Designing and Managing Change in the CGIAR: Report to the Mid-Term Meeting 2001

Report of the CGIAR Change Design and Management Team (CDMT) presented at the 2001 Mid Term Meeting in Durban, South Africa. Report recommendations prescribed: Adoption of a programmatic approach to research finance and management, beginning with the establishment of between two and four Global Challenge Programs to promote collaboration between Centers and to expand partnerships with and develop the capacities of national and regional partners, including GFAR;Transformation of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) into a Science Council, responsible for ensuring the quality and relevance of CGIAR science and providing Systemwide advice on science policy, but with TAC's current responsibilities for management-related functions devolving to a new Executive Council;Creation of an Executive Council to subsume the current functions of the Finance and Oversight committees in addition to the management-related functions of TAC;Transformation of the CGIAR Secretariat into a System Office with a communications function integrating the existing Secretariat Communications team and Future HarvestCombination of the annual Mid Term Meetings and International Centers Weeks into a single Annual General MeetingA comprehensive fund raising and outreach effort to identify potential investors and expand the financial participation of developing countrie

Beyond outputs: pathways to symmetrical evaluations of university sustainable development partnerships

As the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005–2014) draws to a close, it is timely to review ways in which the sustainable development initiatives of higher education institutions have been, and can be, evaluated. In their efforts to document and assess collaborative sustainable development program outcomes and impacts, universities in the North and South are challenged by similar conundrums that confront development agencies. This article explores pathways to symmetrical evaluations of transnationally partnered research, curricula, and public-outreach initiatives specifically devoted to sustainable development. Drawing on extensive literature and informed by international development experience, the authors present a novel framework for evaluating transnational higher education partnerships devoted to sustainable development that addresses design, management, capacity building, and institutional outreach. The framework is applied by assessing several full-term African higher education evaluation case studies with a view toward identifying key limitations and suggesting useful future symmetrical evaluation pathways. University participants in transnational sustainable development initiatives, and their supporting donors, would be well-served by utilizing an inclusive evaluation framework that is infused with principles of symmetry

En prise sur le monde : priorités de l'internationalisme canadien au XXIe siècle; rapport du Groupe de travail sur la recherche et les politiques pour le développement international

Version anglaise disponible dans la Bibliothèque numérique du CRDI: Connecting with the world : priorities for Canadian internationalism in the 21st century; a report by the International Development Research and Policy Task Forc

Maurice Strong Task Force report

Sponsored by IDRC, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and North-South Institute (NSI)French version available in IDRC Digital Library: En prise sur le monde : priorités de l'internationalisme canadien au XXIe siècle; rapport du Groupe de travail sur la recherche et les politiques pour le développement internationa

Water worries : What is the state of our most valuable resource?

We often hear about the possibility of future water wars as populations can’t survive without adequate and safe supplies of fresh water. In recent years, the effects of climate change have led to a global redistribution of water reserves, and agricultural and industrial uses are further straining our supplies of clean fresh water. California is in the midst of a devastating drought and in recent months areas of British Columbia have been hit by drought-like conditions. What steps do we need to take to protect the quality and quantity of our water supplies for decades to come? What lengths will governments go to in order to secure fresh water sources? Who “owns” the planet’s water and how can we ensure there’s enough to go around?Arts, Faculty ofNon UBCGender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, Institute forGeography, Department ofLiu Institute for Global IssuesResources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), Institute forUnreviewedFacultyOthe