1. The global research partnership to improve agricultural productivity and income in the world's dry areas
Dryland Systems
Integrated Production Systems for Improving Food Security and
Livelihoods in Dry Areas

2. CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013
Title CGIAR System Level Outcomes
• Reduced rural poverty;
• Improved food security;
• Better nutrition and health; and
• Sustainable management of
natural resources.

3. • Cover 41% of the earth’s surface
• 2.5 billion people – and the majority of the world’s poor.
• About 16% of the population lives in chronic poverty
• Major biophysical and socioeconomic constraints to
production systems
Dry Areas

4. • The SRF (CGIAR 2011) advocates
new areas of core competency to
achieve impact in four SLOs
• One is Development of core
competency in the area of
production systems
• This will test the ability of the
system to undertake inter-center
research.
• Systems research will integrate
commodity, natural resource
management and policy research
to improve productivity and
livelihoods in a sustainable
manner at the national and
regional level
STRATEGIC AND RESULTS FRAMEWORK

5. CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013
TitleConceptual Research Framework
SRT2: Reducing
vulnerability and managing
risk
SRT3: Sustainable
intensification for more
productive, profitable and
diversified dryland
agriculture with well-
established linkages to
marketst

6. Strategic Research Theme Output
1. Approaches and models for
strengthening innovation systems,
building stakeholder innovation
capacity, and linking knowledge to
policy action
Approaches and models for strengthening innovation systems,
building stakeholder innovation capacity, and linking
knowledge to policy action
Enhanced capacity for innovation and effective participation in
collaborative “IAR4D” processes
Strategies for effectively linking research to policy action in a
dryland context.
2. Reducing vulnerability and
managing risk through increased
resilience
Combinations of institutional, biophysical and management
options for reducing vulnerability designed and developed
Options for reducing vulnerability and mitigating risk scaled-up
and -out within regions
Trade-offs amongst options for reducing vulnerability and
mitigating risk analyzed (within regions). Knowledge-based
systems developed for customizing options to sites and
circumstances
3. Sustainable intensification for
more productive, profitable and
diversified dryland agriculture with
well-established linkages to
markets
Sustainable intensification options designed and developed
Sustainable intensification options out-scaled
Trade-offs amongst sustainable intensification and
diversification options analyzed and knowledge-based
systems developed for customizing options to sites and
circumstances
4. Measuring impacts and cross-
regional synthesis
Future scenarios and priority setting
Livelihood and ecosystem characterization.
Across-region synthesis of lessons learnt from SRTs 2 and 3
Program impacts measured.

7. CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013
Title Cross-Cutting Themes
• Gender
• Youth
• Biodiversity
• Capacity building

9. CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013
Title Inception Phase
• Groundwork for baseline
characterization
• Workshops to set
Research Priorities
Common Ground
1) 21 Constraints
2) 20 Outputs
3) 16 Hypotheses
4) 20 Outcomes

10. TitleIntermediate Development Outcomes
• Part of Theory of Change, Impact Pathway and Consortium’s results-
based performance management system.
Results Based Management is a management philosophy and approach
that emphasizes development results in planning, implementation,
learning and reporting.
It focuses on improved performance that can be described and measured
while helping individuals to plan, manage and learn more effectively.
• The CRP Intermediate Development Outcomes (IDOs) will play a pivotal
role in the system, expressing the ambition of CRPs and providing the
building blocks for Consortium-level achievement through the Strategic
Results Framework (SRF).

11. TitleIntermediate Development Outcomes
CRP IDOs are meant to be:
• Informed by and have buy in from key stakeholders
• Integrated across CRPs to the extent possible
• Fully aligned with system level IDOs (SLIDOs).
• Completed by September 30, 2013 for as many CRPs as
possible.
• Composed of three 3-year cycles, i.e. they have ~10 year time
lines

12. TitleIntermediate Development Outcomes
(From 20 Common Outcomes!)
The first 4 target direct impact on wellbeing and sustaining natural resource base:
1. More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas.
2. More stable and higher per capita income for intensifiable households.
3. Women and children in vulnerable households have year round access to
greater quantity and diversity of food sources.
4. More sustainable and equitable management of land and water resources in
pastoral and agropastoral.
The rest relate to requirements for the first 4 to be realized:
5. Better functioning markets underpinning intensification of rural livelihoods.
6. More integrated, effective and connected service delivery institutions
underpinning resilience and system intensification.
7. Policy reform removing constraints and creating incentives for rural
households to engage in more sustainable practices that improve resilience
and intensify production.

