Civil society organizations (CSOs) are key partners in the CGIAR System. The 15 CGIAR Centers and 4 Challenge Programs supported by the CGIAR work with nearly a thousand CSOs. These partnerships help shape the agenda of research for development and enhance effectiveness and impact.

This is the first newsletter from the "new" Asia Region and is intended to communicate news and information on IWMI's projects and partners in Asia.

While I refer to this as a new region, as many of you will already know, IWMI has over two decades of history in Asia, and this region was formed by aggregating our operations and activities in South Wednesday, October 24, 2007ctor of the Asia Region,