Deputation of Experts / Consultants

To support member countries in planning and implementing their rural development projects, AARDO provides with the needed experience, expertise and guidance by way of making available the services of experts in specific fields. On receipt of such a request from member countries, expert(s) are deputed to a requiring country. To facilitate this process, AARDO Secretariat has prepared a DataBank of Experts relating to various fields of agriculture and rural development and uses services of experts as and when required. Besides, AARDO also utilizes the large repository of trained Indian agricultural scientists who have been working in the apex level agricultural institutions on a wide variety of issues.

Under the programme, AARDO meets expenses on both-ways airfare (economy class) and pays honorarium for the first month to expert/consultant. The beneficiary country is required to meet expenses on local hospitality, including boarding, lodging, local transportation etc., and also pay honorarium from the second month onwards. This activity will continue during the triennium 2021-2023 and extended year 2024.

Under this programme, AARDO recently deputed expert from India to Mauritius in May 2016 on "Restructuring and Consolidation for Cooperative Dairy Sector in Mauritius" and from India to Namibia in February 2017 on "Addressing the challenges of the Agriculture sector through Low Cost Organic Agriculture practices in Namibia" as well as from R O China to Mauritius on ornamntal fish in 2018. The experts, after completion of the assignments, submitted their reports