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=='''Africa RISING Program Close-out Event''' '''7 - 9 February, 2023''' '''Alissa Hotel, Accra - Ghana'''==

'''OBJECTIVES'''
# Showcase Africa RISING achievements at regional and program level.
# Present and critically assess the major research and development results of the program.
# Explore opportunities for further scaling of project outputs and outcomes beyond Africa RISING.
# Harness key lessons for Africa RISING and sister projects.

'''EXPECTED OUTPUTS'''
# Documentation of Africa RISING's results and their transition pathways
# Synthesis notes capturing implementation lessons on systems research and SIAF from the perspectives of Africa RISING and other projects like CSISA and SIIL

'''DAY ONE, 7 February [Tuesday] '''
* 08:30 Registration
* 09:00 Participant introductions - Facilitators
* 09:45 Close out event objectives & agenda overview – Peter Thorne
* 09:50 Opening/welcome remarks
** Africa RISING Program Coordination Team Chair - Siboniso Moyo, ILRI DDG-R4D Livestock Genetics and Feeds & Forages
** USAID Ghana Country Mission - Amber Lily Kenny, Deputy Office Director – Economic Growth
** USAID Washington DC - Jerry Glover, Deputy Director, Center for Agriculture Led Growth
** Honourable Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture Ghana Ministry - Hon. Mohammed Tufero
* 10:30 Coffee break and group photo
* 11:00 Timeline review of the Africa RISING Program with key milestones and achievements - joint presentation by Fred Kizito, Peter Thorne, Carlo Azzarri
12:00 '''Market Place''' of project level technologies/achievements (in poster format) organized around three thematic SI entry points: (i) genetic intensification, (ii) ecological intensification, and (iii) socio-economic intensification.
** '''''Genetic intensification'''''
*** Improved crop varieties (Faba bean with bread wheat) in Ethiopia – Zewdie Bishaw
*** Improved forage varieties in Ethiopia – Melkamu Bezabih
*** Drought tolerant quality protein maize – Patrick Okori
*** High yielding disease resistant groundnut – Patrick Okori
*** Dual purpose sorghum varieties – Folorunso Akinseye
*** Resilient varieties of Tomato – Inviolate Mosha
*** Improved/diseases tolerant vegetable varieties adapted to northern Ghana – Jean Baptiste Tignegre

* 13:00 - 14:20: Lunch break
* 14:30 '''Market Place Cont'd...'''
** '''''Ecological intensification'''''
*** Landscape-scale rehabilitation in Ethiopia – Degefie Tibebe
*** Site-specific fertilizer recommendations – Getachew Agegnehu
*** Doubled up legumes – Regis Chikowo
*** Targeting crop sequencing – Regis Chikowo
*** Soil and water conservation in Tanzania – Elirehema Swai
*** Cowpea living mulch in Ghana – Nurudeen Abdul Rahman
*** Contour bunding in Mali – Kalifa Traore

* 15:30 Coffee break and group photo
** '''''Socio-economic intensification'''''
*** Feed trough in Ethiopia – Kindu Mekonnen
*** Small scale mechanization (2WT tractors) in Ethiopia – Rabe Yahaya
*** High value fruit trees in Ethiopia – Endalkachew Woldemeskel
*** Technologies for reducing post-harvest losses – Christopher Mutungi
*** Vegetable gardens in Mali – Mahama Saaka
*** Maize shellers in Ghana – Bekele Kotu
*** Advisory services in Ghana and Mali – Fred Kizito
*** Efficient feed utilization through feed troughs in West Africa – Sadat Salifu

* 16:30 End of day 1

* 18:30 Welcome Cocktail

'''DAY TWO, 8 February [Wednesday]'''
* 08:30 Overview of Day 2 agenda
* 08:40 Recap of previous day (Menti excercise)
* 09:00 Panel interview on implementing the SIAF - Regis Chikowo, Patrick Okori, Jim Hammond, Nurudeen Abdul Rahman & Peter Thorne
* 10:30 Coffee break
* 11:00 Data management discussion - Benedict Boyubie, Daniel Mgalla, Birhan Abdulkadir (coordinated by Carlo Azzarri)
* 11:30 Returns on Investment - Bekele Kotu, Jim Hammond, and Julius Manda (coordinated by Carlo Azzarri)
* 12:00 Program-wide synthesis study results - Carlo Azzarri
* 13:00 Lunch
* 14:30 Country table discussions to reflect on AR Program-wide synthesis results
* 15:00 Fishbowl: Partnerships in Scaling – Lessons from selected scaling partners - Million Gebreyes (ILRI), Haroon Sseguya (IITA), Patrick Kiao (Mwanga), Betty Maeda (frmr. USAID Tanzania), Nana Ntiamoah (Degas), Aminata Coulibaly (Mali Mark)
* 15:30 Coffee break
* 16:45 Wrap up day 2

