Institutional Learning and Change Initiative

ILAC News May 2009!!

News from the ILAC Initiative:

1) New at the ILAC Website (www.cgiar-ilac.org)

ILAC has developed a new website with innovative, user-friendly tools.
In the website you will find several sections, among them are:

The ILAC Initiative aims to increase the contribution of the CGIAR to poverty alleviation by improving planning, monitoring and evaluation of collaborative agricultural research for development. ILAC contributes specifically by:

1. Building capacity
2. Providing technical support to scientists and managers
3. Mobilizing funds and resources
4. Facilitating knowledge sharing
5. Influencing research and development policies to promote institutional learning and change

A document containing ILAC contributions to Bioversity International, its host, is attached below.
 

The project entitled "Impact Evaluation Approaches for Collaborative Agricultural Research & Development" aims to improve the evaluation of applied agricultural R&D programs, so as to improve the use of evaluation in R&D decision-making and program improvement. The specific focus of the project is on the contributions of collaborative R&D programs to sustainable poverty reduction.

Central to the strategy of the ILAC Initiative is a Learning Laboratory in which professionals from collaborative research programmes come together to share knowledge and experiences, experiment with new approaches for facilitating innovation for poverty reduction, and evaluate the results.

The challenges: