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Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) is multi-center and multi-CRP online platform for
integrated management, monitoring, and reporting of projects, from
planning to budgeting, risks’ assessment, knowledge sharing and more. MEL creates synergy
between research and development partners, bridging competences in a results-oriented platform.
MEL allows to save resources and time, reducing paperwork, facilitating administrative steps,
quickening project related communications and enabling near real-time
data collecting to inform decision-making.
MEL holds a flexible structure that can be tuned with impact pathways and results frameworks
used by CGIAR and donors. Its modular structure allows the implementer to customize the platform
and re-shape it to meet their specific needs.
The platform comes with an integrated Open Access repository that boosts
the projects outreach. Carved in the system is the Knowledge Sharing
tool-set, which includes an internal discussion forum, a technical assistance
chat, project dedicated web-pages, and a communication-friendly module to
write and disseminate project related blog stories.
MEL safeguards intellectual property and provides full credit to the authors of knowledge
reported, making use of international metadata standards such as Dublin Core. The platform has
been aligned with HR management, internal finance and internal sharing systems (e.g. One
Corporate System – OCS, SharePoint).
MEL is the result of the synergic efforts by CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland
Cereals (GLDC), CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB), CGIAR Research
Program on Fish Agri-food Systems (FISH), The International Center for Agricultural Research in
the Dry Areas (ICARDA), The International Potato Center (CIP), The World Agroforestry Center
(ICRAF), The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), ICARDA Geoinformatics Unit
(GU), and is powered by iMMAP, Codeobia, D-Space and Amazon Web Services.
The Global Geo-informatics Context and Options (GeCO) is a new web-based GIS tool that enables
its users to define, monitor, assess and co-create knowledge and learning on relevant
Sustainable Land Management (SLM) options that match the social-ecological context at global,
regional and national scales.
The GeOC tool aims to support the implementation of SLM practices by the local international
communities by providing them with context-specific information that is required to make sound
investment decisions for agricultural and rural development.
GeOC is the result of the synergic efforts by CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems
(CRP-DS), the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and its
Geoinformatics Unit (GU), and is powered by iMMAP, Codeobia, D-Space and Amazon Web Services.
ICARDA INTERNATIONAL NURSERIES
ICARDA has the global mandate for barley, lentil and faba bean and a regional mandate
for chickpea, durum and bread wheat improvement within the Consultative Group of International
Agricultural Research (CGIAR). ICARDA’s commodity improvement programs develop nurseries for a
wide range of agricultural systems and distributes them worldwide upon request. All nurseries
are developed, prepared and dispatched from the ICARDA’s Headquarters in Lebanon, except winter
barley and wheat from ICARDA, Turkey.
The international nursery trialing system is an integral part of the commodity improvement
programs of ICARDA and NARIs partners. It provides the cooperators with the opportunity to
evaluate the genetically diverse germplasms generated through conventional and modern breading
methodologies under their own agro-ecological conditions and socio-economic contexts. For this
process to succeed, effective data collection and timely sharing is crucial.
The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Quality
Assurance Processor (M-QAP) is a publications metadata extractor from Web of Science, Scopus and
unpaywall. It was created to support the reporting of CGIAR institutions to its dashboard and
ensure that publications with a DOI are screened against the above mentioned sources.
Additionally the tool matches institution names with CGIAR lists (CLARISA). CGIAR Users can
submit a list of DOIs with own reference ID to export verified data. M-QAP provides a facility
to submit a request for new institutions to be added to the CLARISA List.
It began as a proof of concept designed by the MEL team at ICARDA with the financial support of
the System Management Office, and has been developed by CodeObia.