'''DAY THREE, 9 February [Thursday]'''
* 08:30 Overview of day 3 agenda
* 08:40 Response to some of the concerns about the program-wide synthesis study results - Carlo Azzarri
* 09:00 Experiences and lessons in harnessing diversity and research partnerships in projects like the Africa RISING partnerships? – Mateete Bekunda
* 09:45 Building upon Africa RISING successes - F.Kizito
* 10:15 Coffee break
* 10:30 What to expect in the upcoming end of program report - Jonathan Odhong
* 11:00 Panel discussion: How to conduct systems research and showcase value – experiences from Africa RISING, CSISA, and One CGIAR Mixed Farming Systems Initiative. Panel: Peter Thorne (AR), Santiago Lopez (Mixed Farming Systems Initiative),Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon, Jerry Glover (USAID) - facilitated by Fred Kizito
* 12:30 Remarks by USAID - Jerry Glover
* 13:00 Lunch
* 14:30 Fun debrief exercise with all participants
* 15:30 Reflections by the Regional Project Managers - Fred Kizito & Peter Thorne/Kindu Mekonnen
* 15:00 Closing remarks
** High level leadership from the lead centers
*** Siboniso Moyo, ILRI
*** Robert Asiedu, IITA

* 16:00 Wrap up of event

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==NOTES==

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*'''Day ONE [7 February 2023]'''

'''Participants introduction'''
:- Through the Mapping exercise, the facilitators asked participants some reflective questions on the key regional project achievements that they would like to invest in if the regional groups would be given USD 50 Million fund.

*East and Southern Africa Region
::- Integrated land management, Carbon on farm which is related to carbon sequestration and growing trees conserving the carbon,
::- Soil health,
::- Climate and economic resilience that will be addressed through genetic intensification,
::- Good agronomic practices,
::- Market use and gender
::- Institutional capacity building,
::- Food safety.

*Ethiopian Highlands Region
::- Problem identification through research for development phase and mainstreaming this into national systems.
::- They were able to create a lot of demand for many of their technologies for both in core livestock and natural resource management and they think now are ready to scale through business pipeline development, private business models and institutional development.
::- They have research products generated and they target to deliver them to more partners through capacity development and knowledge sharing.

*West Africa Region
::- Crop-livestock integration (including breeding, rotation, compost production, the integration through soil and water conservation, etc.),
::- Strengthening partnership by putting together all stakeholders and partners to transform the mission to donors or politician,
::- The application innovative platform with partners,
::- Enhancing nutrition.

'''Close out event objectives & agenda overview – Peter Thorne'''
::Peter Throne highlighted the meeting objectives:
::::1. Showcasing achievements at the regional, individual project levels, but also some of programs driven activities that were engaged.
::::2. Research achievements that the research team and partnership have achieved.
::::3. Discussing about 11 years of sustainable intensification, what does it means?
::::4. Harnessing some of the key lessons, some of the research lessons, as well as some of the key operational lessons.

'''Opening/Welcome remarks'''
*Africa RISING Program Coordination Team Chair - Siboniso Moyo, ILRI DDG-R4D Livestock Genetics and Feeds & Forages
::- Moyo appreciated the support of the USAID leadership that has been part of Africa RISING program, recognizing team effort and support from Rob Petram, Jerry Clover and Zach Stewart and many others. She highlighted outputs and milestones that Africa RISING has achieved.
::::1. Africa RISING is a good resource for learning, particularly about Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture system.
::::2. Opportunity to practice some of scaling approaches and working with different partnership arrangement.
::::3. The program has built capacity to many students in the continent.

::- Moyo noted the way forward for the Africa RISING program the good work where she noted the One CGIAR initiatives where some of Africa RISING technologies will continue.

*Honourable Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture Ghana Ministry - Hon. Mohammed Tufero
::- On behalf of the government of Ghana, he expressed his appreciation to United states Agency (USAID) for funding the Africa RISING program in advancing agriculture sector. He noted that, currently they are looking at strengthening this partnership through ventures and engagements.
::- He thanked Africa RISING team for the great work done especially in improving livelihoods of farmers, developing technologies for farmers, build capacities of 10 PhD students, 12 masters students and 5 bachelor students. The program also brought together 15 strategic partnerships both private and public entities as it has eight CGIAR centers in Ghana. “Although Africa RISING is ending, but its legacy will never end but live for many years through OneCGIAR research Initiative and that contributes to sustainable Intensification of mixed farming system,” he said.
::- The government is looking on ways to see the benefits of the beneficial collaboration among the CGIAR centers and among partners across initiatives to address hunger, poverty and malnutrition. The new initiative of mixed farming system will go into previous successes obtained with Africa RISING program to make it function effectively.

'''Timeline review of the Africa RISING Program with key milestones and achievements - joint presentation by Fred Kizito, Peter Thorne, Carlo Azzarri'''
*Fred Kizito presentation
:: Fred highlighted that working as a team/family was the main reason for the success of Africa RISING, the team had partnership experiences across six countries.

:: He noted that with in the SI-MFS initiative, there is an opportunity on how to better engage agronomy, monitoring, technological innovation such as ICT, but also improving resilience within both systems, as well as the adaptive
capacity of the systems and community to cope with it.

:: He noted that the theory of change was very simple, that when they developed demand driven research, it helped them in deploying technologies that allow better efficiency, as well as better productivity.

:: Good accountability among partners has led the program to be more successful. He noted that phase one, was interesting. The quick wins became tangible researchable product that they built on the gaps from, and resulted the partnership base to be expanded.

