Title: NRM Research in the CGIAR: Background Papers Considered by TAC/ISC
Source/Author: Consultative Group On International Agricultural Research. Science Council. Science Council Secretariat. Food And Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations
Year: September 2003
Content: This publication comprises four background papers on NRM research that were prepared and considered by TAC and iSC. The first two papers concern the topic of integrated natural resources management (INRM) and the next two papers concern the topic of water management. The four papers are:
1. Evolution of NRM Concepts and Activities in the CGIAR (SDR/TAC:IAR/01/18)
2. NRM Research in the CGIAR: A Framework for Programme Design and Evaluation (SDR/TAC:IAR/01/24)
3. Water and the CGIAR: A Discussion Paper (SDR/TAC:IAR/01/23A)
4. Water Productivity Research in the Context of the CGIAR (SDR/TAC:IAR/01/23B)

Title: Terms of Reference for the 2006 NRM CCER
Source/Author: CIP
Year: 2006
Content: Describes de TOR for the CCER.

Title: Internally Commissioned External Reviews (ICERS) and Center Commissioned External Reviews (CCERS)
Source/Author: CIP
Year:
Content: This is a Joint Board/Management Policy Statement about ICER and CCER procedures.

Title: Report of the Program Committee
Source/Author: CIP / Program Committee of the Board of Trustees
Year: 2005
Content: This is the section of the report of the Program Committee of the Board of Trustees of CIP, which presents the Board's comments on the NRM Division and some general issues raised by the Board to enhance further development of the research conducted by the division.

Title: CIP Strategic Plan (Draft)
Source/Author: CIP
Year: 2006
Content: This paper sets out the research strategy of CIP for the next 10 years. It builds on The CIP Vision (CIP 2004), which resulted from extensive consultations with a wide group of stakeholders. The new vision takes an extended look at the future and maps out the programmatic content of the Center's research and development activities in relation to the Center's mission and the context in which it operates. CIP's stakeholders agreed that the Millennium Development Goals should guide CIP's research program and identified those MDGs where CIP could make the most significant contribution. The CIP Vision document lays down a program for how CIP can help the poor and address these MDGs and proposes a Vision Statement to guide this program.

Title: The CGIAR at 31: An Independent Meta-Evaluation of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Thematic Working Paper. Natural Resources Management Research in CGIAR: A Meta-Evaluation
Source/Author: The World Bank Operations Evaluation Department / Christopher B. Barrett
Year: 2003
Content: The report on the CGIAR is part of an independent review by the OED of the World Bank's involvement in global programs. This is one of five thematic working papers by independent scholars prepared as part of the meta-evaluation of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). This particular review deals with NRM research.

Title: Medium-Term Plan 2006-2008 and Financing Plan for 2006
Source/Author: CIP
Year: 2005
Content: The year 2004 was one of implementation of the new CIP Research Program, which resulted from the CIP Vision Exercise and its Millennium Goals based strategy. This Board-approved MTP reflects a new emphasis on achieving the Millennium Development Goals in carefully poverty-targeted areas. It also incorporates the new Science Council-mandated logframes that define outputs and output targets as the basis for future Performance Measurement of CIP projects.

Title: Report of the combined workshop of the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment and the 6th meeting of the CGIAR Task Force on Integrated Natural Resources Management, held at IRRI headquarters, Los Baños, The Philippines.
Author/Source: Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) of the CGIAR.
Year: 2005
Content: The document is the proceedings of a combined meeting of the CGIAR's INRM Task Force and the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA). The meeting focused on International Public Good aspects of NRM research and on Impact Assessment (IA). The main objective of the combined meeting was to learn from the experiences within and outside the CGIAR system and to examine and agree on strategies and methodologies for IA that takes into account the multi-faceted nature of NRM interventions and how to monitor and evaluate them both at the local level and at the overall project level.

