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CGIAR at 31: An Independent Meta-Evaluation of the Consultative
Group on International Agricultural Research |
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IEG has recently completed a meta-evaluation of the CGIAR
as part of an overall
evaluation of the Bank's involvement in 70 global programs.
At $50 million a year of completely unrestricted funds,
the CGIAR currently receives 40 percent of the Development
Grant Facility (DGF) grants going to global programs
out of the Bank's net income. Increasing competition for
such grants to meet a variety of global challenges and the
need for selectivity were among the factors leading IEG to review the Bank's involvement in global programs, including
in the CGIAR.
IEG concludes that the CGIAR has been a unique instrument
of international cooperation. Its productivity-enhancing
research has had sizeable impacts on reducing poverty by
increasing employment, raising incomes, lowering food prices,
and releasing land from cropping. Moreover, further improvements
in sustainable agricultural productivity are critical to
meet the international community's Millennium Development
Goal of halving poverty by 2015.
But the CGIAR is facing huge challenges, and it is less
focused on enhancing agricultural productivity than it used
to be. Its current mix of activities reflects neither its
comparative advantage nor its core competence. The CGIAR
has not responded sufficiently at the System level to the
biotechnology revolution, the increasing importance of intellectual
property rights, and the growth of private sector research.
And the current reforms in the CGIAR's organizational structure,
governance, and management do not go far enough to address
the challenges arising from the radically changed external
and internal environment facing the CGIAR.
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2: Technical Report - 2.3 MB (approx)
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3: Annexes - 1.2 MB (approx)
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