Contributions

Table 8: Total CRP budget by flagship (US$)

Flagship	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	Total
FP1. Priority setting & impact acceleration	5,592,859	7,502,108	10,563,735	5,235,607	5,224,387	34,118,696
FP2.Transforming Agrifood systems	16,676,699	12,252,425	13,121,479	10,316,826	10,452,062	62,819,490
FP3.Integrated Farm and Household Management	23,156,464	20,665,078	14,402,919	15,737,428	15,561,191	89,523,080
FP4.Variety and Hybrid Development	24,880,178	28,776,330	33,193,829	39,004,131	38,427,461	164,281,929
FP5.Pre-breeding and Trait Discovery	10,555,166	10,933,774	7,997,239	7,457,611	7,522,764	44,466,555
Total^*	80,861,366	80,129,715	79,279,201	77,751,603	77,187,865	395,209,750
CRP Management	1,619,250	1,700,000	1,785,000	1,874,000	1,968,000	8,946,250
Flagship/CoA Leaders	600,000	630,000	662,000	695,000	730,000	3,317,000
Strategic Research Grant	1,000,000	1,050,000	1,103,000	1,158,000	1,216,000	5,527,000
Grand Total	84,080,616	83,509,715	82,829,201	81,478,603	81,101,866	413,000,000

* The slight annual decrease in total CRP funding reflects the uncertainty in forward bilateral projections.

Table 9: Total needed CRP budget by sources of funding (US$)
Sources of Funding Needed	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	Total
W1+W2	11,500,000	12,075,000	12,679,000	13,313,000	13,979,000	63,546,000
W3	33,037,968	17,843,437	12,182,554	7,916,233	8,153,568	79,133,760
Bilateral	39,542,648	53,591,278	57,967,647	60,249,370	58,969,297	270,320,240
Other Sources	-	-	-	-	-	-
TOTAL FUNDING PLAN	84,080,616	83,509,715	82,829,201	81,478,603	81,101,865	413,000,000

Table 10: Total secured CRP budget by sources of funding (US$)
Sources of Funding Secured	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	Total
W1+W2 (Secured)	11,500,000	12,075,000	12,679,000	3,313,000	13,979,000	63,546,000
W3	27,316,888	13,053,960	5,709,791	170,000	170,000	46,420,639
Bilateral	20,593,079	11,439,067	7,566,474	1,960,490	1,407,490	42,966,600
Other Sources	-	-	-	-	-	-
TOTAL SECURED	59,409,967	36,568,027	25,955,265	15,443,490	15,556,490	152,933,239

Table 11: Funding gap by sources of funding (US$)
Funding Gap Over/(Under)	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	Total
W1+W2 **	-	-	-	-	-	-
W3	(5,721,080)	(4,789,477)	(6,472,764)	(7,746,233)	(7,983,567)	(32,713,120)
Bilateral	(18,949,556)	(42,152,221)	(50,401,216)	(58,288,853)	(57,561,791)	(227,353,637)
Other Sources	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total Funding Gap	(24,670,636)	(46,941,698)	(56,873,980)	(66,035,086)	(65,545,358)	(260,066,757)

** As per the guidance received from SO, we have assumed our W1 and 2 funding needed as secured.

CRP Management and Support Costs

At the program level, GLDC intends to set apart $1.6M pa. W1/W2 (13.9%) for 2018 towards management and cross-cutting initiatives – a total of $8.9M for the period 2018-2022 (Table 12). The Management budget includes $0.2M pa support for FP and CoA Leaders for their administrative roles. A further $0.6M pa is allocated to FP and CoA Leaders from FP research budget allocations (Table 8) to cover their research leadership roles – their total budgeted allocations are 40% FP and 20% CoA Leaders.

Table 12: GLDC management and cross-cutting budget (US$)
CRP Management budget items	2018 (to grow @ 5% pa) USD
Program Management Unit staff: 0.2 Director; 1.0 Program Officer; 0.2 secretary)	110,000
PMU travel & operations: visit research/partners; attend CGIAR meetings; PMU Office supplies & costs.	100,000
Administrative support: ICRISAT support for financial, admin services	350,000
Flagship and CoA Leaders Admin Management: 0.1 FP, 0.05 CoA time allocation. Further allocations (0.3 FP; 0.15 CoA) are provided as part of FP budgets	209,250
Gender, Youth, Capacity Development Coordination: 2 x 0.4 FTE, travel, representation at CGIAR	160,000
CRP RMC operating costs: 2-3 meetings pa; travel; representation at CRP	200,000
ISC costs: honoraria, travel, annual meeting	90,000
Monitoring & Evaluation, Impact assessment: 0.5 M&E Officer, meetings, commissioned IA studies	150,000
Internal audit & external reviews: programmed as required	100,000
Communications: 1.0 FTE contribution from ICRISAT Communications team, website, publications, briefs	150,000
TOTAL	1,619,250

GLDC Innovation Fund (Strategic Competitive Research Grant)

A sum of $1.0M per annum (with 5% pa growth), out of the $11.5 M of W1/2 budget per annum, is planned for the GLDC Innovation Fund, adding up to $5.5 M for the period 2018-2022. This will be administered with specific criteria – see section 1.7 on partnerships for further details.

CRP Financial management principles

GLDC will follow a transparent process of governance and financial management. The allocation of W1/W2 resources to Centers and partners will be decided by the ISC based upon recommendations of the CRP Director following a consultative process. Considerations will include strategic use of W1/W2 funds to leverage the W3 and bilateral funding, contributions by Centers and partners, performance in achieving the stated goals of the CRP, ability to generate W3 and bilateral resources to support the CRP and other considerations that the ISC may deem appropriate to maximize the contributions of the CRP to the SLOs.

FP Leaders will have the authority, ratified by the CRP Director, to approve mapping of W3 and bilateral under agreed guidelines. Instances of conflict will be discussed in the RMC and resolved in the best interests of the CRP program. FP Leaders will manage their budgets, with the authority to track, report and revise as necessary. The MEL system used in CRP-DS, and currently being adapted for GLDC, will be an important tool that supports real-time tracking of projects and budget use.

Budgeted Costs for certain Key Activities

The aggregated estimates for proposed expenditure on cross-CRP priorities and M&E are provided in Tables 13 and 14. These represent an initial estimation of the contributions from the W3/bilateral projects mapped to the CRP plus the specific budgeting at the CRP-level from W1/W2 for cross-cutting activities. Hence, an estimated annual amount of $8.4M, or a 5-year total of $42.5M, is directly allocated to these initiatives – approx. 29% of the total 5-year budget of the program. An estimated $3.7M will be invested in annual M&E activities across CRP projects and $0.14M in annual impact assessments.

Table 13: Estimated annual average budget for select cross-GLDC initiatives (US$)
Cross-cutting issue