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, [...]

Your window on the Donor Workshop

It’s a bright and sunny spring day in London as people arrive at the Church House Conference Centre (right next door to Westminster Abbey) for the first of two days of informal consultation on CGIAR reform implementation.
Items on the agenda include developing a shared understanding on what the new Consortium will look like and how [...]

Implementing the CGIAR Reforms – An Update on Action to Date

The moment when the CGIAR unanimously adopted the reform model at the CGIAR AGM08 in Maputo, it felt like we’d reached the top of the mountain after a hard slog during 2008. But, in the clear light of the next morning, I realised that we’d only just arrived on the first ridge – the summit [...]