More meat, milk and fish by and for the poor (A CGIAR

Megaprogram)

Steve Hall (WorldFish Center)

CGIAR Livestock Fish Mega Program Stakeholder Meeting, Addis Ababa, 24-25 August 2010

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CGIAR Change

Old New15 Independent Centers

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Diffuse CGIAR priorities Focus on 15 mega programs

Donor funding of Centers

Donor funding of mega programs

Recognition of impact Focus on impact

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• “… a long term convincing strategy of international agricultural research which is results oriented and that will have impact on the ground …”

• “… abandon the old practice of working with the narrow interests of individual centres or individual donors …”

• “… firmly engage and defend the interests of the CGIAR System as a whole.”

• “Only by doing so, are we going to break the chain that links us to old practices and approaches and be able to obtain these goals for the benefit of the international community.”

Carlos Perez de Castillo, Consortium Board Chair, 8 June 2010

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A system strategy

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Strategic Objectives

• Create and accelerate sustainable increases in the productivity and production of healthy food by and for the poor (Food for People).

• Conserve, enhance and sustainably use natural resources and biodiversity to improve the livelihoods of the poor in response to climate change and other factors (Environment for People).

• Promote policy and institutional change that will stimulate agricultural growth and equity to benefit the poor, especially rural women and other disadvantaged groups (Policy for People).

Strategic Results

A system strategy

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Strategic Results1. Agricultural systems for the poor and

vulnerable. (drylands, humid, coastal and aquatic)

2. Enabling agricultural incomes for the poor

3. Optimizing productivity of global food security. (rice, wheat, maize, dryland cereals, legume, root and tubers, livestock and fish)

4. Agriculture for improved nutrition and health

5. Water, soils and ecosystems6. Forests and trees7. Climate change and agriculture

Megaprograms

Responsibility and Accountability

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DeliverMeasurable output targets by Programs for stewardship, proof of concept, learning and influence.

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The wider development impact we intend our work to catalyze by focusing on our Strategic Objectives.

Assess

Monitor and

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Measurable Mega-Program targets for research and development outcomes.

Measurable targets for direct development impact from Mega Programs. Derived from work to scale up and scale out research findings and learn from doing so.

A system strategy

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Strategic Results1. Agricultural systems for the poor and

vulnerable. (drylands, humid, coastal and aquatic)

2. Enabling agricultural incomes for the poor

3. Optimizing productivity of global food security. (rice, wheat, maize, dryland cereals, legume, root and tubers, livestock and fish)

4. Agriculture for improved nutrition and health

5. Water, soils and ecosystems6. Forests and trees7. Climate change and agriculture

Megaprograms

This mega-program

Over-arching aim– To increase national and regional scale food and nutrition

security by increasing livestock and fish production.

Focal Beneficiaries– Livestock and Fish producers and consumers and

developing country and regional economies.

Geographic Focus– Countries or places where large scale increases in livestock

or fish production is possible.

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New Money?

“Help make development happen and learn how to do development better.”

Key Messages• Radical shift in the way the CGIAR does business

(evolving role and culture).– Programmatic commitment to deliver impact.– Technologies Technologies +++++ (BBC)

• A new approach to partnership:– “How can we help?” not “Here’s what we want”.– “Thinking with” from the outset.– Aligned incentives and interests (commitment to win-

win).

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This is difficult stuff!

CHANGING FOR GREATER IMPACT

Partnerships are Key

We need to work in a new way with partners to help make development happen

CHANGING FOR GREATER IMPACT

Timeline• Up to now

– Outline Concept Note – Consultation (FARA, Country Level [7])– E-consultation– This Workshop

• Next Steps– Inputs Proposal Submission (mid Sept)– Feedback (mid Nov)– Detailed implementation planning (Nov onward)

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Approach

In country value-chain

research and

knowledge application

PlatformResearch

Breeds

Feeds

Health

Targeting

Monitoring & Evaluation

Technology IPG’s

Process IPG’s(Action Learning)

Adaptive Research

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