CGIAR Initiative on Fragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia and North Africa: Annual Technical Report 2022

The CGIAR Research Initiative on Fragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) officially started on April 1, 2022, with the involvement of CGIAR Centers the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, CIMMYT, CIP, ICARDA, IFPRI, IWMI, and WorldFish, and a focus on the five countries of Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Sudan, and Uzbekistan. The overarching aim of Fragility to Resilience in CWANA is for its co-created research and innovation development to contribute to the effective, socially inclusive, and climate-resilient transformation of national and regional agrifood systems. The Initiative has thematically grouped Work Packages of Work Package 1: partnerships, platforms, and policies; Work Package 2: genetic innovation, seed systems, and resources; Work Package 3: farm-level agronomic innovations; Work Package 4: landscape-level Nexus governance of resources, especially water; and Work Package 5: digital innovations and scaling and operates through capacity development, innovation, and policy impact pathways. In 2022, Fragility to Resilience in CWANA made progress against each of these impact pathways in all Work Packages and countries. For the nine months of operation in 2022, we reported 173 results (ranked 8th out of all Initiatives) under capacity sharing for development (26), innovation development (32), knowledge products (91), other outputs (23), and innovation use (1). These results were achieved through collaboration with 19 Initiatives and the Gender Platform, 14 Centers, 213 partners, and linked to 36 countries (with partners coming from even more countries beyond where the results were delivered) — showing the breadth and depth of our research networks and potential for delivering our research and innovations to achieve beneficial outcomes and impacts across the incredibly large and diverse CWANA region where climate change, food insecurity, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, gender inequality, youth dissatisfaction, economic instability, and poverty present enormous challenges.

Citation

Baum, M. (2023) CGIAR Initiative on Fragility to Resilience in CWANA: 2022 Technical Report. Montpellier, France: CGIAR System Organization. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/130100