ahead of the curve or out on a limb condesan’s strategy 2001-2005 by: dr. joshua posner condesan...
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Ahead of the Curve or Out on a LimbCONDESAN’s Strategy 2001-2005
By: Dr. Joshua PosnerCONDESAN Coordinator
April 14th, 2001
The Consortium for Sustainable Development in the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN)
1. Natural resource management and rural poverty are multidisciplinary themes that could best be addressed by a consortium of institutions.
2. The core issues of poverty and resource management require making more local and political alliances, focusing on NGO partners, regional Universities, producer groups, and municipal governments.
Meetings held at CIP in the early 1990’s with a group of 60 Andean scientists concluded:
3. The impact of quality work going on in the Andes should be reinforced through the creation of an electronic information-exchange and sharing mechanism (InfoAndina).
4. The Andean research and development consortium would not create additional organizational infrastructure, but rather would be a virtual entity, primarily working through its partners.
Conclusions
CONDESAN Mission Statement
The Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN) is an
association of public and private sector partners working together on research, training, development and policy initiatives, promoting the
protection of natural resources and
improvements in welfare and equity for the people of the Andes.
Where does CONDESAN FIT ?
?
Eco - Regional Programs
Global Challenges
System wide Initiatives
CONDESAN and the CG Systems
CIP CIMMYT IWMI ICARDACIAT …
CGIAR Ecorregional Programs
Humid sub-humidTropics of Africa
TropicalLatin America
Inland valleyConsortium
Rice-wheatCropping systems
East AfricaHighlands Initiative
Humid sub-humidTropics of Asia
CONDESAN
CONDESAN and CIP
Land Use inMountain Systems
Biodiversity and Conservation of
Root and Tuber Crops
CONDESAN
GMP
ICIMODICRAF
Late Blight
IPM
Post-Harvest Quality and Market Impact of Root and
Tuber Crops
Africa
CIPCONDESAN
ICIMODICRAF
African highlandsInitiative
Mountain ForumGlobal Mountain Program
InfoAndina
AsiaLatinAmerica
EuropeLatinAmerica
Asia Africa
Research Development
Knowledge & Information sharing
NorthAmerica
ILRICIP
ILRI
Chapter 13 of Agenda 21
MF-Africa
CONDESAN and the UN
Who are we?
CONDESAN Membership
• International Research Centers (4)• Latin American NGO’s (30)• National Agricultural Research Institutes (5)• Latin American Universities (9)• Advanced Research Institutes (10)
CONDESAN Organization
Board of Directors
Coordination
Technical Committee
Benchmark Sites (BMS)
Cross-Andean Themes
CIATCIP PartnershipProject
PartnershipProject
DG DG
Partners
MéridaLa Miel
Bogotá
El Carchi
Quito
Cajamarca
Lima
PunoLa Paz
Cochabamba
CONDESAN
BENCHMARKS
Sustainable NaturalResource Management
Improving RuralIncomes
SocialEquity
CONDESAN
CONDESAN’s Two-Fold Challenge
1. How to do creative and useful research at the intersection of poverty alleviation and natural resource management?
2. How to do this work as a low-cost consortium rather than as a research institute?
DG
DDG’s
Project Leaders
Sub-projectLeaders
NationalResearchInstitutes
AdvancedResearch Institutes
NGOsGovt.
AgenciesRegional
Universities
CONDESAN
International Public GoodsExtrapolation
Source of fundingTransfer of technologyBroaden CIP’s tent
CGIAR
CIP
Members
What do our Stakeholders want?
Variables
BenchmarkSites
Candelaria
Mañazo
Aroma
La Encañada
Rio El Angel
La Miel
Pueblo Llano
Physicalvariables
Sociologicalvariables
Economicvariables
Historicalvariables
Models
• Characterization of the Region
• Detailed characterization of the benchmark sites
International Public Goods & Extrapolation
Transfer of Technology
Strategic Applied Adaptive
CIP CONDESANNGO’sFarmer groupsRegional universitiesINIAs
An example:
Establish Cajamarca Mapping w/municipal GIS lab Atlas & governments
Encañada work 3 NGO’s
CONDESAN as Tío Rico
SDC
System
atiza
cion
IDRC
CONDESAN II
GTZ Cajamarca
Dutch C
ompetitiv
e
Grants
An alternative vision to meet a new reality:
1. Increasing importance of bilateral versus regional programs.
3. New evaluation criteria.- “Greening’of the donor’s agenda.- Growing pressure for all programs to show impact on poverty.
4. Increased (unrealistic?) expectations of what the private sector can do
5. Partners with increasing research capabilities.
2. Increased funds available in national competitive grants programs.
In Summary:
• Increased focus on National issues and local alliances.
• Desperate need to help governments develop consistent rural development policies.
• More and more science and necessary technical skills outside of the CG-system.
Is emphasizing benchmark sites, international public goods and extrapolation the only way to work?• Very data intensive.• A simplistic vision of how NRM decisions are made.
An Alternative approach:• Instead of collecting more data, focus on information mgt.
Georeference data with GIS.Develop the concept of minimum data sets.Toolbook and CD-roms.
• Pick sites for specific questions, not for representatively.importance of Andean roots and tubers.importance of externalities (e.g. water, biodiversity).
Transfer of Technology:
Strategic Applied Adaptive
CIP CONDESANNGO’sFarmer groupsRegional universitiesINIAs
Framework
Initiatives
CONDESANPapaAndinaART ProgramTaste of the AndesFriends of the AndesFarmer Field SchoolsGILB
An Alternative vision:
CIP
Information Policy:Making natural resource management data bases (e.g. climate, soils, topography, hydrology) readily available to universities, NGOs, and municipal governments is fundamental if GIS and process based models are to be widely used.
Water Policy:Water concessions and pricing policies are outdated and a barrier to investment in agriculture and rural development objectives.
Investment Policy: It is difficult to design projects that are sufficiently profitable to attractive private capital. Incentives will be necessary to attract investment to the Andes.
Paramo Policy:The headwaters of the major Andean rivers begin in these grasslands and they are the centers of wild germplasm for certain Andean tubers. A coherent conservation and development policy is necessary to prevent agricultural encroachment, and intensify production closer to the village.
Setting research priorities:
Based on the CONDESAN “big umbrella” model of the Andean research community and InfoAndina’s experience with electronic forums, ForAgro, IICA and the TAC have invited us to coordinate a research prioritization exercise in the Andes.
Direct funding support to the Consortium members
SDC
Sistem
atiza
cion
IDRC
CONDESAN IIDutch
Competi
tive
Grants
GTZ Cajamarca
An alternative vision is to offer primarily technical services to the Consortium members
1. Promote the use of ecorregional tools.- Georeferencing information.- watershed analysis.- estimating environmental sevices.- private investment in the rural sector.
2. Raise to a policy level, “field” issues:- water resources (esp irrigation legislation).- forestry policy in the Andes.- paramo management.
4. Join them, as junior partners, to win competitive grantsPronatta IncaAgroPromsa SIBTA
3. Supply information services with InfoAndina- Mountain Forum.- Electronic forums.- Web page.- Distance education.- Virtual shopping.
International Public Goods Information managementExtrapolation Identifying new themes
Transfer of CIP technology Framework policy initiatives
Winning project funds Providing methodologies, toolsInfoAndina
CONDESAN Improved Portfolio
Civil Society GovernmentAgencies
Research Community
CONDESAN
Under the Community of the Andean Nation’s Umbrella