Building Agribusiness Capacity in East Timor (BACET): Quarterly Report, October 1-December 31, 2009

Building Agribusiness Capacity in East Timor (BACET) directly contributes to USAID/Timor-Leste’s agriculture and workforce development strategies for economic growth. Though categorized as a capacity building and workforce development activity, many of the key activities of BACET have included infrastructure improvements, which are longer-term in nature. Similarly, teacher training and changed teaching methods have long-term impact. 

During the quarter (October 1-December 31, 2009), the third program year began, and BACET emphasized improvements to the teaching process, curriculum development and teacher capacity building support, completed the inaugural Business Plan Competition to promote entrepreneurism and demonstrate commercial agriculture opportunities in Timor-Leste, prepared to pilot a series of trainings targeting groups of community agriculture extension workers as a collaborative between the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries  Directorates for agriculture education and agriculture extension.