:: He highlighted the key aspect about phase 2 that largely based on changing the mindset on partnerships, to integrate the works they have and to think about the framework that will allow them to move into integrated solution in farm level, at the community, landscape level and beyond.

:: He noted that the approaches from phase one and two where the phase one was about technology identification and in phase two, they thought about how these technologies be taken to scale, including how they can engage scaling partners and private sectors that can take these to another level. Thus, some of the key intervention and outputs that took place during the phase one was enhancing food safety, reducing soil loss, improving livelihood, improving household nutrition, developing decision support tools, enhancing livestock activities, integrated soil management, etc.

::He noted that the sustainable intensification assessment framework (SIAF), where the Ethiopian team took the advantage of sustainable intensification framework to help rural households, as well as West Africa team used it in scaling and technology identification. He explained that SIAF is a connecting tissue and contributed a lot to the Africa RISING works.

::His key message was that Africa RISING is leaving the knowledge product that can be used by the target audiences with sustainable intensification for mixed farming system initiative as well.

*Comments/discussion emerged from the presentation
::'''Birhanu''' noted the operational challenges to run the project for 12 years especially on annual budget where the support given by the good management and from other project leads was helpful to continue with project. The second challenge was the technology management parks especially in West Africa. The other challenges are the absences of the economists and gender experts at the beginning of project, On the second question, he noted that if the teams could have SIAF at the beginning, it could have helped to include the mechanization, gender and social economic research and bringing development actors during planning stage and the capacity building strategy to engage graduate students. If USD 15 million would be provided, it would be better to address the strategies

::'''Participant 2:''' He noted that, they were able to put together the indication come from research to the benefit of private sectors for the innovations to be picked up. Having more systematic and more simplicity about the partnership building and engaging with partners since beginning pushed them to look for framework to assess their activities on the ground in SIAF did a good well.

::'''Participant 3:''' He emphasized on recognizing the efforts and contribution done by partners particularly on the challenges related to operational management. He also explained that, they discussed on Climate information services since nowadays there are many data tools developed to support all technologies that they are trying to implement. He said that there is a need to put much effort into this direction.

::'''Participant 4''': Gender inclusiveness is among achievements. He highlighted the need of having insurance policies so that all the activities that they have been doing with farmers to create an insurance to them.

::'''Participant 5:''' He talked about the concept of integration, as it was understood more later in the project and started to be applied in the phase two, which affected the analysis interms of the system approach. He also talked about the seed system as there is a need to engage more seed suppliers of many crops since the challenge was much based on well-known crops like maize and groundnuts, etc, to help farmers easily understand where to access the seeds. The other part he talked about was on the social domain, as they did not collect enough data in these domains noting that there is a need to do better on this component.

::'''Participant 6:''' He highlighted achievements that were not mentioned including changes in food security, income and reduction in a poverty level. Replying on a question two he noted that, to be more successful there is a need of conducting comprehensive stakeholder analysis and agribusiness landscape mapping to bring more actors on board.

::'''Participant 7:''' She noted that Africa RISING gave scientists room to maneuver, flexibility and freedom to design and implement research especially developing scaling innovations.

::'''Participant 8:''' Africa RISING has succeeded to change behavior of people through nutrition component. Also, Africa RISING gave preference to Malian students to be engaged in PHD studies.

::'''Participant 9:''' He highlighted areas of improving including to improve mechanization, post-harvest, farm management, as well as social economic intensification including linking farmers to the market, access to finance and other access to information.

::'''Participant 10:''' He noted that on the achievements, the farmers must be invited to give testimonies themselves. Then on what they could have done differently, he noted that, they could have scaling technologies to the south midway rather than concentrating or focusing all the technologies in the north whereby this would have given Africa RISING the wider coverage interms of technological dissemination.

::'''Participant 11:''' The issue that has been raised is innovation platform that bringing together all partners and stakeholders for technology demonstrator validation in scaling. The second one is how to bring in together social innovations and technological innovations.

::'''Participant 12:''' On things that were not mentioned in achievements, is about internal studies on impact evaluation at each stage or phase of activities. On what to be done in future, he suggested that, they have to look on agroforestry integration into much of their activities.

''' Market Place of project level technologies/achievements'''
*'''''Genetic intensification'''''
:''Poster 1'': Resilient vegetable varieties for improved productivity and income in Tanzania'''
::Question: The yield report, is it irrigation or rain-fed system?
::Response: It is both in irrigated and rain-fed areas, but the experiment was done during the rainy season

::Question: During the rainy season, there is a lot of production. What do farmers do with the reduced price?
::Response: This is a season which farmers use to produce their vegetables, hence we also opted for introducing the varieties in the same season with that of farmers production calendar

::Question: What is the unit of analysis for your experiment?
::Response: We use small proportion of farmers field, but we translate it to productivity per acre

::Question: How do you increase shelve life of the tomato
::Response: We introduce a zero energy cold chamber, a freezing system and also solar driers are also interventions we use.

