HELIN Task Force on Electronic Archiving Report

Report of the HELIN Electronic Archiving Task Force, appointed from the HELIN Serials Committee and the HELIN Collection Development Committee

HELIN Task Force on Licensing Agreements Final Report, 2/28/2010

Final report of the HELIN Task Force on Licensing Agreements to Robert Aspri, Executive Director of the HELIN Library Consortium, a group eminating from the HELIN Reference Committee, to investigate the issue of consortial licensing agreements for electronic books

Report of the Task Force on Impact Assessment

Report to MTM95 of a Task Force on Impact Assessment established by the Public Awareness and Resource Mobilization Committee (PARC). This document presents the conclusions of the Task Force to the CGIAR. It draws on the outcome of a workshop organized by the Task Force and held immediately prior to MTM95. Documentation on the workshop is contained in other records.The Task Force endorsed a systemwide impact assessment group to formulate and carry out an ongoing process of impact assessment and performance evaluation for public awareness purposes. Preliminary consideration was given to means of assuring the proposed group's credibility, objectivity, and independence, as well as defining its functions, governance, and relations to the CGIAR as a whole. Agenda document, CGIAR Mid Term Meeting, May 1995

Report of the Task Force on Sustainable Agriculture

Report of the Task Force on Sustainable Agriculture established at ICW94 to clarify concepts and priority themes and recommend the role for CGIAR centers in addressing issues relative to sustainable agriculture. The report was presented by Task Force Chair Rudy Rabbinge at the CGIAR Mid Term Meeting in Nairobi, May 1995. This task force was twinned with the Task Force on Ecoregional Approaches to Research which also reported at MTM95.Four key conclusions of the report were that there is no single remedy to problems of sustainability; that CGIAR centers must adjust the way they conduct research toward more collaboration with others; that centers must recognize the individual characteristics of different ecoregions; and that sufficient financial resources should be available to ensure the success of sustainability oriented research. Possible gaps in the CGIAR research agenda were listed. The approach needed to integrate production, environment, and sustainability concerns.Annexes deal with the evolution of CGIAR research, the CGIAR response to Agenda 21, the concept of production ecology, and priority themes for sustainability research. A list of task force members is attached. Agenda document at the CGIAR meeting in May 1995

Third Meeting of the CGIAR Task Force on Biotechnology (BIOTASK), 20 May 1990, The Hague: Summary of Discussions

Summary of discussions of the third meeting of the CGIAR Task Force on Biotechnology (BIOTASK).Agenda document, CGIAR meeting, May 1990

Task Force on Funding System Priorities Coordinated Action by CGIAR Members : Final Report for the Annual General Meeting 2005

At AGM2004, Denmark initiated a discussion on the topic of funding CGIAR priorities and proposed that a task force be commissioned to examine the possibility of developing a mechanism to allocate unrestricted funds in the context of the priorities recommended by the Science Council (SC). The Terms of reference for the task force were approved in March 2005 with objectives: 1) To assess and evaluate opportunities for financing System Priorities and, separately, for financing the SC and its Secretariat; and 2) To propose one or more new financing mechanisms in support of CGIAR priorities recommended by the SC. This report looks at funding trends, funding system priorities, a proposed "way forward", several funding mechanism options, and recommendations. It contains the following annexes: the task force terms of reference, the trends in financing the CGIAR, and the summary of donor survey to explore changing restricted funding to unrestricted. The task force was led by Finn Norman Christensen from Denmark. This document was discussed at the Business Meeting at AGM2005

Impact Assessment in the CGIAR

Interim commentary and working conclusions of a Task Force on Impact Assessment established by the Public Awareness and Resource Mobilization Committee (PARC). This document was prepared following two meetings of the Task Force, as an input to a workshop it organized on the eve of MTM95.The report provides a summary overview of the need for Systemwide impact assessment, and then comments on five topics: what the IARCs were currently doing; what impacts should be assessed and at what levels; how impact assessment was linked to public awareness and resource mobilization; what systematic process should be developed; and what type of mechanism would best served the needs of the CGIAR for impact assessment. On the last question, the conclusion was that a hierarchy of mechanisms would be needed, and the main burden of impact assessment should remain with the IARCs