive Committee Operations Manual and a Human Resources Manual has provided the PCB with the tools need for greater systematic planning and programming to become a more effective organization that delivers quality services and provides adequate coverage to Belize’s agri-food sector.

 

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everalda.westby@iica.int

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