Annexes

1. Panel Composition/Biographic Information
2. Terms of Reference for EPMRs
3. Acronyms

1. Panel Composition/Biographic Information

PANEL COMPOSITION

Panel Chair: Graham Jenkins	Tel: (44-1223)871539
16 High Street	Fax: (44-1223)871539
Hauxton
Cambridge CB2 5HW
United Kingdom
Members:
Antonio Bahia Filho	Tel: (55-31)7735644
Director General	Fax: (55-31)7791088
EMBRAPA/CNPMS	Eml: [email protected]
Caixa Postal 151
35701-970 Sete lagoas, MG
Brazil
Kenneth Cassman	Tel: (1-402)4721555
Professor and Head	Fax: (1-402)4727904
Department of Agronomy	Eml: [email protected]
University of Nebraska
279 Plant Science Building
P.O. Box 830915
Lincoln, NE 68583-0915
USA
Barrie Keenan	Tel: (64-4)4767677
Principal	Fax: (64-4)4766630
Keenan Consulting	Eml: [email protected]
146a Karori Road	[email protected]
Wellington 6005
New Zealand
Don Marshall	Tel: (61-2)93514332
Professor of Plant Breeding	Fax: (61-2)93513292
Director of the Plant Breeding Institute	Eml: [email protected]
Faculty of Agriculture, Bldg. A05
The University of Sydney
New South Wales 2006
Australia
V.S. Vyas	Tel: (91-141)515348
396 Vasundhara Extension	Fax: (91-141)519938
Near Gopalpura Bye-pass	Eml: [email protected]
Tonk Road
Jaipur 3 02 018
India
TAC Secretariat:
Panel Secretary: Guido Gryseels	Tel: (39-6)57055442
Deputy Executive Secretary, TAC	Fax: (39-6)57053298
SDRC - D442	Eml: [email protected]
FAO
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome, Italy
CGIAR Secretariat:
Paramjit Sachdeva	Tel: (1-202)4738941
Senior Management Specialist	Fax: (1-202)4738110
CGIAR Secretariat	Eml: [email protected]
World Bank
1818H Street, NW
Washington DC 20433
USA
Consultants:
John Griffith (Board)	Tel: (1-301) 8975046 (Home)
9210 Friars Road	(1-410) 3828655 (Cellphone)
Bethesda	Fax: (1-301)5309347
MD 20817-2321	Eml: [email protected]
USA
Ralph Quatrano (Biotechnology)	Tel: (1-919)962-2098
Professor and Chair	Fax: (1-919) 962-6840/962-3690
Department of Biology	Eml: [email protected]
University of North Carolina
Coker Hall, South Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280
USA

BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

Graham Jenkins (UK) graduated in Agricultural Botany at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and undertook post-graduate training at Cambridge and Trinidad, (West Indies). From 1955-59, he worked as a rice breeder in Nigeria, returning to work briefly in the Biochemistry Department at Rothamsted Experimental Station in England before taking up an appointment as a cereal breeder at the then Plant Breeding Institute (PBI) at Cambridge. From 1979-83, he served as a Scientific Adviser with responsibilities for plant breeding and genetics at the Agricultural and Food Research Council in London, returning then to PBI Cambridge as Head of the Cereals Department and subsequently also as Deputy Director. He was Acting Director of the PBI at the time of its privatization in October 1987 and was appointed a director with responsibilities for plant breeding and research on the board of the new company, Plant Breeding International Ltd, a subsidiary of Unilever PLC. With regard to experience in the CGIAR System, Graham Jenkins has participated in EPMRs - and other types of review - of ICARDA, IITA, ICRISAT, IPGRI and CIMMYT. The current EPMR represents his fourth visit to CIMMYT over a period of 25 years. He retired from PBI Cambridge Ltd in 1993 and has undertaken a number of consultancies, mostly within the CGIAR System, since that time.

Antonio Bahia Filho (Brazil) presently serves as Director General of the National Maize and Sorghum Research Center of EMBRAPA in Sete Lagoas, Brazil. He previously held this post from 1985-1990, and has been Research Director and Soil Scientist at this Institution. He obtained his B.Sc., M. Sc., and Ph. D. in Agronomy from the Federal University of Vicosa. Antonio. Bahia Filho is a soil scientist with research interests in maize tolerance to soil stress conditions including acidity and phosphorus deficiency. He has also worked on the physico-chemistry of phosphorus availability in tropical soils. In addition to his duties as Director General, Dr. Bahia Filho was leader of a national committee that developed and implemented a franchising system with private seed companies to deliver maize hybrids generated by EMBRAPA's plant breeding research. This consortium of seed companies (UNIMILHO) provides 16% of the seed sold in Brazil, and royalties paid from seed sales provide funds to support federal agricultural research programmes. Antonio Bahia Filho was a consultant for a World Bank mission to Angola, and has served as a Technical Adviser to the CIMMYT South America Maize Regional Programme since 1990.

