CGIAR site integration in Uganda: developments and recommendations

In light of the third Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development, Bioversity International's Eastern and Southern Africa representative Eldad Karamura shares his thoughts about CGIAR's ‘site integration’, a pilot process launched for the improvement of intra-CGIAR coordination and collaboration in a selected set of countries and regions.

In preparation for a second phase of CGIAR Research Programs, the CGIAR Consortium is proposing to make the research programs more integrated so as to more effectively contribute to the objectives and targets set by the CGIAR Strategy and Results Framework.

How? Through a pilot process termed ‘site integration’: the improvement of intra-CGIAR coordination and collaboration in a selected set of countries and regions.

Site Integration plans will bring together the work of CGIAR Centres and programs in key countries where CGIAR innovations are expected to reach millions of people and achieve research outcomes at scale. In the quest to enhance significant impacts of the research-for-development investment in the country, through site integration, CGIAR activities and research-for-development objectives will be integrated with those of Uganda and linked with the Sustainable Development Goals.

Bioversity International and International Potato Center International Potato Center (CIP) led the establishment of a Steering Committee from Uganda-based CGIAR representatives (Bioversity International, CIAT, CIP, ICRAF, IFPRI, IITA, ILRI and IWMI) which will spearhead the site integration process in Uganda . I’m thrilled that in Uganda the process of integration has begun and will continue, thanks to the tremendous support thus far given by the Centres and the national partners alike.

Read the original post CGIAR site integration in Uganda: developments and recommendations written by Eldad Karamura, Regional Representative in Eastern and Southern Africa, Bioversity International.

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