CGIAR Accelerator for Capacity Sharing

The Capacity Sharing Accelerator will integrate innovative approaches in data, digital tools, scaling strategies and soft-skills programs to build capacities among partners and within CGIAR, working across local, national, regional and global contexts. This will address the fragmented, top-down, Global North-driven approach which has shaped the traditional capacity development in agricultural research. This will drive a culture shift towards more equal and healthier partnerships for capacity sharing between and among CGIAR and partners advancing food, land, and water systems transformation, placing a strong emphasis on gender equality, women’s empowerment and youth inclusion.

The accelerator will support the co-creation of advanced capacity-sharing science, enhanced and consistent sharing between partners and capacity gap reduction and capacity retention. It will address the challenges of;

• Necessity of skills and knowledge required to equitably drive transformational change to address pressing global challenges – such as demographic shifts, environmental degradation, climate change, geopolitical instability, rising inequalities, and advances in frontier technologies
• Demand to accelerate the transfer, acquisition, sharing, and retention of essential capacities, particularly among partners in the Global South
• An obligation to shift culture toward the decolonization of science in food, land, and water systems