1 December 2014: The CB calls for Pre-proposals to be submitted (10 pages) by the end of March 2015.

31 March 2015: CRPs submit Pre-Proposals (following the templates outlined in appendices to this document) on-line.July 31, 2015: CO, FO and ISPC complete their review of the Pre-Proposals and submit their recommendations to the CB (for the CO) and FC (for FO and ISPC);

Call for CRP proposals

15 September 2015: The CRPs submit a response to the reviews and recommendations of theISPC, CO and FO to their pre-proposals,

30 November 2015: the CB and FC determine which proposals, and/or key components ofproposals they wants to see developed into full proposals, and issue requests for Full ProposalDevelopment.

31 March 2016: CRPs submit Full Proposals, maximum 40 pages length; in the format provided byonline templates (see the appendices).

April - September 2016: six months for ISPC, CO, and FO and to review the proposals.

30 September 2016: A full set of (a) CRP proposals; (b) ISPC reviews; and (c) CO FO, IEArecommendations is available

15 November 2016: CB and FC complete funding /approval decisions.

Call for CRP proposals

• Sustainable intensification and resilience of Agricultural Systems: An Integrated Assessment and Modeling of Agricultural Systems (IAAS) approach” on November 24-28, 2014 in Hammamet (Tunisia) with CIHEAM/ICARDA.

• Workshop for Putting Gender Guidelines November 27-29 in Dubai• CRP Gender focal points asked to nominate 2 persons to attend• Exploratory dialogue" on scaling partnerships at the office of

Bioversity International from 2-4 December (organized by AAS).

Future DS activities

• CRP-DS RMC/ISC 2-3rd week December in Nairobi • CGIAR-wide CapDev CoP doc available for FARA meeting November• Humidtropics Conference on Integrated Systems scheduled for

February/ March 2015 at IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria. • The 5th International Symposium for Farming Systems Design “Multi-

functional farming systems in a changing world” September 7-10, 2015, Montpellier

Future DS activities

• Bilateral project on Restoration of degraded land for food security in East Africa and Sahel

• (IFAD/EC via ICRAF). 6.7 million Euro/3 years• Bilateral project on Economics of Land Degradation in Central

Asia (GIZ/BEAF via CRP-DS) 0.4 million Euro for 18 months• Expanding ELD within the CGIAR CRP’s (optimizing political

impact)

New initiatives

• Opened discussions with ILO on joint project development for youth/women employment in agriculture

• Joined proposal preparation phase for Sustainable Intensification of Mediterranean Agriculture under Global Change with French institutes (a new partnership for NAWA)

New initiatives

• Opening discussions with the UNCCD on role of DS in providing scientific advice to the convention (relates to new SRF role of CG in political impact)

New initiatives