ISPC11

1. Forests, Trees and Agroforestry
11th ISPC Meeting
Bogor, 30/03 – 01/04/2015

2.  FTA’s overall objectives are highly relevant, especially
from the global public goods perspective
 There is strong demand for a program like FTA and
for the research carried out by FTA Participant
Institutions
 FTA’s objectives and its research agenda are aligned
with the SRF vision, relevant MDGs and draft SDGs
Independent Evaluation

3.  About 30,000,000 t C of
avoided emission in Peru
 Change in the legal definition
of agroforestry in Peru (2M
people; 4.5M ha of the
Peruvian Amazon)
 Trees on farm increase food
crop yield (15-30%) and
income (200$/year) in the
Sahel
 Terra-i supply of Global
Forest Watch with regionally
verified data
Outcomes, impacts

4. First CGIAR Development Dialogues
 FTA Scientists and Communication
team served as strategic advisors
and on key committees.
 Shared conference experience,
hired venue and led logistics, and
contributed in-kind and financial
resources.

5. Outputs
FTA outputs 2014 by location
2012 2013 2014
Achieved 77.6 % 79.5 % 73.4 %
On-going 21.0 % 19.9 % 22.5 %
Dropped 1.4 % 0.6 % 4.2 %
± 230 scientists
> 35 countries

6. Publications
Type of Publication No. of Titles Open Access %
Article 371 86 23%
Books 37 26 70%
Briefs 79 79 100%
Brochures & Flyers 8 8 100%
Chapters 108 54 50%
Factsheet 13 13 100%
Guideline 1 1 100%
News 5 0 0%
Open Access Database 2 2 100%
Papers 86 86 100%
Poster 11 11 100%
Proceedings 3 0%
Report 11 5 45%
Strategy Documents 2 2 100%
Thesis 4 0%
Tools 7 5 71%
Total 748 378 51%
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
Bioversity CIAT CIFOR ICRAF
2011 2012 2013 2014
Type 2012 2013 2014
Dev. Co. 30% 33% 28%
Op. Acc. 36% 87% 51%
Figures for 2014
The top 20 FTA publications have
been downloaded more than
160,000 time over 3 years.

7.  Spatial data and monitoring
– Terra-I (http://www.terra-i.org/terra-i.html)
– Landscape portal (http://landscapeportal.org/)
– CIFOR spatial data portal (http://www.cgiar-csi.org/portfolio-items/forests-of-borneo)
 Networks
– Sentinel Landscapes (http://www1.cifor.org/sentinel-landscapes/home.html)
– Poverty and Environment Network (http://www1.cifor.org/pen)
– Tropical managed forests observatory (http://tmfo.org)
 Data repositories (Dataverse)
– FTA (http://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/crp6/faces/StudyListingPage.xhtml?mode=1&collectionId=3524)
– CIFOR (http://data.cifor.org/dvn/)
– ICRAF (https://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/icraf)
Open Data Platforms

8. Partnerships
Levels
/
Types
Research
Policy and
Practice
Knowledge-
sharing
International
CIRAD, IRD, CSIRO,
IUFRO, other ARIs
and universities
CPF, FAO, UNEP,
World Bank, UN-
REDD, IPCC, FSC,
IUCN
BBC World Service
Trust, Panos, IUCN,
AFP, Reuters,
Google
Regional
CATIE, ANAFE, FARA,
SEANAFE; ASARECA,
CORAF, SAARD,
STCP, SA-AP- LA-
FORGEN
AFF, COMIFAC,
ECOWAS,
COMESA, ASEAN
RECOFTC, STCP,
CATIE
Country or
local
NARS, local/national
research
organizations,
FORDA, KEFRI
Government,
CBOs, NGOs,
private sector
Local NGOs and
networks,
government
CRPs Location
FTA / CCAFS Global
FTA / CCAFS /
WLE /
Drylands (+
dev. partners)
Burkina Faso
FTA / A4NH
(/AAS)
Various sites &
global
FTA / PIM
/WLE
Global
FTA/ Drylands
/ Humidtropics
Various sites
FTA /
Humidtropics /
L&F / CCAFS
Nicaragua

9. Indicator
Total
participants
Female Male
MS Students 146 86 64
PhD Students 86 38 48
Visiting Scientists from
partners-NARES
63 13 50
Trainings events on FTA
related issues for innovation
system actors
6,792 2,540 4,252
Seminars, lectures, road
shows, demonstrations, field
visits
1,672 689 983
Capacity Development
Figures for 2014More than 12,000 trainees over 3 years
New cross-cutting theme created
Efforts to track results beyond numbers

10. Gender
Full Time Equivalents
Gender integration team with currently 8 members, 6 dedicated
full-time to supporting the process and substance of gender
integration at the different partners.
In the top 4 CRPs, strategy, >130 scientists trained, guidelines, tools
widely used by partners; commitment of 10% of funding going to
Gender relevant research, estimate is 22% (2014) and XX% (2015)

11. Communication and outreach
 Communications team is
represented by a CIFOR staff &
support consultant with center
focal points.
 Bi-monthly newsletter sent to
5,000, February edition on climate
change had high 21% open rate
 Website: 75% aggregated content from centers and 25%
original content; traffic is up by 50% in last six months; all
content fed to CGIAR.org each day.
 New FTA brochure produced for use by all centers, translated
into Spanish and French
 Global Landscape Forum is supported by FTA.
– In 2014, CCAFS, WLE, CIAT, Bioversity, IWMI, IFPRI, CIP and ICRAF all
participated.
– CIAT and WLE are coordinating partners of GLF 3 in Paris, with World
Bank, UNEP, WRI and FAO

12. Extension proposal 2015-2016

13.  5 Flagships
 4 Cross-cutting themes
 1 Management
Committee with
greater responsibilities
 1 Independent
Steering Committee
 Role of CIFOR BOT as
Lead Center reinforced
Portfolio, program structure

14.  FTA project portfolio data harmonization
– Standard information fields
– Centralized location (FTA sharepoint)
– Informing CIFOR PMS enhancement
– Addresses a major technical bottleneck to active
portfolio management
 Equipping projects with tools, capacity, training
– Good practice design principles
– Theory of change
– M&E tools including
• Evidence capture (outcomes, adoption)
• Ex-ante, ex-post impact assessments
Improved management processes

15. http://foreststreesagroforestry.org/