:''Poster 2'': New groundnut variety for improved resilience in central Tanzania
::Question: Did you do market demand analysis?
::Response: Yes, that is what we do in PVS and product profiling during our breeding process

::Question: In Ghana farmers face certified seeds for a wider adoption, is this problem the same in Tanzania too?
::Response: Yes, there is under investment in legumes and open pollinated crops. We are working with emerging seed companies to support high quality seed production

:''Poster 3'': Dual-purpose sorghum varieties tested in Mali
::Question: What would be the way forward for the local variety?
::Response: We will do more trials, to include local varieties in our selection

::Question: Have you disaggregated preferences by gender?
::Response: Yes, we did, but not presented here

::Question: How about quality of biomass?
::Response: The improved varieties have higher digestibility

::Question: Do you see penalties for either biomass or grain production?
::Response: Yes, we saw that for the local varieties.

:''Poster 4'': Improved feed and forage innovations in Ethiopia
::Question: Do farmers produce these forages at a commercial scale? Have you seen food-feed forages as well? which once do you think could scale to other countries?
::Response: Sweet Lupin is a food-feed crop. Oat is also food-feed. Cowpea is food-feed crop.

::Question: What is your evidence of labor reduction?
::Response: Women are involved in feeding livestock. When they have access to technologies such as feeding trough, this reduces their labor demand.

:''Poster 5'': Improving food security and household income in Tanzania through drought tolerant quality protein maize
::Question: How to sustain seed production, why doesn’t Meru company contribute to the variety maintenance?
::Response: Seed companies have their own priorities; they focus more on what brings money immediately.

:''Poster 6'': Improved crop varieties in Ethiopia
::Question: How do you tackle disease problem?
::Response: We introduce new crops to break the cycle, farmers also use packages

::Question: Seed, who supplies it?
::Response: We produce seeds with communities. There are no enough companies to supply formal seeds.

::Question: What is the level of availability of early generation seeds?
::response: We are working with the research system who are producing early generation seeds.

::Question: How many farmers adopt these varieties?
::Response: We do not have such a figure, but we have figures for total number of farmers who benefited from these technologies.

*'''''Ecological intensification'''''
:''Poster 1'': Developing agroforestry options using counter bunding technology in southern Mali
::Question: What type of the fodder trees are they? Do they fix nitrogen?
::Response: Yes, they are nitrogen fixing. These are trees chosen by farmers themselves

::Question: Seedling production for scaling, have you seen a problem around that?
::Response: We train farmers how to produce seedlings. Women farmers did more than what we trained them, expanding their seedling business into fruit tress as well.

::Question: Have you seen a difference in the nitrogen fixing fodders?
::Response: Yes, where we have nitrogen fixing tree species, crop production is significantly better

:''Poster 2'': Promoting climate resilient agriculture through in-situ rainwater harvesting
::Question: How long before the yield benefits drops down with the length of tight ridges?
::Response: For four season, the tight ridges perform well as long as the soil texture is fine

::Question: What time within the crop cycle should the ridges made?
::Response: We do them once and they keep them for years as residual

::Question: How about water logging condition?
::Response: This technology is mainly useful in moisture stress areas

::Question: is this mechanized or is it done manually? How does one do this for a large area?
::Response: We are using ox drawn implement, combining with hand hoes

:''Poster 3'': Creating multi-functional climate smart landscapes in Ethiopia
::Question: What is climate smart landscape? How does it creates income, improve nutrition etc?
::Response: Climate smart landscape, in Ethiopian context land size is too small, less than 0.25 ha. Landscapes are a good way to go, as you can address the three pillars of climate smart agriculture. Some of the interventions such as bee keeping could create job and increase income.

::Question: How are the gully rehabilitated?
::Response: When we select the interventions we bring stakeholders that would help us prioritize interventions. The gully rehabilitation depends on the niche, combining physical and biological.

::Question: Who is the end user of this tool/approach? When you scale out what are the mechanisms of scaling? What kind of governance do you set up for scaling?
::Response: The audience is the extension system. Scaling requires bringing stakeholders engaged in the system, helping actors to develop by-laws and all.

:''Poster 4'': In search of crop diversity and meaningful crop rotation
::Question: Where is the place of livestock in this small land?
::Response: This is goat livestock system, we are now introducing cow-peas for feed

::Question: The time to build up the fertility level takes time, how do you convince farmers?
::Response: If you do more mono cultures and you intensify like this, you are not missing. They will get the immediate benefits of changing crops and that benefits encourage them to wait for the soil benefits.

::Question: Which of the system was beneficial?
::Response: In variably, all the once we tried are better than the mono planning

:''Poster 5:'' Validation and demonstration of site-specific nutrient management
::Participants did not have questions for this poster.

:''Poster 6'': Cowpea living mulch for improving soil quality, food and nutritional security in Norther Ghana
::Question: What amount of of the cowpea do you use for mulching?
::Response: We use live mulching with cowpea

::Question: What are the ratio of land coverage by the two crops?
:: Response: it is 100% of use of land

::Question: Why is the technology not widely adopted?
::Response: It is a matter of social/cultural issue, farmers are so fond of their maize, they are afraid of inter-cropping. We need to break this. Otherwise, cowpea has good seed system and we use local variety, hence no problem of scaling cowpea.

