Restructuring AR4DGroup 2 Participants

ICARDA Egypt Turkey Morocco Jordan IRAN GFAR Tunisia AARINENA

How we can change the functioning of research institutions to impact on development and become more inclusive?

Merging more research & extension; all stakeholders should be involved.

Review and reinforce policies that govern, research , extension and end users.

Learning from Regional experiences( Egypt, Tunisia,Morocco, Turkey, Jordan,…).

Decentralization of the funding and decision making.

How we can change the functioning of research institutions to impact on development and become more inclusive?

We should have a policy to address the national agricultural needs.

• Reinforce the link between research & developing services to reach the research outputs to the end users.

• Establishing a high policy makers forum including all stakeholders to review the policy , to innovate the system and setting the priorities.

How we can change the functioning of research institutions to impact on development and become more inclusive?

When restructuring any system or process we can change the financial flow, the information flow and capacity.

Need to increase the capacity and to improve it.

Involving private sectors in financial investments.

How we can change the functioning of research institutions to impact on development and become more inclusive?

For financial aspects Competitiveness (competitive grant mechanism) Inclusiveness Transparency Participatory

There are different experiences in the region , but are we learning from each other?

Running high quality research ( we should prepare the needed conditions to ensure that).

How we can change the functioning of research institutions to impact on development and become more inclusive? Better qualified people to undertake the

research. A need for a system that provide better

incentives for researchers (competitive grants which gives the researchers the opportunity to conduct the applied research to address specific problems based on the national strategy, e.g., Egypt)

Actions at national level

ActionsLead actor Partners and funding

Taskforce that will review action to encourage agricultural research innovation(Introduce policies that encourage agricultural research innovations)

National Agricultural research Organization

All stakeholders, including poor resource farmers

taskforce findings and suggestions will be Presented to high level governmental instances

Taskforce Ministry of Agriculture, National Agricultural Research system, AARINENA, other Regional forum, stakeholder representatives

Merging more research & extension

Ministry of Agriculture

stakeholder

Actions at regional level

ActionsLead actor partners

Facilitate the exchange and sharing information ,knowledge and innovation(success stories, experiences, innovations,…)

AARINENA NARS, ICARDA, farmers organizations

strategy for fund mobilization for regional restructuring AR4D and capacity building

AARINENA CGIAR, NARS and farmers organizations, private sectors

Review and harmonize policies that govern, research , extension at the regional level

AARINENA CGIAR, NARS

Actions at international / inter-regional level

Actions Lead actor partners

Standardization of agricultural research systems based on national priorities

GFAR CGIAR Centers