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Robin Buruchara

CIAT Africa Strategy CIAT Board Meeting #63 Nairobi, Kenya 12 May 2011. Robin Buruchara. Outline. Introduction Current Strategy Adjustments or a New Strategy? Way Forward . Current CIAT Africa Vision and Strategy . Developed three years ago Planning process

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Robin Buruchara

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  1. CIAT Africa Strategy CIAT Board Meeting #63 Nairobi, Kenya12 May2011 Robin Buruchara

  2. Outline • Introduction • Current Strategy • Adjustments or a New Strategy? • Way Forward

  3. Current CIAT Africa Vision and Strategy • Developed three years ago • Planning process • CIAT Africa staff (2007/08) • PABRA Partners (2008) • Input to current CIAT Strategy • Adjustments to certain elements

  4. PABRA Stakeholder Workshop (2008) • 60 stakeholders • NARS • SROs • NGOs • Private sector • Farmer organizations • Health and nutrition • CIAT • East, west and south Africa

  5. Process • Took stock of recent changes and trends • SWOT Analysis and context for CIAT/Partner research • What CIAT could offer, niche and collaborative advantage in Africa? • Identified key strategic areas where CIAT/Partners could engage • Defined • What to achieve? • How to get there? • How to organize ourselves?

  6. Guiding Principle • Demand and opportunity driven • Integration across CIAT • Targeting (impact target) • Partnerships (traditional and new) • CIATs comparative advantage • Adding value

  7. Trends and changes in the external environment • Institutional environment, international donor environment • Ecological environment • Socio-economic and political environment • Overall implication for CIAT

  8. Alignment of goals to address Africa’s Problems under different Initiatives Millennium Development Goals AU/NEPAD FARA / ASARECA /FANR /CORAF CIAT Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger and halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than US$1 a day Growth in GDP of 6% pa by 2015 Commitment to indicators linked to the MDG for poverty and NEPAD’s goal for economic growth Contribute to reducing hunger and poverty in the tropics through collaborative research that improves agricultural productivity and natural resource management 4% growth rate in agricultural productivity Is increased economic growth and improvedlivelihoods while enhancing the quality of the environment

  9. CIAT’s Comparative Advantage • Germplasm (Beans, Cassava, Forages) • Capacity in soils (TSBF-CIAT) • Partnerships (approaches, types and numbers) • Socio Science /ERI Approaches (PR, PPB and Agro-enterprise) • Wider Impact Approach (for wider technology reach) • Approaches to respond to some acute stresses • HQ drawn competencies (Biotechnology, GIS, Climate change, Physiology)

  10. CIAT Africa Strategy The CIAT Africa strategy aims to respond to African needs through research where CIAT and its partners have a comparative advantage • Contribution towards addressing the complex problems (poverty, productivity, impact on climate variation) • Add value and addresses both regional goals & system priorities • Define and exploit CIAT’s global and regional comparative advantages • A partnership based on value addition, synergy and achieving common and our strategic goals (research and development)

  11. Thrust/Themes to Focus on • Reduce and prevent impact of environmental stress (Resilient systems) • Building soil assets for small farmer productivity and environmental services • Pro-poor market development • Nutrition security and health of vulnerable communities • Reaching the hard to reach faster and more efficiently • Capacity building and knowledge management for policy and advocacy

  12. Cross Cutting Issues • Gender mainstreaming strategies • HIV/AIDs mainstreaming • Strategic alliances and partnerships • Program monitoring and evaluation

  13. For Each Thrust Analysis for: • What to achieve • Outputs / Outcomes: • Main components of the thrust • Other actors working in the area • Key strategies for implementing the thrust • Efficient internal organization to deliver • Capacities and profiles required

  14. How to organize ourselves as CIAT Africa • Identify synergy within Africa, HQ, other regions and centers (IPGs) • Capacity and staff profiles required • Partnerships (within and without) • Joint proposal development • Inter-disciplinarity • Resource mobilization

  15. Adjustments or a New Strategy ?

  16. Alignment of major outcomes / objectives of the CGIAR, global CIAT and CIAT-Africa

  17. GuidingPrinciples • Africa’s challenges • Changing context of African Agriculture • CGIAR Reform Process • Implementation research through CRPs (CIAT is in 7) • CIATs Strategic Directions and Objectives (2010 – 2020) • Mission, Objectives, Pillars • Africa (Regions) Platform for integration through partnerships • Three years since elaborating the current strategy

  18. Adjustments • In third year of strategy • Alignments with CIAT Strategy, CG Reform, etc • Business Plans • New Areas / Increased Emphasis: • Climate Change • Environment • Gender • IAR4D

  19. Implementation Objectives • Support development of new collaborative research and development activities and strengthen existing ones • Foster and promote integration of CIAT research areas activities and efforts through collaborative research and development • Catalyze partnerships of actors with NARS and enhance capacities • Facilitate and promote optimal, efficient and complementary use of resources among CIAT teams and partners

  20. Implementation Strategy – Program Level • What to achieve • Outputs / Outcomes: • Main components of the program • Internal efficiency to deliver • Partnership organization to deliver • Resources required (including human)

  21. Implementation Strategy • Programmatic approach • E.g. PABRA, SSACP • Integration of Corporate Services • Share office/costs internally and other centers) • Locations

  22. Integration Across CIAT Research Areas - Africa AB SO I L S L A C

  23. Uganda (Kampala) Kawanda Agricultural Research Station CORAF ASARECA ICRAF Kenya Sadore(Mali) MASENO Tanzania (Arusha) Selian Agricultural Research Institute Rwanda (Kigali) ISAR Kinshasa(DRC) FANR/SADC Malawi (Lilongwe)Chitedze Agricultural Research Station Bukavu(eastern DRC) Maputo(Mozambique) Zimbabwe (Harare)

  24. Challenges /Opportunities • Challenges • Resources • Realignments • New capacities • Opportunities • New funding initiatives • CRPs • New partnership and alliances

  25. Way Forward • Adjustment • Ongoing • Revision of strategy • When?

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