GCP toolbox for product delivery

GCP pays very keen attention to product delivery from investments in research. To ensure and facilitate delivery, we have designed several tools and resources primarily for use by GCP researchers, but also useful for researchers outside GCP as well. The tools are accessible from the links below, and are made available to you at no cost. However, we would appreciate hearing from you on how you used them. Please send an email to c.devicente@cgiar.org

The GCP toolbox


Delivery Plan Kit (DPKit)
This first version of the DPKit is the result of a consultative meeting of researchers and experts in Madrid in October 2006. The DPKit is in use, but also a work in progress: we are improving and refining the tool based on feedback from GCP researchers who are using the DPKit. The pioneer group inlcudes awardees of the 2nd round of GCP competitive projects and the Tropical Legumes I Project, respectively launched in August and September 2007. After gathering and collating user feedback, the next step is to advance the DPKit to a more user-friendly web-based format, an improvement over its current MS-Excel format. The DPKit collects and collates the following:

 - project identification
 - objectives to products
 - applications and users
 - constraints and capacity needs
 - timeline, and
 - Intellectual property (IP) considerations.

The DPKit is designed to be used alongside:

 - GCP’s Delivery Strategy
 - Our rationale on why a priori project delivery plans are so critical for researchers
 - Product management, delivery and marketing: Concepts, evolution and perspectives—June 2007 Draft 
 - The IP helpdesk
 

Project Development Guide (PDG)
This tool is designed to systematise and streamline GCP project planning and management and to ensure product delivery. The PDG  targets two main users:

However, usage is not limited to the two main groups above. Other users include the following:

a). anyone seeking research funding, including outside GCP; and,
b). reviewers of research projects