RBM for climate change adaptation and mitigation. Performed on the 20th of January 2015. By Bruce Campbell, Phil Thornton, Pramod Aggarwal CCAFS

1. RBM for climate
change adaptation
and mitigation
Bruce Campbell, Phil Thornton, Pramod Aggarwal

2. Outline
• Background (Climate change targets, CCAFS)
• Global and regional impact pathways and targets
• Regional coherence
• Planning and reporting system
• Managing for results
• Lessons learnt
• Q & A

3. Climate change targets
• UNFCCC
 “measurable, reportable and verifiable” (MRV) – GHGs and
adaptation actions
• Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture
 Protect 500 million farmers from climate change
• SDG No 13
 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity
 Integrate climate change measures into national policies,
strategies, and planning
 • Building farmer resilience
• Emissions reductions

4. FS2. Climate information
services and climate-
informed safety nets
FS3. Low emissions
development
FS4. Policies and institutions
for climate-resilient food
systems
FS1. Climate smart
technologies, practices,
and portfolios

5. Regional Programs
• Key feature: fits into an impact pathway
• Large bodies of work (e.g. US$1.5 million)
• Any kind of funds; single or multiple Centers
Projects

6. Process adopted
• RBM trial on one Flagship/Theme (2013-2014)
• Iterative planning (2014)
• Knowledge platform: Planning & Reporting system
• Define global impact pathways
• Define regional impact pathways
• Calls for ideas
• Regional planning meetings: targets, IPs

7. Intermediate Development Outcomes
(IDOs)
2025 Flagship Outcomes
2025 Regional Outcomes
2019 Flagship Outcomes
2019 Regional Outcomes
Cluster of
Activities
Cluster of
Activities
Cluster of
Activities
Project
Project
Project
Project
Project
Project
Project
Project

8. 4 +5
25national and subnational major development
initiatives and public institutions prioritize and inform
project implementation of equitable best bet CSA
options using CCAFS science and decision support tools
2 +3
15public-private actors at national and subnational
levels are using incentive mechanisms and new
business models/ markets that explicitly promote
equitable climate smart approaches along the value
chain, using CCAFS science
30mio. farmers, at
least 12 mio. of
whom are women,
with strengthened
adaptive capacity and
food security as a
result of programmatic
CSA investment.
Targets, e.g. Flagship 1: CSA practices
Regional targets
Project targets
Regional targets
Project targets
Regional targets

9. CCAFS-SA: Regional Impact Pathway
Regional Vision
Large-scale investments in science-informed climate smart agriculture
practices, institutions and policies in the region, leading to long-term food
security and poverty reduction
FS1: OUTCOME
Governments,
private sector and
farmer organizations
increase their
investments and
develop incentive
mechanisms to
promote wide scale
adoption of improved
CSA practices and
technologies
FS2: OUTCOME
Partners use tools
and knowledge to
improve ICT-based
agro advisory
services and
weather-related
insurance services
to smallholder
farmers
FS3: OUTCOME
Global
organizations and
national / sub-
national
governments make
rational decisions
about mitigation in
agriculture based
on local, regional
and global
evidences
FS4: OUTCOME
National and sub-
national
governments
develop CSA
policies and
strengthen related
institutions based on
evidences from
case studies, data,
tools, and models

10. FS1:
CSA practices
and
technologies
Technologies and practices Local development
planning
Incentives for scaling
out
CSVevidencebase
Gender
Engagementandcommunication
CSA Practices - CIMMYT;
Taming floods & droughts-
IWMI
LAPA - CIMMYT;
crowdsourcing seeds-
Bioversity
LAPA - CIMMYT
Prioritization toolkit
FS2:
Climate
information
services
Early warning systems Food security safety nets Insurance
Agro-advisories - IRRI Flood insurance - IWMI;
Bundling - IFPRI
Yield monitoring - CRAFT;
ICT systems
Food storage planning Indices, community
insurance
FS3:
Low emissions
development
Decision support systems Methods and data Mechanisms
Mitigation options and
feasibility - CIMMYT
Coefficients - ICRISAT,
CIMMYT, IRRI
Value chains
FS4:
Policies and
institution
Policies Institutions Global
Scaling-out - IFPRI Scaling-out - IFPRI Scenarios; global policy
support
Prioritization toolkit
Center-led Projects Regional Program led
CCAFS - Projects Portfolio in South Asia

11. Practical example
CSA Practices - CIMMYT
Testing
Gender dimensions
Scaling up (CSVs)
Policy constraints
and investment
choices
State government
Seed companies
ICT providers
National policy dialogue
Flagship-wide concepts and
action
e.g. CSVs in c. 20 countries

14. P&R process
Project Leaders Managers
Annual planning
Generate info
needed for
POWB
Annual reporting
against:
• outcomes
• targets
• deliverables
Generate reports
on topics needed
for annual reporting
M&E  RBM

15. Managing for results
• Each Project has to:
 Collect data on the indicators
 Detail achievements in terms of its contributions to the
steps in the impact pathway
 Produce case studies on outcomes achieved
• Annual achievements of Projects, Regions, Flagships
can be assessed
• Bonus allocation for excellent performances

16. Lessons learnt
• Time and resources needed
• New capacities needed
• Make systems “good enough”, practical, not the
best they could be
• RBM trial projects are doing things differently

17. Summary
• Major shift for CCAFS – new portfolio
• Interlinked impact pathways, from project to global
levels
• Interlinked targets and milestones along impact
pathways
• Platform for planning, reporting and monitoring
• Continual learning for RBM, adaptive managment:
learning briefs, wiki, M&E resources

18. Q & A