Roles and Responsibilities

The Consortium Board (CB) provides the Consortium with policy direction and leadership. It oversees the development, review, and endorsement by all CGIAR System components of the CGIAR Strategy and Results Framework (SRF).  It takes ultimate financial and operational accountability for all funds received from the CGIAR Fund for the implementation of the SRF, including decisions on the allocation and prioritization of funding across the CGIAR Centers and Research Programs.  Hands-on scientific, technical and operational capacity and expertise, as well as individual research programs, remain the responsibility of individual Centers.  System-level science strategy, coherence and interaction between CGIAR research programs are the responsibility of the CB, guided by the SRF and with reviews by the Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC).  The CB is also responsible for developing a framework for funding, including a resource mobilization strategy in cooperation with the Fund Council, to structure funding flows and address programmatic and structural financing needs.

As such, the CB carries full fiduciary responsibilities for the research programs including monitoring and evaluation, and reporting progress to donors.  Finally, the CB initiates the necessary steps to establish the Consortium as an autonomous international organization under international law.

The Consortium Board comprises ten members, including the Chief Executive Officer of the Consortium, who is also the only ex officio member.