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Revised version of a background paper assessing how well existing international natural resource conservation and management (NRCM) research addresses requirements, and the need for changed or expanded CGIAR involvement. This is one of a series of desk studies prepared as background for TAC panel...

CGIAR news release on the importance of tropical hillsides and forests, the consequences of their degradation, and revolutionary measures being designed by CIAT to preserve them.

Report of an external management review of CIP, conducted in late 1988 and 1989, concurrently with an external program review, by a panel chaired by Lowell Hardin. The document contains a transmittal and comment by the CGIAR Executive Secretary, a letter from the CIP Board Chair describing the pr...

This draft report was discussed at ExCo16, June 4-5, 2009 in Cali, Colombia.

Paper prepared jointly by the CGIAR and TAC secretariats proposing modifications in the conduct of center reviews (external management reviews and external program reviews), inter-center reviews, and systemwide reviews. Vernon Ruttan's 1987 'Study of the External Review Processes in the CGIAR,' p...

CGIAR secretariat note describing the origins and rationale of quinquennial reviews as articulated in the 1973 Bell Subcommittee report, and the conduct, emphasis, and planning of the four reviews thus far completed. A TAC secretariat note on the same subject is attached, along the terms of refer...

This document was discussed at the CGIAR's December 9, 2009 Business Meeting. The booklet contains: 1) the CGIAR's Joint Declaration, 2) the Consortium Constitution, 3) the Framework for the CGIAR Fund, and 4) the Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for the new CGIAR. The pdf file attached to thi...

Paper for the Finance Committee by three members of the CGIAR Secretariat examining the role of the World Bank as balancing donor, and the possibility that this role provided disincentives to resource mobilization and discouraged fundraising efforts by IARCs. This was a background document to the...

Paper prepared for the Finance Committee by the CGIAR Secretariat on the development of financial strategies to implement IARC 1994-1998 medium term plans in the face of than harsher-than-expected funding constraints. The paper presents three possible courses of development the CGIAR System might...

The Members of the CGIAR met in Washington, DC December 8, 2009 and displayed their commitment to international agricultural research by agreeing to move ahead with far-reaching reforms, aimed at preparing the organization for a new era of achievement and impact through collaborative science. The...