:''Poster 7'': Improvement of inter-cropping efficiency using contour banding technology in southern Mali
::Question: Why do you use soybean, not cowpea
::Response: What we want to do is create business for the women. Cowpea is for eating, but soybean is business

:''Poster 8'': Soil and water conservation research and farmer capacity building in Northern Ghana
::Question: Who are the people who joined the training?
::Response: Anybody involved in this can join.

::Question: How do you attribute the benefits to the impacts?
::Response: We measured the results before and after the interventions

*'''''Socio-economic intensification'''''
:''Poster 1'': Air-tight grain storage in Tanzania
::Question: Did you make the metallic silos or you bought them?
::Response: They were manufactured by a trained maker

::Question: Did you compare with traditional silos?
::Response: The traditional silo is not easily to clear, so we did not include it as something to promote

::Question: On dietary diversity, did you see access to diverse food?
::REsponse:

::Question: What makes the silos a technology?
::Response: Hermetic storage are the technology

::Comment: It is clear how the technology leads to increased dietary diversity
::Response: When you have sufficient storage, you will get better income and then that could lead to better dietary diversity.

::Question: Who were the targets and how did they access the technologies?
::Response: We had a seed kind of access, where we provided initial access, but latter they were able to access it from the market

:''Poster 2'': Efficient feed utilization using improve feed trough
::Comment: A partner called UDS is missing in the presentation

::Question: Is there a way this technology can be accessed from the technology park and used to train farmers?
::Response: That depends on location, some locations the technology parks are tacit. For some locations, farmers want their lands back.

::Question: Have you seen this implemented/taken up by farmers own investment?
::Response: Some used it, modifying the design

::Question: Are the troughs for specific livestock types?
::Response: In Northern Ghana, farmers wanted it for small ruminants, but it is possible to use them to large ruminats as well

::Question: How is the cost, how scalable is it?
::Response: The one with iron sheet is a bit expensive

:''Poster 3'': Feed trough and feed storage innovations in Ethiopia
::Question: Is the feed trough robust to handle cattle, the feed storage, how much can it cost?
::Response: The innovation of the feed storage is it has a raised bed. The cost is around 10,000 birr. The feed trough is around 100 USD

::Question: For the cattle, is it for dairy or others?
::Response: It works for all

::Question: Do you have data on contribution of the trough to feed quality and eventually improving productivity?
::Response: Yes, we have some data comparing the feed stored outside and stored in the store

::Question: The feed storage with wholes, won’t it allow rain in?
::Response: This would require additional sheet over

::Question: How did you reach 3000, and what does it take to scale this to 3,000,000?
::Response: This figures were achieved through partnership with public partners. They used project money to support scaling work.

:''Poster 4'': Enhancing smallholder farmers access to mechanization through the group business model: The case of maize shelling machines in Ghana
::Question: How do the groups generate finance for their group?
::Response: The condition we gave them was to generate finance to get the machine. Then they collect service provision money from their members and non-members

:''Poster 5'': How Africa RISING Post harvest technologies are transforming lives in Tanzania
::Comment: The way we are presenting our arguments could be made more stronger, for example your work enhanced the agency of your people, you also enhanced gainful employment by the youth. We need to capture these and make our arguments stronger

::Question: I am interested to know the technologies you worked on, the way it is presented is broad
::Response: The first poster gives the high level impacts, this poster is about giving a story for a different audience.

:''Poster 6'': High value fruit trees in Ethiopia
::Question: In Ghana Avocado production is seasonal. Have you planned to do something on shelve life?
::Response: Avocado is type A and B, you can plant these two to increase yearly supply. But it is also possible to link with industries to process and increase shelve life

::Response: How come some farmers did not get income, like opportunity cost of eating it at home
::Response: Sure, that can be reported

::Comment: You can expand your argument to opportunity cost, which will help you sell the innovation. You can quantity this even at national level and make your story stronger.

:''Poster 7'': Small scale mechanization in Ethiopia
::Question: How can we diversity the services of the machines?
::Response: Sure, we added a number of services to the tractors

::Question: How did you do the validation and scaling work?
::Response: We did the validation of the technology through demonstration of the different services. We then compare the results with conventional approaches. These processes are then documented.

::Question: How about the cost?
::Response: The total cost may range from 2000-10000 USD. This may not be affordable, that is why we link it with service providers and link it with credit service.

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*'''Day TWO [8 February 2023]'''

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*'''Day THREE [9 February 2023]'''

'''Response to some of the concerns about the program-wide synthesis study results - Carlos Azzarri'''
::- For the case of Ethiopia the results were in line with expectation. However, to look at the situation more, the team should refine and verify the data and that is something they were doing.
::- There is a list of technology park adoption; farmer field school demonstration, method of delivering technologies. Among the challenge is that they didn’t collect data before the harvest that’s why they couldn’t collect good data on harvest.
::- Moreover, Carlos talked about the diversification. However, he doesn’t think it's necessarily inconsistent with the increasing yield because people are less diversified.
::- There are some Africa RISING successes in Ghana, but the team does not have accurate results since there are some villages that were dropped, 13 villages from the region out of 25 villages in phase one. So unfortunately the information was missed out, the plan is to do the analysis for Ghana by excluding these villages and see how the results are going to change particularly on the innovation that were demonstrated during phase one.
::- Improved crop varieties versus recycle seed; He noted that they will include the data. Also, there was a strong push on P jump in Tanzania that was not captured in the results and also they have the information of pigeon pea that they are looking at and would be included.

