CGIAR Annual Report 2010: Towards a reformed CGIAR

In December 2009, the CGIAR opened a new chapter in its 39-year history by adopting a new business model. The 2009 CGIAR Business Meeting held on 8 December 2009 endorsed the reforms that had been designed over the previous two years, and approved the founding documents of the reformed CGIAR - including drafts of the Constitution of the Consortium on International Agricultural Research Centers, the CGIAR Fund Framework, the joint declaration for outcomes between the Consortium and the Fund, and the monitoring and evaluation framework. This initiated the process of establishing the CGIAR Fund and Fund Council, the Consortium, and the Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) (which replaces the CGIAR Science Council), and heralded a busy year ahead in putting these all into effect.