This document discusses developing effective partnerships for agricultural research. It identifies several challenges, such as coordination among partners and defining roles. The goals of partnerships are identified as impact, livelihoods, research quality and integration. Different types of potential partners are listed, including research, policy, development and private sector organizations. Strategies for effective partnerships include empowering partners, ensuring needs-based partnerships with shared goals, responsibilities and plans. Changes are needed within the CRP to better support partnerships through attention to strategy, engagement with regional policies, funding and clarifying roles.

1. Group work on challenges
Partnership group

2. 1. Underlying issues?
• Coordination among centers
• Role and involvement of the national counterpart
• Integration
• Resource (Funding)
• Lack of strategies on how to get partners together
• Differentiate categories of farmers typologies
• Representativeness
• Effectiveness in communication between us and the
partners

3. 2. What do we really want to achieve with
partnerships: what type of partnership we are
looking for?
• Impact pathway
• Livelihood
• Enhance system research
• Improve the science quality
• Integration of activities on the ground
• Better target of technologies of intervention

4. Categories of partners
• Large spectrum of partners
- Research partners (NARS, ARIs)
- Policy makers
- Development partners (FAO, IFAD, WB, BMGF…)
- Delivery partners (extension service, agribusiness,
services provider, private sector…)
- Clients we are serving
Need to allocate their role along the impact pathway!

5. 3. How to develop effective and efficient
partnerships for scaling? Strategies and
principles (1)
• Empower the partners to participate and have
influence in the decision making
• Partnership identified based on clear societal
need
• Definition of responsibility for different partners
• Trust in partnership and common shared goals
and values
• Identification by all partners of the project plan
(ownership)

6. 3. How to develop effective and efficient
partnerships for scaling? Strategies and
principles (2)
Strategies
•Credibility and transparency
•Mutual respect
•Equality
•Accountability
Principles
•IP issues need to be addressed at earlier stage
•Partner should fit for purpose and have incentive to
participate
• Capacity to deliver (complementarity)

7. 4. What needs to change in the CRP to
enable such partnership
• More attention to SRT1 on partnership and
innovation
• Engagement with regional policies on
agricultural research and development
• Attitude of CG centers towards the partners
and vice versa
• Sufficient funding to partners
• Clarify the role of different partners for
budget allocation