Kenneth Cassman (USA) is currently Head of the Department of Agronomy at the University of Nebraska. Previous positions include Head of the Agronomy, Plant Physiology, and Agroecology Division at the International Rice Research Institute (1991-1995), Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Agronomy and Range Science at the University of California, Davis (1984-1990), Grain Legume Agronomist on the Egyptian Major Crop Improvement Project (1982-1984), and Project Leader of the Jari Rice Project Research Group in Para, Brasil (1980-1982). He received a B.Sc. in Biology from the University of California, San Diego (1975), and a Ph.D. in Agronomy and Soil Science from the University of Hawaii (1979). Kenneth Cassman's research interests include soil fertility and plant nutrition, nutrient cycling and soil organic matter, root ecophysiology, and the sustainability of intensive cropping systems. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science Society of America, and he serves as a Board member of the Nebraska Crop Improvement Association.

Barrie Keenan (New Zealand) is Principal of Keenan Consulting, a firm specializing in human resources management and the development of management information systems to achieve best business performance. Prior to founding this business he was involved for 22 years in various agricultural research management roles with the Agricultural Research Division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and then with the MAF Technology business group. Since 1992 he has consulted with a number of the Crown Research Institutes and the agricultural extension company formed after the restructuring of the New Zealand science agencies, on a World Bank project in Turkey, and with CIAT. He has also visited other CGIAR Centres in Africa looking at issues relating to the communication of management information between headquarters and regional staff.

Don Marshall (Australia) is an population geneticist. He is currently Professor of Plant Breeding, and Director of the Plant Breeding Institute at the University of Sydney. He was previously Professor of Agronomy and Head of the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Adelaide. He served on the board of IPGRI and is currently a member of the Board of ICRISAT. He previously participated in the CCER of the Wheat Germplasm Improvement Subprogramme at CIMMYT. He is a member of the Board of Suprime Seeds and Hybrid Wheat Australia and a Program Leader in the Cooperative Research Centre for Quality Wheat Products and Processes. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

Vijay S. Vyas (India) has a Ph.D. in Economics. Currently he is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, from where he retired as Director in 1996. He has taught in the Bombay University, Sarden Patel University and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA). Vijay Vyas has served as a member of the Agricultural Prices Commission of the Government of India, Director of IIMA and Senior Advisor in the Agricultural and Rural Development Department of the World Bank. He was Team Leader of the Second Asian Agricultural Survey, Chairman of the External Management Review of Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and Chairman of the External Programme and Management Review of International Irrigation Management Institute (IMMI). He served as member of the Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute and the Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of CIAT, and a member of the Governing Board of the Institute of Development Studies of Sussex University. He is a member of the National Commission on Integrated Water Planning, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Cabinet in India. He has written extensively on key issues of Agricultural Policy and Rural Development, and has been honoured by the academic community in India and abroad for his contribution to the profession. Vijay Vyas is the President elected of the Asian Association of Agricultural Economists.

2. Terms of Reference for EPMRs

TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR EXTERNAL PROGRAMME AND MANAGEMENT REVIEWS OF CGIAR CENTRES

BACKGROUND

Context

The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) is an informal association of over 50 members that supports a network of 16 international research centres in agriculture, forestry and fisheries. The CGIAR aims, through its support to the Centres, to contribute to promoting sustainable agriculture for food security in developing countries. Because the Centres constitute the core of the CGIAR, the effectiveness of each Centre is crucial to the continued success of the CGIAR (as a System).

Each Centre is an autonomous institution operating within the mandate assigned to it by the CGIAR, and is governed by a legally constituted Board that has full fiduciary responsibility for managing the Centre. To ensure accountability in an essentially decentralized system, each Centre is expected to be responsive to the CGIAR, which provides financial support for its work.

The CGIAR has established a tradition of External Programme and Management Reviews (EPMRs) to provide a mechanism of transparency and accountability to the Members and other stakeholders of the CGIAR System. EPMRs are the joint responsibility of TAC and the CGIAR Secretariat, and are conducted for each Centre approximately every five years. As each Centre is autonomous, EPMRs provide a measure of central oversight and serve as an essential component of the CGIAR's accountability system.

Integrated System of Reviews of Each Centre

Besides the EPMRs, Centre Commissioned External Reviews (CCERs) are undertaken at each Centre. These CCERs are commissioned by the Centre Boards to periodically assess the quality and effectiveness of particular aspects of a Centre's work. The terms of reference (ToRs) for each CCER are determined by the Centre, based on broad principles endorsed by the CGIAR at ICW95 (ref. document entitled Improving the Quality and Consistency of CGIAR's External Centre Reviews, dated October 24, 1995).

EPMRs complement the CCERs by providing a CGIAR-commissioned and comprehensive external assessment of the Centre's program and management, especially its future directions and the quality and relevance of its research. The ToRs for the EPMRs (which update the "standard ToRs" endorsed by the CGIAR at MTM95) are provided below. Guidelines for undertaking the reviews are issued separately.

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Objectives and Scope

EPMRs seek to inform CGIAR members that their investment is sound, or recommend measures to make it so. Members of the CGIAR and other stakeholders can be informed whether the Centre is doing its work effectively and efficiently. EPMRs are both retrospective and prospective; and help ensure the Centres' excellence, relevance and continued viability, and the CGIAR System's coherence. Each review is expected to be strategic in orientation and as comprehensive as the situation warrants.

