International Potato Center

“International potato center (cip) is part of the cgiar, a global research partnership for a food-secure future dedicated to transforming food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis. Since 2019, the cgiar system has embarked on a process of reform, referred to as the 'one cgiar' transition, to implement important changes endorsed by the cgiar system council to drive major progress in key areas where innovation is needed, anchored in more unified governance, institutions, country engagement, and funding. Even though in 2022 unification of governance started, an integration framework agreement was just signed in february 2023. The integration of cgiar centers aims to contribute to the global efforts of a just and sustainable food, land, and water systems transformation by strengthening the delivery of research and innovation, achieving greater impact, and operating more efficiently and effectively as a cohesive and integrated whole in order to tackle the complex and interconnected challenges to food, land, and water systems in the 21st century, and their inter-relationships with climate change mitigation and adaptation. Also aims to better support staff, attract talent, and build a culture of cooperation and trust. The integration is not a merger and does not constitute a legal entity, association, joint venture, agency relationship, or partnership in law between the centers. Neither center shall have the legal authority to act on behalf of, or otherwise bind, another center without the express authorization of such other center. Each center is an independent legal entity in its own right, with its own governance, governing instruments, and host country agreements. Center boards and the system board are responsible for overseeing the performance of the director general or executive director, as the case may be, of each of their respective entities, and center boards and the system board owe full legal and fiduciary duties towards each of their respective entities. The core components of the integration, which are all interconnected, are set forth below: 1) a compelling and united vision and mission underpinned by a common cgiar research and innovation strategy. 2) operational integration in order to enable deeper collaboration among them, the centers agree to operate in an integrated matrix structure which will be refined and improved as appropriate by cgiar's senior leadership team, which includes the directors general of the centers and the executive director of the system organization. As part of this structure, the centers' personnel will contribute to both (a) center(s) and/or the system organization, as well as (a) group(s). The integrated matrix structure is an operational tool intended to help the centers deliver on the cgiar research and innovation strategy and on their individual mandates and strategies. It does not create a parallel structure separate from, or on top of, those of the parties. 3) engagement with partners at the country, regional, and global levels. 4) research delivery and funding 5) unified governance through common board membership (means that the centers' boards include a number of common voting members), the centers agree to implement a unified governance approach with the overall purpose of i) providing a more cohesive and unified strategic direction to the centers, and ii) promoting better alignment, understanding and cohesion of decision-making across all center boards and the system board in furtherance of implementation of the cgiar research and innovation strategy.”

“Board chair chair executive committee chair program committee cgiar audit, finance and risk committee member member”

“Form 990 is prepared by corporate controller and approved by head of finance.”

“All cip staff and board members must disclose any potential conflict of interest. Board meeting agendas will start with disclosure of conflict of interest. Annual statements for cip staff will be recorded however disclosure should occur at the moment that a staff member becomes aware of the potential conflict.”

“About the ceo, compensation for the director-general is approved by the board of trustees. For an american citizen, the final decision on compensation offers is at the discretion of the dg in coordination with hr, within parameters such as internal equity, budget availability, perquisites, and benefits applicable to international staff and when relevant, external market comparators. The board of directors sets overall policy and approves recommendations on center-wide compensation.”

“General information about cip is available through cips website: www.cipotato.org. Institutional information such as policies, financial statements, and key documentations are only available through cips intranet web, and financial information requires a special request for access to it.”

“The international potato center (cip) is a research-for-development organization with a focus on potato, sweetpotato and andean roots and tubers. It delivers innovative science-based solutions to enhance access to affordable nutritious food, foster inclusive sustainable business and employment growth, and drive the climate resilience of root and tuber agri-food systems. Headquartered in lima, peru, cip has a research presence in more than 20 countries in africa, asia and latin america.”

“Bangladesh, cameroon, china, ecuador, georgia, india, kenya, luxembourg, madagascar, malawi, mozambique, peru, the philippines, rwanda, uganda.”

“ROUNDING ($216)”

“No, the process hasn't changed from prior year.”