Presentation at RTB Annual Review and Planning Meeting (Entebbe, Uganda, 29 Sep-3 Oct 2014)

1. CGIAR change process
and RTB response
Graham Thiele
RTB Annual Meeting
Entebbe, September 29th 2014

2. Content
• CGIAR change process
• RTB Timeline
• RTB 1.0 (Themes)
• RTB 2.0 (Flagship Projects)
• Governance
• Conclusion and next steps

3. CGIAR change process

4. Components change process
Fund Council • Harmonizes donor support for research
• Unites 15 international agricultural
research centers
Consortium
• Provides donors independent advice
Independent Science
and Partnership
Council
• Rallies donors, centers and partners
around a common approach
Strategy and Results
Framework (SRF)
• Goals for all CGIAR research
Four system level
outcomes
Components

5. System level outcomes (SLOs)
Reduced Rural
Poverty
Stronger
Food Security
Sustainable
NRM
Better Nutrition
& Health

6. Change process next steps
1. Revising SRF (ongoing):
• grand challenges: planetary boundaries, globalization,
environmental dynamics and population demographics
• goals (SLOs to SDGs) and targets (Intermediate
Development Outcomes)
• strengthening innovation
• accountability – results-based management (RBM)
2. Extension phase CRPs: 2015-16
• CGIAR review and response

7. SRF Vision statement
Reduced poverty Improved nutrition and
health
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resource
management and ecosystems
services
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Improved Nutrition & Health will remain as one of three top strategic results

8. Change process next steps
3. Second phase CRPs: 2017-2020
• Portfolio review of CRPs – new, consolidate, integrate
• Flagship projects/clusters of activity, theories of change,
value for money
• Outcome (results) based accounting
• Performance evaluation
• Pre-proposals due March 2015

9. RTB Timeline

10. RTB response - Timeline
Year Action
2010 Proposal - RTB 1.0
2011 Review and improvement
2012 Start up - RTB 1.0
2013 Fully operational RTB 1.0
Scoping RTB 2.0
2014 RTB 1.0 with pilot RTB 2.0
2015 Transition from RTB 1.0 to 2.0 (Hybrid)
2016/2017 Implementation RTB 2.0

11. RTB 1.0

12. A COLLABORATION OF:
+ a wide spectrum of research-for-development
stakeholders & partners

13. Our Crops
Banana
Plantain
Cassava Potato Sweetpotato Yam Other R&T
200 million farmers depend on RTB crops
Buffering role in food systems

14. Program “value added”
To do together what we cannot do separately
• Increased scale
• Greater capacity
• Exploit synergies: genuine “win-wins” eg similarities in
seed systems and postharvest management

15. Crop expertise by Center
CROP EXPERTISE
CENTER
BANANA
CASSAVA
POTATO
SWEETPOTATO
YAM
AROIDS
ANDEAN
Bioversity
CIAT
CIP
CIRAD
IITA

16. RTB 1.0: design features
• Output-oriented (products)
• Crop/Themes central to architecture and
budgets
• Crosscutting through complementary funding
• Product portfolio: planning, reporting (and
knowledge management)
• Management with Theme leaders
• Gender increased importance
• Un-structured performance evaluation

17. Themes

18. RTB cross-cutting projects: examples
Next generation breeding
Quantifying & managing seed degeneration
Modelling RTB-seed systems
Enhanced risk assessment critical pests & diseases
Implementing gender strategy

19. Example crosscutting research
Seed degeneration and
modelling seed systems
• Yield loss viruses and seed
system major shared
constraint
• Banana, cassava, potato,
sweetpotato, yam
• CG centers, KSU + NARS

21. Building a culture of collaboration
Planning Implementing
Data management
Publishing

22. Progress RTB 1.0
• Clearly defined scope of work and research
contracts (product portfolio)
• Strong crosscutting research projects
• Dynamized collaboration across RTB centers
and researchers
• Integrated and strategic gender research
• Strengthened collaboration within shared
mandate crops, esp. cassava
• Collaboration CRPs: Humidtropics, PIM, L&F

23. Challenges for RTB 1.0
• Stronger linkages upstream than downstream
•Weaker engagement in Asia and Latin America
• 550+ products in Product Portfolio!
• Software platform for planning and reporting
(GoogleDrive) overwhelmed
• Limited performance evaluation/talent
management
• Themes good for achieving research products
• Outcomes require collaboration across themes

24. RTB 2.0

25. How can we do a better job?
• Huge potential in new technologies available:
• GIS
• Computation – modelling
• Pathogen testing
• Omic revolution
• Internet – mobile telephony – crowd sourcing
• Reality for many African farmers: limited
adoption/relevance
• “Technology got stuck in the publications”
• Lack of critical mass
• Enaging partners

26. Varietal adoption and turnover by crop

27. RTB 2.0: Design features
• Results-oriented (outcomes)
• Flagship projects/clusters of activities + impact
pathways central to architecture, co-develop
with partners
• Flagship project and cluster leaders
• Product portfolio: planning, reporting and
knowledge management
• Gender mainstreaming
• Performance evaluation / M&E
• Accountability linked to IDOs
• Results-based budgets

28. “Lead” (flagship) product
Vast library
apps
iPhone
Packaging &
design
concept
Advertising
Data bases
user
information

29. Delivery cluster: Combating vitamin A deficiency with
resilient, nutritious orange-fleshed sweetpotato
Strategic
Objective
Improve diet
quality and
incomes of 15
million+
resource‐poor
households in
countries with
VAD
Impact pathway
Outcomes
Client orientation - feedback
Research

30. Results based management cycle
Set
strategic
goals
Define
frame-work
Stakeholder
participation
Plan for
M&E
Manage
and use
evaluation
Implement
and use
monitoring
L E A R N I N G

31. Accountability: Intermediate Dev. Outcomes
IDO Indicator
Improved productivity in pro-poor
RTB food systems
 Change on-farm yield by income
group
 Total annual farm-level productivity
Increased and stable access to food
commodities by rural & urban poor
• Coping Strategies Index
(http://www.seepnetwork.org/the-coping-strategy-
index-resources-1134.php)
 Household Food Insecurity and
Access Index
 Change in calorific intake per capita
per day
Increased and more gender-equitable
income for poor
participants in RTB value chains
 % Change in farmer revenue from
improved RTB varieties
 % changes in RTB product income
gender differentiated

32. Flagship Projects
• Delivery (near market-ready “scalable” technologies):
• Crop based
• Small and medium scale cassava processing targeting rural
women
• Nutrient-rich sweetpotato
• Managing and containing banana diseases
• Discovery (mid-long term options):
• RTB transformational breeding platform
• Game-changing traits
• Learning and support (cross-cutting):
• Framework for seed system development
• Learning for postharvest and value addition

33. Governance

34. RTB 1.0: Governance & Management
Center &
Gender
Focal
Points

35. RTB 2.0: Governance & Management
Center &
Gender
Focal
Points
Flagship projects
Flagship project leaders
Cluster of activity leaders

36. Conclusion and next steps
1. Moving to RBM with pilot in 2014
2. Clusters of activities in construction (CIP ahead of curve)
3. Engage Humidtropics, SROs (Asareca), national partners
4. Transition to unified Steering Committee Jan 1st 2015
5. Timing shift RTB 1.0 to 2.0?
• Independent external evaluation 2015
• Extension request 2015-2016
• CO and ISPC favourable review
• Bring forward RTB 2.0?
• Preparation for second call (2017-): (pre) proposal