'''Experiences and lessons in harnessing diversity and research partnerships in projects like the Africa RISING partnerships?'''
*'''Mateete Bekunda presentation'''
::- There was a consistent funding from USAID that helped the project to continue.
::- The strong partnerships that kept communicate in every aspect of the project. The local partnership and implementers who helped scientists from across the globe to do activities on the ground. These people were trained to address different disciples.
::- Exchange visits were very important
::- By the end of March, Africa RISING would have produced more than 200 journal publications, ESA has also produced the handbook.
::- These are what the chief scientists see as the highlights of the program, but we also we welcome comments and suggests that you think would be good to document.

Discussions
::''Ramadjita'': Thank you for the nice and clear presentation about partnership. Yesterday I was interviewed by the team here, they asked me of keys words that characterized Africa RISING. And one of them I mentioned was partnership. But not all things are rosy, I think we should bring out the challenges of partnership. You cannot talk of mutually beneficial or equal partnership if the other partner is weak. We agree that we did well in partnership but we are talking of our NARS colleagues who are weak (not negatively), but they were most of the time financially challenged to make things done and CGIAR was wearing a big hat as supporters. The solution is the partnership can work if the countries and governments can invest in research and make the NARS stronger, use the donors funding as supporters. Let's challenge ourselves by bringing our NARS colleagues up and this can only be done by our countries.

::''Irmgard'': Not everything went well, I do not think Mateete said that the partnerships were equal, but I would say there were differences in the strengths of the partners (their institutional, intellectual, financial), but the partners grew through these partnerships, they became stronger and there was institutional improvement to the partner institution and I think the scientists benefited. We also had drop out of partners after a year or two years because not every institution could follow our pace, through was maybe due to some differences in institutional cultures and ways of working, ours had different priorities.
::From administrative point of view, Mateete emphasized we had annual fund deliveries, this means we had to do annual contracts with partners which was immense contrary activities. We had annual reports which were different, and partners had different reporting system. These were all cumbersome but it was worthy.

::''Miriam'': I was wondering whether there are lasting partnerships that are beyond Africa RISING
::''Fred'': Yes they are, these are taken through the initiative of SI-MFS, excellency in agronomy and UKAMA Ustawi
::''Irmgard''(additional): There has been staff who were trained through Africa RISING who are still working with the institutions, these are the lasting partnerships that still remain.

::''Birhanu'': Apart from the partnership, one of the component was to reach a certain number of direct and indirect beneficiaries. Can you say something about the progress in achieving that and what are the lessons learnt from it for the future work?
::''Bekunda''(response): What you just asked was in yesterday's presentation but in terms of reaching out to development partners and farmers, we have the number but I do not have them on head. But we are writing a paper on scaling and since what we are writing has the data until 2020, where we had reached about 900,000 farmers/households. But by the time we end in March, we should have gone beyond a million because some of our partners are continuing working with development partners to reach many farmers. In that situation we were providing backstops than research although we could probably design some research activities after getting information from our consumers that there was a problem, then we could research on that but reaching those partners was more on backstopping science on how to spread the technologies than doing research.

::''''Million'''': I really like the point you mentioned, as a social scientist I have been struggling to articulate in some of the inputs of things we have been writing. We can come up with some thematic areas that would help us to write up. For example whether partnership can be deliberately planned or is it a gradual learning process? and come up with case studies from regions. USAID was a generous and flexible funder that gave us room to experiment on what works and what does not work. The site coordination mechanism was plenty, exchange visits, capacity building. These are all builds up on partnership. All we need is to find thematic areas, put theoretical arguments and bring country examples. All these would make a good report or a journal. Missing points are on managing partners expectations which has been challenging, we struggled to explain that this was the research money and that we expected that some resources needed to be collected. In Ethiopia we managed to create strong local level partnerships but failed to have high level partnership, this was barrier because in some cases of scaling we needed some decision making support from the high level partnership. The diversity we have built have some short coming, if other partners were involved in earlier stage we could have very good outcome. ie finance institutes, media engagement. I think these should be considered in the initiatives.

::''Kalifa'': A partnership should be sustainable in its implementation, we need to take to consideration on the governments priorities and objectives so that we get the government's support during and after the program.

::Comment: Do you plan to have some partnership recommendations that would be documented for the benefit of the countries and other partners
::Bekunda: We are striving to do this, documenting these outputs. But have all these ideas to bring them out. Moreover, the program did not focus more on the policy because it was a difficult part for as to address and we did this deliberately

'''Building upon Africa RISING successes'''
*'''Fred Kizito presentation'''
::The way we have been discussing over the couple of days, it is very easy for one to lose track and think some sections are duplicative but we have tried to ensure that these sections are informing us on moving forward in relation to ongoing initiatives.
::Africa RISING as you have heard, it has built vibrate the inter-CGIAR, governmental as well as non governmental collaborations. It had arena of crop technologies, has strong synergies across disciplines, consistent buying from the donor because they knew what we were doing. But moving forward, what we are thinking is to kind of share with you some successes we think of harnessing the rich lessons that Africa RISING has done, this can be through the ongoing works like initiatives or bilateral projects to benefit from.
:: We believe in public good, there is a lot of data that can be added value on considering the different interpretations of the data scientists. We believe data value to expansive and elastic and its interpretation can deliver different facets for different audiences.

