Communication team meeting 2015 04 03

Team meeting on Communications Venue: Sof Omar Time 4:00-11:00am Attendees :Peter Thorne, Peter Ballantyne, Kindu Mekonnen and Simret Yasabu

Agenda Items for the meeting

Updating progress on communications (Simret/Peter B)
Capturing some scaling practices that are happening (Peter and Kindu )
Communications champions – how to engage them more (Simret/Zelalem email)
Naming consistency(Simret)
Possible support for theses on communication, Knowledge management ,social learning(Kindu )

Updating progress on communications (Simret/Peter B) Publications

Lots of documents produced
Woreda briefs
IP brief
Gender brief
Rapid market assessment briefs

Website

regular blog posting
Updated with woreda briefs
Kindu and Peter has been active in their contributions
Not many people have still subscribed - so it was discuss to push lots of people to subscribe, encourage the site coordinators and assistant site coordinators

Flickr

pictures from the photojournalist are uploaded
Maps of our woreda has been uploaded
IPpictures are also uploaded

Wiki

regularly Updated – events
New pages have been created - for the reviewers, PCT

Field visit

Kindu and SImret have had a field trip to Debre Birhan to see the progress of treelucern . Simret has interviewed some farmers for blog post

Capturing some scaling practices (Kindu and Peter )

Identify two-three things which needs to be captured for scaling
Digital green for wider publicity / intensive campaign
Comms team – identify one person/team member who could be part of this process, to support in the scaling
Research on Scaling – feeding mapping of the diffusion of technologies in the kebeles and beyond
Community seed production-another topic for scaling

Communication champions

We have champions at the woreda strategic IP
Zelalem has shared a document specifying the different communication tools identified for /by the IP
some of the tools are already been identified by the communication team : posters, short videos, photos , woreda specific brochures
it was pointed and discussed that we could use this champions and for that we may think about Capacity building?

Naming consistency

People use different wording for sites,
team members also use abbreviations on official documents : AR,CG
it was suggested to have Africa RISING glossary: Simret to draft this

Possible support for Thesis on communication, Knowledge management ,social learning(Kindu ) Kindu shared with the team a proposal from one of our partners to do a thesis on communications, knowledge managment . it was suggested that this is a good idea but we need to tailor it to our demand. Peter B. has expressed his willingness to support in supervising the student

Knowledge center- this has bben on the discussion long time but not much has been done . it was suggested the site coordinator lead on the establishment . Simret agreed to develop concept note and share with the team

other action points

to have a quarterly project newsletter - to start with English and then see if translation is needed. this newsletter target the woreda
to have an Annual CD - knowledge product of the year- but this was suggested to come later when we have lots of publications to share
Kindu to share all the maps being produced to Simret and Peter B