Meeting our Commitments in our Basins

1. Meeting our Commitments in our Basins CPWF Central’s “Sunrise Strategy” for 2014 and beyond

2. CPWF Central’s Commitment • To the people in our basins affected by our BDCs • To our basin teams who are tackling the BDCs • To contribute to global knowledge • To do what we told our investors we would do • To do what the CG system expects of us

3. Where we are now • Phase I: We built the research base and the social capital to address meaningful development challenges facing the poor in our basins • Phase II: We designed and launched 6 R4D programs to tackle them BDCs • Our BDCs are going; they are growing up and influencing new CRPs • Next year they start leaving home; we close down

4. Meeting our commitment to people in our basins • Through our BDCs • Through the R4D initiatives they are building, within or outside new CRPs • [What does this look like in the NBDC - examples of what we have done and what we plan to do, if time

5. Meeting our commitment to our BDCs • Move from ‘set up’ to ‘enable’ mode • BDCs have our principles, our approaches, let’s support them to use them, e.g.: • Learning from them (Meta synthesis) • E.g. Supporting them to learn from each other (CPWF and CRP5 TWGs) • E.g. Encouraging success (CPWF then CRP5 Innovation Grants) • Work with each Basin Leader to develop a ‘leaving home’ strategy after central support has gone • e.g. proposal that CRP1.3 (Aquatic Agricultural Systems) takes over Ganges BDC on 1st Jan 2014 • Help make each strategy a reality

6. Meeting our commitment to our investors • By doing what we said we would do • By doing it well • By generating and showing impact • By generating and publishing quality science • By communicating on our impact and science

7. Meeting our commitment to the CG System • Do what we were set up to do (be a successful pilot of programmatic research, and share what we have learned) • Be clear in what we have learned; in what works and what doesn’t • Share what we have learned • Contribute to the CGIAR Strategy and Results Framework through influencing CRPs visions (e.g. CRP5 basins research strategy) • CRP5 and CPWF evolution – basin strategies (C& C project-lite) alongside SRPs (possible TWG model) • Project and BDC alignment + Basin SRP

8. So what happens 1st Jan, 2013? • CPWF Central support continues, with parts of it shared with CRP5 (Comms, Finances, M&E) • BDCs prepare for or start implementing (Ganges, Limpopo?) their individual continuation strategies in the basins • Some CG-Center led individual projects picked up by Centers and continued under CRPs • A central learning initiative begins

9. The central learning initiative • An interdisciplinary research undertaking • To fulfil commitment to investors and the CG system • To construct institutional histories of each BDC (planned 2012, undertaken 2013) • To do impact evaluation • To document our learning on how to do research that has impact, effectively • To write the sequel to the Meta Synthesis • To ensure learning placed and positioned with fullest range of stakeholders

10. And what happens 1st Jan, 2014? • CPWF Central support ends • BDCs implement their individual continuation strategies in the basins • Some more individual projects picked up and continued under CRPs • The central learning initiative prepares its conclusions

11. NBDC SunriseStrategies • We have: • Roadmaps to end 2013 • NBDC outcomes • Agreed on « advantages » - NBDC niche/added value • Weneed to: • identifyopportunities and entry points (by project and BDC) • Vision for the NBDC 2014 and beyond • Key elements of the strategy • Think out of the box, radical, creative, ambitious & realistic