EPID Work Programme and Budget for the 1975/76 (1968 E.G.) Fiscal year

Abstract

The Work Programme and Budget for the 1975/76 (1968 E.C.) fiscal year is based primarily on EPID's Loan Application to IBRD (EPID Publication No. 6), the IBRD Appraisal Report on the Minimum Package Programme, and EPID's plans for the 1975/76 - 1979/80 period as set forth in EPID Publication No. 20. In the 1975/76 fiscal year EPID will undergo some organizational changes. Prominent among these is the initiation of Co-operative Marketing Division at EPID Headquarters incorporating the former Marketing & Credit Section and the Co-operative Section in addition to three new sections0 These new units are yet fully nonexistent, and it is evident that their budget estimates therefore are somewhat uncertain relative to already established units. The Co-operative Marketing Division is expected to receive all its budgetary support and most of Its technical assistance support from SIDA, although FAO and USAID are also expected to provide technical assistance to the division, Another organizational change relates to the creation of a Soil and Water conservation Section within the Extension Division at EPID Headquarters. This jnit incorporates the former Soil Conservation Division of the Ministry of Agriculture which was transferred to EPID in September 1974. However, since this transfer at that time was said to be temporary, and since these budget proposals then were already A completed, the funds provided for the Soil and Water Conservation Section in this budget do not include the Recurrent Budget of the former Soil Conservation Division where most of the personnel costs are provided for. A third organizational modification relative to the 1974/75 budget is the considerable strengthening of the Regional Coordinating Units. There will in 197 5/76 be eight such units each able to function as an effective focal point for EPID field activities within its region,, Provision is made for technical assistance to several of these units and for a delegation to them of some of the functions, e.g. accounting, now being carried out centrally at EPID Headquarters. EPID has in 1975/76 assumed the managerial and operational responsibility for the Southern Region Agricultural Development Project (SORADEP) which has been fully integrated into the EPID/ MPP structure. However, SORADEP has been allowed to retain its special characteristics, including a heavy reliance upon low level field workers or demonstrators, and the project is therefore expected to maintain a certain degree of independence within EPID's network of field areas. This 1975/76 Work Programme and Budget coveres only EPID’s regular activities as outlined, inter alia, in the original project documents mentioned in the introductory paragraph. It does not include the various short and medium term rehabilitation activities in which EPID is or will be engaged, nor does it include the extraordinary tasks entrusted to EPID in connection with the implementation of the land reform. Rinds for all of these activities are contributed and programmed over and above EPID's regular budget.