CIAT Towards a New Strategic Plan

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CIATTowards a New Strategic Plan-----

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Overview

• Recent developments at CIAT
• Introduction to CIATs Strategic Planning
  exercise
• Overview of major options

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Some recent developments at CIAT

• 6th External Program and Management Review of
  CIAT, 2007
• Strong endorsement of the output and quality of
  the scientific program
• Management and governance weaknesses identified
• Call for development of new Strategic Plan
• Reinvigorate CIATs relationship with LAC

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Towards a new Strategic Plan for CIAT

• Not business as usual
• Rethink programme focus (what we do)
• CGIAR Vision Strategic Objectives
• Building on assets and strengths
• Rethink geographic focus (where we do it)
• Re-engaging with LAC
• CIAT a LAC-based Centre with programs that are
  important to Latin America and the Caribbean but
  that are executed globally

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Towards a new Strategic Plan for CIAT

• Rethink modus operandi (how we do it)
• Partners in LAC and elsewhere
• Mechanisms for collaboration
• Programme delivery HQ, LAC, other regions
  (Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia)
• Ensuring impact reaching end users

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Towards a new Strategic Plan for CIAT

• Some issues
• Strategic plan, a short document to focus on
  setting out the bigger picture major programme
  areas and delivery mechanisms
• More detailed Implementation Plan to be prepared
  in 2009, under direction of new DG and after
  CGIAR decisions on change at AGM08 in Maputo,
  Mozambique

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Towards a new Strategic Plan for CIAT

• At this stage still many options to be narrowed
  further and refined in consultation with
  partners, Alliance Centers other stakeholders and
  the new CIAT Board
• Structure and governance in relation to other
  changes within CGIAR (to be addressed later)

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Implications for CIATSystem reform new Centre
strategy

• A reformed and reinvigorated CIAT
• renewed vision and purpose
• reinvigorated engagement in LAC
• clear identity built on key assets and
  comparative advantage
• overlaps with other Centers resolved
• partnerships strengthened
• governance conforms with new system norms
• fully funded and at the forefront of the CGIAR

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Some major options

• Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Tropics
• Research to reduce poverty
• Research to increase resilience under climate
  stress
• Innovation systems to reduce poverty and adapt to
  climate stress

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Options under consideration to reduce poverty

• Genetic improvement of food staples
• (Beans, cassava, rice tropical forages)
• Biofortified food crops
• Increased soil nutrient efficiency
• Improved energy efficiency in agriculture
• Enhanced access to high value growth markets

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Options under consideration to adapt to climate
stress

• Genetic adaptation to heat and drought stresses
• Enhanced soil ecosystem services
• Improved biological nitrogen fixation
• Management of soil genetic resources
• Biofuels in small farm systems
• Community strategies for risk management
• Invasive plant pests and diseases

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Options under consideration to promote
institutional innovation

• Alliance for biotechnology research in LAC
• Partnership for soils ecosystems research in LAC
• Platform for integrated soil management research
  in Africa
• Incubator for public-private partnerships in LAC
• Promotion of a new generation of agricultural
  scientists

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• Many thanks for your attention