TMT Journal Update #5 from CGIAR Chair Katherine Sierra – ExCo Signals a Green Light for Reform Implementation

Dear Colleagues,
Last week the Executive Council met at CIAT in Cali, Colombia, to assess progress in implementing the reforms agreed to by the CGIAR Members at the Annual General Meeting in Maputo last December.  I’m pleased to report that ExCo expressed support for the work to date in broad terms and provided a “green light” [...]

A Dialogue with Civil Society Organizations

By Tom Remington, Principal Agriculture Advisor, Catholic Relief Services
Source: CGIAR Embracing Change E-Newsletter, June 2009 Issue
In late April, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) organized a half day CGIAR and Civil Society Organization (CSO) dialogue in Washington DC. The event was co-hosted with InterAction, a coalition of US based international non-governmental organizations, and followed the CRS Agricultural [...]

Lessons Learned from Developing Mega Program “Mock-Ups”

By John McDermott, Deputy Director General, International Livestock Research Institute
Source: CGIAR Embracing Change E-Newsletter, June 2009 Issue
A group of the CGIAR Alliance Deputy Directors General gathered in April to design three mock-ups of what the mega programs of the new CGIAR Consortium might look like and how they might operate.** In developing the three mock-ups, [...]