Long Range Financing Strategy for the CGIAR

Final report of a Finance Committee Working Group prepared by The Conservation Company. The report addresses CGIAR public awareness, resource mobilization, and financing, and builds on work presented at ICW 1999 and MTM 2000. It presents an operational plan for an enhanced Future Harvest organization, which would add resource mobilization capacity to its existing public awareness capacity. The governance of the new organization is addressed, as well as its relationships to other parts of the CGIAR System.This report was an agenda document at CGIAR International Centers Week, 2000, where it was considered under the report of the Finance Committee. The CGIAR endorsed the recommendations of the Finance Committee to be implemented in the context of the overall change management process. The report was also discussed in connection with the report of the Synthesis Group.