30 September 2011
No. 1486
The ICRISAT Governing Board at its 65th meeting in Patancheru.
65th Governing Board Meeting
Enhanced fundraising plan approved, science and institutional health lauded In pursuing its mandate over the years, ICRISAT and its partners have shown that it can make a difference in helping reduce poverty, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics. But the work is far from done. Today, the world’s dryland poor faces ever increasing and new challenges that will require more coordinated efforts by the Institute with its partners. Mobilizing financial, human and technological resources are needed in pursuing its new strategy anchored on inclusive market oriented development. Ensuring a stable, increasing and continuous funding base while enhancing science and institutional health highlighted the 65th ICRISAT Governing Board (GB) meeting held in Patancheru on 21-24 September. To set into full motion the implementation of its Business Plan, the Board approved ICRISAT’s Fundraising Plan to be carried out in conjunction with the new strategy. As stressed by the Board, the Fundraising Plan shall serve as the blueprint in working within the new
CGIAR funding processes and mechanisms, and in vigorously pursuing bilateral programs and new partnerships. It shall promote ICRISAT as an organization that can deliver, together with its research-for-development (R4D) partners, solutions for smallholder farmers in the dryland tropics of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Part of the Fundraising Plan is laying the groundwork for the implementation of the ICRISAT South-South Initiative (IS-SI), which was launched during the last to page 2 ...4