Assessment of Human Resource Capacity Building Interventions by Selected International Organizations - (Achievements, Challenges and Prospects) the Case of Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research
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2017-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The objective of the study is to assess human resource capacity building initiatives and
engagement of selected international research organizations, and investigate achievements and
challenges as well as provide with recommendations that help Ethiopian Institute of
Agricultural Research to realize its missions through competitive and fully capacitated human
resource. This study reviewed the composition of employees, with sample size of 124, with regard to
age, service year in EIAR, educational and position profile in the institute; and their familiarity in
human resource capacity building training practice – need assessment, training deliver methods,
monitoring and evaluation of training and capacity building interventions. The study also reviewed
and analyses the involvement of selected CG center organizations in area of human resource
capacity development programs for EIAR employees. The study analyzed the data collected through
semi-structured survey questions, key informant interviewees from EIAR and experts from selected
partner CG research centers based in Ethiopia such as ILRI, IFPRI and CIMMYT.
The study reveals that, mainly in the organization, there is an absence of systematic employee
training needs assessment and weak participation of relevant stakeholders in the training planning
and need assessment stages. On top of that, the partner organizations face challenges while they
seek to engage in capacity building training for EIAR employees. The finding of the study has been
drawn from the analysis on the existence of big gap in terms of maintaining the collaboration
between the EIAR and the partner organizations. Besides the culture of evaluation training and
development is found weak which indeed needed to be customized and implemented to keep the
learning process from identified improvement areas. Finally the researcher recommends the
implementation of systematic capacity building training and development process with
comprehensive guideline that aligned with holistic approach and sound engagement of partner
international organizations for impactful training and capacity development intervention at all
level in Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research
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Agricultural research