Events

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''This page lists important events happening at either program level (e.g. program learning events, M&E meetings etc.) or at project level (e.g. ESA planning meeting, field trip in West Africa, FEAST training course in Ethiopia). Please list these events under the correct heading and if you are unsure contact Jonathan Odhong' at ''''j.odhong [at] cgiar.org''''.'' ''For your information, all events are featured here, while only most important events are featured on the (Google) [[Calendar| calendar of events]].''

==Program level events==
===2023===
* 7-9 February: [[ProgCloseOut|Africa RISING End-of-Program Close-Out Event]] - Accra, Ghana

===2022===
* 8 April: [[2022closeoutbrainstoming|Brainstorm meeting for AR End-of-Program event]]
* [[pct| See PCT meetings]]

===2021===
* 8 October: [[SI-MFS|PCT organized interactions between select Global and Regional Initiatives and the SI-MFS Initiative]]
* 4 March: [[2021learningeventbrainstorm|Brainstorming meeting, Africa RISING Learning event]]
* [[pct| See PCT meetings]]

===2020===
* 3 - 5 November: [[ARmini-workshop Nov2020|Mini-workshop: The future of Africa RISING, SI and systems research in One CGIAR]] - Virtual via Zoom
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* [[pct| See PCT meetings]]

===2019===
* 5 December: [[CSs&PMs|AR Chief Scientists and Project Managers Meeting]] - Virtual (Skype)
* 4 - 9 February: [[Learning_event_2019|Africa RISING learning event]] - Lilongwe, Malawi
* [[pct| See PCT meetings]]

===2018===
* 30 October - 2 November: [[SI assesment framework workshop]]- Accra,Ghana
* 29 October: [[Data mngt training 2018]] - Accra, Ghana
* 1-2 October: [[Ext_PCT_Oct2018|Extended PCT meeting]] - Lilongwe, Malawi
* 13 - 15 March: [[ar_simlesa_learning_event_2018| Africa RISING - SIMLESA joint learning event]] - Arusha, Tanzania
* [[pct| See PCT meetings]]

===2017===
* [http://africa-rising-wiki.net/File:Africa_Rising_Arusha_SAG_23Jun17.docx= 22-23 June: PCT/SAG meeting, Arusha, Tanzania]
* 19 - 21 April: [[AR_ESA-WA_CS_TOT_crosslearning_visit| Africa RISING ESA & WA Chief Scientists cross-learning visit to Ethiopia for ToT on scaling technologies]]
* [[science_event17| 17-19 January: Africa RISING science for impact event, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania]]
* [[pct| See PCT meetings]]
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===2016===
* 21-23 March 2016: [[retreat2016| PCT phase 2 proposal development retreat, Arusha]]
* [[pct| See PCT meetings]]

===2015===
* 20 December 2015: [[pct14| Program coordination meeting (PCT14), Online]]
* 18 November 2015: [[pct13| Program coordination meeting (PCT13), Online]]
* 9 October 2015: [[pct12| Program coordination meeting (PCT12), Mali]]
* 6-8 October 2015:[[AR-strategy2015| Africa RISING Program Strategy Workshop, Mali]]
* 1-4 September 2015: [[pct11| Africa RISING phase 2 design team meeting, Wageningen University, Netherlands]]
* 31 August - 1 September 2015: [[typologies| Farm typology meeting, Wageningen University, Netherlands]]
* 5 June 2015: [[pct8| Program coordination meeting (PCT8)]]
* 2-5 June 2015: [[retreat2015| Africa RISING Program Coordination Team retreat, Washington DC]]
* 16 April 2015: [[pct7| Africa RISING Program Coordination Team(virtual) Meeting]]
* 19-25 April 2015: [[AR_WA-ESA Learning Trip to Ethiopia| Africa RISING West Africa and East/Southern Africa project scientists learning visit to Africa RISING Ethiopia]]
* 16 April 2015: [[pct7| Program coordination meeting (PCT7)]]
* [https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2015/webprogram/Session9761.html| 13 February 2015: Beyond Intensification: Measuring the "Sustainable" in Sustainable Intensification, San Jose, California]
* [http://africa-rising.net/2015/03/02/a-photo-trip-report-of-the-africa-rising-csisa-cross-learning-exchange/| 25 January - 8 February: Cross–learning visit to CSISA project sites in Bangladesh and India]

===2014===
* [[moneval3| 13-14 November 2014: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) meeting, Arusha, Tanzania]]
* [[Learning2| 11-12 November 2014: Africa RISING learning event, Arusha, Tanzania]]
* [[SAG2| 11-13 November: Science Advisory Group Second Meeting, Arusha, Tanzania]]
* [[PCT6| 10 November 2014: Program Coordination Team Meeting (PCT 6), Arusha, Tanzania]]
* [[SII_Arusha2014| 10 November 2014: Sustainable Intensification Indicators meeting, Arusha, Tanzania]]
* [[SAG1| 17-18 July 2014 : Science Advisory Group First Meeting, London, UK]]
* [[PCT5| 18 July 2014: Program Coordination Team meeting]]
* [[pct4| 10 January 2014: Program Coordination Team (virtual) meeting]] (PCT 4)

