Report of the Sixth External Program and Management Review (EPMR) of the Centro Internacional de Agricoltura Tropical (CIAT)

Office of Assistant Director-General (Natural Resources Management and Environment Department)

Report of the Sixth External Program and Management Review (EPMR) of the Centro Internacional de Agricoltura Tropical (CIAT)

Year of publication 2008

Pages 188

Author Office of Assistant Director-General (Natural Resources Management and Environment Department)

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) Two key findings from the review were the need to overcome governance and management shortcomings and to clarify CIAT’s future strategic research agenda. The Panel recommended improvements in seven categories: organization and planning of research, research management, specific research topics, regional organization of research, intellectual property, center management, and governance. The Council agrees with the Panel that the Center needs to quickly emerge from the most recent turmoi l and instability by rethinking its research strategy and by revitalizing its leadership. The SC concurs that this is a crucial time for CGIAR donors to invest collectively in CIAT’s turnaround, subject to program, governance and management changes detailed in the EPMR report.

Language English

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The International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is one of the longest established Centers of the CGIAR and currently is the largest in terms of budget. IITA’s target is the improvement of African development through research on agriculture. The Sixth External Program and Management Review of the Center took place between March and June 2007. The review was conducted at a time when the context of agricultural research in Africa is changing; there is both the stark reality of current poverty levels and population growth still to be accommodated (an anticipated increase of 80‐100 million more people by 2012) and a sense of renewed purpose. The Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of poor people is still within reach at the worldwide level, but many individual countries in Sub‐Saharan Africa will most likely not reach this goal and, in some, average poverty rates remain above 40 percent. The Africa Union’s NEPAD Comprehensive African Agricul tural Development Program (CAADP) helps provide a framework for harmonized and responsive action into which research efforts can fit.

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