CGIAR Center Directors Committee Reports
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Item Meeting of the Center Directors Committee, October 21-24, 2004, El Batan, Mexico : Summary Record of Proceedings(Internal Document, 2004-10-01)Item Statement of CBC and CDC on the Centers Framework for Collective Action(Internal Document, 2004-10-01)Item Joint Meeting of the Center Board Chairs and the Center Directors Committee, October 21-22, 2004, El Batan, Mexico : Summary Record of Proceedings(Internal Document, 2004-10-01) CGIAR Alliance OfficeItem Center Directors Committee: Towards a Framework for Collection Action: Report from the Collective Action Retreat, July 8 - 9, 2004, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.(Meeting Report, 2004-07-01) CGIAR Center Directors CommitteeThis report is the summary report from the Collective Action retreat held from 8 to 9 July 2004 in Addis Ababa at the campus of the International Livestock Research Institute. Attendees included the Directors General, Board Chairs and senior Center staff. The main objective of the CDC Collective Action Retreat was to clarify how CGIAR centers will enhance cooperation and collective action in the milieu of the new CGIAR. A set of 8 recommendations were drawn up and are available in the executive summary of the report.Item Center Directors Committee Meeting with Ian Johnson and Francisco Reifschneider, May 7, 2004, Aleppo, Syria : Summary of Meeting(Internal Document, 2004-05-01) CGIAR Center Directors Committee; CGIAR Committee of Board ChairsItem Meeting of the Center Directors Committee, May 5-7, 2004, Aleppo, Syria : Summary Record of Proceedings(Internal Document, 2004-05-01)Item Joint Meeting of the Center Board Chairs and the Center Directors Committee, May 6-7, 2004, Aleppo, Syria : Summary Record of Proceedings(Internal Document, 2004-05-01) CGIAR Center Directors Committee; Wright Platais, KerriItem Center Directors Committee with Ian Johnson, CGIAR Chair and Francisco Reifschneider, CGIAR Director, October 26, 2003, Nairobi, Kenya : Summary of Meeting(Internal Document, 2003-10-01) CGIAR Center Directors CommitteeItem Center Directors Committee, October 24-26, 2003, Nairobi, Kenya : Draft Summary of Proceedings(Meeting Report, 2003-10-01) CGIAR Center Directors CommitteeItem Joint Meeting of the Center Board Chairs and the Center Directors Committee, October 25, 2003, Nairobi, Kenya : Draft Summary Record of Proceedings(Internal Document, 2003-10-01) CGIAR Center Directors Committee; CGIAR Committee of Board ChairsItem Joint Meeting of the Center Board Chairs and the Center Directors Committee, May 13-14, 2003, The Hague, The Netherlands : Summary Record of Proceedings(Internal Document, 2003-05-01) CGIAR Center Directors Committee; CGIAR Committee of Board ChairsItem Center Directors Committee Code of Conduct, March 3, 2005(Internal Document, 2003-03-01) CGIAR Center Directors CommitteeItem Meeting of the Center Directors Committee, February 10-11, 2003, The Hague : Draft Summary Record of Proceedings(Internal Document, 2003-02-01) CGIAR Center Directors CommitteeItem Joint Meeting of the Center Board Charis and the Center Directors Committee, October 25, 2002, Los Banos, Philippines : Summary Record of Proceedings(Internal Document, 2002-10-01) CGIAR Center Directors Committee; CGIAR Committee of Board ChairsItem Report of the Center Directors Committee to CGIAR International Centers Week 2000(Meeting Report, 2000-10-01) CGIAR Center Directors CommitteeReport of the Center Directors Committee (CDC) to CGIAR International Centers Week 2000. It described CDC interactions with TAC and the CBC leading to the Committee's proposal for a federation of Centers and ultimate endorsement of the report of the Synthesis Group. The CDC also endorsed the main recommendations of the Finance Committee Working Group on Long Term Financing and its proposed expansion of Future Harvest. It urged generalized use of the Future Harvest brand name.Updates were presented on the planned establishment of endowment fund for genebank maintenance, on the Gender and Diversity Program, and on the September meeting on Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM) of six directors general and center INRM staff in Penang, Malaysia by the CDC Task Force. The Inter Center Working Group on Climate Change (ICW-CC) reported significant positive impacts of the green revolution on carbon sequestration, and discussed center projects for adaptation and mitigation