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
Our publications
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Documenting food system policy change in Son La Vietnam Preliminary findings from the Policy Process Documenting Framework PPDF Learning note
This learning note presents preliminary findings from the first application of the Policy Process Documenting Framework (PPDF) in Son La Province,...
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Framework for integrating climate peace and security into universitiescurriculum in Southern Africa
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Capacity Sharing Accelerator Brief
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The Policy Process Documenting Framework PPDF A duallens approach for documenting subnational food system transformation policy processes
The Policy Process Documenting Framework (PPDF) is a methodological tool designed to document how subnational food system transformation policy...
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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CGIAR at AFS Forum 2026: From evidence to delivery
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CGIAR, ICRISAT and ICAR come together to train Partners in Ethiopia on Agroecology-Based Natural Resources Management
The CGIAR Capacity Sharing Accelerator (CapSha) and the CGIAR Multifunctional Landscapes Science Program, with ICRISAT, conducted an international...
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Carbon credits won’t finance Colombia’s cacao transition on their own
Carbon credits can supplement (but not fund) Colombia’s cacao agroforestry transition. Research shows farmers need upfront grants, affordable credit...
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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,...