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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Climate change is fuelling African conflict governments are developing a shared response
Climate change is making life tougher. Across Africa, failed harvests, shrinking water supplies and more extreme weather are leaving millions of...
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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
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 makes South-South cooperation effective and enduring?
What makes South–South cooperation last? This piece explores how adaptation, institutional capacity, reciprocity and enabling conditions can turn...
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New Delhi Marks UN Day for South-South Cooperation with Push to Scale Dryland Innovation Across the Global Sout
A major international push to accelerate agricultural innovation across the Global South took centre stage in New Delhi today, as the United Nations...
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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...