SCP - CIP Strategy and Corporate Plan - Research Innovation and Impact

International Potato Center - CIP

Overview: SCP - CIP Strategy and Corporate Plan - Research Innovation and Impact

CIP-SCP_REV - CIP-SCP_REV

Leader Oscar Ortiz, International Potato Center - CIP

Team members: 43
Partner organizations: 1

Budget 2025
USD : 0

Clusters: 7

Description

There have been dramatic changes in both CIPÔÇÖs operating environment and the broader external environment. This is particularly true for our donors, who increasinglyÔÇöand understandablyÔÇövalue an emphasis on pragmatic science and research that deliver tangible development impacts. In response, CIP has developed a new Strategy and Corporate Plan (SCP) for the next 10 years. Some of the fundamental changes driving the SCP include the following: the emergence of a post-2015 development framework; evolving regional and national frameworks that empower countries to own and lead their own development; CGIAR reform, with an expanded focus that explicitly addresses food and nutritional security; and a richer and more diverse partnership landscape. To this dynamic set of forces is a heightened sense of urgency that it is imperative to catalyze a step-change in development impact within the next generation. This shift is driving the focus on Results-Based Management (RBM), the scaling-up of innovations, and a more sustained emphasis on gender issues. The new SCP builds on a solid legacy of CIPÔÇÖs past achievements. The overarching strategic question is: how do we enhance our impact? We propose to streamline our program to focus on six strategic objectives (SOs). Three of the SOs (1ÔÇô3) will move us into the research and development (R&D) space in order to deliver shorter term solutions to food security in our target commodities and geographies by going to scale with flagship technologies. Two SOs (4 and 5) will continue to address more upstream research for development that intends to deliver future research outputs, through the discovery flagships, representing longer term solutions for development. The sixth SO, on biodiversity conservation and use, underlines our continuing commitment to protect and utilize the world potato and sweetpotato collections. Clearly, going to scale requires testing models, then carefully monitoring and evaluating them so that the best options contribute to scaling up the technologies. This will be done by moving from proof of concepts, to coordination in an out-scaling stage, to finally reaching a scale-up phase with development partners. Throughout, CIPÔÇÖs pro-poor R&D cycle will guide the process. Gender-transformative research and social inclusion need to be considered more explicitly in the implementation of this cycle. This will make the design, testing, and going to scale of technologies more efficient and ensure that gender relationships are not harmed. Capacity strengthening of partners and CIPÔÇÖs teams, as well as monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and learning, will be essential for moving forward with the SCP.

Atlas

Intermediate Development Outcomes (IDOs)/Sub-IDOs

IDO

Sub-IDO

Indicators

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1.3-Increased incomes and employment

1.3.1
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1.4-Increased productivity

2.1-Improved diets for poor and vulnerable people

3.2-Enhanced benefit from ecosystem goods and services.

3.2.3
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3.3-More sustainably managed agro-ecosystems

A.1-Mitigation and adaption achieved

A.1.4
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B.1-Equity and inclusion achieved

C.1-Enabling environment improved

C.1.3
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D.1-National partner and beneficiaries enabled

Clusters

Code	Cluster Name	Leader
SO1	Combating micronutrient deficiency with nutritious, resilient sweetpotato	Simon Heck
SO2	Enhancing Food Security in Asia through the Intensification of Local Cereal-Based Systems with Early Maturing Agile Potato Varieties	Gregory Forbes
SO3	Improving Livelihoods of Potato Farmers in Africa by Tackling Deteriorated Seed Quality through an Integrated Approach	Elmar Schulte-Geldermann
SO4	Game-Changing Solutions	Marc Ghislain
SO5	Addressing Food Security Challenges through Roots and Tubers: Transforming Food Vulnerability to Resilience Based on Experiences from Asia and Latin America	Gordon Prain
SO6	Conserving and Valuing Diversity for the Future	David Ellis
SCP-SO7	SO GLOBAL	Oscar Ortiz