UID:
edocfu_9958078501702883
Format:
xxv, 220 pages :
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illustrations ;
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28 cm.
Edition:
Rev. ed.
ISBN:
1-280-08435-9
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9786610084357
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1-4175-0061-1
Series Statement:
Operations evaluation study
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Prólogo -- Avant-propos -- Preface -- Prefacio -- Préface -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- PART 1: OVERVIEW -- 1. CGIAR's Changing Mission and Authorizing Environment -- 2. CGIAR Activities and Impacts: What Do We Know? -- 3. New Challenges for the CGIAR: How Is It Responding? -- 4. Restructuring the CGIAR: Lessons of Past Attempts -- 5. The Current CGIAR Reforms: Some Are Creditable But Others Need Revisiting -- 6. The Critical Roles of the World Bank: Convener, Donor, and Development Partner -- 7. Recommendations -- Focusing the World Bank's Responsibilities -- Reforming the CGIAR -- PART 2: TECHNICAL REPORT -- SECTION I THE CONTEXT -- 8. The Context for the CGIAR Meta-Evaluation -- An Overview of the CGIAR -- A Conceptual Framework for Assessing CGIAR Effectiveness -- Previous Evaluations -- The Change Management and Design Process -- SECTION II THE DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS OF THE CGIAR -- 9. High Returns to Germplasm Research -- Examining the Impacts of Germplasm Research -- Related Issues Requiring Further Impact Assessments -- 10. Genetic Resources Strategy and Management -- Genetic Resource Management and Use: Issues for the CGIAR -- The Challenges of a Rapidly Changing Environment -- Can the CGIAR Meet this Challenge? -- Reconfiguring the CGIAR to Meet the Challenge -- 11. Policy Research in the CGIAR -- IFPRI's Policy Research: 1998 External Program and Management Review -- Other Reviews of IFPRI Impacts -- 12. Natural Resources Management Research in the CGIAR -- Thematic Priorities in NRM Research -- Focus -- Framework -- 13. National Agricultural Research Systems and the CGIAR -- The Black Box of High Returns: The Partnership Role of the NARS -- Pursuing Partnerships with Advanced NARS -- Ensuring Continued Support to Small-Country NARS -- 14. The CGIAR and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Activities, Impacts, and Constraints -- Priority Setting and the Roles of Regions -- Confronting Shortfalls in Public Agricultural Spending -- The Role of Donors and the Bank -- SECTION III THE ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS OF THE CGIAR -- 15. Past Attempts to Restructure the CGIAR -- The Financial Crisis -- The Renewal Process -- The Mixed Impacts of Renewal -- The Third System Review (1998) -- The Federation Proposal (2000) -- The CGIAR's Founding Principles Need Revisiting -- The Challenge of Reconfiguration -- Collective Action Problems Are Daunting -- 16. Reform in the CGIAR (2000-Present) -- The Executive Council -- The System Office -- The Science Council -- Challenge Programs -- Reforms Do Not Go Far Enough -- 17. The World Bank and the CGIAR -- Exercising the Bank's Leadership Role as Founder, Cosponsor, and Convener -- Funding the CGIAR and Exit Strategy from the DGF? -- The Bank's Multiple Roles -- Enhancing the Bank's Role as a Development Partner -- 18. Conclusions -- Science and Strategy -- Governance, Organization, Finance, and Management -- The Role of the World Bank -- Appendixes -- 1: Current Organizational Chart of the CGIAR -- 2: Meta-Evaluation Terms of Reference -- 3: Meta-Evaluation Team and Advisory Committee: Biographical Information -- 4: Methods and Tools -- 5: List of Working and Background Papers, Authors, and Peer Reviewers -- 6: List of People Consulted -- 7: Management Response -- 8: Chairman's Summary: Committee on Development Effectiveness -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Figures -- 1.1 Where the Poor Are -- 1.2 Cereal Yields: Slowdown in Growth -- 2.1 Research with Proven Impacts on Poverty Has Declined Dramatically -- 2.2 Restricted Funding Has Increased -- 2.3 Restricted Funding Varies Greatly among the Top Ten Donors.
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3.1 Private Agricultural Research Expenditures Are Small in Developing Countries, Large in Developed Countries -- 6.1 Bank Lending to Agriculture Declined Dramatically in the 1990s -- 8.1 An Overview of CGIAR Centers -- 8.2 The World Bank Became the Largest Donor in 1994 -- 8.3 Top Ten Donors Provide Most of the Funding -- 8.4 Allocations to Commodity and Ecoregional Centers Have Declined -- 8.5 Research with Proven Impacts on Poverty Has Declined Dramatically -- 8.6 Centers' Expenditures on Africa Have Increased Slightly During the Last Ten Years -- 8.7 Global Public Agriculture Research Expenditures, 1995: 21.7 Billion -- 8.8 Global Public Health Expenditures, 1998: 73.5 Billion -- 8.9 Average Annual Growth Rates in Public Agricultural Research Expenditures, by Region and Half Decades, 1976 to 1996 -- 8.10 World Bank and USAID Funding of Agricultural Research by Region -- 8.11 Rural and Health Sectors Are Prominent in DGF Allocations to Global Programs (FY02 figures) -- 8.12 Environment, Rural, and Health Sectors Are Prominent in Overall Global Program Expenditures (FY01 figures) -- 14.1 Public Agricultural Research Expenditures, 1976-95 -- 17.1 World Bank Lending to Agricultural Research and Extension, 1971-02 -- Boxes -- 1.1 Portrait of a Global Program -- 1.2 Concepts Relating to Setting and Achieving Priorities -- 2.1 What Is Global and Regional Public Goods Research? -- 3.1 The New World of Intellectual Property Rights -- 3.2 "Golden Rice" Demonstrates the Challenges of Public-Private Partnerships -- 4.1 The CGIAR's Founding Principles Need Revisiting to Maintain Impact on Poverty Reduction -- 4.2 Stakeholders Report Many Concerns about the System -- 6.1 Conflicts of Interest in the Bank's Roles Inhibit Reforms -- 8.1 The Research and Development Continuum -- 8.2 Global versus International Public Goods.
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8.3 Economies of Scale and Scope in Research -- 8.4 The Importance of the Priority Setting Process: The Case of Climate Change -- 10.1 Current CGIAR Biotechnology Research, by Center and Activity -- 15.1 The Unevaluated ILCA/ILRAD Merger Experience -- 15.2 Veterans Cite Multiple Reasons for Consolidation -- 16.1 The Science Council Has Less Power Than Did TAC -- 16.2 Issues in the Transformation of TAC to the Science Council.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-5645-3
Language:
English
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