Resources

Contents:

• Current Change Management Initiative Records
• System Reviews and Change Initiatives
• 2008 Independent Review of the CGIAR System
• Center and Challenge Program Reviews
• Core Documents
• Visioning
• Governance
• Finance
• Partnerships
• Communications Tools

Current Change Management Initiative Records (and kick-off retreat documents)

• Summary of Kick-Off Meeting, held Feb. 26-27, 2008 in Arlington, Virginia
• Outputs of Kick-Off Meeting, held Feb. 26-27, 2008 in Arlington, Virginia (ppt file)
• Kick-off Retreat Agenda
• CGIAR Chair Welcome Letter
• CST and Working Group Terms of Reference
• AGM07 Decision on CGIAR Change Management Process
• CGIAR Facilitated Change Management Process: Proposal for AGM07, submitted by the Scoping Team
• Revitalizing the CGIAR-Change Management Process 2008. PowerPoint presented at Change Management Workshop February 26-27, 2008.
• CGIAR Change Process Survey Outputs. PowerPoint presented by TRIUM at Change Management Workshop February 26-27, 2008.

System Reviews and Change Initiatives

• Sub Saharan Africa Task Force ( SSA TF ) (2005)
• Operations Evaluation Department ( OED ) Meta-Evaluation (2003)
• Change Design and Management Team (CDMT) Report (2001)
• 3rd System Review. October 1998. (warning! large file: 12MB) Report of the third system review of the CGIAR, conducted during 1997 and '98 by a panel chaired by Maurice Strong. The panel analyzed key issues facing the CGIAR in the late 1990s. Its report offers 29 recommendations pertaining to CGIAR research strategies and priorities, partnerships, governance, and systemwide and center funding.
• Lucerne Declaration, 1995. The Lucerne Declaration and Action Program adopted at the Meeting endorsed a new orientation, governance, and financing arrangements for the CGIAR.
• Report of the Synthesis Group. forthcoming.
  

Alignment Forum May 2007

• CGIAR Reform Program (ppt)
• Revolutionizing the Evolution of the CGIAR, 2001 to 2007
• Report for the Alliance of the CGIAR Center . Report presented at AGM07. The Alliance’s focus during 2007 was aimed at maintaining the momentum that its paper on ‘The Way Forward’ created, both within the Alliance and within the System. The Alliance worked closely with the Science Council and the Secretariat on a number of strategic issues, as well as by pursuing some key partnerships outside of the system.

2008 Independent Review of the CGIAR System

• Farmer First Revisited: Some reflections on the future of the CGIAR. An Informal Note to the CGIAR Independent Review Team, prepared by Ian Scoones, John Thompson and Robert Chambers IDS, Sussex – March 2008
• Interim Progress Report, March 2008
• Appendix 1: Draft Table of Contents for Final Report, March 2008
• Appendix 2: Work Plan Summary
• ARSB Slides: Interim Progress Report, March 2008
• Terms of reference
• Inception report, February 2008 - Report presented during the AGM07 Business Meeting and approved in principle. Some revisions were requested by Members. The Panel accepted these points. They are reflected in this revised edition.
• Bios of panelists - forthcoming

Center and Challenge Program Reviews

• Lessons Learnt from Selection and Implementation of the CGIAR Challenge Programs. 2007.

Core Documents

• CGIAR Charter The Charter was adopted by the CGIAR at its Annual General Meeting in 2004. This current text includes revisions approved in 2006 and in 2007. The Charter is not a legally binding document, nor does it impose any legal liability on CGIAR members or other components of the CGIAR system. The annexes contain the rules of procedure and related arrangements of the main organs of the CGIAR System.

• System Priorities
• Impact Studies - SPIA Impact Reports
• CGIAR Annual Report 2006 (including financials)
  
• The CGIAR’s Stakeholder Perception Survey (2006)
  • Report on the CGIAR Overall This report details the results of the 2006 Stakeholder Perceptions reputation research conducted by GlobeScan Incorporated, on behalf of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). This report was discussed during the Business Meeting at AGM06.
• Center Report This report contains results pertaining to the CGIAR’s 15 Centers and describes Center performance on 24 specific attributes, and identifies how stakeholders view the performance of specific Centers on eight composite reputation drivers. A separate report has been prepared presenting results pertaining to the CGIAR as a whole and describes in detail the organization’s performance on specific attributes and ten reputation drivers.It also describes the channels of influence on the reputation of the CGIAR.

