CGIAR
International Centers Week 2000
October 23 - 27, 2000
Washington, D.C.

Charting the CGIAR's Future -- Reshaping the CGIAR's Organization

Meeting Documents:
 (being updated daily)

  • Summary of Proceedings
  • Preliminary End-of-Meeting Report
  • Note on Administrative Arrangements and Participant Registration
  • Registration Form
  • ICW/00/01a: Revised Draft Agenda
  • Revised Indicative Timed Agenda
  • ICW/00/02 Rev.1: Revised Schedule of Events
  • ICW/00/03: List of Documents
  • ICW/00/04 : Report of the 18th Meeting of the Finance Committee
  • ICW/00/05 : 2001 Financing Plan - TAC Observations
  • ICW/00/06: Toward a Longer-Range Financing Strategy for the CGIAR
  • ICW/00/09: Report of the 11th Meeting of the GRPC
  • ICW/00/10 : System-Wide Reviews in the CGIAR: Concepts, Options and Recommendations

    Synthesis Group Reports

  • ICW/00/07 : CGIAR 2010 Vision and Strategy: Governance, Organization and Structure: Report of the Synthesis Group
  • ICW/00/07-1: TAC's Views on Implications of the New CGIAR Vision & Strategy
    for Structure and Governance
  • ICW/00/07-1: Structure & Goverance Implications of the New CGIAR Vision
    & Strategy
    (Presentation by the TAC Chair Emil Javier at the Synthesis Group Meeting, October 5, 2000)
  • ICW/00/07-2: CGIAR Longer Term Financing Strategy - Executive Summary
    (Report of the CGIAR Finance Committee Working Group; October 2000)
  • ICW/00/07-3: Report of the CBC/CDC Retreat (The Hague, 2-3 September 2000)
    - Towards a Federation of Centers
  • ICW/00/07-4: Electronic Conference on CGIAR Governance, Organization and Structure
    - Final Synthesis (September 2000)
  • ICW/00/07-5: Contribution of the EIARD Working Group on Restructuring of the CGIAR
    (3 August 2000)
  • ICW/00/07-6: CGIAR and IARC Governance, Organization and Structure: An African Perspective (Views of Leaders of African NARS)
  • ICW/00/07-7 : CBC/CDC Report on Governance, Structure and Management - Frequently Asked Questions

    • TAC Documents: (PDF Files)

  • SDR/TAC:IAR/00/14.1Rev.2: A Food Secure World for All: Toward a New Vision and Strategy for the CGIAR
  • SDR/TAC:IAR/00/15: Report of the Fifth External Programme and Management Review of CIAT
  • SDR/TAC:IAR/00/18: Systemwide Review of Plant Breeding Methodologies in tbe CGIAR
  • SDR/TAC:IAR/00/21 Rev.1: TAC Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA)

    Other Papers:

  • Chairman's Paper: Guidelines for Next Steps.
  • Report of the CGIAR-NGOC for the period MTM-ICW2000 (May-October 2000).
  • Future Harvest Center Directors Committee : Report to the CGIAR. Oct. 27, 2000.
  • Report of the Science Partnership Committee.
  • Report of the 13th Meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee. Oct. 21-22, 2000.
  • TAC Chair's Report at ICW2000.
  • Parallel Session I: EPMR of CIAT
  • Parallel Session II: CGIAR Africa Strategy : an update
  • CDC Statement to ICW2000 on the Need to Resolve Outstanding Issues Concerning IPR relating to Plant Genetic Resources.
  • Statement by the Future Harvest Centres of the CGIAR on the Scope of the Multilateral System Currently under Consideration in the Re-Negotiation of the FAO International Undertaking on PGR for Food and Agriculture. Oct. 27, 2000.
  • Report of the 20th Meeting of the Oversight Committee
  • Highlights of Co-Sponsors Meeting ICW2000

    Speeches

  • Chairman Johnson's Opening Address. October 23, 2000.
  • Chairman Johnson's Opening Announcements. October 23, 2000
  • Is International Agricultural Research a Global Public Good? Robert Picciotto, Director General, Operations Evaluation, The World Bank.

    Sir John Crawford Memorial Lecture

  • J. Craig Venter addresses: "Genomics: From Microbes to Man". Includes link to video recording.

    Climate Change:

  • Robert T. Watson presentation on "Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry".
    PDF File (1,327KB)
    PowerPoint File (17,586KB)
  • Pedro Sanchez presentation. (forthcoming)
  • Mohamed El-Ashry presentation on "Global Environmental Security : a Common Agenda".

    Global Public Goods:

  • Motoo Kusakabe's introductory comments on Global Public Goods and the CGIAR.
  • Geoffrey Sachs presentation on "Frontier Science, Global Public Goods and the CGIAR".
  • Per Pinstrup-Andersen presentation on "Agricultural Research as a Global Public Good: Who Pays? Who Benefits? "
  • Alberto Duque Portugal presentation on "Public Sector Perspectives".
  • Ann Waters-Bayer presentation on "Civil Society Perspectives".
  • Sam Dryden presentation on "Private Sector Perspectives".