WA planning Oct2012 Agenda
West Africa planning and review meeting[edit | edit source]
23-25 October 2012 Modern City Hotel, Tamale, Ghana Back to the event home page
Agenda[edit | edit source]
Day 0 - Monday, 22 October, 2012 | |
Arrival of participants and registration | |
Day 1 - Tuesday, 23 October 2012 | |
Session 1: Opening address and introduction | |
08:00-08:30 | Registration |
08:30-09:00 | Welcome and opening address: * Director, Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI): S. K. Nutsugah * IITA, Africa RISING Coordinator – East, Southern and West Africa: I. Hoeschle-Zeledon |
09:00-09:30 | Workshop objectives, processes & participant’s introduction (E. Le Borgne) |
09:30-09:50 | Presentation] |
09:50-10:20 | Group photograph and break |
Session 2: Status and expected outputs of quick-win activities in cereal (maize, rice, and sorghum)-legume (soybean, cowpea and groundnut) -based systems | |
Presentations for each system will focus on status of quick-win activities for Outcome 1: Sustainable increase of farm productivity in cereal-based systems; Outcome 2. Improved on-farm and off-farm natural resource management; Outcome 3. Reduced vulnerability of target population, and Outcome 4. Increased nutritional and economic levels of the target population (especially women and children) | |
10:30-12:00 | Presentation] * Sorghum-based systems (ICRISAT/ILRI): E.Weltzien et al. - Presentation * Rice-based systems (Africa Rice/SARI): O. Ajayi - Presentation * Vegetable-based systems (AVRDC/ICRISAT/SARI/UDS): A. Tenkouano - Presentation |
12:00-12:30 | Quick-win activities implementation – challenges, lessons and opportunities * National Research &Extension Partners – Ghana (MOFA, SARI, ARI, UDS) - Presentation * National Research and Extension Partners – Mali * ICRISAT: E.Weltzien et al. * Africa Rice: O. Ajayi * AVRDC: A. Tenkouano * IWMI: F. Kizito * ILRI: A. Fall |
12.30-13.00 | Possible partnerships: * Innovation for Poverty Action (IPA): Activities and partnership opportunities - Presentationbr Africa Soil Information Service AFSIS: Activities and partnership opportunities - Presentation |
13:00-14:20 | Lunch break |
Session 3: Planning for years 2-5 | |
14:20-15:40 | Presentation] * Research framework (J. Rusike) - Presentation * M&E framework (N. Sakana) - Presentation * Action research sites (E. Weltzien & A. Larbi): Presentation Mali Presentation Ghana |
15:40-16:10 | Coffee / tea break |
16:10-17:30 | Marketplace discussion |
17:30 | Closing (End of Day 1) |
Day 2 - Wednesday, 24 October 2012 | |
Session 4: Developing a demand driven research agenda for year 2-5 | |
08:30-09:15 | Presentation] * Ghana (S. J. Buah & N. Karbo) - Presentation * Collective prioritization of the challenges per country |
09:15_09:45 | Research boundaries and principles: focus on interactions (I. Hoeschle-Zeledon) - Presentation/spanbrspan stylefont-size: 12pxWhat does it mean to work on integrated research A. Larbi - Presentation |
09:45-10:00 | Guidance on group work (E. Le Borgne) |
10:00-10:30 | Coffee / tea break |
Session 5: Group work planning research agenda for years 2-5 | |
10:30-12:30 | Research output 1: Situation Analysis * Group 1 - Presentation of group work results - Final presentation of Research Output group 1 |
Research output 2: Improvement of Integrated Systems * Group 2: Ghana / Northern region - Results of first session - results of second session/spanbr span stylefont-size: 9pt font-weight: normalGroup 3: Ghana / Upper East region/spanspan stylefont-size: 9pt - /spanspan stylefont-size: 9pt Results of first UER session/spanbr span stylefont-size: 9pt font-weight: normalGroup 4: Ghana / Upper West region/spanspan stylefont-size: 9pt -/spanspan stylefont-size: 9pt Results of first UWR session - results of second UWR session/spanbr span stylefont-size: 9pt font-weight: normalGroup 5: Mali group/spanspan stylefont-size: 9pt - /spanspan stylefont-size: 9pt Results of first session - Presentation about the entry points and integration levels | |
Research output 3: Scaling-out * Group 5 | |
12:30-14:30 | Lunch break |
14:30-16:00 | Group work (continued with focus on year 2 work plan) |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee / tea break |
16:30-17:30 | Presentation of group work and review by panel: * A. Larbi * C. Tenkouano * I. Hoeschle-Zeledon * O. Ajayi * E. Weltzien * A. Ayantunde |
17:30 | Closing reflections for the day – End of day 2 |
17:45 | Meeting of process steering group |
Day 3 - Thursday, 25 October 2012 | |
Session 6: Group/team work planning research agenda for years 2-5 | |
Smaller groups/teams to develop concept note for research themes and prioritize activities for 2013 and other years (sequencing). | |
08:30-08:45 | Review of questions and suggestions regarding previous days’ group work |
08:45-10:00 | Smaller groups/teams work on research protocols and prioritize activities: * Group 1: Ghana / Northern region - Final results Northern/spanbr span stylefont-size: 9ptGroup 2: Ghana / Upper East region - Final results UER/spanbr span stylefont-size: 9ptGroup 3: Ghana / Upper West region - Final results UWR/spanbr span stylefont-size: 9ptGroup 4: Mali group - Final results Mali |
10:00-10:30 | Coffee / tea break |
10:30-12:30 | Group work (continued with focus on year 2 work-plan) |
12:30-14:00 | Lunch break |
14:00-15:30 | Group work (continued) on research and cross-cutting themes |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee / tea break |
16:00-17:30 | Plenary reporting of working groups and discussion Next steps - Presentation by Asamoah Larbi |
17:30 | Closure (I. Hoeschle-Zeledon, IITA; O. Ajayi, AfricaRice; E. Weltzien, ICRISAT) |
Note (1): AAfricaRice, Africa Rice Center; ARI, Animal Research Institute; AVRDC, World Vegetable Center; GHS, Ghana Health Services; IITA, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture; ICRISAT, International Center for Research in the Semi-Arid Tropics; IWMI, International Water Management Institute; KNUST, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; KSU, Kansas State University; MOFA, Ministry of Food and Agriculture; SARI, Savanna Agricultural Research Institute; SeedPAG, Seed Producers Association of Ghana; UDS, University of Development Studies; ICRAF, World Agroforestry Center; WIAD, Women in Agricultural Development; and WIUC, Wisconsin International University College.