Visioning (documents of particular relevance to the "Visioning and Development Challenges Working Group)

• John Lynam CGIAR Development Challenges paper
• Websites Consulted in Overview of Global Challenges
• Agriculture for Sustainable Economic Development: A Global R&D Initiative to Avoid a Deep and Complex Crisis, Joachim von Braun, Director General, IFPRI , February 28, 2008
• Overview of World Development Report 2008
• Chapter 2 of World Development Report 2008
• Towards Development Challenges for the CGIAR, March 6, 2008
• A Brief on Past Science Council or TAC Vision and Mission Related Statements. SC Secretariat, March 3rd 2008
• A Summary of Recently Agreed CGIAR Priorities for Research. Science Council Secretariat. March 1, 2008.
• Positioning the CGIAR in the Research for Development Continuum. Science Council Secretariat. November 2006.
• System Priorities for CGIAR Research 2005–2015. Science Council Secretariat. December 2005.
• Summary Report on System Priorities for CGIAR Research 2005-2015. Science Council Secretariat. December 2005.
• Executive Summary of the World Population Prospects: 2004 Revision. United Nations Department of Economic and & Social Affairs
• Regional Approach to Research for the CGIAR and its Partners. TAC Secretariat. April 2001.
• E-Conferernce on CGIAR Governance, Organization, and Structure. Final Synthesis. J. A. Berdegue and G. Escobar. 1 September, 2000
• A Food Secure World for All: Toward a New Vision and Strategy for the CGIAR. TAC Secretariat. October 2000.
• TAC’s Views on Implications of the New CGIAR Vision and Strategy for Structure and Governance.
  Paper prepared for the Synthesis Meeting organized by the CGIAR Oversight Committee,
  Sonning, 4-8 October, 2000.
  

Governance (documents of particular relevance to the Governance Working Group)

• CIMMYT Case Study. 2007.
• ISNAR Case Study. 2006
• Board Guidelines
• Stripe Review of Corporate Governance of CGIAR Centers (2006)
• CGIAR Recommendations and Decisions Database

Finance (documents of particular relevance to the Funding Mechanims Working Group)

• Summary of Aanalysis of Information Request on Members' Funding Policies (from AGM06 Business Meeting - Member Coordination Forum.
• Final report of the ExCo AdHoc Committee on Funding System Priorities
  • Full report. This report describes the work of the ExCo Ad Hoc Committee on Funding System Priorities (AHC) since its formal establishment in May 2006. It largely focuses on the AHC’s core task of developing options for funding the CGIAR system priorities (SPs) and develops a story line based on extensive consultation with CGIAR stakeholders. A
    possible funding mechanism is proposed that takes into account pilot studies of selected
    SPs, the first set of Framework Plans (FPs) as well as feedback of the CGIAR Members’
    Coordination Forum at AGM06. Terms of reference of the committee are included in the report. The committee was chaired by Jonathan Wadsworth.
  • Report summary


• Task Force on Funding System Priorities Coordinated Action by CGIAR Members : Final Report for the Annual General Meeting 2005. At AGM2004, Denmark initiated a discussion on the topic of funding CGIAR priorities and proposed that a task force be commissioned to examine the possibility of developing a mechanism to allocate unrestricted funds in the context of the priorities recommended by the Science Council (SC). The Terms of reference for the task force were approved in March 2005 with objectives: 1) To assess and evaluate opportunities for financing System Priorities and, separately, for financing the SC and its Secretariat; and 2) To propose one or more new financing mechanisms in support of CGIAR priorities recommended by the SC. This report looks at funding trends, funding system priorities, a proposed "way forward", several funding mechanism options, and recommendations. It contains the following annexes: the task force terms of reference, the trends in financing the CGIAR, and the summary of donor survey to explore changing restricted funding to unrestricted. The task force was led by Finn Norman Christensen from Denmark. This document was discussed at the Business Meeting at AGM2005.
• Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. 2005.
• Principles and Good Practice of Humanitarian Donorship. Endorsed in Stockholm, 17 June 2003 by Germany, Australia, Belgium, Canada, the European Commission, Denmark, the United States, Finland, France, Ireland, Japan, Luxemburg, Norway, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Switzerland.
• The Way Forward for the CGIAR System: A statement by the Alliance of CGIAR Centers for discussion in the CGIAR system and beyond. May 2007
• Financial Guidelines

