repositioning iita for impact in africa

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Repositioning IITA for Impact in Africa

DG Presentation to BOT

23November 2015 (R4D Week 2015)

A member of the CGIAR Consortium www.iita.org

Repositioning IITA

for Impact in Africa

Board Meeting 25-28 November 2015

Ibadan, Nigeria


Raise over 11 million Africans out of poverty

Redirect 7. 5 million ha of degraded lands to

sustainable use

Vision of success


Timeline of IITA Strategy

2011 to 2014

Alignment of R4D's with the CRPs

Resource mobilization

2015 to 2017

Delivery of R4D and Consolidation /repositioning

2018 to 2020

Assess success, failure and impact


Reengineered Institute!

Stronger IITA

Growing funding > $130m

Upgrading infrastructures

Boosting staff morale

Building partnership

Scientific breakthrough

Phase 1: 2011-2014


Phase 2: 2015 to 2017

Building on Phase 1 and delivery of R4D

Consolidation of growth and repositioning


Phase 2: 2015 Consolidation

CGIAR W1/W2 financial reduction

November 2014: 8-10% or $ 1.9 million

March 2015: 19% or $ 4.9 million

October 2015 : 17.7 % or $ 2.1 million

Projected 2016: 32% or $ 9.8 million

$ 9.8 million= 100 IRS+350 NRS


Board Meeting 4-6 May 2015

Livingstone, Zambia

How to strengthen IITA during

financial and governance

crises in CGIAR

CGIAR W1/W2 financial reduction


The way IITA resolved this crisis

Change of budget allocation strategy

Depend more on Bilateral funding

Use W1&2 as strategic investment

Full cost recovery approach

Strong project portfolio pipeline

Strong delivery of R4D thru BIP and Agripreneurs

Aggressive Resource Mobilization


Budget Forecast by CGIAR 2015

Center

Revenue Expenditure Surplus/

(Deficit)

IITA 129.5 128.7 0.8

CIMMYT 128.8 128.1 0.7

IFPRI 126.0 126.0 -

CIAT 103.1 102.6 0.5

IRRI 86.0 88.9 (2.9)

ILRI 82.3 84.3 (2.0)

CIFOR 43.4 48.2 (4.8)

IWMI 38.5 41.0 (2.5)

Bioversity 37.9 39.4 (1.5)

AfricaRice 28.6 29.1 (0.5)


Year Projected

Income in

Nov 2011

Income

Achieved

Revised

2011 47 47

2012 50 74

2013 56 96

2014 63 101

2015 69 120 129

2016 75 128 137

2017 81

2018 88

2019 94

2020 100 200

IITA income target by 2020


Key is Project Execution

2012 : 88%

2013 : 89%

2014 : 85%

2015: 85%

2016: 90%

ILRI : 97%

IITA loosing between $10-15 m i.e. OVH= $1.8-2.7 m

Strong full recovery and project execution


Emerging agribusiness in Africa

Food import : $35b, Declining oil and mineral

prices

Africa has 60 % of arable land! 60% of Africa’s unemployed are young adults

Agriculture becomes a priority

A bold 10 year proposal by AfDB:

Feeding Africa


Aggressive Resource Mobilization

High level advocacy

& fund raising President OBJ&AfDB

Host countries Hubs/Countries

DG

Office

Hubs

President Obasanjo, IITA Ambassador

CGIAR CRPs

Bilateral

IITA partnership

30%

60%

10%


IITA lead the CG and FARA

Focus on value chains

Partner with private

sector

Sharp focus on youth

and women

Focus on agriculture as

a business


AfDB adopt IITA Strategy

IITA lead CGIAR and FARA

AFDB leverage–WB-

Country investment

IITA Clearing House for

AfDB loan portfolio

WB in DRC,Burundi,Tz

Production system platforms

Collaborative platforms


Investment in agro ecological zones

Zones Investment($b) Food

production(t)

Value ($b)

