Support for the 3rd Annual Exeter River Alewife Festival

With support from the NH Estuaries Project (NHEP), the Exeter River Local Advisory Committee (ERLAC) held the 3rd Annual Exeter River Alewife Festival on May 31, 2003 in downtown Exeter. NHEP funding enabled ERLAC and the Festival Planning Committee to print and distribute posters and cards advertising the Festival, purchase newspaper advertisements and arrange opportunities for the press to learn more about the event. In addition, ERLAC members worked with area newspapers to write and print eleven articles highlighting aspects of the river and the watershed

2004 Alewife Festival

On June 5, 2004, the Exeter River Local Advisory Committee (ERLAC) held the 4th Annual Exeter River Alewife Festival along the banks of the Squamscott River in downtown Exeter. Over three dozen organizations exhibited at the Festival and event organizers estimate approximately 750 people, including many children, attended the event. The purpose of the Festival was to increase awareness of the Exeter River watershed and the role it plays in the Great Bay ecosystem, as well as its role in providing drinking water, wildlife habitat, and scenic, historic and recreational resources for residents in the ten watershed towns. Funding provided by the New Hampshire Estuaries Project enabled ERLAC to print posters, banners, and newspaper advertisements announcing the event

Report from TAC on Its Review of the 2000 Centre Financing Plans

TAC's comments presented at International Centers Week 1999 on the 2000 financing plans submitted by the CGIAR Centers and considered at TAC 77. TAC's review compared the plans with levels of spending endorsed by commodity, sector, and activity at the CGIAR Mid Term Meeting 1997. The plans were assessed in aggregate in terms of their implications for systemwide priorities and strategies and consistency with the 2000 CGIAR research agenda, and center medium term plans.The review identified livestock, water, and germplasm improvement as areas of underinvestment, as well as chickpea, groundnut, millets, and banana. Rice and wheat were identified as instances of overinvestment.TAC noted with concern an ongoing trend of diminishing unrestricted funding, and its potential ramifications for center flexibility in responding to new challenges

Role of the CGIAR in Fisheries Research

Background paper assessing how well existing international aquaculture and fisheries research addresses requirements, and the need for CGIAR involvement. This is one of a series of desk studies prepared as background for TAC panels in considering institutional options for bringing new research areas into the CGIAR. The paper presents an overview of the work of ICLARM and three other institutes.Agenda document, TAC 51 and TAC 52

International Support to Irrigation Water Management Research and Training: Progress Report

A proposal by the TAC Secretariat to implement a suggestion by the CGIAR that a task force be established to study further the creation of an international institute for research and training on irrigation water management. Agenda document, TAC 25th Meeting, February-March 1981

Analysis of the CGIAR Impact Study in Relation to TAC's Recommendations on CGIAR Priorities and Future Strategies

TAC Secretariat paper relating the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of TAC's own priorities and future strategies paper of 1985, to those of the CGIAR impact study, which had been carried out concurrently but independently. The content and range of center work, center interaction with national programs, and future activities and directions of CGIAR research, were the broad topics of both studies. This paper examines the parallels and contrasts between the two.Agenda document, TAC 39th Meeting, March 1986

Vegetable Research for Developing Countries

Document summarizing TAC and CGIAR consideration of support to vegetable research over the years. It was prepared as background for discussion at TAC 42 of what action to take to follow up on the high priority assigned tropical vegetables by the TAC Review of CGIAR Priorities and Future Strategies. It concludes that TAC will wish to prepare a proposal for consideration of the CGIAR. Annexes include an extract from the TAC Review of CGIAR Priorities and Future Strategies, and charts from other papers

Associate Status within the CGIAR

TAC Secretariat note reviewing consideration in TAC and the CGIAR of the issue of whether to grant certain institutions or activities within them special recognition or associate status on the basis of the significance of their work to that of CGIAR centers. A CGIAR Secretariat memorandum on the same subject, and a summary of discussion in the CGIAR meeting of November 1977 are annexed. Agenda document, TAC Nineteenth Meeting, June 1978

TAC's Views on Implications of the New CGIAR Vision and Strategy for Structure and Governance

TAC assessment of changes in the organization, structure and governance required to accommodate the new CGIAR vision and strategy approved at MTM 2000. Two key organizing principles were: research focused on poverty reduction should primarily be organized on regional lines, and the CGIAR should be strategically placed to take full advantage of advances in science. An experimental approach to regional program management is recommended. Task forces, rather than new institutions, are suggested to tackle cross-cutting problems of poverty and mobilizing modern science.For each CGIAR program output, TAC suggests the appropriate organizational structure. It covers germplasm collections, germplasm improvement for crops, livestock, and fisheries, natural resources management, socioeconomic and policy research, and enhancing institutions. Fisheries, for example, requires a stand alone institution, whereas policy research should be devolved to the regional level.TAC comments on three aspects of governance. It rejects the EIARD proposal of a single, centrally managed CGIAR research facility for germplasm conservation and strategic research. TAC agrees with some aspects of the CBC/CDC proposal for a federation of centers, but not with others. The Committee sees a continuing need for independent external advice and discusses the possible evolution of its own role.Under the heading of finance, TAC recommends an increase in funds available for core programs of centers, a competitive mechanism to provide funding on the basis of scientific quality, and provision of finance for systemwide governance mechanisms and activities.This paper was initiated at TAC 79 in September 2000, and completed for the meeting of the Synthesis Group in Sonning, UK, in October 2000. It was distributed at the CGIAR meeting later that month as background to the discussion of the Synthesis Group report

Proposals for an Elaboration of TAC/CGIAR Priorities for International Support to Agricultural Research in Developing Countries

TAC Secretariat note on the objectives and methods of a proposed review of the priorities used in guiding resource allocation within the CGIAR, emphasizing improved utilization of the Group's existing knowledge base. Agenda document, TAC Eighteenth Meeting, February 1978