An overview of CGIAR activities in Ethiopia

Strengthening CGIAR - EARS partnerships for effective agricultural transformation in EthiopiaConsultative Meeting, 4 – 5 December 2014

Siboniso Moyo

Outline

• Introduction: Who we are?

• CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs) with a focus on Africa and Ethiopia

• Partnerships

• Key messages

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CIMMYT

Mexico City

Mexico

IFPRI

Wash. DC

USA

CIP

Lima

Peru

CIAT

Cali

Colombia

Bioversity

International

Rome Italy

AfricaRice

Cotonou

Benin

IITA

Ibadan

Nigeria

ILRI

Nairobi

Kenya

World

Agroforestry

Nairobi

Kenya

ICARDA

Aleppo

Syrian Arab

Rep.ICRISAT

Patancher

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India

IWMI

Colombo

Sri Lanka

IRRI

Los Banos

Phillippines

World Fish

Penang

Malaysia

CIFOR

Bogor

Indonesia

CGIAR Consortium - 15 Member Centres

All 15 centres have offices in Africa

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ILRI Addis Campus – A CGIAR Campus

• ILRI

• IWMI

• IFPRI

• CIMMYT

• ICARDA

• ICRAF

• CIP

• Bioversity

• ICRISAT

• CIAT

• icipe

• IFAD

• IFDC

• BMGF

System objectives/ outcomes

To:Reduce rural poverty

Improve food security

Improve nutrition and health

Sustainably manage natural resources

through high-quality international research and partnerships

Delivering on the Vision through the Consortium Research Programs (CRPs)

Built and measured on three core principles

1. Impact on 4 system-level outcomes, ensuring consistency between SRF and CRP• reduced rural poverty

• improved food security

• improved nutrition and health

• sustainably managed natural resources

2. Integration across CGIAR core competencies, strengthening synergies and avoiding overlaps

3. Appropriate partnerships at all stages of R&D

A portfolio of 15 global collaborative programs

Multi year, multi-institutional (R&D partners), global programs, research sites in multiple countries

Co-designed with partners and stakeholders

Measurable milestones, targets, outputs, clear roles of different partners along impact pathways

Results-based: delivering on expected outputs, for impact pathways linking research outputs to development impacts.

Deliver Measurable output targets from collaborative programs

Development impacts on food security, environmental sustainability, poverty

Assess

Monitor and

Evaluate

Measurable targets for research and development outcomes

Measurable targets of direct development impact from

collaborative research

New approach: How the work is organised - from impacts on development

problems to research outputs

In summary

• Research breakthroughs needed to resolve, in sustainable manner, food security and emerging development challenges

• Results driven: working from development impacts ‘back’ to research needed.

• More productive, stress-resistant varieties + new options formanaging biological processes and NRs more effectively under climate change + new policy, marketing options

• Requirements:

– innovative global partnerships along impact pathways, monitor and assess effectiveness

– more integrative science

– need to work at multiple levels:

local regional national sub-regional global

CGIAR Research ProgramsDryland CerealsGrain Legumes

Livestock and FishMaizeRice

Roots, Tubers and BananasWheat

Climate Change, Agriculture and Food SecurityForests, Trees and Agroforestry

Water, Land and Ecosystems

HumidtropicsAquatic Agricultural Systems

Dryland Systems

Policies, Institutions, and Markets

Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

Genebanks

Many CRPs in Africa

Humidtropics; dryland systems; livestock and fish; water, land and ecosystems

Maize; rice; forest, trees and agroforestry

Policy, institutions and markets; agriculture for nutrition and health; climate change, agriculture and food security,

Based on an innovation systems framework

ENABLERSPolicy/decision-makers

at all levels

DEVELOPMENT

IMPLEMENTERSGov’t, UN, NGOs,

civil society,

farmers groups

VALUE CHAIN

ACTORS Private sector,

public-private

initiatives,

community groups

RESEARCH

PARTNERSInternational and

national

academic,

research

institutions

Principles of ILRI Partnership Strategy - As an example

Based original figure by IFPR/John McDermott 2012.

Science for a food secure future