1. MappingAgriculturalInvestmentsand
Technologies
THE LOCATION AND REACH OF CGIAR RESEARCH PROGRAMS FOR
IMPROVED PLANNING, TARGETING, AND ACCOUNTABILITY
9th Meeting of the Independent Science Partnership Council,IFPRI, March 12-14,
2014

2. Rationale
Provide the CG Systemand our partnerswith
keyinvestment indicators:
• Locationof R&D focus areas, programs and
actors
• Count of activities, allocated budget, full-
time-equivalent researchers by location,
with possible allocation across:
 System IDOs, and CRP IDOs
 Commodityvalue-chains
 Technologies
• Support for investment analysis and
targeting with partners:
 Identify gaps and opportunities to foster
partnershipsat regional, national,and local
scale

3. ProvideEvidencealong
theR&DInput-OutputContinuum…
Output
Scalable
technologies,
publications,
scientific datasets,
training, etc.
Impact
Technology uptake, adoption
rates, reduced food crises,
improved health and
resilience
Investment
Activities
(technologies,
space, time), FTEs

4. Background
andHistory
Investment mapping is
embedded into a
number of CGIAR-led
initiatives and multi-
partner alliances with
opportunities but also
potential duplication
of efforts.
AATP/New AllianceforFS&N
Countries/G8,other DPs, private
sector,CGIAR, FARA
• Technologyassessment and
targetingin support of CAADP
• Focus commodities andyield targets
• Mappingof technologies
• Implementationat scale
• ICT/open data
DublinProcess
AU/FARA,SROs, CGIAR,WB,DPs
• African Science Agenda for Ag.
• Investmentmapping and alignment
CGIARReform
• RevisedCRPs
• Partnershipcommitment
• Open-accesspolicy, OCS
http://ongoing-research.cgiar.org/
SAKSS/ReSAKSS
CAADP,NARES,IFPRI
• Country andregional M&E
• Country e-Atlases
http://www.aginvestafrica.org/
ASTI
IFPRI,NARES,GFAR,ASARECA
• Periodic datasetson national ag R&D
• Analysis of R&Dtrends
• Enhancedcapacityfor data collection
http://www.asti.cgiar.org/
IATI
Multi-stakeholder
aidtransparency standard
Monitor aid flows, by source, recipient,
sector(over 160 member organizations)
http://iatistandard.org/
AgTrials
CCAFS,CIAT,BIOVERSITY
• Technologyperformance evaluation
attrial sites
• Standardsfor crop phenology
http://www.agtrials.org/

5. Resultsand
Timeline
 May2014 – Livestock mapping workshop in the Horn of Africa with ILRI and
HoA Technical Consortium (under discussion)
 Apr 2014- Release of draft dataschemaand harmonized codelists
 Apr2014 - Release of web-based “CGIAR Research Portfolio” for visualization
and data-entry
 Mar-2013on-going - Renewed engagement with CRP Teams and CO to collect,
geocode, and harmonize attributes at the “activity” level:
• Aug2013 – Push new data standardsthrough IATI, AGROVOC, Gates Foundation,
USAID..
• Oct2013 - Updated CGIAR R&Dspatial footprint at countrylevel
• Dec2013 – Curation of activity-level records for CRP 1.1, 1.2, 2, 4, 5, 7
• Productionof ashared IATI-ready dataschemafor characterizing activitiesand
locations
 Mar 2013 - Mapping handed over to ConsortiumforSpatialInfrastructure and
fully backed by PIM (Third Africa Agriculture GIS Week)
• Identify key CSI Coordinators and CRP focalpoints
• Curationand sharing of CRP agriculturaldomainmaps
 Early 2013 - Investment mapping “prototype” (collection of activities and
domain maps extracted from CRP investment proposals)Mid-2012
Mid-2014

6. IATI-driven
R&DMapping
Multi-stakeholder
initiative launched in
Ghana,2008.IATI largely
builds on OECD/DAC.
http://iatistandard.org/

7. IATI-ReadyDataSchema

8. From
spreadsheets
touser-centric
datacollection
tools
MS Excel DataCollection
Template:
– Excel: familiar , low-
tech editing
environment
– Simplified
administration
– Potentialsfor scaling
intoafull-fledge web-
basedplatform, or
builtinto existing
reporting systems
– Howto train and
incentivize?

9. HarmonizedVocabularies
 Strategicthemes:CGIAR SLOs, CG and CRP IDOs
 Targettechnologies:draft ontology is at
http://webprotege.stanford.edu/#Edit:projectId=1fea0d22-05f2-4f38-b9a3-
656f278dd242needs review from KM Leaders
 Targetcommodities: currentlyusing FAO/AGROVOC commodity names
 Organizations:harmonizedorganization/partneridentifiers with links to IATI
Organizationcodelist
 Locationreach:using GAUL 2012 adm-2(district) 1-Action/intervention, 2-
Potential beneficiaries, 3-Partnerorganizations,4-Experimental
farm/nursery(different from IATI).
 Locationtype:an extension to IATI Location Class codelist (incl. river basin,
mega-environment,drylandsSTRs, etc.)

10. Developingand
Promoting
Shared
Ontologies
WebProtégé: flexible,
distributed,
multilingual ontology
editor
Collaborative editing
usinglocal/field expert
knowledge
Buildvalidation
mechanisms (?)
Require acquiring
external skills (e.g.
IFPRIhiring an Ontology
Specialist for semantic
modeling)

11. CRPAgriculturalDomainMaps
http://csi.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=1fd97e26f6124792bac11ba52
7511674

12. CGIARR&DSpatialFootprint:country-level
https://hc.app.box.com/s/39pgky4jn1frrek30d8z(print)
http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/CRPsbyCountryBasedonAnnualProgressReport2012r3/W
orld#1(interactive)

13. CGIARR&DSpatialFootprint:activity-level
http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/CGIARCRP2-PIMInvestmentMap/CRP2-PIM#1

14. TowardsCGIAR
Research
Portfolio:
interactive
visualization
andsimplified
datacapture
More robust data
management and
mappingfeatures
compared to MSExcel
xsheet.
Emphasis on building
harmonized,accessible
database(and not on
platform).
http://crps.harvestchoi
ce.org/dev/

15. ThankYou
http://www.cgiar-
csi.org/