Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

11th ISPC Meeting

Bogor, 30/03 – 01/04/2015

FTA’s overall objectives are highly relevant, especially from the global public goods perspective

There is strong demand for a program like FTA and for the research carried out by FTA Participant Institutions

FTA’s objectives and its research agenda are aligned with the SRF vision, relevant MDGs and draft SDGs

Independent Evaluation

About 30,000,000 t C of avoided emission in Peru

Change in the legal definition of agroforestry in Peru (2M people; 4.5M ha of the Peruvian Amazon)

Trees on farm increase food crop yield (15-30%) and income (200$/year) in the Sahel

Terra-i supply of Global Forest Watch with regionally verified data

Outcomes, impacts

First CGIAR Development Dialogues

FTA Scientists and Communication team served as strategic advisors and on key committees.

Shared conference experience, hired venue and led logistics, and contributed in-kind and financial resources.

Outputs

FTA outputs 2014 by location

2012 2013 2014

Achieved 77.6 % 79.5 % 73.4 %

On-going 21.0 % 19.9 % 22.5 %

Dropped 1.4 % 0.6 % 4.2 %

± 230 scientists > 35 countries

Publications

Type of Publication No. of Titles Open Access %

Article 371 86 23%

Books 37 26 70%

Briefs 79 79 100%

Brochures & Flyers 8 8 100%

Chapters 108 54 50%

Factsheet 13 13 100%

Guideline 1 1 100%

News 5 0 0%

Open Access Database 2 2 100%

Papers 86 86 100%

Poster 11 11 100%

Proceedings 3 0%

Report 11 5 45%

Strategy Documents 2 2 100%

Thesis 4 0%

Tools 7 5 71%

Total 748 378 51%

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Bioversity CIAT CIFOR ICRAF

2011 2012 2013 2014

Type 2012 2013 2014

Dev. Co. 30% 33% 28%

Op. Acc. 36% 87% 51%

Figures for 2014

The top 20 FTA publications have been downloaded more than 160,000 time over 3 years.

Spatial data and monitoring – Terra-I (http://www.terra-i.org/terra-i.html)

– Landscape portal (http://landscapeportal.org/)

– CIFOR spatial data portal (http://www.cgiar-csi.org/portfolio-items/forests-of-borneo)

Networks – Sentinel Landscapes (http://www1.cifor.org/sentinel-landscapes/home.html)

– Poverty and Environment Network (http://www1.cifor.org/pen)

– Tropical managed forests observatory (http://tmfo.org)

Data repositories (Dataverse) – FTA (http://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/crp6/faces/StudyListingPage.xhtml?mode=1&collectionId=3524)

– CIFOR (http://data.cifor.org/dvn/)

– ICRAF (https://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/icraf)

Open Data Platforms

Partnerships

Levels /

Types Research

Policy and Practice

Knowledge-sharing

International CIRAD, IRD, CSIRO, IUFRO, other ARIs and universities

CPF, FAO, UNEP, World Bank, UN-REDD, IPCC, FSC, IUCN

BBC World Service Trust, Panos, IUCN, AFP, Reuters, Google

Regional

CATIE, ANAFE, FARA, SEANAFE; ASARECA, CORAF, SAARD, STCP, SA-AP- LA-FORGEN

AFF, COMIFAC, ECOWAS, COMESA, ASEAN

RECOFTC, STCP, CATIE

Country or local

NARS, local/national research organizations, FORDA, KEFRI

Government, CBOs, NGOs, private sector

Local NGOs and networks, government

CRPs Location FTA / CCAFS Global

FTA / CCAFS /

WLE /

Drylands (+

dev. partners)

Burkina Faso

FTA / A4NH

(/AAS)

Various sites &

global

FTA / PIM

/WLE Global

FTA/ Drylands

/ Humidtropics Various sites

FTA /

Humidtropics /

L&F / CCAFS

Nicaragua

Indicator Total

participants Female Male

MS Students 146 86 64

PhD Students 86 38 48

Visiting Scientists from partners-NARES

63 13 50

Trainings events on FTA related issues for innovation system actors

6,792 2,540 4,252

Seminars, lectures, road shows, demonstrations, field visits

1,672 689 983

Capacity Development

Figures for 2014 More than 12,000 trainees over 3 years New cross-cutting theme created Efforts to track results beyond numbers

Gender

Full Time Equivalents

Gender integration team with currently 8 members, 6 dedicated full-time to supporting the process and substance of gender integration at the different partners.

In the top 4 CRPs, strategy, >130 scientists trained, guidelines, tools widely used by partners; commitment of 10% of funding going to Gender relevant research, estimate is 22% (2014) and XX% (2015)

Communication and outreach

Communications team is represented by a CIFOR staff & support consultant with center focal points.

Bi-monthly newsletter sent to 5,000, February edition on climate change had high 21% open rate

Website: 75% aggregated content from centers and 25% original content; traffic is up by 50% in last six months; all content fed to CGIAR.org each day.

New FTA brochure produced for use by all centers, translated into Spanish and French

Global Landscape Forum is supported by FTA.

– In 2014, CCAFS, WLE, CIAT, Bioversity, IWMI, IFPRI, CIP and ICRAF all participated.

– CIAT and WLE are coordinating partners of GLF 3 in Paris, with World Bank, UNEP, WRI and FAO

Extension proposal 2015-2016

5 Flagships

4 Cross-cutting themes

1 Management Committee with greater responsibilities

1 Independent Steering Committee

Role of CIFOR BOT as Lead Center reinforced

Portfolio, program structure

FTA project portfolio data harmonization – Standard information fields

– Centralized location (FTA sharepoint)

– Informing CIFOR PMS enhancement

– Addresses a major technical bottleneck to active portfolio management

Equipping projects with tools, capacity, training – Good practice design principles

– Theory of change

– M&E tools including • Evidence capture (outcomes, adoption)

• Ex-ante, ex-post impact assessments

Improved management processes

http://foreststreesagroforestry.org/