• Purpose
• To strengthen the competitiveness of Korean agriculture through cooperation with advanced countries in agricultural technology, resource-rich countries, internal agriculture research institutes/organizations, etc.

International Agricultural Technology Cooperation Project (IATCP)

• <Stage>
• <Highlights>
• <Person in charge>

• Setting of project purpose and strategy
• Sets IATCP goal and plan a promotion strategy
• International Technology Cooperation Department(ITCD)

• ⇩
• * Exploration of joint projects with international organizations/foreign governmental institutions and new cooperation organizations

• Setting of a master plan
• Sets and announces IATCP master operation plan
• ITCD

• ⇩
• * Management of a project plan and reports and setting, reporting, and notification of detailed schedules and methods regarding public invitation, selection, contracting, evaluation, etc. of new projects.

• Public invitation to and application for a project
• Conducts a public invitation for a new IATCP
• ITCD
  /Rural Development Administration(RDA) and its affiliated organizations

• ⇩
• * Invites a public contest for new project of the next year (internal public invitation to RDA and its affiliated organizations) and receives applications (June ～ August)

• Selection of a project
• Selects projects for the following year through the deliberative committee
• ITCD
  /Deliberative Committee of Project Selection

• ⇩
• * Selects projects based on evaluation priority, within the next year's budget

• International agreement
• Makes an international agreement(ACP) with partner countries and institutions
• ITCD
  /RDA and its affiliated organizations

• ⇩
• * Completes the ACP within 2 months after the selection and writes a comprehensive MOU for a new cooperation organization.

• Registration and approval of a project plan
• Oversees IATCP and registers its annual plan
• RDA and its affiliated organizations
  /ITCD

• ⇩
• * Registers to Project Management System of ATIS

• Project cost management
• Makes overseas remittance of project cost (overseas transfer cost) to counterpart
• ITCD
  /Operational Support Department

• ⇩
• * Makes an execution and implementation plan for international allotment (overseas transfer cost: 340-02) of the joint project with international organizations/other countries.

• Management and support for business trip, delegation, and invitation
• Supports and manages overseas official trips, delegations, and invitations for the implementation of IATCP
• ITCD
  /RDA and its affiliated organizations

• ⇩
• * Reviews the master plan of business trip, delegation, and invitation for a joint project with international organizations/other countries, and supports and manages them.

• Output evaluation
• Evaluates the perforce of a joint project in the project performance evaluation committee(PPEC)
• ITCD
  /PPEC

• ⇩
• * Evaluation method: written evaluation(for the first year) and presentation evaluation(ongoing·conclusion)
  * Outcomes: Approved by the department head to which the project manager belongs, and the applicability of agricultural use is evaluated by the field application deliberation committee of the affiliated institution.

• Registration and approval of reports
• Registers the annual report and the final report with ATIS
• RDA and its affiliated organizations
  /ITCD

• ⇩
• * Registers the annual report and the final report(incorporate suggestions from the output evaluation)

• Application of output
• Shares major achievements and applies the output
• ITCD
  /RDA and research departments in its affiliated organizations

• ⇩
• * Links to successive projects, utilizes the results, and support sharing
  * Promotion and management of major achievements

Procedure for discovering, selecting, and managing projects for the multi-lateral council

• Exploration of a project
  
• ▶ Project concept proposal (from member countries, international organizations, etc.)
  - Receives concept notes
  (Member countries, international organizations, etc. to the Secretariat)
  ▶ Compile and review concept notes at a meeting (the Secretariat)
  - Review on the common pending issues by continent and selecting a project theme
  

• Selection of a project
  
• ▶ Reception of concept notes (the Secretariat)
  ▶ Project selection committee (the Secretariat)
  ▶ Receives letters of intent for participation from members (in the form of an official letter)

• Writing a project concept paper (PCP)
  
• ▶ Selection and determination of project members (the Secretariat)
  - Receives and reviews PCPs and selects participators
  * PCP : Project Concept Paper
  ▶ Selecting a project manager
  - Selects the project executing organization for member countries
  - (RDA) selects affiliated organizations and sends a request for cooperation (via an official letter)
  

• Cooperation and execution of a project
  
• ▶ Each country drafts a Letter of Agreement (LOA)
  - (Secretary-general - person in charge from a member country)
  * LOA: Letter of Agreement
  ▶ Each member drafts a Technical Cooperation Project plan (TCP).
  * TCP : Technical Cooperation Project
  ▶ Remittance of a project cost
  ▶ Each member initiates and carries out a project.
  

• Project monitoring and evaluation
  (regular, occasional)
• ▶ Project monitoring and interim evaluation
  - Conducts on-site project inspections and provides technical support (occasional)
  - Conducts regular evaluation meetings
  ▶ Final evaluation and derivation of results at the conclusion of a project
  - Requests the members for a final report (via an official letter)