Title: The CIP Vision
Source/Author: CIP
Year: 2004
Content: In 2003 CIP concluded an eighteen-month Vision Exercise that culminated in a major realignment of the Center's research program. The Exercise drew upon a range of CIP stakeholders and fully enlisted key staff in the process of reworking our goals and objectives to bring them directly in line with the UN Millennium Goals, in order to make the biggest possible positive impact on the future of this planet and its people.
Because of the importance of this undertaking, CIP decided to invest its human and financial resources, in the formulation of the new Vision and the publication of this report on the Vision Exercise, the issues it involved, and the implications for CIP's future.
Section One of the present report explains the Vision Exercise framework and process. It also contains an analysis of CIP's potential contribution to the Millennium Development Challenges chosen by the Vision Plenary as most relevant to the Center. Non-CIP contributors to the Challenge Essays, included John Antle, Gelia Castillo, Kevin Gallagher, Peter Hazell, M.S. Islam, Sven Jacobsen, Richard Levins, Anke Niehof, Jules Pretty, and Richard Sawyer.
Section Two describes the first steps taken to move from Vision to Implementation: the realignment of CIP's Research Program to enhance impact; and, a Targeting Exercise that will help CIP to align its human and financial resources with the Challenges.

Title: Internally Commissioned External Review of the Natural Resource Management Program at CIP. Evaluation Report.
Source/Author: CIP/Review Team: Dr. Hans Schreier, Institute for Resources and Environment, University of British Columbia, B.C., Canada (Chair of Review panel); Mr. Julio A. Berdegué, President, RIMISP, Red Internacional de Metodologías de Inverstigación de Sistemas de Producción, Santiago, Chile; Dr. Jack Hess, Executive Director, Division of Hydrological Sciences, Desert Research Institute, University and Community College System of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA; Dr. Scott M. Swinton, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
Year: 1999
Content: This is the report of ICER of the NRM program, conducted in 1999. At the time, CIP research was organized in Projects and NRM was Project 14 (nowadays is Division 5). It is also important to take into account that in 1999 NRM and CONDESAN were closely related. No other ICER of NRM program or division has been conducted since.

Title: NRM Research in the CGIAR: A Framework for Programme Design and Evaluation
Source/Author: TAC Secretariat. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Year: 2001
Content: This is a background paper aimed at developing a concise statement of TAC's views on the way ahead in tackling the increased concern about the environmental resource base for agriculture. It is based on a perception about a lack of a coherent Systemwide strategy for INRM priority setting and for operationalizing a more effective set of strategic INRM activities within the CGIAR.
The paper builds on what TAC has said previously and does not deviate from the general lines of approach laid out in the Committee's 2000 Vision and Strategy (V&S) document. However, some questions are raised for consideration in moving towards a more integrated strategy for including the most relevant NRM priorities that the System has accepted in the past, i.e., a strategy for how best to bring GPI, agronomic, water, LARM, agroforestry and forestry research together in the quest to reduce poverty and establish sustainable food security for the poorest of the poor.
While TAC fully acknowledges the multifaceted nature of the integrated management of natural resources, it also recognizes and emphasizes here that the CGIAR cannot deal with all issues, challenges and opportunities. TAC's perspective of its role in INRM focuses on management of natural resources for the purpose of achieving the goals of the CGIAR related to poverty reduction and sustainable food security through improved sustainable food production.
This background paper covers basically the following ground:
. First the context is laid out, including the priorities set out in the 2000 Vision and Strategy paper;
. Second, these elements are translated into a set of propositions on operational strategy;
. Third, the propositions are linked to considerations of implications for the System related to the various component NRM elements involved and dealt with by the CGIAR.

Title: Report of the Fifth External Programme and Management Review of the "Centro Internacional de la Papa" (CIP)
Source/Author: Interim Science Council Secretariat. CGIAR. Food And Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Year: 2003
Content: This is the full report of the Fifth EPMR (the latest to date as the next one is scheduled for 2007), containing the set of recommendations and the response of the Center.

Title: Towards Integrated Natural Management Research. Evolution of NRM research within the CGIAR.
Source/Author: Interim Science Council. CGIAR.
Year: 2003
Content: This is Part Two of a much larger document entitled Research Towards Integrated Natural Management, edited by R.R. Harwood and A.H. Kassam from which this relevant section has been selected as useful background information.

Title: Medium-Term Plan 2007-2009 and Financing Plan for 2007
Source/Author: CIP
Year: 2006
Content: The document presents the Medium-Term Plan 2007-2009 and Financing Plan for 2007. For the second time since the Science Council took the standing decision, this Board-approved MTP includes the Science Council-mandated logframes that define outputs and output targets as the basis for future Performance Measurement of CIP projects.