Ethiopian Highlands Annual Review and Planning meeting[edit | edit source]

17-18 September 2012 Large auditorium, ILRI Ethiopia, Addis Ababa Go back to the event home page

Agenda for organizers[edit | edit source]

The general format of the meeting will involve a gathering of the core research partners on the 17th with this group being augmented by representatives of wider stakeholders on the 18th.

Timing	Session	Session name
	= Day 1 - Monday 17 September 2012
08.00	Participants registration
08.30	* Welcome (I. Wright, Deputy Director General, ILRI) * Introduction (E. Le Borgne, facilitator, ILRI) Participants Agenda and objectives	A1
09.30	Background information to this workshop: * Feed the Future and Africa RISING (J. Glover, Africa RISING activity manager, USAid) * Africa RISING in Ethiopia thus far (P. Thorne, regional coordinator, ILRI)	A2
10.00	Break
10.30	Looking back at the inception 'early win' period I: Fact-finding * Short presentation of early win projects - batch 1 (30 min) Quick feed, Quick water and Integrating pulses in crop-livestock * Marketplace (15 min) * Short presentation of early win projects - batch 2 (30 min) Tree-crop-livestock interactions and Research for development * Market place (15 min)	A3
12.00	Looking back at the inception 'early win' period II: Consolidation Discussion on main results, lessons and implications	A4
13.00	Lunch break
14.00	Designing research activities: * Presentation about research criteria and possible categories of intervention (15 min) * Identifying key constraints to address in each region and matching possible categories of intervention (60 min) * Commentary on preliminary group work results (15 min)	A5
15.30	Break
16.00	Designing research activities (continued) - presentation of group work results (30 min)	A6
16.30	Cooperating and collaborating around Africa RISING: * Short presentation (10 min) * Reviewing and questioning collaboration areas (30 min) * Observations and reflections (20 min)	A7
17.30	Close
	= Day 2 - Tuesday 18 September 2012
08.30	Participants registration
09.00	Welcome and introduction	B1
09.30	Presentation of project and status post quick wins (P. Thorne, regional coordinator, ILRI)	B2
10.00	Presentation of candidate research themes: * Elevator pitches (20 min) * Marketplace (30 min) * Reflections (10 min)	B3
11.00	Break
11.30	Further development of themes and identification of potential 'on the ground' partnerships: * Reflections from development partners (30 min): what's in it for them, how to make Africa RISING relevant and attractive, potential areas for cooperation. * Group work: Further developing research action plans (45 min) * Presentation of group work I (15 min)	B4
13.00	Lunch break
14.00	Presentation of group work II (45 min)	B5
14.45	Next steps (feedback on action plans)	B6
15.15	Final reflections	B7
15.30	Close

A1: Introduction per quick win group, focus group (tree, water, livestock, crop, other), years of experience working in Ethiopia (per decade), in agric. sector in Ethiopia. A2: Short presentation and shorter Q&A A3: Prepare stands and get groups to work on their corner. Brief elevator pitch and then go to their round + instruct them to collect Q&A + pick up 1-2 comments from each. And do the same again. A4: Consolidation discussion: Discuss in table groups (mixed groups 1-2-3-4-5) for 30 min then join a fishbowl to come up with key recommendations for the next phase. A5: Short presentation and clarification questions - then split in regional groups to identify constraints and possible interventions (level of detail to identify) then short plenary commentary about possible issues in working on this (in this assignment) or if all ok, continued group work. A6: Short presentation (3 min) of the research and v. short Q&A (3 min) - Peter and the team to come back to these plans later (after workshop). A7: Short presentation from Peter touching upon all aspects, then I introduce resource persons across the room and place them at different tables. Participants to move among them as they feel + important to document the results on sheet. Then final pick up key comments to not forget.

B1: Welcome by same people - introduction around tables (15'): who are you, who do you work for, what are you interested in about Africa RISING? Then one person from each table to introduce other people and come up with one interesting point perhaps. B2: Short presentation (15 min) and 15 min Q&A B3: Presentation of elevator pitches and then splitting across the room and external participants can roam around as they like - then back to plenary session for some reflections. B4: Plenary with 4-5 dev partners explaining WIIFM, advices and opportunities they see. Then split again to elaborate (review in dev terms) the action plans from previous session and present group work: improved elevator pitches, 1-2 clarification questions etc. and promise to come back to that later in smaller groups (after workshop). B5: Continue presenting in the same way B6: Peter, Jerry ?and sb else to identify? to review plans made and give an indication of the next steps. B7: Ask people to cluster up in thematic groups e.g. about research, partnerships, development, coordination etc. and to come up with a couple of observationsL one encouragement for Africa RISNG (about what's going well) and one advice (about what might be matter for concern).