AIGF is a competitive grants facility operating with Target Institutions, and their partners, to generate and deliver to rural small-holders appropriate information and technology related to food production and income generation.

The Pilot phase of the AIGF (Nov 03 to June 06) is being administered and managed by URS International Development (http://www.ap.urscorp.com/) and funded by the Australian Government through AusAID 

Guidelines - provide details of AIGF focus, management, target institutions, process for seeking funding; application and approval process together with selection criteria (follow this link). 

Current Projects

Latest News -  a newsletter describing the latest features of the database can be downloaded from the link here

HIV/AIDS - David Young has prepared a short paper for us to understand how HIV/AIDS is likely to impact rural communities in PNG and to assist with development of a strategy to ensure each project considers how they might assist with the fight - at least not make matters worse by increasing vulnerability  to spread -  here.  

National Agriculture Information System - is an integrated library catalogue database from 5 Ag Research Institutions in PNG - now online at  http://www.pngnais.org/.  Peter Walton (AIGF Information System Advisor) has provided a summary (download here) of the development of this unique resource, which contains over 31,000 records including 608 titles of publications published and available for distribution in PNG. 

Partnerships - it is important that arrangements with partners are clear.  It is not sufficient to have a general arrangement to work together.  Arrangements should follow the principles of good delegation.  A workshop has been prepared on delegation to assist (download here).