An overview of CGIAR activities in
Ethiopia
Siboniso Moyo
Strengthening CGIAR - EARS partnerships for effective agricultural transformation in Ethiopia
Consultative Meeting, 4 – 5 December 2014

Outline
• Introduction: Who we are?
• CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs) with a
focus on Africa and Ethiopia
• Partnerships
• Key messages
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CGIAR Consortium - 15 Member Centres
IFPRI
Wash. DC
USA
CIMMYT
Mexico City
Mexico
CIP
Lima
Peru
Bioversity
International
Rome Italy
CIAT
Cali
Colombia
AfricaRice
Cotonou
Benin
ILRI
Nairobi
Kenya
IITA
Ibadan
Nigeria
World
Agroforestry
Nairobi
Kenya
ICARDA
Aleppo
Syrian Arab
Rep.
ICRISAT
Patancher
u
India
IWMI
Colombo
Sri Lanka
IRRI
Los Banos
Phillippines
World Fish
Penang
Malaysia
CIFOR
Bogor
Indonesia

All 15 centres have offices in Africa
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10
8
6
4
2
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Number of offices

ILRI Addis Campus – A CGIAR Campus
• ILRI
• IWMI
• IFPRI
• CIMMYT
• ICARDA
• ICRAF
• CIP
• Bioversity
• ICRISAT
• CIAT
• icipe
• IFAD
• IFDC
• BMGF

System objectives/ outcomes
To:
Reduce rural poverty
Improve food security
Improve nutrition and health
Sustainably manage natural resources
through high-quality international research and
partnerships

Delivering on the Vision through the Consortium
Research Programs (CRPs)
Built and measured on three core principles
1. Impact on 4 system-level outcomes, ensuring
consistency between SRF and CRP
• reduced rural poverty
• improved food security
• improved nutrition and health
• sustainably managed natural resources
2. Integration across CGIAR core competencies,
strengthening synergies and avoiding overlaps
3. Appropriate partnerships at all stages of R&D

A portfolio of 15 global collaborative programs
Multi year, multi-institutional (R&D partners),
global programs, research sites in multiple
countries
Co-designed with partners and stakeholders
Measurable milestones, targets, outputs, clear
roles of different partners along impact pathways
Results-based: delivering on expected outputs,
for impact pathways linking research outputs to
development impacts.

New approach: How the work is organised - from impacts on development
problems to research outputs
Development impacts on food
security, environmental
sustainability, poverty
Measurable targets of direct
development impact from
collaborative research
Deliver Measurable output targets from
collaborative programs
Assess
Monitor
and
Evaluate
Measurable targets for research and
development outcomes

In summary
• Research breakthroughs needed to resolve, in sustainable
manner, food security and emerging development challenges
• Results driven: working from development impacts ‘back’ to
research needed.
• More productive, stress-resistant varieties + new options for
managing biological processes and NRs more effectively
under climate change + new policy, marketing options
• Requirements:
– innovative global partnerships along impact pathways,
monitor and assess effectiveness
– more integrative science
– need to work at multiple levels:
local  regional national sub-regional global

CGIAR Research Programs
Dryland Cereals
Grain Legumes
Livestock and Fish
Maize
Rice
Roots, Tubers and Bananas
Wheat
Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Forests, Trees and Agroforestry
Water, Land and Ecosystems
Humidtropics
Aquatic Agricultural Systems
Dryland Systems
Policies, Institutions, and Markets
Agriculture for Nutrition and Health
Genebanks

Many CRPs in Africa

Humidtropics; dryland systems; livestock
and fish; water, land and ecosystems

Maize; rice; forest, trees and agroforestry

Policy, institutions and markets; agriculture for nutrition and
health; climate change, agriculture and food security,

Principles of ILRI Partnership Strategy - As an example
Based on an innovation systems framework
ENABLERS
Policy/decision-makers
at all levels
DEVELOPMENT
IMPLEMENTERS
Gov’t, UN, NGOs,
civil society,
farmers groups
VALUE CHAIN
ACTORS
Private sector,
public-private
initiatives,
community groups
RESEARCH
PARTNERS
International and
national
academic,
research
institutions
Based original figure by IFPR/John McDermott 2012.

Science for a food secure future