Strategic Plan
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ICRISAT Strategic Plan 2021-2025
Foreword
s an agricultural research for development institute that represents the
interests of many global stakeholders, and with a goal to deliver real
impacts to smallholder farming families and their communities in the drylands,
this ICRISAT's Strategic Plan 2021-2025 allows us to respond to change while
remaining faithful to our mission. We have had an opportunity to step back and
evaluate, consider and re-calibrate our programs and activities to co-create
a forward-looking approach to continuously improve our strategy to deliver
important results and outputs.
As we prepared new Strategic Plan, there were apprehensions brought about by
the COVID-19 pandemic. Even as this Strategic Plan is released, uncertainties
continue to affect our plans. With people still working from home and no clear
resolution to the changes being imposed upon us from different sources for
the major part of 2021, at times we questions the possibility of making positive
changes with urgency during the last quarter of 2020 moving into 2021. Yet, with
the same global challenges, we realized that there is no better way to use our
efforts but to actively explore opportunities and plan for a vibrant and productive
future. In these times of change and difficulty, our workforce remains our
strongest asset – dedicated, committed to our vision and ready to embrace the
future.
We are pleased to share this five-year Strategic Plan 2021-2025 which builds
on our extensive partnerships, networking and our understanding of the needs
on the ground and sets out our current expertise with our vision for the next five
years of a streamlined, targeted research for development institution, working
closely with our partners and stakeholders in the private and public sectors.
With our unique advantages of expertise in the drylands and our nutritious grain
legumes and dryland cereals that tolerate the vagaries of climate change, the
recent advances in our research for development sphere will usher ICRISAT into
the new changing environment so that we will be highly competitive to play a
significantly greater role in supporting our partners and stakeholders to achieve
their Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets.
This fresh perspective through our new Strategic Plan 2021-2025 elevates our
work and positions our science, talent, partnerships and resources to fit into a
dynamic overarching strategy. We are grateful to our stakeholders, collaborators
and partners who helped shape this forward-looking strategic plan.
Jacqueline d'Arros Hughes
Director General
ICRISAT
Prabhu Pingali
Chair
ICRISAT Governing Board
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