CTA's strategic goals are to: 1) Support inclusive agricultural policy processes that empower smallholder producers, women, and youth. 2) Promote the development of priority value chains, especially for smallholder producers. 3) Strengthen the information, communication, and knowledge management capacities of institutions and networks through ICT.

1. CTA’s Strategic Goals
CTA: International organization, 79 countries,
ACP
• To support well informed, inclusive agricultural
policy processes and strategies that empower
smallholder producers, women and youth
• To promote the development of priority value
chains, especially for smallholder producers
• To strengthen the information, communication
and knowledge management capacities of
institutions and networks : ICT

2. A’s YOUTH - Strategy – 2013-2017

3. Strategic Orientations – CTA Youth Strategy
Goal 1: Promote coherent evidence –based policies on
youth in agriculture and rural development
Goal 2:To enhance the engagement of youth in agricultural value
chains
Goal 3: Enhance youth engagement in agriculture through
ICT innovation and utilization and knowledge
management
Goal 4: Strengthen engagement of young professionals in
agricultural science and tertiary education

4. Promoting opportunities for
youth in agriculture and ICTs

5. Youth ICT innovations/entrepreneurship in agriculture

6. Ardyis project :
ardyis_project@cta.int
http://ardyis.cta.int
www.facebook.com/ardyis
New LinkedIn space
Mailing lists in Fr and En

7. Working with CTA – New Rules
• Regional actions very largely
• Calls for proposals/competitive grants
• Direct grants and cost-sharing
• Consultancies
• At least 20% from partners in grants