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SEARCA Alumni, Associates, and Fellows (SAAF)

SEARCA's valuable network of experts, researchers, and knowledge workers

SEARCA considers the participants and beneficiaries of its capacity-building programs as partners in carrying out the Center's mandate of promoting agricultural and rural development toward poverty reduction and food security in Southeast Asia.

The participants and beneficiaries of the Center's programs have been grouped as follows:

SEARCA considers the participants and beneficiaries of its capacity-building programs as partners in carrying out the Center's mandate of promoting agricultural and rural development toward poverty reduction and food security in Southeast Asia.

The participants and beneficiaries of the Center's programs have been grouped as follows:

SEARCA Alumni

Graduate Alumni – individuals who completed their graduate study programs through SEARCA.
Training Alumni – individuals who are graduates of SEARCA's short-term training courses and similar learning events and those who successfully completed the Center's Academic Bridging Program.

SEARCA Associates

Individuals who are recipients of SEARCA grants and have completed the grants' requirements (e.g., Seed Fund for Research and Training, Travel Grants, and Professorial Chairs) and research interns who completed their stint at SEARCA.

SEARCA Fellows

Individuals who are or have been appointed as Senior Fellows, Visiting Research Fellows, or Adjunct Fellows of the Center.

Through this webpage, SEARCA reaches out to sustain its connection with SAAF to encourage them in their endeavors, to celebrate their successes, and to continually foster their participation in the work for sustainable agricultural and rural development.

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SEARCA Alumni

Graduate Alumni

Graduate Alumni coverSEARCA's Graduate Study Program was initiated in School Year 1968/1969. Over five decades, the scope of the Graduate Study Program has expanded to include institutional development, networking, and services to enhance graduate education in the region.

Through the years, SEARCA has sustained partnerships with international education networks and continues to promote new collaborations with industries and government agencies.

Training Alumni

Training Alumni coverSEARCA's Training for Development Unit (T4DU) provides opportunities for professionals and policymakers to update themselves and discuss contemporary issues and science-based perspectives on agricultural and rural development (ARD), strengthen their leadership competencies, and hone their research capabilities. These opportunities include:

  • Learning and knowledge events for key champions and stakeholders to advance ARD in Southeast Asia
  • Onsite, online, and blended courses
  • Platforms for e-learning and peer mentoring for knowledge sharing and collaborative/social learning on ARD in Southeast Asia

While SEARCA continues to develop learning initiatives for policymakers, researchers, academicians, trainers, and other key stakeholders in response to emerging issues in ARD, its short-term capacity-building program is also concerned with the outcomes and impacts of the Center's learning initiatives. In line with monitoring and evaluating such outcomes and impacts, SEARCA's T4D endeavors to:

  • Equip ARD stakeholders to enable them to document and package their ARD practices, protocols, and insights/lessons for knowledge sharing and policy advocacy
  • Track outcomes and impacts of learning and knowledge-sharing via events and implementation of training alumni’s re-entry action plans on ARD in Southeast Asia

SEARCA Associates

SFRT Grantees

The Seed Fund for Research and Training (SFRT) is envisaged to provide chosen research and training project proposals with limited start-up funds intended to enhance chances of securing long-term support from donor agencies. A grant of up to USD 15,000 shall be awarded as seed fund for research/training. Learn more.

GRAINS Grantees

Grants for Research towards Agricultural Innovative Solutions (GRAINS) offers short-term starter funds to collaborative actions aimed at transformative innovations for more sustainable agriculture and rural development across Southeast Asia. GRAINS will support the translational research and community knowledge transfer of technologies and products that will lead to diffusion or adoption through partnership with the players and actors in the agro-innovation ecosystem. Learn more.

Travel Grantees

To reinforce the Center's efforts and resources in accelerating transformation through agricultural innovation (ATTAIN) and become a leading enabler and champion of excellence in agricultural and rural development, SEARCA will provide travel grants of up to a maximum of USD 1,200 to each qualified agriculture and agriculture-related professional, social scientist, or graduate student in Southeast Asia. Learn more.

Regional Professorial Chair Grantees

SEARCA has been in the forefront of efforts to develop agriculture and development practitioners/experts within and outside Southeast Asia. A strong cadre of agriculture professionals will help the Center in its mandate to bring about agricultural and rural development (ARD) in the region. Since AY 2012-2013, the SEARCA Regional Professorial Chair Grant has recognized the contribution of institutions and individuals in the fields of agriculture and related sciences, thereby contributing to ARD in Southeast Asia through instruction, research, innovation, and extension work. Learn more.

SEARCA Fellows

Senior Fellows

SEARCA Senior Fellows provide gratis advice and guidance in the conceptualization of programs as well as technical inputs in project development and implementation. They also assist in establishing linkages and negotiating proposals with potential donors and partners. The Senior Fellows Program complements the expertise that resides within the Center's professional staff pool as well as its Adjunct Fellows and Visiting Research Fellows Programs.

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Adjunct Fellows

The SEARCA Adjunct Fellows (SAF) Program offers research opportunities along SEARCA's strategic intent of accelerating transformation through agricultural innovation (ATTAIN) to faculty and staff of member and partner universities of the SEARCA-initiated University Consortium for Graduate Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC) as well as to research staff of other organizations under SEAMEO.

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Visiting Research Fellows

The Visiting Research Fellows (VRF) Program is intended for researchers, within or outside Southeast Asia, who are conducting research along the SEARCA's strategic intent of accelerating transformation through agricultural innovation (ATTAIN). Transformation efforts will focus on conceptual, policy, institutional, social, and technological innovations that will allow transitions to occur in the agricultural industry.

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