Partnerships (documents of particular relevance to the Partnerships Working Group)

• Aligning Global Agricultural Research Investments with National Development Activities: The CGIAR Experience. A paper by Jock R. Anderson.
• CGIAR Center Collaboration: Report of a Survey, SC Secretariat, March 2006
• A Review of the CGIAR as a Provider of International Public Goods. A paper by Francisco Sagasti and Vanessa Timmer. May 2008.
• 2006 CGIAR Annual Report: Partnerships for Effective Research
• Excerpt from "Seeking Surprise: Rethinking Monitoring for Collective Action in Rural Resource Management", Irene Guijt, 2008. Introduction of author's thesis, published by Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands. The author describes "messy partnerships" that seem to be prevalent whenever institutions/groups face complex issues and tasks in collaboration.
• Sharing Science, Building Bridges, and Enhancing Impact: Public-Private Partnerships in the CGIAR. David J. Spielman, Frank Hartwich, and Klaus von Grebmer, June 2007.
• A Strategic Framework for Engagement between the CGIAR and Civil Society Organizations: the CGIAR Perspective. Paper prepared in May 2006 by the CGIAR Secretariat. Within the CGIAR membership and leadership there is wide agreement that the CGIAR has to reconsider its relationship with civil society for enhancing research effectiveness by taking into account globalization, changing trends in civic formation, a new understanding and best practices in partnering with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) – meaning the non-profit sector, including NGOs, farmer organizations, advocacy groups, universities and advanced research institutions. The CGIAR NGO Committee, a mechanism used in the past for engaging with civil society on the global level, has been dormant since 2002, leaving a vacuum to be filled. At System level therefore, CGIARCSO linkages require review and action. This paper is meant to support that process.
• Independent Evaluation of the Partnership Committees of the CGIAR. Keith Bezanson. 2004. This study was undertaken as part of the CGIAR reform program, part of which was aimed at streamlining System governance. The CGIAR Annual General Meeting 2002 agreed to commission an independent, external review of both the Non Governmental Organization Committee (NGOC) and the Private Sector Committee (PSC). The terms of reference for the study asks two questions: 1) how successful have the Committees been in achieving their mission? and 2) are there alternative ways in which the CGIAR could achieve the Committees' mission more efficiently? The evaluation recognized that the two committee experiment in partnerships was generally disappointing to all parties but it nevertheless wishes to underscore the importance of persevering with the experiment. The report underlines the importance for strong relationships between the CGIAR system and international Civil Society as well as the relationship between the CGIAR system and the international private sector. The report was discussed at the 6th Executive Council Meeting of the CGIAR, in May 2004, Montpellier, France. It was also discussed at the Stakeholders Meeting at AGM2004.
• CGIAR and NARS partner research in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence of impact to date. Mywish K.Maredia and D. Raizer. October 2006. This study follows the meta-analysis process, and adopts the same general objectives that guided the meta-analysis of overall CGIAR costs and benefits by Raitzer (2003). The study is a form of break-even analysis that asks the question, “Can the benefits estimated in the limited number of credible impact assessments available to date justify the entire expenditure of the CGIAR in SSA?” If the answer is negative but benefits remain unquantified, there is a need to search for additional credible evidence of benefits. If the answer is positive, there is less need to search for additional evidence of benefits from an accountability perspective, but there is still a need for more assessments to be made across the full range of research and research-related activities to help inform future priorities.
• CSO-CGIAR Partnership Study Summary. Science Council Secretariat. 2007.
• Private Sector Committee of the CGIAR

Communications Tools

• Change Management backgrounder
  • download ppt file
  • download pdf file
• Stakeholder outreach calendar 2008