Stakeholder Meeting October 29 - 30

• Timed Draft Agenda

Agenda Item 2: 2003 CGIAR Awards

• List of Awards

Agenda Item 3: Centers' Forum
a. Meet your New Science Council, GRPC and DGs

• Bios of New Science Council Members
• GRPC: Chair's Bio and List of Members
• Bios of New DGs

b. Achievements and Impact of the Centers' Work

Agenda Item 4: Overview of the World Food Situation

Agenda Item 5: Updates

• Progress Report on CGIAR Priority Setting Process
• Private Sector Committee Report
• GFAR Report
• An Assessment of Agricultural Science & Technology for Development

Agenda Item 6: Stakeholder Interaction on Key Issues
(a) Issues in Poverty Alleviation: (i) CGIAR's Impact on Poverty: Results of SPIA/IFPRI Study; (ii) Poverty Mapping: Progress Report and Strategy for the Future

• Parallel Session A : Draft Program
• IFPRI Brief: Impacts of Agricultural Research on Poverty: Findings of an Integrated Economic and Social Analysis. Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Michelle Adato, Lawrence Haddad, and Peter Hazell

(b) Stakeholder Consultations: (i) Future of CGIAR's Partnership Committees; (ii) Design of Challenge Program on Sub-Saharan Africa

• Parallel Session B: Draft Program
• Building Sustainable Livelihoods through Integrated Agricultural Research for Development "Securing the future for Africa's children" : Programme Proposal Executive Summary
• iSC Commentary on the Programme Proposal

(c) The CGIAR Moving Forward: (i) CGIAR Open University Program; (ii) CGIAR Strategy on INRM

• Parallel Session C: Draft Program

(d)Dialog with Winners of 2003 CGIAR Awards in Science

• Parallel Session D: Draft Program

Agenda Item 7: Innovation Marketplace : Meet the Winners

Agenda Item 8: Update on Challenge Programs (CP) being Implemented

• Update on Biofortification Challenge Program Activities. August 2003.
• Update on CP on Water and Food. August 2003
• Update on CP on Unlocking Genetic Diversity in Crops for the Resource-Poor. August 2003.

Agenda Item 9: Other Business

Agenda Item 10: Ministerial Roundtable

• Timed Draft Agenda

  Agenda Item 2. Progress with Implementing the CGIAR Reform Program

• ExCo5 Summary of Record of Proceedings

Agenda Item 3. Evaluation

• ExCo Recommendations to the CGIAR on the Restructuring of ISNAR
• Restructuring ISNAR: Report of the CGIAR Team
• Letter from ISNAR DG on Transition Arrangements
• Progress Report to AGM on ISNAR Restructuring
• Comments received on the report of the IRT

  (b) External Program and Management Reviews of ICRISAT
  

• ExCo Recommendations to the CGIAR on ICRISAT
  
• ICRISAT EPR Report
  
• ICRISAT EMR Report
• ICRISAT's Revised Responses to the EPR and the EMR
• ICRISAT's Ideas on a Task Force to Study the Restructuring of the Center

  (c) External Program and Management Review of IPGRI
  

• ExCo Recommendations to the CGIAR on IPGRI
  
• IPGRI EPMR Report
  
• IPGRI EPMR Appendices

  Agenda Item 4. Structure of the CGIAR

• Background note

Agenda Item 5. World Bank OED Meta-Evaluation of the CGIAR

• The CGIAR at 31: Celebrating its Achievements, Facing its Challenges (OED Précis, Spring 2003, Number 232)

Agenda Item 6. Report from SC

(a) Report of the iSC and iSC/SC Transition

• Changing Monitoring and Evaluation in the CGIAR System

(b) Report from SPIA/SC

• Report to the AGM of the cGIAR from the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) of the Science Council

Agenda Item 7. CGIAR Financing Plan for 2004

• ExCo Comments
• 2004 CGIAR Financing Plan
  
• Attachments to the 2004 CGIAR Financing Plan

Agenda Item 8. Perspectives from the Centers

Agenda Item 9. Lessons Learned from Implementation of Pilot Challenge Program

• Unlocking Genetic Diversity in Crops for the Resource-Poor Challenge Program: Lessons Learned
• HarvestPlus (Biofortification Challenge Program) : Lessons Learned
• Water & Food Challenge Program : Lessons Learned

Agenda Item 10. Other Business

(a) Future CGIAR Meetings

(b) Draft Documents for Comment by the CGIAR

• Membership in the CGIAR
  
• Comments received on the Draft Paper on Membership in the CGIAR
• Towards Designing a Performance Measurement System for the CGIAR
  
• Annexes to Towards Designing a Performance Measurement System for the CGIAR
  
• Comments received on the Report of the Working Group on Performance Measurement

(c) Disposition of Contract - TAC Chair