Humid 3.6 40.7 19.0

Sub-Humid 8.5 87.9 30.2

Semi-arid 7.3 39.7 19.4

Highlands 5.8 45.1 21.9

Total 25.1 213.4 90.5

13 value chains

Investment return= 3.6:1

A 5 year plan : 357 million US$


Regional hubs

West Africa – Ibadan

Central Africa – Kinshasa

East Africa – Dar es Salaam

Southern Africa – Lusaka

234 scientists

15 countries

18 locations

IITA Hubs key for AfDB project


Challenges Ahead for IITA

Result Delivery? Delivery? On Poverty and

NRM KPIs

Responding to the African needs

Increasing Operational Efficiency


We now know how to measure poverty and NRM KPI

Region Population Changes in poverty Changes in Estimated

2014 rates between 2014 poverty rates number and 2006 due to lifted out CIALCA of poverty

Adopters Non adopters

S. Kivu 1,294,866 -14.6% -6.1% -8.5% 110,064

Rwanda 2,205,933 -10.4 -2.1% -8.3% 293,156

Persons lifted out of poverty 403,220

Poverty reduction in Great lakes


Global integrating programs

Dryland Cereals and Legumes systems

GenebankS

++

Fish agri-food systems

Forest and Agroforestry systems

Livestock agri-food systems

Maize agrifood systems

Rice agri-food systems

Roots, tubers and bananas systems

Wheat agri-food systems

NUTRITION

&

HEALTH

PI

M

WLE

CLI

MATE

CHANGE

Gender

Capacity

Development

Big data/ ICT

Genetic

Resources

Policy

Expressions of Interest

(10)

Agri-food systems programs

Genetic gain

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CRP 2 portfolio


The alternative CRP 2 Portfolio


CGIAR Country Collaboration

Bangladesh Ghana Mozambique Rwanda

Burkina Faso India Nepal Tanzania

Cameroon Kenya Nicaragua Uganda

DRC Malawi Niger Vietnam

Ethiopia Mali Nigeria Zambia

Bangladesh Ethiopia Nicaragua Nigeria Tanzania Vietnam

Long list of + countries:

Short list of ++ countries:


Reaching the millions of users?

R4D-Best-bet technologies

Research Delivery Capacity

building

Scaling up, out, down? Missing links?


TRADITIONAL R4D’S

IITA Target Farmers

IITA BIP R&D MARKET ACCESS

Food Companies

Global Traders

IITA Target Consumers

GoSeed

Nodu

Max

IITA Research

Limited positive impact

IITA Target Farmers

Agri Start-ups New Markets For Farmers

Export Markets

Consumers

Major positive impact

IITA R&D

Break-

through

IMPACT IMPACT

IITA BIP

Aflasafe

IITA R&D

Break-

through

IITA’s Business Incubation Platform

IITA Research

UN World Food Program

Export Markets


S h a r e d S e r v i c e s

Operations

Nodumax

GoSeed

Aflasafe

Others

Shared Services

Administration

Accounting/

Human Resources

Legal

Marketing / Sales /

Logistics

Training Vocational training

Internship &

Mentoring program

Agripreneurs Business &

entrepreneurship

Mindset change

IITA BIP Hub Structure

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Extinct’ Groundnut Pyramids in Nigeria

Others Nigeria

Nigeria glory in the global trade in 1961

Dominance eclipsed by China, USA and Argentina

Aflatoxin

Mitigation in

Africa

Death, liver cancer

in Human

Impacts animal

productivity

Negatively

impacts trade


Aflatoxin reduction at corn harvest:

2009: 80% 2010: 89%

Aflatoxin reduction at peanut

harvest:

2009: 96% 2010: 98%

Research result on treating Aflatoxin by IITA


This Manufacturing Facility in IITA-Ibadan can supply

aflasafe to treat 2 million ha annually


Potential annual export revenues assuming Nigeria maintained its 1961 market share*

