The implementation of the strategy, whose thrusts are outlined in section 3.2 above, requires that resources earmarked for the Head Office work be reviewed and adjusted in view of new challenges. AFRISTAT’s investment component in fact includes not only planned applied research actions, but also an enhancement of AFRISTAT’s own capacities.

It will involve, in particular :

• consolidating its role as a sub-regional organisation supporting capacity building of NSS in Member States ;
• striving to enhance its staff capacities in quantitative and qualitative terms ;
• providing the organisation with adequate financial and material resources.

AFRISTAT will also seek to bolster its action in the areas of data bases and data banks, publications and dissemination, as a supplement to the applied research component.