This is one of five brief notes designed to stimulate an ICW'95 discussion on priority setting within the CGIAR. TAC's purpose in this note is to discuss its understanding of the guidelines laid out by the Group, to highlight some themes important to priority setting that seem to warrant further attention, and to encourage a further discussion of the major elements of priority setting for the System. TAC is aware that the Group expects leadership from TAC on many of these issues and that the Group frequently has expressed its point of view on criteria for priority setting. Even so, there is scope for added clarity and such clarity can only improve the quality of the System's decision making.
In what follows TAC sets out what it believes are the major elements shaping CGIAR decision making. TAC also lays out for review a framework for the current round of priority setting. TAC expects that further discussion at ICW'95 will sometimes affirm, sometimes modify, its perceptions of the principal considerations. Given such discussion, TAC can more effectively proceed on framing recommendations for the System's priorities for resource allocation during 1998-2000.
