The Project DURAS (Promotion du Développement Durable dans les systèmes de Recherche
Agricole du Sud) is a three-year project funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It aims
to contribute to strengthening the involvement and enhancing the scientific potential of southern
stakeholders in agricultural research for sustainable development (ARSD), particularly in Africa,
Near East and some parts of Asia. The workshop aimed to bring together coordinators of DURAS-supported projects and share information with each other on their respective project. It was also designed to discuss and agree on the following: (1) minimum set of indicators which each project can use to estimate
contribution to sustainable development (SD); (2) common project monitoring and reporting
system; and (3) information and communication tools which can be used to facilitate interaction
among Project Coordinators as well as in the reporting and dissemination of project results.