Phase1 synthesis

Proposed end of Phase 1 joint product

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Main product - Synthesis document

Background

• Concept and inspiration from the CSISA end of phase 2 report - [[1]]
• Proposed content outline to follow the SI indicators already agreed on by PCT. This will be broadly:

* Productivity, * Economic sustainability, * Human wellbeing, * Environmental sustainability and, * Social sustainability

• 3 stories per SI indicator
• Lots of illustrations and graphics, embedded multimedia
• Additional stories (pages): profiles of each region/project (infographics mainly); cross-cuttiing on things like typologies, MEL, comms,

> ... anything else

• Joint product, with inputs across all projects
• Co-financed as needed.

In principle: each story is 1 page of text (300-500 words max) ; plus a facing page of pictures/illustrations etc

Milestones

• Agree concept with PCT (Feb)
• Simret & Jonathan to review stories published on the website to scout for possible success already reported for inclusion into the draft publication
• dropbox outline version ready on 6th
• Have final list of agreed stories - afternoon 10 June
• story standard structure - PB, by 24 june
• Have first drafts of the stories – by 1 July, 2016
• Infographic concepts - by 8 july
• first overall draft - mid July (week of 18) with a tiny small group meeting? (in Kenya)
• Design, infographics, editing.reviews etc - Aug:
• Publication of final digital output - end September 2016
• Print output in October???

PHASE 2: Complementary product: Video

• Inspired by [[2]] or [[3]] (though much shorter
• Focus: Explaining SI, or explaining AR, or illustrating some of elements of the the project complexities (easier perhaps though such a story)
• If time allows and the SI indicators is together enough

PROGRESS:

Selected stories per SI domain

EMPHASIS ON RESULTS AND OUTCOMES

TITLE?

Foreword

Introduction

About AR

1. Infographics: SI framework explained
2. Infographics: AR at a glance
3. Infographics: Comms and reach
4. Infographics: the baselines
5. Infographics: the partners (network diagrams)
6. Infographics: scaling and approaches

Economic sustainability (income, poverty)

1. Africa RISING technologies offer Ghana farmers opportunity to earn three times more - [[4]]
2. Expanding beyond demonstration plots brings new cattle to the kraal in Zambia - [[5]]
3. [PETER TO FOLLOW UP for ethiopia - TOO PRELIMINARY]

Human well-being (education, health, nutrition)

1. Women ‘nutrition leaders’ changing the fate of children (from the cooking pot) in Mali - [[6]]
2. JONATHAN - GHANA?
3. ethiopia ag-nutrition linkages - brief [PETER] / may have something on kids going to school with money ? home gardens?

Environmental sustainability (soil composition, erosion, water use efficiency, land use)

1. Barking up the right tree: Multipurpose trees help Tanzania smallholders build a resilient farming system - [[7]]
2. Busting soil myths in Tanzania - [[8]]
3. SWC in Ethiopia / landscape approach. the CIAT annual report story - GRIST?

Social (farmer groups, social capital, gender equity)

1. A new dawn in Zanzoni, Mali as natural resource management conventions are formalized - [[9]]
2. Quality cowpea seed production offers Zambian women farmers opportunities for quality lives - [[10]]
3. ethiopia platforms and empowerment [peter]

Productivity (yield, total factor productivity)

1. ‘A good farmer produces their own seeds’: Raising food yields in Mali - [[11]]
2. Agriculture: Plant perennials to save Africa's soils - [[12]]
3. The two-wheel tractor saves time and energy; it ploughs twice as fast as my oxen: [[13]]

Cross cutting stories: Participatory research

1. farmer research groups ethiopia
2. technology parks - ghana

Cross cutting stories:Capacity development

1. Securing the Future: The Story of Chacha Nyangi and how Africa RISING is mentoring the next generation of scientists - [[14]]
2. Ethiopia Platforms? capdev peter
3. Babati platform - jonathan

Cross cutting stories: M&E

1. PMMT - evidence brief

Cross cutting stories: Scaling

1. nafaka tz
2. ethiopia farmer to farmer / kebele to kebele
3. mother and baby trials
4. typologies for targeting and scaling - writeup by mirja?