Cristian Nicolau
M&E
Agricultural Support
Services - Romania
Agricultural Support
Services - Romania
Project Value 18 mil. USD (11 mil. IBRD
Loan)
Components:
- Applied Research & Extension
- Institutional Building
Cristian Nicolau
cnicolau@pmu-assp.ro
Agricultural Support
Services Project
Objectives:
1 to provide immediately needed technology,
information and training for private farmers to
increase their agriculture productivity,
sustainability and income;
2 to improve efficiency, cost effectiveness and
client relevance in management of research
and extension.
Cristian Nicolau
cnicolau@pmu-assp.ro
Agricultural Support
Services
The applied research & extension component is
applying a Competitive Grant Scheme
- 125 projects are finances (management,
marketing and agribusiness, field crops,
horticulture, livestock);
- the 125 projects receive 25% percent of the total
sum upon signing the Grant Agreement;
- the rest of the funds are disbursed upon
approval of the periodic progress report.
Cristian Nicolau
cnicolau@pmu-assp.ro
Management Information
System
 the system is monitored through a MIS system
designed by me using MS Access;
 the system records all parameters of the CGS
financed projects (activities, deadlines,
procurement, financial progress)
 the system have the capability of monitoring
that the “things are done right”
 My interest is to create a basis (computerized)
to assess if the “right things were done”
Cristian Nicolau
cnicolau@pmu-assp.ro
Monitoring Focus
 Monitoring focus  technology transfer
 Type of activities accounted for technology
transfer:
1 Training Courses;
2 On farm demonstrations;
3 Publications – brochures, leaflets etc.
Cristian Nicolau
cnicolau@pmu-assp.ro
Evaluation
Now is done by using a 6 points questionaire:
•
list the technologies forwarded to the farmers;
•
number of farmers who applied in their own farms the
technologies proposed in your project;
•
What is the area / what is the number of animals upon which the
technologies were applied;
•
How many partnerships were formed as a result of your project
(farmer associations, number of members, etc);
•
What are the economic effects appeared as a result of applying
the technologies proposed in your project, in respect with the
farmers who applied them (increase of productivity, decrease of
production costs, increase of income, etc). Please enter actual
data (the productivity increased from X before the project to Y
after applying the proposed technologies).
Cristian Nicolau
cnicolau@pmu-assp.ro
Cristian Nicolau
cnicolau@pmu-assp.ro
Cristian Nicolau
cnicolau@pmu-assp.ro
Learning Interest
Current trends in planning and M&E theory and
practice
Design M&E systems that support adaptive and
flexible project and program management
Principles of participatory and learning oriented
planning, monitoring and evaluation
Cristian Nicolau
cnicolau@pmu-assp.ro
Cristian Nicolau
Department of Engineering Sciences,
Polytechnic University of Bucharest,
Romania
MBA
Master Degree in Modeling and Simulation
of Systems
Cristian Nicolau
cnicolau@pmu-assp.ro