1. 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.

2. • 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

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

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

6. Gender And Youth Matter
• Land tenure
• Access to financial tools
• Employment
• Decision-making
• Natural resource access
(trees, fields)
• Food preparation and
processing
• Household nutrition
• Varietal assessment
• Use of disposable income
• Landed and Landless labor

7. 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

8. 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

9. TitleIntermediate Development Outcomes
(From 20 Common Outcomes!)
The first 4 target 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 areas.
The rest relate to requirements for these 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.

10. 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

11. 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)

12. 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

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IDO 7. Policy reform removing constraints and creating incentives for rural households to engage in more sustainable practices that improve resilience and intensify production
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IDO 6. More integrated, effective and connected service delivery institutions underpinning resilience and system intensification
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IDO 5. Better functioning markets underpinning intensification of rural livelihoods
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IDO 1. More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas
IDO 2. More stable and higher per capita income for intensifiable households
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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
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for W3 &
bilateral
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