2. Issues and Questions
Now Dr. Carama creates two working groups to prepare drafts of "Mission Statements". Please click on each group to see its statement. Then choose the one that you think is better.
Group 1. - This group will set PITs for the Mulalo Maize Research Institute (MMRI). The MMRI information programme has two goals: to encourage increases in agricultural production and to promote improvements in the status of rural women. The primary target groups for its information products are farmers, large and small, and particularly female farmers. It tries to reach these audiences directly with both print and digital materials.
Group 2. - This group will set PITs for the Mulalo Maize Research Institute (MMRI). The rationale for the MMRI information programme is to disseminate the results of research done at the institute. The goal is increased agricultural production. The most important target group is medium-size farmers, to be reached mainly via extension workers. The extension organisation has asked MMRI to provide it with raw information content, which it will repackage in appropriate formats and disseminate.
You chose Group 1
Probably too ambitious. - Most research institutes do not have the resources to reach such a wide variety of target groups or to produce too many different information products. And MRRI will not want to be evaluated on whether the status of rural women has improved.
View group statement again: Group 1 statement | Group 2 statement
You chose Group 2
The better answer. - More modest and realistic. MRRI recognizes that it cannot do everything itself and that it must cooperate with extension services.
View group statement again: Group 1 statement | Group 2 statement
