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 The Alliance is a center-driven coalition created by the 15 International Research Centers in 2006 to enhance collective action among the Centers and between the Centers and their partners. By joining forces to enhance impact and deliver better, more rapid results, it enables the Centers and their partners to make the most of available resources and increase their impact for the benefit of the poor in developing countries.
The goals of the Alliance are to enhance Centers’ ability to fulfil the mission of the CGIAR through programmatic collective actions to increase overall impact on poverty alleviation and the environment and institutional collective actions to increase efficiency with which this impact is produced.
Through the Alliance benefits are realized not only for the Centers themselves but for the partners and stakeholders; for CGIAR members and donors, and for the System. More efficient access to the expertise of the Centers allows more effective program outputs and outcomes. The Alliance provides the channel for consolidated Centers’ contributions to CGIAR business ensuring that the full capacities of the Centers can be used in effectively tackling complex problems. The Alliance affords greater consistency in Center policies as well as a means by which decisions of the System will be more efficiently and effectively implemented. It creates a mechanism that enables Centers to speak and negotiate authoritatively with a united voice on common issues and to achieve economies of scale through such measures as programmatic alignment and use of common services. The Alliance is a focal point for enhancing corporate spirit and action and provides a systematic basis for participation in collective action with sister Centers and other agencies on major global agricultural, forestry, fisheries and water issues for which no one Center could deliver alone.
Collectively the Alliance of CGIAR Centers harness:
- More than 2000 scientists
- in 100 countries
- with over US$500 million invested per year for research for development
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