Restructuring AR4D Group 2  Participants  ICARDA  Egypt  Turkey  Morocco  Jordan  IRAN  GFAR  Tunisia  AARINENA

How we can change the functioning of research institutions to impact on development and become more inclusive?  Merging more research & extension; all stakeholders should be involved.  Review and reinforce policies that govern, research, extension and end users.  Learning from Regional experiences( Egypt, Tunisia,Morocco, Turkey, Jordan,…).  Decentralization of the funding and decision making.

How we can change the functioning of research institutions to impact on development and become more inclusive? We should have a policy to address the national agricultural needs. Reinforce the link between research & developing services to reach the research outputs to the end users. Establishing a high policy makers forum including all stakeholders to review the policy, to innovate the system and setting the priorities.

How we can change the functioning of research institutions to impact on development and become more inclusive?  When restructuring any system or process we can change the financial flow, the information flow and capacity.  Need to increase the capacity and to improve it.  Involving private sectors in financial investments.

How we can change the functioning of research institutions to impact on development and become more inclusive?  For financial aspects  Competitiveness (competitive grant mechanism)  Inclusiveness  Transparency  Participatory  There are different experiences in the region, but are we learning from each other?  Running high quality research ( we should prepare the needed conditions to ensure that).

How we can change the functioning of research institutions to impact on development and become more inclusive?  Better qualified people to undertake the research.  A need for a system that provide better incentives for researchers (competitive grants which gives the researchers the opportunity to conduct the applied research to address specific problems based on the national strategy, e.g., Egypt)

Actions at national level Actions Lead actorPartners and funding Taskforce that will review action to encourage agricultural research innovation(Introduce policies that encourage agricultural research innovations) National Agricultural research Organization All stakeholders, including poor resource farmers taskforce findings and suggestions will be Presented to high level governmental instances TaskforceMinistry of Agriculture, National Agricultural Research system, AARINENA, other Regional forum, stakeholder representatives Merging more research & extension Ministry of Agriculture stakeholder

Actions at regional level Actions Lead actorpartners Facilitate the exchange and sharing information,knowledge and innovation(success stories, experiences, innovations, … ) AARINENANARS, ICARDA, farmers organizations strategy for fund mobilization for regional restructuring AR4D and capacity building AARINENACGIAR, NARS and farmers organizations, private sectors Review and harmonize policies that govern, research, extension at the regional level AARINENACGIAR, NARS

Actions at international / inter-regional level ActionsLead actorpartners Standardization of agricultural research systems based on national priorities GFARCGIAR Centers