Dryland Cereals and Legumes Agri-Food Systems: CRP and Flagship Budget Narratives 2017-2022

DCL is supported by an annual budget of $105 MM in 2017 under the base budget scenario. This amount includes $11.5 MM W1/W2 and $93.5 MM W3/bilateral funds. Considering that roughly 90% of the program is supported by W3/bilateral projects, it is imperative to evaluate goals of existing and future bilateral projects mapped to the CRP, ensure their alignment to program goals, identify existing gaps in W3/bilateral coverage of program goals, and ensure appropriate resource mobilization. Of the available W1/W2 ($11.5 MM), program management cost will use $2 MM, which is intended to cover (1) the cost of the Program Management Unit, (2) salaries of the Flagship Leaders and Clusters of Activities Leaders, (3) one major annual planning and review meeting, (4) honoraria and related expenses of the Independent Steering Committee, (5) CRP-level Gender strategy, (6) CRP-level impact assessment, (7) CRP-level capacity building, and (8) Intellectual Assets policy, and others. An amount of $1 MM is set apart for Competitive Calls for strategic research. The remaining $8.5 MM is allocated to the five flagships. This allocation in 2017 will be in the proportion of 15, 25, 30, 15 and 15% to FP1, FP2, FP3, FP4 and FP5, respectively. This proportion has been arrived at primarily using the level of bilateral support to each Flagship at the present time. (Please note that the Online Submission system has not been able to recognize the input of figures for management and competitive grants yet, and hence these amounts are detailed in this section).DCL is supported by an annual budget of $105 MM in 2017 under the base budget scenario. This amount includes $11.5 MM W1/W2 and $93.5 MM W3/bilateral funds. Considering that roughly 90% of the program is supported by W3/bilateral projects, it is imperative to evaluate goals of existing and future bilateral projects mapped to the CRP, ensure their alignment to program goals, identify existing gaps in W3/bilateral coverage of program goals, and ensure appropriate resource mobilization. Of the available W1/W2 ($11.5 MM), program management cost will use $2 MM, which is intended to cover (1) the cost of the Program Management Unit, (2) salaries of the Flagship Leaders and Clusters of Activities Leaders, (3) one major annual planning and review meeting, (4) honoraria and related expenses of the Independent Steering Committee, (5) CRP-level Gender strategy, (6) CRP-level impact assessment, (7) CRP-level capacity building, and (8) Intellectual Assets policy, and others. An amount of $1 MM is set apart for Competitive Calls for strategic research. The remaining $8.5 MM is allocated to the five flagships. This allocation in 2017 will be in the proportion of 15, 25, 30, 15 and 15% to FP1, FP2, FP3, FP4 and FP5, respectively. This proportion has been arrived at primarily using the level of bilateral support to each Flagship at the present time. (Please note that the Online Submission system has not been able to recognize the input of figures for management and competitive grants yet, and hence these amounts are detailed in this section)