Capacity Sharing
Overview
We will drive a culture shift towards more equal and healthier partnerships for capacity sharing between and among CGIAR and partners advancing food, land, and water systems transformation, placing a strong emphasis on gender equality, women’s empowerment, and youth inclusion.
We will integrate innovative approaches in data, digital tools, scaling strategies, and soft-skills programs to build capacities among partners and within CGIAR, working across local, national, regional, and global contexts. This will address the fragmented, top-down, Global North-driven approach which has shaped the traditional capacity development in agricultural research.
Our goal
Our work will contribute to
Technical Report
Where we bring benefits
The countries and locations listed below reflect where CGIAR and its partners reasonably expect their work to generate benefits:
- Global
Challenges
Challenges we’ll address
- Necessity of skills and knowledge required to equitably drive transformational change to address pressing global challenges – such as demographic shifts, environmental degradation, climate change, geopolitical instability, rising inequalities, and advances in frontier technologies
- Demand to accelerate the transfer, acquisition, sharing, and retention of essential capacities, particularly among partners in the Global South
- An obligation to shift culture toward the decolonization of science in food, land, and water systems
Areas of work
CapSha Innovation Laboratory
Conducts innovative research on Capacity Development, while testing and piloting new tools and approaches across CGIAR and its partnerships to build evidence, and translating findings into practical guidance, frameworks, and actionable resources.
CapSha Marketplace
A centralized, accessible platform that integrates knowledge resources, communities of practice, and co-creation environments, optimized for collaboration, matchmaking, and peer-to-peer learning.
CapSha South-South and Triangular Cooperation
Identifies capacity gaps and opportunities, connects institutions with relevant expertise and partners, supports the co-development and delivery of capacity development through institutional partnerships, and scales impact by moving from isolated exchanges to sustainable cooperation systems.
Events
News
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What three agricultural research pilots taught us about partnerships
Three agricultural research pilots in Ethiopia, Rwanda and Senegal reveal what country-led partnerships require in practice: strong institutions,...
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Capacity sharing at IWMI and the case for CGIAR-wide coherence
Drawing on insights from IWMI, this piece examines why CGIAR needs stronger systems to document, measure, and connect capacity sharing, so existing...
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Empowering Rwandan researchers with Ethiopian expertise
Through structured South–South cooperation, Rwandan researchers gained the skills and institutional capacity to generate site-specific fertilizer...
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IITA hosts farmers for hands-on training on improved yam cultivation
IITA–CGIAR recently hosted an impactful farmers’ outreach program through the RadioIITA outreach initiative in collaboration with the IITA Yam...