Ethiopia management
Ethiopia Project coordination and management
Emerging from the January 2012 Workshop
Discussion: Bruno, Rob, Geletu, Tsedeke, Iain, Jerry, Shirley
Project Coordination and Management: Roles, plans, actions
- What steps are needed to plan and further refine the project’s research agenda, in 2012
- What institutional arrangements are needed to manage and deliver the project?
- What are the key milestones we need to achieve, and by when?
- Constitute Project Steering Committee [ILRI by February 29]
- CGIAR/CRP (8): ILRI, CIMMYT, ICARDA, ICRISAT, IWMI, IFPRI, ICRAF, CIP
- NARS (1): Getnet
- USAID: Jerry
- Cross-project linkage representative: (?project lead)
- Cross-project research representative: Sieg Snapp (MSU) or WUR – for further discussion
- Coordinator (ex-officio): ILRI
- ASARECA (important for “wider transfer” too)
- TSBF/CIAT (Debbie)? ILRI to follow up
- Add: Ethiopian NGO; CRSPs (according to direct involvement); MoA
- Steering committee meetings (NB as needed may need to synchronise the face to face meeting with overall and rotate around the three project regions)
- Meet in person once/year
- Meet virtually at least quarterly
- Formal agreements
- Project agreement (ILRI-USAID). Needs revised CN by March 30.
- ILRI ->other partners sub-contracts or LoA depending on “early wins”
- Project documents:
- M&E plan (Stan Wood) [TBC]
- Concept note, work plan (to Sept 2012), budget and logframe (Writing team: ILRI (Iain), CIMMYT (Bruno), ICARDA (Geletu), ICRISAT (Alistair), IWMI (Simon), IFPRI (Stan), ICRAF (Aster), CIP (Steffen), EIAR (Getnet), by March 30
- Report Oct. 2011-Dec. 2011 [Jan 31]?
- Year 1 Activities
- Stakeholder group – annual meeting (ILRI)
- Anchor site activity descriptions (including actor/institution mapping)
- CGIAR/NARS staff recruitment as needed
- Funding of early win activities
- Research Design Process (Sept 2012)
Use (this) workshop outputs Design team: EIAR (TBC, Adefris?, Dawit Alemu), Bruno, Geletu, Oxfam (Setegn), An, Alan/Diego, Stan, Katherine) Review: Jerry to organize [July 31]
- Site selection process
- Site characterization [TBC]
- Component inventory (relevant work, technology, practices; Stan asks NARS, CGIAR)
- Identification of partners (research and development; Steering Committee)
- Implementation
- Communication
- Jerry and Iain talk (minimum monthly)
- Iain works with Peter to communicate via wiki and blog
- Ensure electronic communication is working and follow up as appropriate
- Identify specific person in ILRI team to lead under Peter’s supervision and connect across three regions (work out modalities with USAID and IITA)
- Communication
Queries and Comments from group: Include ways to engage with broader donor community, through to farmer groups etc.
- How can we make use of existing groups? Such as donor advisory group…..RED-FS – this could also be important in relation to engaging with AGP
- How to ensure committee has broader representation without making committee too big
- ATA really good for various stakeholder linkages
- Add appropriate regions once sites are selected