Open for Business: Pathways to Strengthen CGIAR's Responsible Engagement with the Private Sector (2022)

This report aims to identify, discuss and evaluate pathways for strengthening collaboration between CGIAR and the private sector to stimulate innovation and the scaling of these innovations in food, land and water systems. The objective is to advance private sector engagement in the CGIAR, based on transparent CGIAR system-wide mechanisms and processes.

The special report contains five main themes: benefits, challenges and risks, key principles, mechanisms and institutional actions. This report provides key points of attention and ideas for what a private sector engagement strategy should involve, including advocating for a stakeholder consultation and formulating a planning process for increasing and improving engagement. Towards these goals, three strategic steps are proposed: an organizational approach, mandated task force, strategic action plan.

For CGIAR’s private sector engagement to effectively contribute to – and benefit from – innovation, scaling and broader food, land and water systems transformation, both CGIAR and the private sector need to be ‘open for business’, i.e., ready to take action to solve global challenges together.

(excerpt from the report's summary)