Summarty of the tlc - November 20th 2012

[Alfaro, Daniela (CGIAR Consortium)]

Dear members,

For you information we send below a brief summary of the tlc held yesterday.

Best regards,

Daniela

 

Present: Mark, Teunis, Daniela, Martin,  and Eric and Michele (Globescan).

Apologies: Fiona, Sonja, Graham, Ken.

Date: November 20^th 2012 (45 minutes)

The main objective of the TLC was to discuss the first draft of the questionnaire sent by Globescan which was mostly based on the agreements reached during the Punta del Este meeting on October 29^th .

Daniela made a brief introduction about the main background components to be considered during the teleconference:

1-      Scope of the survey: perception of stakeholders about the new CGIAR and baseline to assess future evolution.

2-      Objectives as defined on the proposal approved by the Committee.

3-      Partners: types and definitions. The definition and type of partners are not the same across the CGIAR system. For this reason, one of the objectives of this survey would be identity and put clearer what kind of collaborators are we considering partners as such and which ones would need revision.

Globescan presented the current situation of the questionnaire for the Survey and welcomed the written suggestions already made by the Committee to the first draft version. Likewise, Globescan made a summary of the internal interviews developed so far. Overall they have had a very useful and positive response from the interviewees, identifying different perspectives in terms of definitions and relative importance of partnerships throughout the CGIAR System. They will present a brief written summary shortly. 

The main issues raised by Mark and Teunis  on the questionnaire were the following:

·         The emphasis  on CRPs and the possibility of respondents does not be familiarized with them

·         The potentially simplistic design of the questionnaire in terms of the categories of partners and the outcomes of the survey.

Discussion ensued.

It was agreed that:

·         The questionnaire has to be clear in term of the wording used: CGIAR, CRPs, Centres

·         GFAR (MARK)  will send to the Consortium Office (Daniela)  the typology of partners  used by GFAR to improve the questionnaire

·          Globescan will improve the questionnaire taking into account the comments received by the Committeewhile maintaining the scope and objective of the Survey. Re-wording the questionnaire in order to avoid misleading interpretation of the respondents was proposed by Globescan

·         Globescan will provide the regression to be used for processing the survey.

·         Consortium Office will send to GFAR the list of GCARD II participants  to complete with those data missed in order to be used for the survey. GFAR will return asap.

·         The next draft of the questionnaire will be sent to the Committee by the end of this week hopefully

 

It was also agreed that Interviewees will respond from their personal point of view using their own conceptions and current knowledge of the issues assessed. This is a natural shortcoming of these types of perception survey and is unavoidable to a good extent.

Daniela briefly reported about the progress of the CRP lists of partners. 9 CRPs have sent them to the CO and the pending CRP lists of partners is expected to be sent to the CO during this week. The CO will send all the lists to Globescan by next week.

 

[Alfaro, Daniela (CGIAR Consortium)]

Thanks Sonja.

 

From: Vermeulen, Sonja (CIAT-CCAFS)
Sent: 21 November 2012 15:17
To: Alfaro, Daniela (CGIAR Consortium)
Subject: Re: Summarty of the tlc - November 20th 2012 - and CCAFS partner list

 

Dear Daniela

 

Thanks for the notes – good decisions made.

 

Attached is a slightly updated partner list from CCAFS as we got some additional late entries and made a small number of corrections.  (But if you have already used the earlier one, don't worry).

 

Best wishes

Sonja

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[Van Rheenen, Teunis (IFPRI)]

Dear Daniela,

Thanks for the summary. The conference call was good and efficient.

I have not yet received the revised questionnaire or the regression formula. Or did I miss it?

Kind greetings, Teunis.

From: Alfaro, Daniela (CGIAR Consortium) [mailto:a.al...@cgiar.org]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:20 AM
To: partnersh...@cgxchange.org
Subject: Summarty of the tlc - November 20th 2012

 

Dear members,

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