measures linked with poverty reduction. The Committee unanimously passed a resolution urging that all main CGIAR crops be included in the International Undertaking on Genetic Resources. The CDC suspended work on updating its IPR guidelines because misinterpretations of the guidelines risked hampering the ongoing negotiation of the Undertaking, and issued a clarifying resolution. The text of this resolution is attached to the report of the meeting.Item Center Directors Committee: Meeting of October 18-20 and 27, 2000, Washington, DC : Summary Record of Proceedings(Meeting Report, 2000-10-01) CGIAR Center Directors Committeetbd The 15 attachments to this report have been catalogued as a separate record.Item Attachments to the Summary of Proceedings of the Center Directors Committee Meeting of October 27, 2000, Washington, DC(Internal Document, 2000-10-01) CGIAR Center Directors CommitteeThis record contains the 15 attachment to the Summary Record of Proceedings of the CDC Meeting of October 27, 2000. Attachment 1 -- Draft Strategy for a Regional Partnership among CGIAR Centers in South Asia (Updated 27 October 2000) Attachment 2 -- Towards a consortium of international agricultural research Centers in West and Central Africa Attachment 3 -- The Future Harvest Global Conservation Trust: An Update Attachment 4A -- Update to the CGIAR Inter-Center Working Group on Climate Change Attachment 4B -- Concept notes -- CGIAR Inter Centre Working Group on Climate Change --Lyon, France September 2000 Attachment 5 -- Non-disclosure Confidentiality Agreement Attachment 6 -- Statement by the Future Harvest Centers Supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) on the Scope of the Multilateral System, Currently under Consideration in the Re-negotiation of the FAO International Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (27 October 2000) Attachment 7 -- CDC Statement to ICW2000 on the Need to Resolve Outstanding Issues Concerning Intellectual Property Protection Relating to Plant Genetic Resources Attachment 8 -- Report on ICT developments Attachment 9 -- SWIM II, [or Task Force on] Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Attachment 10 -- Recommendations/Observations -- CDDC Meeting ICW 2000 Attachment 11: Memorandum from the CDDC and the Organizational Change Program (OCP) on Recommended KM Pilot Activities Attachment 12: Summary --Gender and Diversity Advisory Board Meeting Attachment 13: Gender and Diversity Program -- Program of Work and Budget 2001 Attachment 14 -- Composition of CDC Committees and Task Forces, and Assignments of Representation: 2000/2001 Attachment 15 -- Harmonization and codification of administrative cooperation among CentersItem Report of the Center Directors Committee to the CGIAR Mid Term Meeting 2000(Meeting Report, 2000-05-01) CGIAR Center Directors CommitteeReport of the Center Directors Committee (CDC) to the CGIAR Mid Term Meeting 2000. The CDC reported on interaction with TAC on the development of the CGIAR 2010 Vision, participation in two Consultative Council meetings by CDC representatives, and the activities of task forces on Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Natural Resource Management, and Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources.The CDC meeting also included CIP Director General and PARC Chairman Hubert Zandstra's report of PARC's discussion of "Toward a Long-Range Financing Strategy for the CGIAR." CDC endorsed various measures to strengthen Future Harvest and the use of its name in direct association with the centers. It also considered measures taken to overcome the European Commission funding problem.Item CGIAR Center Directors Committee Minutes, Presiding Chair: P. Sanchez(Meeting Report, 1999-10-01) CGIAR Center Directors CommitteeThe Minutes of the CDC Meeting October 1999, Washington DC record the CDC’s follow up on the System Review on the subject of IPR audits, the wholly owned subsidiary, CAS, Integrated Natural Resource, Climate Change, and focus on Africa. In a meeting with the incoming and outgoing TAC Chairs, center on some of TAC’s ongoing activities and DG’s share their views on what a “strategic TAC” will be. Future Harvest and its various activities are reported extensively as is the report of the CDDC which covers AIARC, financial issues, CGNET, and the Gender and Diversity Program. Discussions with the CGIAR Chair include matters such as restructuring of the CGIAR where he invites the CDC to take the lead in the exercise.