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<div>=='''Africa RISING PCT #50''' <br />'''28 February 2023'''<br />'''MS TEAMS'''==<br />
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<br />'''Present'''<br /><br />
#Siboniso Moyo (SM) - Chair<br />
#Zachary Stewart (ZS)<br />
#Fred Kizito (FK)<br />
#Carlo Azzari (CA)<br />
#Jonathan Odhong' (JO) – Secretary<br />
#Anthony Whitbread (AW)<br />
#Mateete Bekunda (MB)<br />
#Kindu Mekonnen (KM)<br />
#Jerry Glover (JG)<br />
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<br />'''Apologies'''<br /><br />
#Bernard Vanlauwe (BV)<br />
#Peter Thorne (PT)<br />
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<br />'''Agenda'''<br /><br />
*Close-out event reflections – led by Boni <br />
*Updates about next steps by regional projects & program functions <br />
:*ESA - Mateete<br />
:*Ethiopia – Kindu/Peter/Anthony<br />
:*WA - Fred<br />
:*M&E - Carlo<br />
:*Communications – Jonathan <br />
*Guidance/feedback from donor (with regards to closing) - Jerry and Zach <br />
*AoB <br />
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SM: Welcome everyone. We have an apology from the PCT Co-Chair BV and PT. <br />
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'''Close-out event reflections '''<br />
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*SM: The close-out event was an amazing time to get together after 3 years of not meeting physically. It was quite rewarding to get to see the journey we have had as a Program. The way the 3-day event was structured made it really productive. Generally, it was very successful because we were able to share and reflect on the lessons learned through Africa RISING over the years. It was also quite great that JG joined the meeting virtually, because participants got an opportunity to directly express appreciation to USAID for continued funding to the program over the past 12 years. <br />
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'''Updates about next steps by regional projects & program functions'''<br />
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::'''East and Southern Africa (ESA) Project – update by MB''' <br /><br />
*Science and science partnership outputs as of the Close-Out Event in Ghana: service to the scientific community:<br />
:*144 Journal publications. About 20 more are expected during the no-cost extension period.<br />
:*5 book chapters were produced.<br />
:*1 Handbook was published.<br />
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*We intend to continue technology delivery through science and development partnerships.<br />
*Close to 400,000 farmers were reached by the project and more continuing.<br />
*The team developed and disseminated many tools for scaling. Other outreach materials were documented as briefs (medicine labels), bulletins, success stories, YouTube videos.<br />
*There were impressive graduate training achievements (long-term capacity building)<br />
:*17 graduate students’ theses that were published. Big question is still how do we use this resource?<br />
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*The project also helped to develop some infrastructure for the national partners:<br />
:*Lab equipment, field equipment, like weather stations, vehicles for use in research and development activities.<br />
:*We could have done better in some areas listed below. These could also be subjects for inclusion in future research opportunities:<br />
::*Livestock integration<br />
::*Generating and documenting information to trigger adoption<br />
:::*On social issues, like farmer behavioural changes that could trigger adoption<br />
:::*Benefits of applying SI (integrated technologies)<br />
:::*Soil health quality indicators<br />
:::*Typology<br />
:::*Urban consumers as drivers (on-going study)<br />
:::*Accessing quality seed (manuscript about ESA Project experiences near submission)<br />
:::*Investigation on dissemination models (program-wide experiences draft manuscript)<br />
:::*Tools for gender equity inclusion<br />
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*I have the following points with regards to project output usefulness post the Africa RISING ESA Project.<br />
:*Advocate as a base for some One CGIAR Initiatives to build upon, both in scientific content and methodologies.<br />
:*Encourage development partners to continue the drive for uptake of the technologies and knowledge to areas beyond AR action sites (e.g., LEAD Foundation in Tanzania)<br />
:*Recent advice: Disseminating the Handbook to Development partners, including developing their capacity in its use.<br />
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::'''Ethiopian Highlands Project – Update by KM''' <br /><br />
*A national close-out event was recently held in Addis Ababa. Various partners took part including the Addis USAID team. <br />
*Our focus has shifted to site close-outs meetings with farmer communities at the local level. These close out events will be done starting 6 March 2023.<br />
*A book of all abstracts from peer reviewed publications and PhD and master’s theses published through support from the Africa RISING Ethiopia project is being put together and will be shared with all project stakeholders.<br />
*The team is working to finalize extension learning modules for livestock, crops and NRM. These modules will be shared with all local partners before closure of the project.<br />
*A total of 37,000 local partners have undergone capacity building supported by the project. <br />
*The project managed to reach 450,000 beneficiaries out of the targeted 700,000 farmers.<br />
*There were some challenges with regards to scaling, especially when it comes to resource allocation for scaling. <br />
*The other challenges faced were during the COVID pandemic and also the security issues at the Tigray sites. The SI-MFS has maintained two Africa RISING sites and the Initiative will therefore benefit on the partnerships already established through Africa RISING.<br />
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::'''West Africa (WA) Project - Update by FK''' <br /><br />
*We managed to support the successful close-out event which we can only describe as “bitter-sweet”. <br />
