CGIAR has published its 2022 Portfolio Narrative, as well as the 2022 Initiative Technical Reports. The Netherlands, as a strategic partner and funder to CGIAR is committed to share these important results achieved by CGIAR and their partners.
The Portfolio Narrative provides a broad view on CGIAR's pooled-funded Portfolio results. With a focus on Portfolio coherence, including results, partnerships, country and regional engagement. It draws together data and narratives from the CGIAR Results Dashboard, the 32 Initiatives and Impact Area Platform reports and the Internal Practice Change Report.
To provide you with an idea of the results presented: it captures details of 477 innovations in 2022 that are being developed with 833 unique partners, including governments, private sectors, and development organizations to combat hunger and malnutrition, biodiversity loss, climate change and gender and social inequalities, amongst others.
CGIAR will later this year release the overall CGIAR Annual Report, of which this Portfolio Narrative is an important capstone.
Scaling Readiness approach
CGIAR Innovation Portfolio Management is powered by the Scaling Readiness approach, which is an adaptation of NASA’s Technology Readiness. In 2022, CGIAR adopted and redesigned Scaling Readiness with a view to scale it across its innovation portfolio, branding the redesigned approach Innovation Packages and Scaling Readiness (IPSR). IPSR offers a structured, systematic way to track innovation development and use by CGIAR and partners, targeting impact linked to, for example, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In 2022, CGIAR and its partners reported 477 innovations, surpassing the aggregate targets it set itself for the entire 2022-2024 business cycle in the Initiative proposals.
NL-CGIAR Strategic Partnership contribution: One of the main achievements by Cees Leeuwis as one of the Senior Experts is the finalization of ‘Scaling Readiness’.
CGIAR 2022 Initiative Technical Reports
We invite you to also take a look at the 2022 Technical Reports of 4 Initiatives in specific. In addition to the core funding that The Netherlands provides to CGIAR and its full Portfolio of Initiatives, the Netherlands also provide additional core support to several Initiatives as a means to boost CGIAR Initiatives that are new and in particular aligned with the policies of the Dutch Government on food and nutrition security.
This Initiative aims to support the delivery of seed of improved, climate-resilient, market-preferred and nutritious varieties of priority crops, embodying a high rate of genetic gain to farmers, ensuring equitable access for women and other disadvantaged groups.
This Initiative aims to improve nutrition, incomes and food security within the context of climate change in West and Central Africa through nutritious, climate-adapted and market-driven food systems.
This Initiative aims to use an end-to-end approach to increase fruit and vegetable intake and in turn improve diet quality, nutrition and health outcomes while also improving livelihoods, empowering women and youth and mitigating negative environmental impacts.
The CGIAR Initiative on Asian Mega-Deltas aims to create resilient, inclusive and productive deltas that maintain socio-ecological integrity, adapt to climatic and other stressors and support human prosperity and wellbeing.
Author
Mariëlle Karssenberg
Partnership Builder - Netherlands Food Partnership
