This document outlines nine selected criteria for assessing the quality of research partnerships. These criteria include: ensuring equity in cooperation and shared ownership from the beginning, transparent communication and exchange of knowledge, effective negotiation and sharing of responsibilities, promoting mutual learning, enhancing collective research capacities, sharing benefits and merits in an equitable manner, disseminating results broadly in forms that encourage and allow application, and seeking sustainability of the processes and outcomes.

The text presents engagement principles for working with GFAR. It proposes the use of the terms "members" and "partners" to define organizations within GFAR's network. The document outlines the principles of engagement, including membership and representation, funding, and benefits and commitments. It also discusses the principles and operationalization of Collective Actions, which are initiatives that involve GFAR members and partners working together towards shared goals.

The document outlines the strategic vision for GFAR, the Global Forum on Agricultural Research, which aims to contribute to the SDGs by making agrifood research and innovation systems more responsive and equitable. To achieve this, GFAR focuses on small-scale farmers, who account for 84% of all farms worldwide, by empowering them through collective actions. GFAR also aims to establish partnership principles as a global standard to ensure that agricultural research is done in partnership with the most important actors - small-scale farmers.