National Policies and Strategies for food, land and water systems transformation

This initiative aims to improve the lives of millions of people by identifying ways to build stronger policies and strategies with greater coherence and capacity, helping countries address current policy demand and future development needs. This objective will be achieved by: Promoting policy coherence by piloting national policy coherence mechanisms and cross-cutting CGIAR policies, monitoring CGIAR policy research and communication activities at the country level, and supporting more effective policy reporting. The Initiative will develop a policy coherence dashboard, as well as a framework for food, land and water policy coherence, and pilot a policy coherence building mechanism; Integration of policy tools to strengthen the analytical performance of country institutions, a cornerstone of building more effective policy responses. Using innovative approaches and co-creating user-friendly tools, the Initiative will play a key role in holistic policy analysis at the national level to analyze trade-offs among investment options and provide policy solutions; Respond to policy demand and crises by creating national-level policy communities of practice around common themes and convening ad hoc rapid response teams to respond to policy demand and crises with the broader goal of promoting evidence-based decision making.