IICA and CREFAL strengthen partnership to benefit community development
San Jose, 18 September 2015 (IICA). A delegation from the Regional Cooperation Center for Adult Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (CREFAL) visited the headquarters of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) in Costa Rica to consolidate their strategy for supporting community development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The institutions signed a collaboration agreement in August to drive projects in this area. One of the actions promoted was the creation of a diploma course entitled “Public policies in agriculture: fundamentals, analysis and application.”
100 professionals from 20 countries in the Americas are participating in the course, which is being taught online and will last four months.
“Both IICA and CREFAL have a large international network; by working together, we can share knowledge, training opportunities and human resources, all with the goal of empowering future professionals in the agricultural sector,” explained Lloyd Day, Deputy Director General of IICA.
The entities will also prepare a land use planning manual and will develop proposals for improving communication with local governments in the hemisphere.
“These agreements strengthen us and allow us to be on the same page as far as work topics are concerned; we can strengthen our synergies to impact communities with good results,” stated Mercedes Calderón, Director General of CREFAL.
CREFAL is an international organization specializing in the development of learning models and proposals, that seeks to disseminate up-to-date knowledge to bolster the capacities of professors and academic institutions.
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