Association of Agricultural Research Institutions in the Near East and North Africa (AARINENA)

Submitted by Taraneh25 on Sun, 20/12/2009 - 01:00

The Association of Agricultural Research Institutions in the Near East and North Africa (AARINENA) was established in 1985 to strengthen cooperation among national, regional and international research institutions and centres through the dissemination and exchange of information, experiences and research results. Its mission is to contribute to the enhancement of agricultural and rural development in the WANA Region.

Website:

http://www.aarinena.org

Institution contact email:

I.Hamdan@cgiar.org

Name of contact person:

Ibrahim Hamdan

Geographic scope

Country (location of headquarters):

Jordan

Scope:

Regional

Regional scope:

Africa

Regional scope:

Near and Middle East

Developing institutional readiness

1. Introduce and gain support for the CIARD Manifesto and Values in your institution:

Partly

2. Have your institution recognised as a CIARD partner:

Yes

3. Adopt a formal institutional information/communication strategy:

Yes

4. Develop the capacities of your institution to achieve the CIARD Checklist:

Yes

5. Develop national/local partner networks to share resources and skills:

Partly

Increasing the Availability, Accessibility and Applicability of Research Outputs

6. Ensure that your research outputs are available digitally:

Partly

7. Develop institutional or thematic repositories of your outputs as open archives:

Partly

8. Use international metadata standards, data exchange protocols, and vocabularies:

Yes

9. Develop a clearly defined licensing policy for your outputs:

Not yet

10. Optimize the structure and the content of your web sites for search engines:

Partly

11. Share your metadata by participating in international information systems:

Partly

12. Use ‘social networking’ media and applications to share your outputs:

Partly

13. Build formal and informal networks to repackage your outputs:

Yes

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