Measure: Millions of USD

Current export Oil Palm Cocoa Groundnut Cotton Potential export

revenue Potential additional export revenues† revenue

* Doreo Analysis, FAO

|

Potential annual export revenues


Aflasafe helps Kenya food security

A member of CGIAR consortium

Highly productive area but

aflatoxin-prone

Maize frequently rejected

238 tons aflasafe ordered

Grains had <4 ppb aflatoxins

$ 0,5 million paid to IITA


Modular Manufacturing Facility

Kenya

Senegal


Aflasafe Development in Africa

Senegal

Burkina

Faso Ghana

Nigeria

Kenya

Tanzania

Mozambique

Zambia

Rwanda

Malawi

Burundi

Uganda

The

Gambia

Strain development in progress

Products under testing

in farmers’ fields

Product ready for

registration

Product registered


Nodumax soybean inoculant plant

35 -40% soybean yield increase


Adoption of new soybean varieties

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20

30

40

50

60

70

80

86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96

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Women

DR Congo

Nigeria

Farmer returns of $7.00 purchase of NoduMax is $126/ha

Nigerian ministry return of $210,000 of NoduMax is

$3,780,000/15,000 ha.


Weed control Yam Aeroponics

Banana -TC

Cassava feed

Striga Bio

control

AMF- P

Additional Incubations


Value addition: a priority for Africa

Processing center in

Tanzania

Processing center in Ibadan, Nigeria

Cassava : HQCF, Starch, Chips, Sweeteners, Ethanol


Life Science Revolution – molecular biology

IT revolution – crop management, precision

agriculture

Holistic approach – Sustainable intensification

Mechanization- Breeding, Agronomy, processing

Delivery must be supported by high

quality science


Agripreneurs using Drones to monitor

Vegetable and fish production


Training

database

Website

Project

database

Publication

database

IBP

GIS

Soil

database

Bio-

informatics

tools

ICT in

research

Research

databases/

platforms/tool

s e.g.:

Crop

databases

e-learning

HR4U

Hard/software

Admin online

tools

Technical

support

M&E

What does IITA do on cassava?

eResearch platform

IITA knowledge and resources

Cassava

base


Youth stampeding in Abuja 5000 jobs for 1 million of application

IITA gate casual work by graduate

Youth unemployment a bomb in Africa

Old farming force above 60 yrs.


Multi-disciplinary team (History, Computer Science, Quantity Surveying, Agronomy)

Gender Balance

The IITA Youth Agripreneurs-Model


IYA Replication


Component 1:

Skills and Capacity

Development

Component 2:

Enterprise Development

Component 3:

Youth Networking/Loans

Component 4:

Program Management and

Coordination

Project 1

Graduate youth

Project 2

Rural youth

Project 3

Scaling up 1&2

Enable Youth Program Led by AfDB& Coordinated by IITA

Indicative budget: $1 billion (2016 - 2020).


#YADI

Conference

Youths Policy Makers Government Officials Private Sector NGOs

Opportunity: Enable youth by AfDB/IITA


Agripreneurs an IITA program

Built with the support of A.A Adesina when HMA

Institutionalized in 2016

PCD or Advocacy in DG

Lead by Youth

Supported by Technical

IITA


IITA tactical strategy in 2016

Transitional year with CRP2 full proposal

Monitor Financial Scenarios especially W1/2

Delivery, Delivery, Delivery

Re-refreshed the strategy and its implementation

Resource mobilization and advocacy at high level


Refreshes strategy retreat in Cotonou : March 2016

BoT meeting in central Africa hub ( Kalambo) : May 2016

Agripreneurs conference in Kinshasa: June 2016

Inauguration of the BIP, Ibadan : November 2016

Inauguration of the Science building in Lusaka and Nampula, :

April 2016

BoT and R4D week Ibadan : November 2016

Upcoming events


Phase 3: 2018 to 2020

New strategy

Assess success, failure and impact

Development of the succeeding 10-year strategy

Optimism

Our future is bright…IITA Oyeee