Pct34
Africa RISING PCT #34
28 February 2019
Skype call
Present
- Siboniso Moyo (SM) - Chair
- Bernard Vanlauwe (BV)
- Peter Thorne (PT)
- Carlo Azzarri (CA)
- Jonathan Odhong' (JO) - Secretary
- Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon (IHZ)
- Jerry Glover (JG)
- Beliyou Haile (BH)
Agenda
- 1.Follow up on action pointsfrom PCT 33 meeting
- -Revised data management plan
- -Authorization to spend 2019
- -Soil health consortium
- -Feed the future indicators and targets
- -Overview of Africa RISING web presence
- -Internally commissioned external review
- -Taskforce to promote harmonization across Africa RISING and SI domain stewards
- -SRA advocacy document
- 2.Suggested revisions to PCT procedures
- 3.Updates from JG
- 4.Any Other Business
Follow up on action points from previous PCT meeting
- >>Revised data management plan
- Document has been finalized and is ready for dissemination to partners and upload to CG Space.A copy of the final file had been shared with all PCT members on 11 February.
- BV - There has been some email exchanges between Gundula and USAID data management and support team regarding upload of potentially sensitive qualitative data. Is that going to in any way affect the document we are about to publish?
- Further action(s)
- JG to share update at next PCT meeting about the upload of sensitive qualitative data after further discussions with Gundula/USAID data management and support team.
- CA to share the final data management plan with USAID data management and support lead Anna Brenes, before publication on CG Space.
- CA to follow up and report at next PCT meeting about the possibility of registering Africa RISING data sets on Development Data Library (DDL).
- Further action(s)
- >>Authorization to spend 2019
- JG – We expect the approval to move forward sometime around mid-late March. Funds will be dispersed as soon as possible after that.You can then start spending immediately after that. I will continue checking with Eric Witte and as soon as he can send an email to this effect, he will do so. Please note that the funds will be for the fiscal year that began on 1 October 2018, but as PIO you have some flexibility on how to spend. The funds need to be spent after 12 months. At the moment the BFS can’t do anything about this situation.Please set up set up any workable arrangements for the carry over funds within IITA, IFPRI, and ILRI.
- BV – Thank you JG for the update. We'll keep this agenda item on the back banner for now, until it becomes an immediate issue that needs closer attention.
- >>Soil health consortium
- BV – As I briefed during the previous meeting (PCT 33 meeting) , there was a soft launch of the consortium in San Diego. There was also an attempt to think about a new launch. Do you have any new information on that front?
- JG – Gov’t shutdown put back our initial plans. This has caused some frustrations with the core group. We’re trying to get back on track. We have leadership team of the consortium coming to USAID on March 15. This will be an "internal" launch. We are also going through some form of internal reorganization – the portfolio AR falls under for example will go into a division of its own so there will be some opportunities therein that I will keep you updated about.
- BV – There is another conversation at Gates Foundation to be engaged as part of the soil health platform. It would great to have 2/3 donor organizations supporting the initiative.
Suggested revisions to PCT procedures
Updates from JG
Any Other Business
Next PCT meeting
- Secretary to send out a doodle about the next PCT meeting.
