Programme title

Institution/organization

On-the-spot/mobile courses

Contact person
Ms Ofra Bar-Am - Director, Overseas Training Programmes

Contact person's address
CINADCO
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
PO Box 30
Bet-Dagan
50250 Israel

Contact person's Tel/Fax
Tel +972-3-9485440 Fax +972-3-9485761

Contact person's E-mail
[email protected]

Type of programme
Mobile courses

Certificate
Certificate of participation

Frequency of programme
According to the host country/institution's request.

Programme's main focus
Fostering of institutional capacity building.
Enhancement of the capabilities of water professionals.

Programme prospectus
The International Overseas Training Programme, more commonly known as on-the-spot or mobile courses, is an important development component and an integral part of CINADCO's overall training programme and professional project support activities carried out with the developing host countries.

The professional programme consists of over 50 different agricultural topics. The subjects reflect Israel's own professional and technological capabilities together with observation and careful study of agricultural conditions prevailing in the host counterpart country and their relevant interaction.

The international overseas courses/on-the-spot courses are conducted in developing countries, usually by a team of two Israeli experts. Subjects within the area of water supply and irrigation include: plant nutrition, design of irrigation networks, pressurized irrigation and fertilization, soil and water salinity and salinity management in irrigated agriculture, sustainable water resources development and management and water resources quality management. CINADCO's professional and operational activities span all continents, including Central and Eastern Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Middle East.

Target group
Senior level staff/Trainers/Leading Farmers and Technicians.

Dates/duration
Basic framework of two weeks duration, can be modified according to the host country/institution request.

Language
English, Spanish, French and Russian

Partners
Governments, institutions, or organizations

Center for International Agricultural Development Cooperation

Acronym
CINADCO

Country
Israel

Address
CINADCO
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
PO Box 30
Bet-Dagan 50250
Israel

Tel +972-3-948 5760

Fax +972-3-948 5761

E-mail
[email protected]

Brief description of institution/organization
The Center for International Agricultural Development Cooperation (CINADCO) of Israel's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, operates as the main professional and operational agricultural arm for Israel's development assistance agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Center for International Cooperation (MASHAV).

CINADCO's headquarters is located at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Complex in Bet Dagan on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, Israel. Agriculture has been the major component of Israel's international cooperation programme since its establishment in the late 1950s, aiming primarily to share its agricultural development experience with the developing world. CINADCO's programmes focus on combining sound professional experience with practical field level orientation, through improved agro-ecological methods and technological agricultural development practices, with a strong and continuous link to the country's own professional and practical agricultural development experience.

In this context, CINADCO offers professional services in those subjects where Israel's own experience reflects sound professional know-how and technological strengths related to agriculture and the environment.

These services range from crop and livestock-production practices, technologies, water management saving irrigation methods and systems, farm management, forestry and agro-ecology to research and development (R&D), agricultural extension, supporting systems, agribusiness consulting services, development related to arid and semiarid regions and additional topics for sustainable agricultural development. Operation and maintenance for farmer-managed irrigation systems.