7th External Program and Management Review of IRRI

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7th External Program and Management Review of IRRI

• Greg Edmeades
• Shu Fukai
• Martha ter Kuile
• Nicolas Drossos
• John Snape
• Rob Tripp

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Acknowledgments

• IRRI
• Mike Jackson
• Zeny Federico
• Bob Zeigler
• Senior management
• Country program staff
• IRS
• NRS
• Guest House staff
• Drivers
• Board of Trustees

• EPMR 7
• Martha ter Kuile
• Shu Fukai
• Rob Tripp
• John Snape
• Nicolas Drossos
• Peter Gardiner

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What well cover today

• TORs and procedures of the EPMR
• Sources of information
• State of IRRI
• Recommendations
• A look forward

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7th EPMR - Background

• EPMRs each 5 years
• Simultaneous review of Center functions
• Retrospective assessment (last 5 years only)
• A future view of the Center
• Purpose
• Guidance to management
• Reassurance of CGIAR and Center

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The 7th IRRI EPMR Panel
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7th EPMR - Process

• EPMRs are jointly managed on behalf of the CGIAR
  by the Science Council and the CGIAR Secretariat.
• Steps
• Develop Center-specific strategic issues
  (stakeholder input) which contribute to TORs
• Identification of Panel
• Manage the review

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7th EPMR Terms of Reference

• Standard TORs focus on IRRIs
• Mission, strategy and priorities
• Quality and relevance of science
• Effectiveness and efficiency of management
• Accomplishments and impact
• Panel goals

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7th EPMR Sources of information

• Board of Trustees meeting, 17-19 Sept, 08
• Documents supplied by IRRI, CCERs
• First Phase 27-31 October, 2008
• Review of Programs, Divisions, OUs
• Review of Administration and Finance
• Staff interviews
• Visits to selected countries, country programs
• Surveys
• Staff satisfaction survey (N 117)
• Stakeholders survey (N 163)
• Key donors and CGIAR centers (phone N 16)

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Country programs visited

• Nigeria, Tanzania, Mozambique
• Cambodia, Laos and Thailand
• India and Bangladesh
• China
• Philippines Iloilo, PhilRice

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Thailand PVS in practice
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Mozambique - Maputo
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Mozambique - Umbeluzi
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Bangladesh - Rangpur
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Bangladesh - Kurigram
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India - SVBUAT, Meerut
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India - Meerut
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China - Hangzhou
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IRRIs changing research environment

• Genomics
• Transgenics
• Cropping intensification
• Water
• Climate change
• Information and communications
• Private sector
• CGIAR change process

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Key accomplishments 2004-8

• Planning
• Strategic Plan
• ESARP
• Partnerships
• IRRI/WARDA
• IRRI/CIMMYT Alliance
• Challenge Programs
• Consortia (HRDC)
• Donors
• BMGF
• Host country
• Finalized IRRIs host country agreement

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Key accomplishments 2004-8

• Research
• SUB1
• Golden Rice megavariety conversion
• OryzaSNP
• Large effect QTL drought, PUP1 SALTOL
• Direct drilling aerobic R/W production systems
• SSNM
• AWD
• Targeting rice technology, especially in India

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Key accomplishments 2004-8

• Impact
• Varieties
• Improved practices in Vietnam
• AWD, Vietnam
• Rice Knowledge Banks
• Rice-Wheat reduced tillage systems
• CRIL

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Panel Findings

• IRRI meets high standards in
• Conduct and management of science
• Partnerships with NARS and ARIs
• Financial management
• Leadership within/outside the Center
• IRRI -- a center that does things well
• However, there are some areas in which changes
  should be considered.

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Rice genetic improvement
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R1 Breeding

• The Panel recommends that IRRI re-evaluate the
  scope and extent of its methodologies for yield
  testing, and that it expand multi-location yield
  testing for major classes of irrigated and
  rainfed germplasm. This will enable IRRI to
  accurately phenotype and quantify the yield
  advantages of new advanced germplasm, and assess
  whether genotype x environment interaction is
  significant over and within its target
  environments.

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Wide Area Yield Tests Year of commercial release
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R2 Hybrids

• The Panel recommends that IRRI develops a
  greater capacity to produce superior F1 hybrids
  by improving the agronomic and grain quality
  characteristics, and broadening the genetic
  variability, of parental inbred lines. Research
  on the genetics and physiology of rice floral
  biology will be an important component of
  achieving crossability characteristics leading to
  more efficient seed production.

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Africa
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R3 Africa

• The Panel recommends that without delay IRRI,
  with WARDA, establish an East and Southern Africa
  regional office and a fully-supported
  multidisciplinary research team in Tanzania that
  it engages with Madagascars NARS, and develops
  partnerships with key institutions in ESA,
  especially in the seed sector.

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Integrated Pest Management
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R4 IPM

• The Panel recommends that IRRI commission a
  CCER on Integrated Pest Management to assess the
  current capabilities and future needs of IRRI and
  to enhance the Centers position in developing
  IPM for rice production systems.

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Water
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R5 Water

• The Panel recommends that IRRI encourage a
  unified and coherent approach to the efforts of
  scientists from all Divisions to develop suitable
  lowland cropping systems and germplasm to meet
  the challenge of the changing water environment
  and that water is used as a strong organizing
  principle across the whole center to develop new
  products for the future.

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Social Sciences
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R6 Social Sciences

• The Panel recommends that IRRI strengthen the
  delivery of its research products by refocusing
  the strategies of the Social Sciences Division.
  This includes the identification of high priority
  issues for policy research and impact studies
  and greater emphasis on research on technology
  generation to ensure that IRRIs innovations are
  actually reaching farmers.

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Managing country partnerships
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R7 Managing country partnerships

• The Panel recommends that IRRI better define
  its strategy and objectives for country and
  regional programs, and that the mandate and
  functions of the International Programs
  Management Office (IPMO) be clarified to support
  these objectives.

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R8 BoT Program Committee

• The Panel recommends that the Program
  Committee of the Board refocus its attention to
  strategic issues facing IRRI, and use CCER and
  other review processes for monitoring of IRRI
  research programs. It should refine its
  agenda-setting and ensure that program
  presentations are clearly linked to strategic
  questions which require Board deliberation.

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R9 Career paths

• The Panel recommends that IRRI establish and
  publicize a career framework for IRRI staff with
  clearly articulated professional levels,
  transparent salary scales, and performance
  incentives.

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R10 Research management

• The Panel recommends that IRRI review and, if
  necessary, modify its research management
  structure in order to promote effective and
  efficient project development, quality and
  relevance of science, resource allocation,
  communication, staff mentoring and staff
  evaluation

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R11 Infrastructure renewal

• The Panel recommends that IRRI prepare a
  comprehensive plan for the refurbishment and
  redevelopment of its Los Baños and other sites,
  and embark on a resource mobilization strategy
  which includes the judicious use of the reserves,
  as well as a fundraising campaign to provide the
  additional capital investment required.

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Looking forward

• Resilience in changing circumstances
• Stay the course
• IRRIs five pillars
• Germplasm resources and their manipulation
• Partnerships
• Integrating crop management and varieties for new
  systems with scarcer water resources
• Information and knowledge management
• Leadership in rice research

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Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

• If the misery of the poor be caused not by the
  laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is
  our sin
• It is not the strongest of the species that
  survives.but. the one that is the most
  adaptable to change.

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Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

• I have tried lately to read .the EPMR
  report?, and found it so intolerably dull that
  it nauseated me.
• For the EPMR Panel
• It is a cursed evil to any man to become as
  absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

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