Understanding the Role of Science Partnership Advisory Committees
Learn about the essential role of Science Partnership Advisory Committees in ensuring best science practices, effective partnerships, and strategic direction for development programs. Discover how SPACs facilitate linkages, meet annually to assess program impact, and provide input for decision-making at oversight and implementation levels.
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The Role of Science & Partnership Advisory Committee ILRI-Nairobi, 11 December 2012
Consortium Board CRP 3.7 Lead Centre: ILRI Program Director Program Planning and Management Committee Science & Partnership Advisory Committee Value Chain Develop- ment Gender and learning Feeds Genetics Animal Health Targeting
For ILRI as the lead centre: SPAC has an important role: - Objective inputs to avoid deliberate or unintentional centre biases - Managing the tension (reflected in dual reporting) - Consultative process of decision making and ownership for program success and outputs - ILRI s contractual role responsible to the consortium and the Fund Council - Program governance structures (PPMC and SPAC) will champion ways and means to assure that programme performance contributes to wider centre and CGIAR credibility, and that centres offer space in which this can happen.
From the proposal SPAC will: o play a strategic advisory role with a focus on ensuring best science as well as appropriate and effective partnerships for development o facilitate linkages with global and regional stakeholders o meet twice annually in conjunction with meetings of the PPMC, to which it reports o report annually to the ILRI DG and Board of Trustees as to its assessment of the Program s science, impact and strategic direction o provide input to decision making at both oversight and implementation levels
From the ToRs SPAC help orient and improve: o quality of science and approaches, and the resulting knowledge outputs, to generate Global Public Goods o relevance of outputs to meet the needs of target beneficiaries and so increase potential outcomes o strategic direction and priority setting for program planning and resource mobilization o identification of key audiences for program outputs and strategies for engagement and communication o strategic relevance of partnerships in science and development
How? o Continuous program review Is research logframe coherent? Are impact pathways in target value chains coherent? Are outputs of expected quality? Are partnerships effective? Others? o Meetings and interactions with CRP management, researchers and partners o Special topic reviews requested by CRP Director o Report & recommendations to ILRI DG, for PPMC response Flag areas of concern Flag areas of opportunity
Modalities o 15 days/yr (extra 5 days for Chair) o 1-2 visits o 6 members representing range of science and development o 2 yr terms renewable, staggered to have 3 terms ending/yr o Chair selected by Committee for 2 yrs o Honorarium, expenses covered
Immediate tasks (for discussion) o Initial discussion with ILRI management o Get briefed o Review ToRs o Agree mode of operation o Meet with Program Planning & Management Committee to discuss ToRs and expectations o Prepare brief inception report with next steps o Agree process/timing viz. reporting to ILRI DG/BoT
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish livestockfish.cgiar.org livestockfish.cgiar.org CGIAR is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food secure future. The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish aims to increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems in sustainable ways, making meat, milk and fish more available and affordable across the developing world.
