Contributions

FP1.10 Capacity development

Capacity development in FP1 includes training of national- and international PhD students and postdocs conducting their research within GLDC and being jointly supervised by GLDC researchers and partner institutions. Other components will be training packages (short courses, summer schools, curricula development) to disseminate methods and tools designed with partners that are potential agents of change. Examples of key gaps in the capacity of national and regional partner institutions are in the area of gender research and development strategies as well as the coordinated value chain analysis and the effects of climate change and related risks. These are ideally suited for training packages and will form the backbone of the development strategy for this group of partners. Capacity development of GLDC researchers and partners will be achieved during the process of CRP-wide, impact-focused learning and specific training on gender analysis. Partnerships with advanced research institutes as well as mentoring relationships will be forged in different cutting edge areas under each CoA. Specifically, advances in foresight modeling, gender analysis methodologies, innovative approaches to measuring adoption and impacts on poverty reduction and approaches to the science of scaling.

Innovative methods of data collection and analysis, such as computer-assisted personal interviews, will be streamlined and expanded across GLDC and trainings will be organized where necessary. A community of practice exchanging ideas and providing a forum for trouble shooting is already established and will be broadened. FP1 will also engage in capacity development for the use of modern tools such as mass media (like the farmer TV program Shamba Shape up) which have already been used in phase 1 as (based on initial text message based feedback) efficient tool to transfer knowledge to a wide audience. Through detailed feedback on their efficiency in raising awareness and influencing adoption, GLDC will use them effectively to reach the targeted audience. These tools will also raise greater awareness amongst the wider stakeholders and consumers, which is critical for their engagement commitment especially in CoAs 1.1 and 1.4.

FP1.11 Intellectual asset and open access management

FP1 will strive to use models that are building on open source software. All research data in GLDC will be maintained for public use as stated under Sections 1.11 and 1.12 above. The Lead Centre, ICRISAT and IITA as leader of FP1 maintain all their data products using different state-of-the-art data platforms/applications based on the type of data. Dataverse is the primary repository to share different types of data sets and all data platforms and repositories used are compliant with the CGIAR’s standard interoperability protocols and standards.