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Partnership principles
While the partners themselves during program implementation will evaluate the quality of partnership
interactions, partnership principles will be guided and revised by experiences from MAIZE implementers,
the CGIAR and beyond (based on Woolley et al. 2009). They include:
Involve the right people and organizations.
Agree on guidelines about how responsibilities are assigned and conflict resolution processes.
Within the overall impact targets, agree on clear and mutually agreed milestones and make impact
pathways explicit.
Share recognition and responsibility for outcomes.
Allocate time and resources for effective development of partnerships, including the development
of trust and a common language.
Give leadership responsibilities to non‐CGIAR partners.
Clarify expectations about time investment in decision‐making, meetings and program execution.
Keep decision‐making and communication transparent.
Focus on simple and efficient processes.
Value performance above “politics, seniority, or hierarchy”.
The Program has developed initial guidelines of important attributes for high‐quality research and
development partners; the guidelines will be used in partner selection and reviewed from time to time.
Attributes of a research partner (all of the following):
Commitment to the values, outputs, outcomes, and impacts of MAIZE.
Recognized authority in required technical area(s) that are complementary to the strengths of
existing partners.
Willing to generate and exchange high‐quality information, knowledge, germplasm, tools and/or
methods to produce international public goods and to adhere to the core MAIZE principles of
intellectual property management.
Willing to commit financial and human resources to agreed priority research activities.
Demonstrated efficiency and probity in use of funds (if the partner is to receive budget from MAIZE).
Willing to share field and laboratory facilities.
Attributes of a development partner (the first two, and at least one of the other criteria)
Commitment to the values, outputs, outcomes, and impacts of MAIZE.
Demonstrated efficiency and probity in use of funds (if the partner is to receive budget from MAIZE).
Track‐record in improving the livelihoods of smallholders in relevant farming systems.
Capacity to positively influence national, regional or international policies and institutional
innovations in agriculture.
Commitment and expertise in promoting local institutional capacity and gender mainstreaming.
Flexible capacity to handle dynamic scaling‐up and scaling‐out of knowledge.
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