Donald Winkelmann, Chairman
26 April 1997
Dear Mr. Serageldin,
I am pleased to submit TAC's recommendations for the allocation of resources during 1998-2000. This completes the process of linking CGIAR priorities and strategies with resource allocation. The recommendations provide TAC's views on the medium-term plans submitted by the centres to implement the priorities and strategies discussed by the Group at ICW95 and MTM96. As you are aware, since MTM96 the centres and TAC have been involved in an interactive process on these plans. Consideration of TAC's recommendations by the Group will be the final step in this process, leading to decisions about resources that will fuel the implementation of the System's priorities over the next three years.
This report has three major sections. The first describes the process which led to the results and conclusions described, along with comments on common aspects of the medium term plans. The second features TAC's commentary on each plan. The third brings together elements from the priorities and strategies paper with impressions from the plans to shape a set of recommendations for allocations to centres.
TAC's recommendations are based on projected 2000 expenditures of $400m. While this amount does not represent the totality of high priority research opportunities at CGIAR centres, it does provide the opportunity for the centres to continue their principal efforts while adapting to the new possibilities presented by science and to more extensive collaboration with others involved in the global network.
Mr. Ismail Serageldin
CGIAR Chair
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This report, along with the accompanying CGIAR Priorities and Strategies 1997, represents the culmination of an arduous and notably concentrated process. They feature a logic emanating from a careful integration of CGIAR goals with emerging science and the changing capacities of others at work in related fields. This has brought out the principal quantitative and qualitative considerations of importance to CGIAR decision making. These considerations, in turn, have guided the wide ranging discussion and analysis that led to TAC's views and recommendations on priorities and strategies, and ultimately to the resource allocations described here.
I want to thank TAC members for their dedication and commitment throughout. Each has brought his best energies to bear, some have performed well beyond the call of duty. I would also like to acknowledge the contributions of the staff of both the TAC and CGIAR Secretariats. We have been cooperating fully and unstintingly for well over a year in fitting together the elements of centre projects with the needs of the effort on priorities and strategies. The job would not have been completed otherwise.
We look forward to the discussion at MTM97 where, I believe, our efforts will contribute to informed dialogue and, I trust, to conclusions useful to the CGIAR.
Yours sincerely,
Donald L. Winkelmann
Chair, TAC,
