Agricultural Development in the American Pacific (ADAP) Project

Coordinator's Handbook

On the web at www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/adap2

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Principal Investigators (PIs) and Cooperators

Principal Investigators (PIs) and Cooperators are the Land Grant and other professional staff in the region who implement the program activities sponsored by ADAP.  Most activities are funded on an annual basis, through projects within ADAP.  For accountability purposes, each project must have an overall leader PI, who has responsibility for the project as a whole, and is accountable to the ADAP Directors for seeing that activities are carried out, evaluated and documented.  If no one Land Grant staff is available to serve as leader PI, the project may be organized with two Co-PIs, as long as one Co-PI is Land Grant staff and takes responsibility for coordination, monitoring and reporting; the second Co-PI can take responsibility for program leadership; the second Co-PI is not required to be Land Grant staff.

    Cooperators are those Land Grant and other professional staff who represent institutions cooperating in the project.  A Cooperator is responsible for carrying out and coordinating work within his/her own institution, and coordinating that with the project PI and other Cooperators.  Each Land Grant program participating in a project must have at least one Cooperator designated.  Additional Cooperators may be from non-ADAP institutions such as local government departments, US Forest Service, South Pacific Commission, University of the South Pacific, etc.  All PIs, Co-PIs and Cooperators must arrange appropriate administrative/institutional support for their activities, in advance of proposing their own (and therefore their institution's) commitment to the activity.  They work closely with their ADAP Coordinator to plan, implement, evaluate and document the ADAP activities they are responsible for, in a way which promotes cooperation and collaboration within and among institutions.

ADAP Home Office

University of Hawaii

CTAHR

3050 Maile Way

Gilmore 112

Honolulu, Hawaii  96822

Phone (808) 956-8140

Fax (808) 956-6967

All or part of this publication may be reproduced for educational purposes.  When doing so, please credit the Land Grant Institutions and the ADAP Project.  Publication made possible by USDA Grant #2004-38826-02201, Agricultural Development in the American Pacific (ADAP), Year 19.