ICARDA Caravan, Issue No. 20/21

News from the Drylands

ICARDA Hosts CBC and CDC Meetings

During his visit to ICARDA to participate in the CBC/CDC meetings, CGIAR Chair Dr Ian Johnson (second from left) took the opportunity to address the senior staff of the Center on the challenges facing the CGIAR and international agricultural research. Seated with him are (from left to right) Dr Francisco Reifschneider, CGIAR Director; Dr Margaret Catley-Carlson, ICARDA Board Chair; and Prof. Dr Adel El-Beltagy, ICARDA Director General.

CARDA hosted the CGIAR Center Board Chairs Committee (CBC) and the Center Directors Committee (CDC) meetings on 5-7 May 2004. Dr Ian Johnson, CGIAR Chairman and World Bank Vice-President for Sustainable Development; Dr Francisco Reifschneider, CGIAR Director; and Dr Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Chairman of the CGIAR Science Council (SC), also participated in the deliberations.

The CBC agenda included discussions on Center reports, evaluation of the CGIAR Board Orientation Program, CGIAR Structure and Membership, donor performance assessment, and CGIAR reference guides.

The CDC agenda included discussions on the updates from the subcommittees and task forces of the CDC, various strategic and management issues of the Future Harvest Alliance Office, update on Future Harvest, programmatic and global organizational alignments for the CGIAR, lessons learned from the Challenge Programs, Center Deputy Directors Committee (CDDC) update on the System-wide and Ecoregional Programs and Performance Measurement, and Center-linkages and alliances.

Center Board Chairs, Center Directors, Science Council Chair, CGIAR Chair, and other participants who attended the CBC and CDC meetings.

A joint meeting of the CBC and the CDC included discussions of the Center staff compensation study; reports of the Working Groups on Performance Measurement and Challenge Programs; progress with the CGIAR Open University initiative, System Office and the Future Harvest Alliance; Board Orientation; and the CGIAR Charter. Dr Teresa Fogelberg, Panel Chair, also presented a report of the Review of the Gender and Diversity Program at the joint meeting.

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