Innovative Aspects

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• Innovative Aspects
• of the CGIAR
• Challenge Program on Water Food

Jonathan Woolley Acting Program Coordinator
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Innovative Aspects of the CPWF

• Business Model - Steering Committee and
  Management Team
• Competitive Grants
• Broad participation and partnership
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Data sharing
• Funding

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Business Model Steering Committee

• Joint Venture Agreement 19 institutions
• CGIAR centers in a minority
• Majority voting after careful discussion

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Consortium Steering Committee Members (1)
CGIAR Future Harvest Centers International Water
Management Institute (IWMI) Centro Internacional
de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) International
Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Internatio
nal Rice Research Institute (IRRI) The World
Fish Center (ICLARM)
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Consortium Steering Committee Members (2)
National Agricultural Research and Extension
Systems

• Agricultural Research Council, South Africa (ARC)
• Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
  (EMBRAPA)
• Agricultural Research and Education Organization,
  Iran (AREO)
• National Water Research Center, Egypt (NWRC)
• Indian Council of Agricultural
  Research (ICAR)
• Yellow River Conservancy
  Commission, China (YRCC)

International River Basin Organization Mekong
River Commission (MRC)
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Consortium Steering Committee Members (3)

• Advanced Research Institutes
• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
• Research Organization (CSIRO) Australia
• Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
  (IRD), France
• Japan International Research Center for
  Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS)
• University of California, Davis (UC Davis), USA
• International NGOs
• CARE International
• Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
• World Resources Institute (WRI)

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Business Model Management Team

• 15 members
• CPWF Coordinator, Theme Leaders, Basin
  Coordinators
• 15 Institutions 15 countries worldwide
• Team decisions
• Email and web discussions still learning
• Joint responsibility for integrating themes and
  basins

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Management Team Members (1)

• Acting Program Coordinator
• Jonathan Woolley (CP Secretariat)
• Theme Leaders
• Crop-Water Productivity Improvement
• John Bennett (IRRI)
• Water and People in Catchments
• Simon Cook (CIAT)
• Aquatic Ecosystems and Fisheries
• Veliyil Sugunan (ICLARM)
• Integrated Basin Water Management Systems
• Francis Gichuki (IWMI)
• Global and National Food and Water System
• Mark Rosegrant (IFPRI)

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Management Team Members (2)

• Benchmark Basin Coordinators
• Yellow River
• Liu Xiaoyan (YRCC)
• Indo-Gangetic
• Alok Sikka (ICAR)
• Limpopo
• Adriaan Louw , Acting ( ARC)
• Mekong
• Kim Geheb (MRC)
• Nile
• Mahmoud Moustafa (NWRC)

• Karkheh
• Shahram Ashrafi (AREO)
• São Francisco
• Ricardo Brito (EMBRAPA)
• Volta
• Winston Andah (CSIR)
• Andean Basins
• Hector Cisneros (CONDESAN)

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Competitive Research Grants

• Opens up CGIAR to a wide range of partnership and
  leadership
• Effectively attracted matching funds
• Independent panel selection widely recognized as
  transparent

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Competitive Funds - Partnerships

• 13 CG centers, 9 NARES, 1 ARI lead the 50
  approved proposals
• Average of 7 institutions formally involved in
  each approved proposal CG centers, NARES, ARIs,
  NGOs, IPOs, projects, private firms
• All projects involve North South and
• South South partnerships
• More than 225 different institutions involved in
  the 50 approved projects

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Leadership and participation by NARES and by
non-consortium members

• 10 approved projects (20) led by 9 different
  NARES
• 19 approved projects (38) led by 15
  non-Consortium institutions
• 158 different NARES participate in approved
  projects (more than 4 NARES in each project)
• 33 minimum of CPWF funds for NARES in each
  proposal

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Evaluation of Impact

• Refer to established baseline connection to
  basin profiles
• Standard indicators
• Ex-ante evaluation of impact in projects
• Ex-post evaluation of projects, of CPWF process
  and of whole portfolio

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Routine Monitoring

• Self-monitoring is the basis
• Internal reference groups report to each project
  leader
• Milestones (about 1 per month) for very brief
  regular reports
• Selected milestones (around every 6 months)
  trigger payments
• Basin coordinators and theme leaders monitor
  projects independently
• CP Secretariat consolidates information for
  donors

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Data sharing

• Common data platform for sharing information
  (global public goods)
• Capture information from projects within an
  overall framework
• Accepted indicators
• Global understanding of what the indicators mean
• Hence, IDIS and the Indicator Side-Workshop at
  this Conference

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Funding 2003-2008
Total CPWF budget proposed for six-year first
phase USD 100-120 million Costs of inception,
synthesis research, networking and program
management (6 years) USD 16 million Total value
of portfolio of approved projects from first
call USD 84 million (USD 49 million from
CPWF) Cost to CPWF of funding 20 projects
preparing to commence negotiation USD 23 million
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Challenge Program Monitoring and Evaluation
System - Overview
1. PROJECT
2. PROCESS
3. PROGRAM
REPORTS TO DONORS
INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS (competitive, Commissioned
an Capacity building)
CPMT Secretariat, Basin Coordinators, Theme
Leaders
PORTFOLIO OF PROJECTS
PORTFOLIO IMPACT
Key Question 1 Is each Project addressing its
objectives?
Key Question 2 Does the CPMT add value to the
whole process?
Key Question 3 Is the Portfolio greater than
the sum of its parts?
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Consortium Steering Committee