The broad objectives of EPMRs are to:

a) provide CGIAR members with an independent and rigorous assessment of the institutional health and contribution of a Centre they are supporting; and

b) to provide the Centre and its collaborators with assessment information that complements or validates their own evaluation efforts, including the CCERs.

The EPMR panel is specifically charged to assess the following:

a) The Centre 's mission, strategy and priorities in the context of the CGIAR's priorities and strategies;

b) The quality and relevance of the science undertaken, including the effectiveness and potential impact of the Centre's completed and ongoing research;

c) The effectiveness and efficiency of management, including the mechanisms and processes for ensuring quality; and

d) The accomplishments and impact of the Centre's research and related activities. The topics expected to be covered by the EPMRs are listed below.

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

A. Mission, Strategy and Priorities

· The continuing appropriateness of the Centre's mission in light of important changes in the Centre and its external environment since the previous external review.

· The policies, strategies, and priorities of the Centre, their coherence with the CGIAR's goals (of poverty alleviation, natural resources management, and sustainable food security), and relevance to beneficiaries, especially rural women.

· The appropriateness of the roles of relevant partners in the formulation and implementation of the Centre's strategy and priorities, considering alternative sources of supply and the benefits of partnerships with others.

B. Quality and Relevance

· The quality and relevance of the science practised at the Centre.

· The effectiveness of the Centre's processes for planning, priority setting, quality management (e.g., CCERs, peer reviews and other quality and relevance assurance mechanisms), and impact assessment.

C. Effectiveness and Efficiency of Management

· The performance of the Centre's Board in governing the Centre, the effectiveness of leadership throughout the Centre, and the suitability of the organization's culture to its mission.

· The adequacy of the Centre's organizational structure and the mechanisms in place to manage, coordinate and ensure the excellence of the research programs and related activities.

· The adequacy of resources (financial, human, physical and information) available and the effectiveness and efficiency of their management.

· The effectiveness of the Centre's relationships with relevant research partners and other stakeholders of the CGIAR System.

D. Accomplishments and Impact

· Recent achievements of the Centre in research and other areas.

· The effectiveness of the Centre's programs in terms of their impact and contribution to the achievement of the mission and goals of the CGIAR.

3. Acronyms

ABC	Applied Biotechnology Centre
AFLP	Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms
ARI	Advanced Research Institute
ASI	Anthesis Silking Interval
BoT	Board of Trustees
BYDV	Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus
CATIE	Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigaciòn y Enseñanza (Costa Rica)
CCER	Centre-Commissioned External Review
CGIAR	Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
CIAT	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
CIDA	Canadian International Development Agency
CIMMYT	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo
CIRAD	Centre de Cooperation International en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
CMR	Crop Management Research
CNPMS	Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Milho e Sorgo
CRC	Cooperative Research Centre
DH	Dihaploid
EP	Economics Programme
FAO	Food and Agriculture Organization
FIRBS	Furrow Irrigation and Raised Bed Systems
FP	Frontier Project
GCA	General Combining Ability
GIS	Geographical Information Services
GP	Global Project
GPA	Global Plan of Action
GRIP	Genetic Resources Information Package
ha	hectare
HRM	Human Resources Management
IARC	International Agricultural Research Centre
ICARDA	International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
ICER	Internally Commissioned External Review
ICIS	International Crop Information System
ICRAF	International Centre for Research in Agroforestry
ICRISAT	International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
IER	Interim External Review
IFPRI	International Food Policy Research Institute
IIMI	International Irrigation Management Institute
IITA	International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
ILRI	International Livestock Research Institute
INIFAP	National Institute of Forestry, Agriculture and Livestock (Mexico)
IPM	Integrated Pest Management
IPR	Intellectual Property Rights
IQ	Industrial Quality
IRRI	International Rice Research Institute
IRS	Internationally Recruited Staff
IWIS	International Wheat Information System
LAMP	Latin America Maize Regeneration Project
MAC	Management Advisory Committee
MAS	Marker Assisted Selection
ME	Mega-environment
MGB	Maize Germplasm Bank
MTP	Medium-Term Plan
MWIRNET	Maize and Wheat Improvement Research Network
NARS	National Agricultural Research System
NGO	Non-Governmental Organization
NRG	Natural Resources Group
NRM	Natural Resources Management
NRR	Natural Resources Research
ODBC	Open Database Connectivity
OFR	On-Farm Research
OPV	Open Pollinated Varieties
ORSTOM	French National Research Institute for Development Cooperation
PRM	Regional Maize Programme
QPM	Quality Protein Maize
RCC	Research Coordinating Committee
SACCAR	Southern African Centre for Cooperation in Agricultural Research
SADC	South African Development Community
SSA	sub-Saharan Africa
SSR	Simple Sequence Repeats
SSY	Senior Staff Years
TAC	Technical Advisory Committee
TAMNET	Tropical Asian Maize Network
UNDP	United Nations Development Programme
USAID	United States Agency for International Development
WANA	West Asia and North Africa
WP	Wheat Programme