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12Percentage PercentageYearFigure 5. Performance indices (PI) on the research reports of WECAMANcollaborators, 1994–2004.YearFigure 6. Proportion of participants and paper presentations at WECAMANBiennial Workshops that are from NARS, 1987–2001.ii. Production of high-quality maize seeds.iii. Production of improved technologies.iv. Improved productivity of the maize germplasm.v. Increased maize production in the subregion.OutcomesImproved research management skillsAcross all countries and research projects, PI increased from about58% in 1994 when the ARC started using the new approach to assessprogress reports, to about 76% in 2001 (Fig. 5). Although the linearmodel produced a good fi t for the data (r 2 =80%), the quadratic modelimproved the fi t slightly more (R 2 =87.5%). In 1987, no technical paperswere presented at the Network’s Biennial Workshop and only about50% of the participants were NARS scientists (Fig. 6). The proportionof NARS participants remained about the same in the following two