Contributions

Annual cost (US$)

Gender	3,000,000
Youth	1,000,000
Capacity development	4,000,000
Impact assessment	200,000
Intellectual asset management	5,000
Open access and data management	20,000
Communication	200,000
Total	8,425,000

Table 14: M&E investments in GLDC (US$)
M&E investments	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	Total
M&E	3,745,000	3,757,500	3,770,630	3,784,410	3,798,880	18,856,420
Under the MSC budget	100,000	105,000	110,250	115,760	121,550	552,560
Innovation Fund	150,000	157,500	165,380	173,650	182,330	828,860
Under flagship budgets	3,495,000	3,495,000	3,495,000	3,495,000	3,495,000	17,475,000
Impact assessment	188,114	190,614	193,244	196,004	198,894	966,870
Under the MSC budget	50,000	52,500	55,130	57,890	60,780	276,300
Innovation Fund	-	-	-	-	-	-
Under flagship budgets	138,114	138,114	138,114	138,114	138,114	690,570

FLAGSHIP PROGRAM 1 (FP1): PRIORITY SETTING AND IMPACT ACCELERATION

FP1.1 Rationale and Scope

Smallholder agriculture in the drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and South Asia (SA) is characterized by low adoption of improved agricultural technologies, poor market access, inefficient value chains, weak social institutions, social inequity, high risks and degraded natural resources¹⁰⁰. The research in FP1 aims to enhance the relevance and gender-equitable impacts of GLDC research through improved targeting and priority-setting based on foresight and ex-ante impact analysis, learning from adoption and impact studies, strategic and transformative gender research and identifying priority value chain opportunities to address market failures.

Figure FP1.1: The role of FP1 in GLDC through its cluster of activities (CoAs), the interaction with other GLDC FPs and cross-cutting areas, and with key stakeholders. Solid arrows indicate the research for development process, which flows from discovery and innovation development to testing and scaling of innovations in order to contribute to impact at scale. The dotted arrows are feedback and learning loops to refine and further focus GLDC’s research agenda. Stakeholder engagement (i.e. with public, private sector and other development actors) is crucial and increases through the research cycle process.

FP1 will ensure that GLDC conducts inclusive, demand-driven research that responds to household and smallholder farmer needs, market demand and local and national priorities, and is designed to enhance GLDC’s ability to focus its efforts and resources in order to achieve greater impacts. Figure FP 1.1 illustrates how this will be achieved through interaction within FP1 in close collaboration with FPs 2-5.

One of GLDC’s primary objectives is to conduct research on new and innovative ways to address the grand challenge of underperforming agri-food systems and how they can be transformed into well-functioning systems at scale with greater productivity, profitability, and economic benefits from market demand and linkages, value chain development and improved grain legume and dryland cereal technologies and management practices.

Pre-proposal foresight and ex-ante analyses of different lines of research were conducted with the objective of informing priority-setting decisions. This preliminary work will continue in GLDC to refine the country, crop and thematic priorities using more rigorous methods and wider stakeholder workshops and consultations for a more refined and comprehensive set of research themes, including crop-livestock system technologies, quality improvement research and value chain innovations. The priority assessment aims to further refine the countries, crops, traits and agronomy, as well as the institutional innovations and value chain upgrading options that generate the highest and most inclusive gains for smallholder farmers. FP1 will extend and apply the approach successfully used by CRP-RTB¹⁰¹.

FP1.2 Objectives and Targets

The overall objective of FP1 is to ensure that GLDC research is demand-driven, outcome-focused, inclusive and scalable with high potential for large impact contributing to the SRF and SDGs. Building on previous achievements, FP1 will generate evidence and support learning on GLDC innovations with the largest development impact. FP1 will facilitate these processes across all GLDC FPs and thereby achieve:

Improved targeting and responsiveness of research to end-user demands for accelerated scaling and impact of research outputs;

Development of more inclusive technologies and related innovations; and

Dissemination of evidence to enable scaling up

The specific issues to be addressed include: