What We Do

With a customer-centric approach, SEARCA repositions its products and services based on the needs of its stakeholder groups for enhancing their impact at the ground level (Table 1). Each group has different coverage, audience, and depth of impact on the farmers and farming families; hence, products and services will be customized.

For the Macro level stakeholders, the products and services will revolve around catering to their needs in policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation; and focusing on creating the next generation of agricultural leaders and managers.

For the Mid-level or Meso level stakeholders like the HEIs, the focus is on enabling them to align their program designs and implementation strategies with the future concept of agriculture.

Lastly, the Micro level stakeholders of the Center, composed of local government entities (municipalities/districts/townships) and business entities (particularly cooperatives) that have the greatest impact at the ground level, SEARCA will produce their next generation of agricultural leaders and enable their current leaders to be equipped with technological know-how and transformational leadership skills.

Across all levels, SEARCA provides graduate scholarships, institutional development assistance, and training; research, policy and program advisory, and knowledge platforms; and technology transfer, innovation and incubation platforms, and other services customized to the needs of stakeholders and intended beneficiaries. By systematically wielding all of these services, SEARCA will continue to provide strategic capacity building services for Southeast Asia and beyond.