CGIAR is a global research partnership focused on ensuring food security. The document discusses results-based management approaches used by CGIAR to maximize value and achieve outcomes. It provides an example flagship focused on raising incomes and improving health at small cassava processing centers. The flagship aims to increase incomes for cassava producers and consumers, particularly women, and make processing safer. It also seeks to minimize environmental impacts of increased cassava production and processing.

1. CGIAR is a global research partnership for a food secure future
Roots, Tubers and
Bananas: value for money
Piloting results-based management
• Results-based management (RBM) key to give
value for money in achieving outcomes
• Flagships and their theories of change create
RBM framework
• Intermediate development outcomes (IDOs) and
indicators guide delivery flagships
• Genetic gain for target traits and linked metrics
guides next generation breeding
Example flagship: Raising incomes and
improving health and
safety at small
cassava
processing
centers
Increased
consumption
of safe and
nutritious foods
• 3.5 million cassava female
• 6.5 million consumers
and male producers and
to reduce the risks
workers increase incomes by associated with
10% with higher proportion
unsanitary and poorly
of women benefiting
processed cassava
• 50,000 small processing
centers increase profitability
by 20% through by-product
development
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October 2013
Research
Outcomes
Intermediate
Development
Outcomes
Delivery flagships
Increased
productivity
Research
Products
Discovery
flagships
Small scale
processing targeting
women
More food supply
(quality and quantity)
Managing and
containing
RTB diseases
More consumption
safe nutritious food
Next Gen Breeding
Combatting vitamin
A deficiency with
orange sweetpotato
Learning and support
flagships
Higher income and
greater benefit
captured by women
Lower environmental
impacts prod. +
processing
Impacts
SLO Increased food
security
SLO Improved
nutrition & health
SLO Reduced poverty
SLO Sustainable NRM
Improved ecosystem
services and genetic
diversity
Development store
Supporting policies
Theory of change
• Women leading role in small cassava enterprises
• Value chain and enterprises drivers for technological change
• Gender disaggregated preferences for quality traits speeds adoption
• Significant health benefits by
• ‘Omics’ revolution accelerates
improving traditional gari fryers
genetic gain
• Gender equity with technological • Key quality traits address user
needs and ensure adoptability
innovation – who will operate
• Plant breeders and gender
machinery?
specialists set up focus groups
with women and men experts
on processing and quality traits
Indicators for IDOs
Increased
and more
gender-equitable
income
Flagships and theory of change
Minimized adverse
environmental effects
of increased RTB
production
and processing
• Water use reduced by 30%
and energy use by 20% in
cassava starch processing
plants, after re-design of key
unit operations (rasping,
drying)
• Discharge of processing
waste into surface water
eliminated
The RTB business case: A collaborative
agenda with partners and stakeholders
• Priority assessment: respond to major global trends, development
challenges and opportunities
• Co-construct and implement flagships with partners
• Work with partners to ensure outcomes as well as research products
• Balanced portfolio including quick wins, and longer term research outputs
• Action research to improve partnerships
• Results-based management in achieving outcomes with partners
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