December 7-8, 2009
Washington, DC

Summary Record (January 11, 2010)

The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research held its annual Business Meeting on December 7-8, 2009, in Washington, DC, at the IMF Headquarters. Meeting attendence was by invitation only.

Registration and Information

Venue: CGIAR Business Meeting Map

Day 1:   International Monetary Fund Headquarters 1 (IMF HQ1)
              700 19th Street, NW
              Washington, DC

Day 2:    International Monetary Fund Headquarters 2 (IMF HQ2)
               1900 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
               Washington, DC

Documents

Agenda (December 3, 2009)

CGIAR Reform

Documents in Meeting Folder CGIAR Document on Reform: Joint Declaration. December 8, 2009 Voices for Change. December 8, 2009. (2.12MB) This report includes: CGIAR Joint Declaration Consortium Constitution Framework for the CGIAR Fund M&E Framework for the New CGIAR

Towards a Strategy and Results Framework for the CGIAR

Background Documents (web only)

CGIAR Change Management website Design and Establishment of the Consortium of CGIAR Centers Consultancy on Common Administrative, Financial and Research Support Services in the new Consortium of the CGIAR Centres Summary of the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD) Synthesis of CGIAR System Costs

Webcasting

December 8 9:00am - 10:00am - Welcome Remarks by Katherine Sierra, CGIAR Chair, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director, the World Bank and the 'Big Picture' Story of the CGIAR Reform 10:30am - 11:00 am - Perspectives of Key Actors: Chair of the Alliance Executive (Steve Hall), Chair of the Science Council (Rudy Rabbinge) , Chair of GFAR (Adel El-Beltagy), and Juergen Voegele (World Bank) Presentation by Carlos Perez del Castillo, Consortium Board Chair The Story of the Start of the CGIAR as Told by Norman Borlaug and Robert McNamara (10 mn)

Presentations

December 7 Towards a Strategy and Results Framework for the CGIAR: Presentation by Joachim von Braun --> download PDF December 8 Presentation by Katherine Sierra --> download PDF