The CIMBAA Steering Committee is comprised of the directors of the five partners.
The Board sets the targets and milestones and is responsible for
'go/no-go' decisions at key points through the life of the program. The
five organizations provide staff for the Technical Committee, which
undertakes the day-to-day work of the program and coordinates the work
of the research partners, with one co-ordinator from the public sector
and one from the private sector. An independent Advisory Board is being
constituted to provide the necessary independent quality assurance of
the PPP's progress against its milestones.
Public partners The public partners bring a range of complimentary skills and experience to CIMBAA. AVRDC (Taiwan) has long experience in the development and deployment of vegetable germplasm for developing countries and experience in building this into IPM systems. The Natural Resources Institute at the University of Greenwich (UK) has a long history of development of appropriate pest management systems in a wide range of crops in Asia and Africa for the UK government and other donors. Cornell University's Entomology Department (USA) has world-leading experience with the development and testing of single and dual gene insect resistant brassicas and Cornell's Office of International Programmes has one of the world's largest portfolios of scientific development projects. The Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research at Melbourne University (Australia) is a leading international centre for research into the evolution of genetic responses of insects to insecticidal materials.
CIMBAA works with several international institutions to address specific research aspects of the project. Currently, already eight research partners work with CIMBAA in addition to the work of the CIMBAA members.
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