13. Title
THEORY of CHANGE from Launch Meeting, May 2013
Key elements of the agricultural system interact to improve
human welfare and management of natural resources

14. Impacts from IDOs
1. More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas.
2. More stable and higher per capita income for intensifiable households
(those above an asset threshold that makes intensification a viable
option).
3. Women and children in vulnerable households have year round access to
greater quantity and diversity of food sources
4. More sustainable and equitable management of land and water
resources in pastoral and agropastoral areas
5. Better functioning markets underpinning intensification of rural
livelihoods
6. More integrated, effective and connected service delivery institutions
underpinning resilience and system intensification
7. Policy reform removing constraints and incentivising rural households to
engage in more sustainable practices that intensify and improve
resilience and intensify production

15. Impact
More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable
households in marginal areas
Outputs
• Improved resilience options (components, interactions and their management;
explicit consideration of buffer functions, managing trade-offs between production
and risk; nested scale risk mitigation, including incentives to adopt them)
• Tools, methods, processes and capacity of NARES to create and customise
improved resilience options to local circumstances across scaling domains
Outcome
NARES use tools, methods and processes to
generate and customise improved resilience
options for targeted groups of vulnerable
households
Indicators
Use of outputs: number and size of
organisations using them and their areal
and population domains; proportion of
sector in targeted areas this represents
Customised options: number of options
and number of hh targeted
Resilience index: contextualised
multiscale assessment of resilience
building strategies at household
and community levels (see
Marschke, and Berkes. 2006)

16. Income
Food
Security
Consump-
tion
Product-
vity
Control of
Assets
Capacity to
Innovate
Capacity
to Adapt
Greater
Resilience
Policies
Environ-
ment
Carbon
Sequest-
ration
RESILIENCE
INTENSIFICATION
NUTRITION for
Vulnerable
Sustainable NRM
Management
Markets
Delivery Institutions
Policy
System Level IDO's
CRP IDO Abbreviated
Label

17. Observations made by IDO Working Group chair:
• We needed to create new credible targets of impact
for the new IDOs
• We were cautioned about having too many sites (10
was seen as too many to implement at once)
• Go slower and not try to be everywhere at once
• We need more specifics on partnerships including
their roles in impact pathway
• Integration with other CRPs is not fleshed out as
much as it could.
Montpellier meeting feedback

18. GOAL (IMPACT):
PURPOSE (OUTCOMES):
Customised options: number of options and number of
hh targeted
OUTPUTS:
1.Improved resilience options (components,
interactions and their management; explicit
consideration of buffer functions, managing trade-
offs between production and risk; nested scale risk
mitigation, including incentives to adopt them)
2.Tools, methods, processes and capacity of NARES
to create and customise improved resilience options
to local circumstances across scaling domains
Resilience index: contextualised multiscale assessment
of resilience building strategies at household and
community levels.
Use of outputs: number and size of organisations using
them and their areal and population domains; proportion
of sector in targeted areas this represents
More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable
households in marginal areas
NARES use tools, methods and processes to generate
and customise improved resilience options for
targeted groups of vulnerable households
Narrative Summary Objectively Verifiable Indicators

19. Outputs/activities
Milestones
O.V.I.**
Region/locatio
n
Projects/partners*
**Deliverables
Years
*
Component 1. Reducing vulnerability and managing risk in NAWA
Output 1.1. Functional innovation platforms established for the design and transfer of improved
R4D options in target sites
Activity 1.1.1.
Establish, monitor
and evaluate strategic
innovation platform
for reducing
vulnerability of the
agropastoral system in
the target sites
Fully functional
strategic innovation
platform established
and supported
1,2,3 Operational strategic
innovation platforms
Target satellite
site in Tunisia,
outscaled to
Syria and
Jordan action
site.
- IFAD-PRODESUD
Project (on-going)
- IRA-MESRS (on-
going)
-Aga Khan
Foundation, Syria
Mechanisms for cross
site learning
developed and
implemented
1,2 Cross site learning
activities
Guidelines for
planning and
implementing
community-based
innovation platform
communal rangelands
developed and
distributed
3 Best practices
guidelines
Activity 1.1.2.
Establish, monitor
and evaluate an
intervention
innovation cluster (
water harvesting and
use)
Operational
arrangements
including public-
private partnerships
for the
implementation of
mechanized water
harvesting packages
in the pastoral system
1, 2, 3 Signed agreements
among partners for
the operation of the
unit
- Established rules
and responsibilities
of community
institution
- Legalization of the
cooperative/water-
harvesting
association and
declaration
Target satellite
site in Tunisia,
Syria and
Jordan action
site
Arab Fund,
WLI//USAID, Jordan
government, Agha
Khan Foundation
(Syria)
Hashemite Fund for
Badia Development
(Jordan)
Activity 1.1.3.
Establish, monitor
and evaluate
commodity-
innovation clusters
(sheep, cactus,
medicinal and herbal
plants, small scale
dairy processing)
Strategy for scaling
out income generating
micro-enterprises
using (i) available
cactus processing
technologies; (ii)
small scale dairy
processing units
(women association)
in 4 villages; (iii)
income generating
activities/ HMAP
1, 2, 3 Trainings on milk
processing conducted
for 4 women groups
in 2012 and 2013
Changes in quality
and of prices of dairy
products produced by
women trained in the
project.
Protocol for HMAP
cultivation,
processing and
marketing
Protocol for cactus
products
transformation
Target satellite
site in Tunisia
(cactus,
HMAPs), and in
Syria and
Jordan action
site (dairy
processing,
HMAPs).
OFID project
(Enhancing dairy
processing skills and
market access of rural
women in Jordan)
Aga Khan
Foundation, Syria
NCARE HMAP
division
PAM program in
Tunisia
Activity 1.1.4.
Establish, monitor
and evaluate an
Strategy defined,
CBO’s formed and
documentation of
lessons learned in
2,3 Strategy defined by
2013 and at least two
CBO’s formed by the
end of 2013 with
Target satellite
site in Syria,
Jordan, Tunisia
Arab Fund,
WLI//USAID, Jordan
government, Agha
Khan Foundation

