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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...

Summary of proceedings of the fifteenth Executive Council Meeting held in Lisbon, Portugal October 1-2, 2008 at the International Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (IICT) (English: Tropical Research Institute of Portugal). On the agenda: the Independent Review of the CGIAR, the CGIAR ...

This report contains updates on the CGIAR Secretariat’s activities in support of the CGIAR System and outcome of ExCo efforts (not discussed elsewhere in the agenda) on behalf of the CGIAR. Report was presented by CGIAR Director Ren Wang during the AGM08 meeting in Maputo, Mozambique. It states t...

CGIAR Secretariat paper reviewing the roles of regional representatives to the CGIAR and the purposes of their attendance of CGIAR meetings. It describes alternative ways of providing developing countries with a role in the deliberations of the CGIAR, as well as ways to make the participation of ...

News release announcing that IITA and CIAT have achieved major success in the biological control of one damaging African food pest, and made progress towards controlling another. Success in controlling the cassava mealybug has benefited more than 200 million africans for whom cassava is a staple ...

Report of an ad hoc committee, chaired by Bob Herdt, appointed by the Chairman of the CGIAR to review the work of the CGIAR Secretariat. The committee made 12 recommendations and 21 suggestions, some of which extended beyond its mandate. For example it suggested creation of a Policy Council, cont...

Report reflecting TAC input on the development of a revised resource allocation process as revised after discussion with the center directors and the CGIAR Secretariat. Section I introduces the overall subject, identifying the annual and longer term aspects. Section II lays out the methodology pr...

CGIAR Secretariat report on preparations for the upcoming UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rìo de Janeìro in June, 1992, the so-called "Rio Earth Summit." The report describes CGIAR contacts with the UNCED Secretariat and Secretary General Maurice Strong, and with NGOs spec...