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Enhancing Global Development through Local Languages: Key Strategies and Successes

Working in local languages is crucial for effectively addressing global development challenges in diverse cultures. This session focuses on the unique value of multilingual communication, showcasing successes from CGIAR centers like CIAT, CIMMYT, CIP, and IITA. Key strategies include fostering institutional commitment to multilingualism, professional translation, and sharing language skills across research programs. Discussing current gaps, we emphasize the importance of partnerships with local organizations to improve communication in rural communities, ensuring effective linkage between research and local needs.

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Enhancing Global Development through Local Languages: Key Strategies and Successes

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  1. Plenary session: Building Block session: Working in Local Languages

  2. What is the unique value proposition of this building block / Why do we need this for our CRPs? • Working in local languages is fundamental for addressing global development issues in a culturally and linguistically diverse world. Building block:

  3. Who is already doing some work around this, how, with what success? • CIAT and other CGIAR centers (e.g., CIMMYT, CIP, and IITA) routinely publish articles, publications, and other documents in multiple languages. • CGIAR Research Programs like CCAFS and GRiSP are also now coming to grips with this issue. Building block:

  4. What are principles/critical success factors/interventions/actions needed to take advantage of this BB? • Serious institutional commitment to multilingual communication • Appreciating the need for professionalism in translation • Sharing language skills across CGIAR Centers and Research Programs • Relying on partnerships for knowledge and skill in local languages Building block:

  5. Optional What were main discussion points? • Multilingual staff can serve as a “bridge” between languages, identifying messages in one that needs to be conveyed in others. • Multilingual communication requires clear guidelines in centers and programs but also lots of flexibility and openness Building block:

  6. Optional What gaps remain and what will be done about it? • Much remains to be done in CGIAR toward building partnerships with organizations that communicate in local languages in rural communities. • CGIAR Research Programs must champion such work and link it effectively with research. Building block:

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