Due to its dynamic nature, the GIPB partnership should be seen as an evolving process, continuously fed by and coordinated through links and synergies with other ongoing initiatives with special emphasis on national and regional plant breeding capacity building for utilization of plant genetic resources for enhancing crop productivity and quality.

Maximum use will be made of institutional and human resources already active in concerned countries and regions, such as the CGIAR centres and their collaborators including strong NARS.  The precise content of national strategies and action plans facilitated through GIPB partners will be need-driven and based on an interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder dialogue –including policy-makers/managers and local stakeholders/users/consumers– aimed at ensuring a process of consensus building and longer-term commitment.

For each participating country, there will be a national strategy and an action plan prepared by the national authority to establish a set of necessary needs for future scaling out and replication. Accordingly, the definition of expected outputs and activities must be seen as being related to initial list of priority actions identified by partners having taken part in the formulation process so far and in the preparation of the detailed longer-term strategy (ongoing consultation), the 5-year operational plan, and country-specific strategies.

All activities taking place at the national level, after having been jointly identified and designed with national programme -assistance, will be implemented under the leadership of national partners. This should facilitate a smooth collaborative implementation at high quality levels, and will also offer opportunities for establishing concrete synergies among stakeholders and their activities.

Among the comparative advantages of the proposed approach, each partner at the global, regional and national level will find a full range of opportunities to establish new contacts and mechanisms for collaboration and exchange among diversified activity sectors, types of institutions and countries/regions.

To facilitate information dissemination and discussion related to global, regional and national level activities, outputs and lessons, GIPB is operating an open access Knowledge Resource Center, which provides access to GIPB related information on training and resources, country and regional profiles, discussion fora and links to relevant websites.

The chart below illustrates GIPB's networking strategy of enhancing links, synergies and multi-stakeholder dialogue and cooperation at the global, regional and national levels.

Collaboration among GIPB partners to identify and facilitate access to genetic resources available from public and private breeding programmes will benefit developing country breeding programmes, support the implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and complement the efforts of the Global Crop Diversity Trust to strengthen germplasm conservation, characterization and utilization of international collections.