20. Led By:
W1&2 W3 Bilateral
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W1&2 W3 Bilateral
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W1&2 W3 Bilateral
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W1&2 W3 Bilateral
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W1&2 W3 Bilateral
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W1&2 W3 Bilateral
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W1&2 W3 Bilateral
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Funding - specify amount for each
2013 Total
funding
Donor(s)
for W3 &
bilateral
Project
end date
if not
2013
Project
end date
if not
2013
IDO 7. Policy reform removing constraints and creating incentives for rural households to engage in more sustainable practices that improve resilience and intensify production
ID # Activity title Activity description* Target Region(s) Outputs Outcomes
Specific Verifiable Deliverables in
2013
Time Frame Anticipated Activity Outcomes Target Countries Action Site(s) Activity Leader(s)
Other partners &
% resources
Linkage to
Other
CRP(s)
Other partners &
% resources
Linkage to
Other
CRP(s)
Funding - specify amount for each
2013 Total
funding
Donor(s)
for W3 &
bilateral
2013 Total
funding
Donor(s)
for W3 &
bilateral
Project
end date
if not
2013
IDO 6. More integrated, effective and connected service delivery institutions underpinning resilience and system intensification
ID # Activity title Activity description* Target Region(s) Outputs Outcomes
Specific Verifiable Deliverables in
2013
Time Frame Anticipated Activity Outcomes Target Countries Action Site(s) Activity Leader(s)
IDO 5. Better functioning markets underpinning intensification of rural livelihoods
ID # Activity title Activity description* Target Region(s) Outputs Outcomes
Specific Verifiable Deliverables in
2013
Time Frame Anticipated Activity Outcomes Target Countries Action Site(s) Activity Leader(s)
Other partners &
% resources
Linkage to
Other
CRP(s)
Funding - specify amount for each
ID # Activity title
ID # Activity title
Specific Verifiable Deliverables in
2013
Activity description*
Target Region(s) Outputs
Specific Verifiable Deliverables in
2013
Activity description* Outcomes
IDO 1. More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas
IDO 2. More stable and higher per capita income for intensifiable households
ICARDA
2013 Activity Plan - CRP Dryland Systems, Amounts in USD 000'
2013 Total
funding
Linkage to
Other
CRP(s)
Target Countries
Donor(s)
for W3 &
bilateral
Project
end date
if not
2013
Other partners &
% resources
Funding - specify amount for each
Target Region(s) Outputs Outcomes Activity Leader(s)
2013 Total
funding
Anticipated Activity OutcomesTime Frame
Linkage to
Other
CRP(s)
Target Countries
Action Site(s)
Action Site(s)
Funding - specify amount for each
Other partners &
% resources
Activity Leader(s)
Project
end date
if not
2013
Anticipated Activity Outcomes Target Countries Activity Leader(s)
Project
end date
if not
2013
Other partners &
% resources
Action Site(s)
Time Frame Anticipated Activity Outcomes
Activity Leader(s)Target Region(s) Outputs Action Site(s)Outcomes
Linkage to
Other
CRP(s)
Funding - specify amount for each
2013 Total
funding
Donor(s)
for W3 &
bilateral
Outcomes
IDO 3. Women and children in vulnerable households have year round access to greater quantity and diversity of food sources
IDO 4. More sustainable and equitable management of land, water and genetic resources in pastoral and agropastoral systems
Other partners &
% resources
Linkage to
Other
CRP(s)
Funding - specify amount for each
2013 Total
funding
Donor(s)
for W3 &
bilateral
Project
end date
if not
2013
ID #
Donor(s)
for W3 &
bilateral
Time FrameActivity title Activity description*
Specific Verifiable Deliverables in
2013
Target Region(s) Outputs
ID # Activity title Activity description*
Specific Verifiable Deliverables in
2013
Time Frame Anticipated Activity Outcomes Target Countries

21. • “Clustered” Activities in Prioritized Workplans to achieve
Seven IDOs
• Use of Standard Logframe Template
• Specificity on:
 Sites
 Outputs
 Outcomes
 Deliverables
 Activity Leaders
 Partnerships
 Timelines
• Better Impact Targets
• Budget Principles
Meeting Expectations