STRATEGIES
Gender
RICE research and development products will promote gender equity through:
- Facilitating training and capacity development opportunities to women farmers and entrepreneurs
- Improving access of women farmers to resources, thus increasing their production and productivity
- Fostering gender awareness among partners and stakeholders
Capacity development
RICE will strengthen capacity for research, innovation, and impact among partners and stakeholders, specifically through:
- Institutional development
- Developing the next generation of rice science leaders
- Skills and technology training for farmers and agro-entrepreneurs
RICE fosters a wide range of global partnerships in the public and private sectors and with civil societies through:
- Long-term and transparent engagement processes
- Developing and sharing a common agenda
- Harnessing key strengths of partners from upstream research to downstream development
Communication
To help achieve impacts and demonstrate accountability, the RICE communication strategy supports:
- Collaborative and participatory interactions among stakeholders
- Promotion of learning and information sharing
- Engagement with policy-makers to scale-up results
RICE is committed to:
- Open and freely accessible information products
- Widespread diffusion and use of data
- Value added through interoperability and participation in Big Data platforms
Intellectual asset management
RICE recognizes that careful management of intellectual assets (IA) is a prerequisite for effective development and delivery of its international public goods, by:
- Keeping its IAs available for use by public and private sector entities
- Aligning its IA management with the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and other relevant international agreements
- Adopting internationally best IA management practices, tools and protocols