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Elcio Guimarães

Climate Change & Capacity Strengthening Area Annual Program Review 2011 Nairobi, Kenya 10 May 2011. Elcio Guimarães. Content. Climate Change and Policy Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management PRGA Tropical Fruits Challenges. Climate Change and Policy (1/8).

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Elcio Guimarães

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  1. Climate Change & Capacity Strengthening Area Annual Program Review 2011 Nairobi, Kenya 10 May 2011 Elcio Guimarães

  2. Content • Climate Change and Policy • Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management • PRGA • Tropical Fruits • Challenges

  3. Climate Change and Policy(1/8) • Climate Change • Supported CIAT’s lead centre status for the CCAFS • Theme Leadership of the CCAFS

  4. Climate Change and Policy(2/8) • Climate Change (CC) • Grounding CC - major activities in Colombia, Jamaica and Guatemala on supply chain adaptation (with Oxfam) • Policy Briefs on CC implications for agriculture in Colombia and on coffee for Mesoamerica

  5. Climate Change and Policy(3/8) • Ecosystem Services (ES) • Development of national methods for calculating opportunity costs for REDD+ developed and included in WB training manuals • Finalization of the Amazon Spatial Policy Targeting tool online

  6. Climate Change and Policy(4/8) • Ecosystem Services (ES) • Quantification of ES in watersheds and the identification of their correspondent priority service-providing unit (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru)

  7. Climate Change and Policy(5/8) • Ecosystem Services (ES) • Economic valuation of the benefits derived from ES by downstream ES users as an input for a BSM negotiation in Peru Agriculture Hydropower company Production function Marginal costs and benefits Tourists Urban water users Travel cost Contingent valuation

  8. Climate Change and Policy(6/8) • Linking Farmers to Markets (LFM) • Synthesis of PROGRESO methodology for agro-enterprise development post conflict - Policy brief • Major new projects established in 2010 • IFAD (LFM LAC strategy) • Ford Foundation (public policy analysis)

  9. Climate Change and Policy(7/8) • Impact targeting and assessment • Continued analysis of impact of rice in LAC • Studies on impacts of CIAT’s bean work in East Africa ongoing • Major forage study ongoing in SE Asia

  10. Climate Change and Policy(8/8) • Impact targeting and assessment • Site Specific Agriculture in fruits in Colombia delivering first impacts with 1000s of farmers • Two new economists working on agricultural trends in LAC and climate change policy (joint IFPRI positions)

  11. Content • Climate Change and Policy • Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management • PRGA • Tropical Fruits • Challenges

  12. Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management (1/9) Participatory strategic planning Conferences, press releases, policy briefs Collaborative tools and methods; participatory research Research Design Communication ResearchImplementation Documentation Monitoring and Evaluation Theories of change, Innovation histories, surveys Text, photo, video, interviews Training Knowledge Sharing with Stakeholders Courses, field days Multi-media training materials Social Media, workshops, conferences

  13. Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management (2/9) • Regional Capacity Strengthening Platform • IP meeting • Seed platform

  14. Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management (3/9)

  15. Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management (4/9) • Printed Material • Annual Report 2010 - published (1st among CGIAR centers) • CIAT Briefs – Expanding • Project Initiatives • Strategy in Action • Donor Briefs • CIAT Briefs - Existing series • 18 - CIAT Briefs • 12 - Program Syntheses • 2- Policy Briefs

  16. Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management (5/9) • Other publications • Cassava in the Third Millennium • 9 – Laboratory guides • Eco-Efficient Rice Production – Tome II (awaiting funding) • Financial Statements 2010

  17. Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management (6/9) • High visibility events • CIAT Agricultural Forum • Biodiversity, Biotrade, and Sustainable Development • World Food Day and World Rural Women's Day • Exhibits • AgroExpo: bi-annual agricultural fair in Bogota • ExpoCiencia: annual science fair in Bogota

  18. Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management (7/9) • Events in the regions • CIAT Annual Program Review in Kenya (9-11 May) • Joint planning and execution (press release, media event on first-day morning session) • International CIALCA conference in Rwanda (24-27 Oct) • Joint preparation of press release; promotion; social media coverage; and, social reporting during the event

  19. Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management (8/9) • New corporate websites (En-Oct 2010; Sp-Mar 2011) • Social media • Blogs • English: > 1,400 visits, 93 countries (Mar-Apr 2011) • Spanish: > 1,700 visits, 40 countries (Mar-Apr 2011) • Picture sharing • Flickr : > 250,000 views (since May 2009) • CIAT pictures used in many print and digital publications – all with visible credit to CIAT

  20. Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management (9/9) • Videos • Blip.tv: > 8,500 views (since May 2009) • YouTube: high number of views (stats difficult to retrieve) • Poster & presentation sharing • Slideshare: > 200 posters; > 180 presentation (user stats retrieval is time consuming) • Micro messaging • Twitter: > 990 tweets, 729 followers, 58 listed

  21. Content • Climate Change and Policy • Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management • PRGA • Tropical Fruits • Challenges

  22. PRGA • Participatory Plant Breeding and Gender with PABRA in Kenya and Tanzania “Differentiating among female and male bean variety preferences in a range of dynamic scenarios (low/high stress; market-driven/subsistence)” • ICARDA PPB Program - “Genetic Resources and Farmers’ Knowledge to Adapt Crops to Climate Changes” • Program Final Report (in prep.) and conceptualization of PPB and Gender work conducted over almost 14 years

  23. PRGA • Supporting CIAT Programs in LAC - Development of new gender-sensitive research proposals and criteria that include gender analysis: • Fruits of success: women, sustainability and peach palm • Meeting the Challenges of Food Insecurity and CC in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago - action on PVS and adaptation of cassava • New “Gender & Breeding Initiative” for CIAT crops

  24. PRGA • Global Gender Research • “Demand Analysis” study on Gender-Responsive Participatory Research (GRPR) needs at the CGIAR level with 12 Centers • Determined strength and gaps in the implementation of GRPR

  25. Content • Climate Change and Policy • Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management • PRGA • Tropical Fruits • Challenges

  26. Tropical Fruits • Event to socialize the strategy (IICA, Corpoica, UNAL, FHIA, ICA, Casa Luker, Productora de Jugos, CRS, Biotec, Embrapa, Bioversity International) – Outputs: • Four concept notes • Tropical Fruit Strategy consolidated • 2011 research proposals - 4.6 million (earned US$250,000 – more results in August)

  27. Tropical Fruits • Currently there is a visiting scientist from USAID working with the program • A national research agenda for Colombia was agreed with Corpoica and will be discussed with the fruit chain shortly

  28. Content • Climate Change and Policy • Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management • PRGA • Tropical Fruits • Challenges

  29. Challenges • How to have a CIAT agenda complementary to CRPs • Fund raising opportunities, but with partners and responding to full cost recovery • Keep the critical mass in all programs

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