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Report responding to a request made at the CGIAR meeting in May 1988 that TAC examine a possible expansion of the CGIAR to include ten so called non associated centers. The report was first circulated in September 1990, and this is the final version. Appended to the document is an extract from th...

Working document prepared by the TAC Secretariat profiling the mandates, governance and structure, and research programs and activities of nine of the non associated centers being considered for CGIAR support. The centers covered are: AVRDC, IBSRAM, ICIPE, ICLARM, ICRAF, IFDC, IIMI, INIBAP, and I...

TAC response to a request from the CGIAR at ICW 1990 for analysis of CGIAR centers' relationships to national agricultural research systems (NARS). After considering the broader context in which centers seek to build NARS capacity, it defines two forms of assistance: one "catalytic assistance" wh...

TAC's comments presented at International Centers Week 1999 on the 2000 financing plans submitted by the CGIAR Centers and considered at TAC 77. TAC's review compared the plans with levels of spending endorsed by commodity, sector, and activity at the CGIAR Mid Term Meeting 1997. The plans were a...

Revised Terms of Reference and Guidelines for the conduct of TAC quinquennial reviews of IARCs. Discussed at TAC Eighteenth Meeting Feb 1978 and TAC Nineteenth Meeting Jun 1978, and submitted for comment and approval at the CGIAR meeting November 1978.

A comment prepared by TAC at its 79th meeting in September 2000 on the plans of the centers for financing their 2001 programs. While the plans were found broadly congruent with the approved CGIAR research agenda, some centers faced potentially significant financing gaps, notably ICRISAT, ILRI, an...

A supplementary note to the TAC paper on the CGIAR vision and strategy concerning its implications for the future research agenda. The paper lists the four broad criteria used by TAC to assess strategic choices for shaping the CGIAR research agenda. These are contribution to CGIAR goals, internat...

Paper for discussion at a joint session of TAC and Center Directors regarding ways of increasing the similarity in the purposes, methodology, scope, format and contents of center long term plans. Also outlines an approach to preparation of an overall forward plan for the CGIAR system. Agenda docu...

Report of a subcommittee established by TAC to examine the relationship between IBPGR and the FAO, and the FAO Commission on Plant Genetic Resources in particular. The report recommends the administrative seperation of IBPGR from the FAO, and organization of IBPGR into an autonomous institution i...

Report from TAC for approval by the CGIAR containing detailed recommendations center by center for programs and funding in 1997. This was a product of TAC 69, and an agenda document, CGIAR Mid Term Meeting, May 1996.