Tom Randolph

1. Mobilizing AR4D Partnerships
Tom Randolph
Mobilizing AR4D Partnerships
to improve access to critical animal-source foods
Tom Randolph

2. Mobilizing AR4D Partnerships
Tom Randolph
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish
 More meat, milk and fish by and for the poor
o Pro-poor transformation of selected value chains
o Food security with poverty reduction
o Managing the transition of structural transformation
 Accelerating AR4D to impact at scale
1. Focus in only a few selected value chains

3. Mobilizing AR4D Partnerships
Tom Randolph
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish
 More meat, milk and fish by and for the poor
o Pro-poor transformation of selected value chains
o Food security with poverty reduction
o Managing the transition of structural transformation
 Accelerating AR4D to impact at scale
1. Focus in only a few selected value chains
2. Addressing the whole value chain
3. Partnering with development actors to identify solutions,
generate evidence, and attract investment
4. End target: achieve impact at scale in large development
intervention

4. Mobilizing AR4D Partnerships
Tom Randolph
Development partnership as a Critical Success Factor
 Livestock and Fish Program impact pathway explicitly dependent on effective partnership with
development actors
 Focus of our pre-conference meeting
 Strengths: Partnerships between research and development actors combine complementary
talents, perspectives and resources to create sustainable solutions at scale
 Opportunities: Partnerships offer space for joint learning, connection and synergy for many
actors to coherently stimulate change at scale
 Weaknesses and Threats: Partnerships require actors to behave differently and adapt
arrangements to foster trust, invest in relationships, and handle power carefully.

5. Mobilizing AR4D Partnerships
Tom Randolph
Partnership Principles: Critical Success Factors
1. Work from a common domain of issues: jointly mapped and understood system of interest
2. Clear roles: who does what is defined and agreed
3. Work as a team: purpose expressed as a shared vision of success, working together, “your
success is my success”, invest in relationships, open communication, full transparency
4. Build culture: changing to institutional norms and practices that better enable partnerships
5. Collective results: Reward total system performance and share attribution, and secure such
space with funders
6. Learn together: Invest in joint learning
7. Regular partnership health checks: joint evaluation of performance and satisfaction

6. Mobilizing AR4D Partnerships
Tom Randolph
Next steps for CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish
• Articulate a partnership strategy based on unblocking value chain constraints
in 9 countries
• Consolidate methodology for whole system engagement
• Map selected value chain issues with local actors and interest groups
• Multi stakeholder platforms/alliances become local partnership base
• Define strategic objectives and measures of success for each
• Document learning and results

7. Mobilizing AR4D Partnerships
Tom Randolph
Suggestions for GFAR
• Develop guidelines and standards as Good Practice for partnerships between research and
development actors
– Frame within an innovation systems context of partnerships needed to achieve changes at scale in national
food systems
– Critical review of current practice, collective performance and partner satisfaction
– Working group with a mix of facilitators and implementers (avoid commissioned study)
• Promote funding arrangements that enable rather than frustrate these partnerships
– Review current arrangements and their impact on partnerships and their performance
– Formulate arrangements that mitigate potential power issues and are based on collective performance
– Create innovation funds that allow space to adapt to evolving opportunities