Promoting capacity development: A renewed strategy for the Center

Thomas Zschocke

ICRAF Seminar, August 9, 2011

The CGIAR funders and implementers promote active engagement and partnership with stakeholders, including national agricultural research systems (NARs), to optimize research effectiveness and efficiency, strengthen capacity and country ownership, andfully utilize CGIAR research for achieving development impacts.

(CGIAR Joint Declaration, 2009)

Learning for impact

Manage for results

Sharing knowledge

Learning for impact

Manage for results

Sharing knowledge

Process whereby people, organisations and society as a whole unleash, strengthen, create, adapt and maintain capacity over time. ...

Ability of people, organisations and society as a whole to manage their affairs successfully

(OECD, 2006)

The locus for capacity development within the CGIAR moves within the CRPs as a support function to the different types of research partnerships. The nature of the capacity strengthening will expand from imparting research skills to include more learning-by-doing, testing of new methodologies and participatoryapproaches, often building on a base of new knowledge. This implies more innovative approaches to capacity strengthening, often tied to more effective knowledge management, and much more differentiated approaches.

(CGIAR SRF, 2011)

Learning for impact

Manage for results

Sharing knowledge

As now understood, the innovation process may be described as a process of interactive learning in which those involved increase their competence while engaging in the innovation process.

(OECD, 2000)

Learning for impact

Manage for results

Sharing knowledge

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Multiple audiences: Scientists • Information providers • Policymakers • Farmers

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