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Downloads from FAW (341,262 Ha) in the Microsite Copyright © 2021 International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology icipe’s Results Based Management Framework (2021–2025) “ROLLING” DIRECTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE Updated May 2021 icipe Results Based management Framework 2021 - 2025 ii TABLE OF CONTENTS ACRONYMS ................................................................................................................................. iv INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................... 1 2021 – 2025 RESULTS BASED MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW ................................................... 3 1. Institutional focus of the Results Based Management Framework ................................... 3 2. Success in implementing icipe’s vision and strategy ........................................................ 4 3. Core values that pillar icipe’s strategic interventions ........................................................ 6 4. Programme implementation through strategic pan-African and international alliances ... 7 5. Institutional responsibility, organisational capability and administrative efficiency........... 8 6. Background to development and institutionalization of icipe’s Results Based Management Framework ........................................................................................................... 9 2021- 2025 icipe RESULTS BASED MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK .................................... 11 PLANT HEALTH at icipe ............................................................................................................ 11 Plant Health Results Based Management (RBM) Rolling Framework ................................... 20 ANIMAL HEALTH at icipe .......................................................................................................... 61 Animal Health Results Based Management (RBM) Rolling Framework ................................ 65 HUMAN HEALTH at icipe .......................................................................................................... 71 Human Health Results Based Management (RBM) Rolling Framework ................................ 77 ENVIRONMENT HEALTH at icipe ............................................................................................. 93 Environmental Health Results Based Management (RBM) Rolling Framework .................. 100 CAPACITY BUILDING AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT at icipe .............................. 122 Capacity Building and Institutional Development Results Based Management (RBM) Rolling Framework ............................................................................................................................. 124 BIORESOURCES INNOVATIONS NETWORK FOR EASTERN AFRICA DEVELOPMENT (BIOINNOVATE AFRICA) PROGRAMME ............................................................................... 127 BioInnovate Africa Programme Phase II Results Based Management (RBM) Rolling Framework ............................................................................................................................. 129 PARTNERSHIP FOR SKILLS IN APPLIED SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (PASET) - REGIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AND INNOVATION FUND (RSIF).......................... 131 Partnership for skills in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology (PASET) Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (RSIF) Results Based Management (RBM) Rolling Framework ............................................................................................................................. 134 SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT UNIT at icipe ......................................... 138 Social Sciences and Impact Assessment unit RBM Rolling Framework .............................. 144 icipe Results Based management Framework 2021 - 2025 iii ACRONYMS 4-H Human Health, Animal Health, Plant Health and Environmental Health AAS African Academy of Sciences AIRCA Association of International Research and Development Centres for Agriculture ASARECA Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa AU African Union AUDA African Union Development Agency CAADP Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Program CAP Common African Position CBID Capacity Building and Institutional Development CCARDESA Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for Southern Africa COMESA Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa CORAF/WECARD West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development EAC East African Community ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States ERP Enterprise Resource Planning FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FARA Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa GC Governing Council ICT Information and Communication Technology IDA International Development Association IPER icipe Periodic External Review ITOC icipe Thomas Odhiambo Campus KPIs Key Performance Indicators M&E Monitoring and Evaluation NEPAD New Partnership for Africa’s Development NGO Non-Governmental Organisation OIE World Organisation for Animal Health PASET Partnership for skills in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology PMEL Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning POPs Persistent Organic Pollutants R&D Research and Development R4D Research for Development RBM Results Based Management RCU Regional Coordination Unit RSIF Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund SDGs Sustainable Development Goals Sida Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency SSA Sub-Saharan Africa SSIA Social Science and Impact Assessment STISA–2024 Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa 2024 ToC Theory of Change TT Technology Transfer WHO World Health Organization 2021 - 2025 icipe Results Based management Framework iv INTRODUCTION This 2021–2025 Results Based Management (RBM) is based on the Centre’s new Vision and Strategy 2021 – 2025 publication - http://www.icipe.org/publications/corporate- publications/vision-and-strategy - which builds on the Centre’s achievements and experiences and incorporates the recommendations of the icipe Periodic External Review (IPER) held in 2018 - http://www.icipe.org/publications/corporate-publications. The IPER was expansive in its endorsement of what icipe has achieved from its research and development (R&D) outcomes and longstanding commitment to capacity building. The reviewers commended the Centre’s management and administration and recognized the quality and dedication of its research, capacity building, and support teams. The Centre aims to build on this track record for implementing the new Vision and Strategy. This Results-Based Management (RBM) framework is developed for effective and ambitious deployment of icipe’s research for development (R4D) capability to mitigate the health, food security and environmental risks faced by people in Africa. It describes how the Centre will explore opportunities for new enterprises that are based on insects and their products and advance discoveries that enable safer and more sustainable solutions to control pests and diseases using new and emerging science disciplines that icipe has at hand. To closely monitor icipe’s RBM, in 2018, icipe institutionalized its Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (PMEL) Strategy. The PMEL Strategy was developed to upgrade icipe’s existing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system. The PMEL Strategy provides a framework to guide the prioritization and selection of interventions requiring evaluation and proposes criteria for selecting evaluation designs, methods, and tools. Established in 1970, icipe entered its second 50 years of service as Africa’s principal insect and arthropod research institute, in 2020, with the continuing goal of applying the best possible science to overcome the challenges in food and nutrition security, human and environmental health, and capacity building that face the continent’s rural and urban communities. icipe adopted RBM as a project planning and monitoring tool in 2011 and has had RBM framework covering the implementation periods of 2011 to 2013; and 2014 to 2020 - http://www.icipe.org/publications/corporate-publications/results-based-management. These two phases have provided evidence and lessons as an input to implementing the current 2021 – 2025 RBM framework and has offered useful insights for increasing the relevance, efficiency and effectiveness of icipe’s further RBM iteration. RBM is first a management system and second, a progress reporting system. RBM is a life-cycle approach to management that integrates strategy, people, resources, processes, and measurements to improve decision-making, transparency, and accountability. RBM is essential for icipe’s senior management to exercise sound stewardship in compliance with acceptable performance and accountability standards. The RBM framework helps to track Centre level achievements. The modern management insists that programs define expected results, focus attention on result achievement, measure performance regularly and objectively, learn from performance information, and adjust to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Ongoing developments in information and communications technology (ICT) have made integrated management information systems possible, opening the door to capturing and processing large amounts of quantitative financial and output data, while analysing it in relationship to qualitative outcome data. RBM is clearly an evolution in management and not a revolution, with origins firmly rooted in the management sciences. These trends
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