| Sumario: | This review was commissioned to evaluate European Commission (EC)
contributions to the CGIAR Research Programme (CRP) on Climate Change, Agriculture
and Food Security (CCAFS) in 2013-2015. EC contributions were €2.5 million per year,
which represented around 3% of the total budget of the CCAFS during this period.
2. The review is framed around evaluation of processes and tools which can lead to
impact, and on the contribution of the CCAFS to building/enriching a theory of change
around the challenges of adaptation to and mitigation of climate change by agricultural
systems. The team considers that focusing on direct impact is however insufficient in
the case of an International Agricultural Research Center, and that the contribution of
the CCAFS to building scientific knowledge through actions is also part of the mandate.
The review focuses on three programmes in the West and East African regions: the
Climate-Smart Villages, an emblematic programme which is widely reproduced in all
CCAFS regions, the Climate Information Services in Senegal (which is supposed to be key
for adaptation purposes) and the Dairy NAMA in Kenya (which is assumed to impact
significantly on mitigation). Data collection was based on documentary analysis, site
visits in Kenya and Senegal with direct field observations and interviews of selected
partners and target stakeholders, and visits to the CCAFS Programme Management Unit
in Wageningen. Due to the importance given to adapt to local specificities
(institutionally and ecologically), the findings directly connected to the local
environment might have been slightly different in South-East or South Asia, or Latin
America, the three other regional programmes of the CCAFS. However the team believes
this would not have affected the final conclusions nor the recommendations.
3. Established as a Challenge Programme in 2009, CCAFS has been fast-tracked for
development as a CRP, and it resulted from direct efforts to build a transversal
programme responding to a global challenge. It is now organized around five Regional
Programmes and five thematic programmes (four Flagship Programs and one cross
cutting theme) which are all transversal to Centres, which is rather not common within
the CGIAR conventional structure of research. Although the organisation was slightly
different in 2013-2015 than the one observed in August-September 2018, we consider
this does not have a major impact on the conclusions of our assessment.
4. CCAFS’ Program Management Unit (PMU) is partly based at Wageningen
University, partly at CIAT (Colombia). This central unit is extremely light, and a large
delegation is given to the Regional or Thematic (FP) programmes. Some FP leaders are
based at Universities or Research Institutes outside the CGIAR Centres. The Program
Management Committee (PMC) comprises six members: the Program Director and five
members selected between Regional Program Leaders and Flagship Leaders”.
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