ARESA2021

Africa RISING ESA Project Review and Planning Meeting
14 – 16 September 2021 [4/5-hour sessions on each day]
Virtual [meeting links to be communicated]

LOGISTICS

• Agenda is based on East Africa Time (EAT)
• Meeting starts at 13.30 EAT each day

OBJECTIVES

1. Review progress, activities, and results for 2020/21 season.
2. Plan for implementation of activities in 2021/22 season.
3. Share updates with partners about project implementation and future direction.

AGENDA

Day ONE [14 September]

• 13.30 Meeting start, logistics, and housekeeping – E. Massam/J.Odhong
• 13.45 Welcome and opening remarks

• Hoeschle-Zeledon, Africa RISING ESA & WA Project Manager
• L. Tripathi, IITA Eastern Africa Director

• 14.00 Project implementation updates & developments - M. Bekunda
• 14.15 Start of Review Session [progress with implementation of ESA workplan sub-activities]

• Click on the link below to view list of Sub-activities, presenters, and presentation time

https://africa-rising.net/aresa2021_dayone/

• 5 mins. allocated for each sub-activity incl. discussion
• Total of 67 sub-activities to be presented during the review session
• 54 sub-activities to be presented on day one (30 sub-activities)
• 10 min. break in between

• 18.20 End of day one

Day TWO [15 September]

13.30 Quick recap of day one

13.40 Reporting session continued

• Click on the link below to view list of Sub-activities, presenters, and presentation time

https://africa-rising.net/aresa2021_daytwo/

• Cover 37 sub-activities

18.30 End of day two

Day THREE [16 September]

13.30 Quick recap of day two

13.40 Progress with impact evaluation studies in ESA – C. Azzarri

14.00 Work planning break-out preparations – M. Bekunda

14.20 Structured plenary discussions around the following topics:

• Surveys specific to research and scaling partnership activities/Surveys specific to long-term research - led by J. Manda [20 mins]
• Meta- and trade- off analyses for select technologies: Project scale - led by S. Snapp [20 mins]
• Foresight/dynamic modeling and simulations WA example - led by F. Muthoni [20 mins]
• Developing materials for Empowering extension - led by J. Odhong [20 mins]
• ICT for scaling - led by F. Kizito [20 mins]

16.00 Break

16.15 Brainstorming plenary discussion - Possible partnership with RUFORUM – Graduate core module on SIAF - led by R. Chikowo

18.30 End of day two

Day THREE [16 September]

13.30 Quick recap of day two

13.40 Brainstorming plenary discussion - On-going scaling partnerships with development institutions [30 mins]

13.40 Brainstorming plenary discussion - Looking into the future: Proposal for carry-over to OneCGIAR: Build on our vibrant inter-CGIAR, governmental, and non-governmental research and development partnerships - led by J. Kihara; G. Fischer [45 mins]

14.30 Reflections, including thoughts on key phase 2 close-out activities, and next steps

15.30 Closing remarks - I. Hoeschle-Zeledon

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