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plan for ex post impact assessments of large-scale, long-term IFPRI projects and will launch its first train- ing events in 2011.


LEARNING AND CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PROGRAM In 2010, the Learning and Capacity Strengthening Program took stock of the capacity-strengthening activities at the CGIAR level and developed a clear set of capacity-strengthening activities at both the Insti- tute and CGIAR levels. In addition to other ongoing projects, the program began collecting and analyz- ing data on the organizational and human resources capacity for agricultural research in Nigeria, the effects of decentralization on the policymaking pro- cess in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the potential for strengthening the agricultural extension system in India. In collaboration with Inwent (now part of the German Society for International Coopera- tion), IFPRI held an international workshop on how to monitor and evaluate activities aimed at strengthen- ing capacity; priority research areas were identified and a set of indicators was developed to measure food policy capacity within individual countries.


REGIONAL OFFICES IFPRI’s regional offices help the Institute carry out its


mandate by facilitating greater alignment of the Insti- tute’s policy research, communications, and capacity building in a particular location. These offices help IFPRI build new strategic partnerships and strengthen existing ones, thereby leading to greater impact on the ground.


NEW DELHI OFFICE The New Delhi Office, established in 2005, is the hub of IFPRI’s research and outreach in South Asia—a region that is home to the largest concentration of poor and undernourished people in the world. Dur- ing the recent financial crisis, the region experienced extremely high inflation in the prices of basic food staples, including wheat, rice, and corn. In the 2010


book Liberalizing Foodgrains Markets, IFPRI research- ers based in the New Delhi Office evaluated how effectively South Asian governments responded to these rising food prices by assessing various policy reforms in both trade and domestic markets.


REGIONAL OFFICES IN AFRICA IFPRI actively works with African governments and stakeholders to provide policy-relevant advice and knowledge products to facilitate the implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Develop- ment Program (CAADP) agenda. In fact, the Institute spends more than half of its resources in Africa. Therefore, in order to offer local stakeholders broader access to IFPRI’s public goods and improve the Insti- tute’s on-the-ground relevance, IFPRI opened an East and Southern Africa regional office and a West and Central Africa regional office in 2010.


EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA The East and Southern Africa regional office is located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In collaboration with vari- ous partners, the office conducts research, capacity strengthening, and advocacy activities on knowl- edge management, health and nutrition, provision of inputs, access to rural services and output markets, and social protection. The office also makes use of existing and ongoing IFPRI findings and studies for its advocacy work while emphasizing impact assess- ments to evaluate the success of intervention tech- niques in East and Southern Africa.


WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA The new West and Central Africa regional office in Dakar, Senegal, leads IFPRI’s involvement in the imple- mentation of the CAADP agenda within the region by collaborating with partners on various projects. These projects include the Africa-wide Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS), the African Growth and Development Policy Modeling Consortium (AGRODEP) (see summary on page 6), and a study on the impact of social services on agricul- tural labor productivity.


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