*It was great to listen to the feedback shared by CA and his team. Partners had some feedback for the data presented from the Africa RISING program synthesis studies. So, we are looking forward to engaging with CA and the M&E team about this as we go forward.<br />
*We have been trying to consolidate and archive and strengthen the knowledge generated by the program. So, we have also produced a book of abstracts for the West Africa Projects.<br />
*We have managed to scale Africa RISING technologies to about 360,000 smallholder farmers in West Africa.<br />
*We are engaging with CSIR-INSTI to transform and digitize Africa RISING knowledge products in a way that is accessible to the national partners.<br />
*There is a tabular matrix developed by the Chief Scientists summarizing the low hanging fruits of technologies and materials that could be taken up into the Mixed Farming Systems Initiative and Excellence in Agronomy and other Initiatives.<br />
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::'''Monitoring and Evaluation - Update by CA''' <br /><br />
*It was great to get feedback about the program synthesis studies during the close-out event. We are still in the process of engaging through side meetings with other countries. The meetings are helpful because they provide needed validation for our results.<br />
*In Accra, we managed to present three categories of work: (1) data on the impact assessment (following the SI dimensions), (2) the work on Returns on Investments (through a collaboration with IITA), and (3) the local monitoring and evaluations provided by the regional M&E Officers.<br />
*At the next meeting it would be good to have a deeper discussion about how we should go about making the Africa RISING data sets stored on data verse public access following the USAID requirements. On our end we are ready to do this, but just need agreement on the rules for doing that.<br />
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:::'''Feedback on M&E''' <br /><br />
*SM: In Accra some country teams provided feedback on the data from the impact assessment studies. A follow up action was for you to organize discussions with them. How is that going?<br />
:*CA: The meetings are so far going well on both sides. They have helped us to put things in perspective and interpret the findings. it has also given us motivation to move forward. There was a question about how we intend to convey the messages to local stakeholder, but I feel we probably need to discuss this in more detail.<br />
*FK: The USAID Ghana mission is very keen to see the results from the Africa RISING impact studies. There are also other stakeholders who would be happy to hear this.<br />
*SM: Agreed with CA that we should have the follow up PCT call to discuss the M&E issues. CA, please share a brief note ahead of the meeting (once the date is fixed) to give PCT members a good enough background of what the issues are.<br />
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::'''Communications - Update by JO''' <br /><br />
*Transitioning the Africa RISING platforms – website and wiki. There is ongoing arrangement for IITA ICT and Communications team to oversee the process of ensuring that those platforms stay up and running for at least two more years. Knowledge products and materials stored on CG Space will stay up there for posterity because of CG Space’s posterity as a platform.<br />
*The CKM team is working to deliver an end of program report for Africa RISING in the mold of the footprints document we produced for phase I of Africa RISING. The document will give a flavorful summary of Africa RISING achievements and lessons learned over the period of implementation. The document is expected to be finalized end of June 2023.<br />
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:::'''Feedback on Communications''' <br /><br />
*FK: I suggest that we also ensure a targeted transition within the archives of the Mixed Farming Systems Initiative.<br />
*SM: I suggest this could also be approached across centers. I suggest you could also consult Michael Victor (ILRI Head of CKM).<br />
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::'''Reflection about the updates from the regional projects''' <br /><br />
*AW:Certainly, some of the initiatives are going to take up Africa RISING work. However, the Initiatives are not funded to scale technologies to a large extent. We are also trying to raise bilateral funding in some of the areas where AR has been active. I think there is real potential for further scaling and capacity development beyond the Initiatives and also beyond some of the old Africa RISING geographies with similar farming systems. I think we could also have this kind of conversation. <br />
*JG: Good point raised by AW. It would be a good idea to organize a specific follow up call on this topic. One opportunity to get this work out there is possibly to also look to work through/ in collaboration with the Regional Integrated Initiatives which are forming lots of partnerships there. We are currently doing some major scaling efforts in some of these regions too. There should be some great opportunities in the East and Southern Africa region and the central highlands in the Great Lakes region. A further discussion about how to connect these efforts would be great.<br />
*MB: Is there possibility to also consider AR-NAFAKA kind of proposals as a follow up and contributions to how we can get some of the outputs scaled?<br />
*KM: I think the next step is really important. We recently visited the field with AW and some of the challenges being faced by some farmers who adopted by Africa RISING technologies are quite glaring. The extension system is quite weak and therefore we need to find resources to help create some mechanism for backstopping help for the farmers. <br />
*MB: It would be important to follow up on the students supported by Africa RISING.<br />
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'''Any Other Business '''<br />
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*FK: It has been a great decade personally for me working with Africa RISING. Soon I will be leaving my role within the CGIAR, but I will still be engaged in the agriculture and food space. I really appreciate the enormous level of support that USAID has provided. Thank you very much colleagues and it has been great working with you.</div>J Odhong