===2013===
* [[Feed Assessment Tools Training| 18-21 November 2013: Feed Assessment Tools Training Workshop]]
* [[Moneval2| 11-13 November 2013: Africa RISING-CSISA Joint Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) meeting]]
* [[pct3| 27 September 2013: Program Coordination Team (PCT) meeting, face-to-face, Addis Ababa]] (PCT 3)
* [[learning1| 24-26 September 2013: Africa RISING learning event]]
* [[Digital Storytelling training| 8-11 July 2013 : Digital Storytelling Training]]
* [[pct2| 24 June 2013 - Program Coordination Team (virtual) meeting]] (PCT 2)
* [[201303_Program_research_methodology_Malawi| 6-8 March 2013: Africa RISING research methodology meeting, Lilongwe, Malawi]]
* [[pct1| 25 January 2013: Program coordination team meeting]] (PCT 1)

===2012===
* [[moneval_experts_2012| 5-7 September 2012 Monitoring and evaluation expert meeting]]
* [[Research Framework Workshop July 2012| July 2012: Workshop on a Research Framework for Africa RISING, Nigeria]]

==East and Southern Africa project events==
===2023===
* 16 - 17 February: [[:File:ARFS Dodoma.pdf|Africa RISING farmers’ Field Days on Soil and Water Management Technologies in Singida and Dodoma]]
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===2022===
* 24 - 26 August: [[ESA ScienceImpactsReviewMeet 2022|Africa RISING ESA Project Science Outcomes and Impacts Review Meeting/ Tanzania Project Close-Out Event]] - Dododma, Tanzania
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===2021===
* 25-27 November:[[KaratuSeedFair2021|Karatu Local seed and Food Fair]] - Karatu, Tanzania
* 8 November:[[ESApartnersmeet November2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
* 7 October: [[ESApartnersmeet October2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
* 14 - 16 September: [[ARESA2021|ESA Project Review and Planning Meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
* 2 September: [[ESApartnersmeet Sept2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
* 5 August: [[ESApartnersmeetAug2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
* 1 July: [[Africa RISING ESA Project Partners meeting 1 July 2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
* 3 June: [[ESApartnersupdateJune2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
* 6 May: [[ESApartnersupdateMay2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
* 1 April: [[ESApartnersupdateApril2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
*15 - 17 March: [[:File:Worldveg regfarmermonitoring march2021.docx|Farmer monitoring visit in second generation villages]] - Karatu District
* 4 March: [[ESApartnersupdateMarch2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
*16-19 / 24 - 28 February: [[:File:Worldveg-dataandsuccess fieldtrip feb2021.docx|Data Quality assessment and success story documentation]] - Babati and Karatu Districts
* 4 February: [[ARESA2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS

===2020===
*16-18 December: [[:File:FFD veg Karatu Dec2020.docx| Farmer's field day - vegetable production for increased production]] - Karatu District, Tanzania
*8 - 13 December: [[:File:Worldveg-demonitor Dec2020.docx| Vegetable demo plots data collection in first generation villages]] - Karatu District
* 28-30 September: [[EsaPlan2020|Africa RISING ESA Review and Planning virtual meeting]] - virtual
* 31 August - 5 September: [[:File:WorldVegdemomngttrainingdocx.docx|Vegetable farmer's training on demo plot management]] - [Chemchem, Rhotia- Kainam, Bashay, Bugeri, Changarawe, Kambi ya Simba, Slahhamo and G’lambo Villages]Karatu District, Tanzania
* 18 - 22 August: [[:File:WVegToT.docx|Training of Trainers course (TOTs) on sustainable vegetable production]] - Karatu District, Tanzania
* 11-25 August: [[AR-NAFAKAcloseouts|Africa RISING - NAFAKA project close-out meetings]]
* 30 July: [[MwZmPlan20|Malawi and Zambia project partners review meeting]] - virtual
* 28 July: [[Tzplan20|Tanzania project partners review meeting]] - virtual
* 6-11 July: [[:File:Wvegmonitoringbackstopping.docx|Monitoring and backstopping for vegetable farmers]] - Karatu District, Tanzania
* 18 May: [[:File:WVegdemomonitoring.docx|WorldVeg demo plots monitoring visit]] - Karatu District, Tanzania
*17-23 March:[[:File:WvG-IdPfarmerfeedbackmeetings-March2020.docx|Iles de Paix - WorldVeg farmer feedback sessions]] - Karatu, District
*16 - 20 March: [[:File:WvG-IdPToT-March2020.docx|Vegetable component good agricultural practices (GAP) training for farmers]]- Babati District, Tanzania
*5 -13 March: Livestock component end-line survey on the impact of disseminating information through the MWANGA platform on knowledge attitude and practices of recipient farmers - Babati District, Tanzania
*[[:File:MalawiFieldDays March2020.docx| 4 - 6 March: Africa RISING Malawi farmer field days in Machinga, Ntcheu and Dedza Districts]]
*[[:File:ICER_MwTzItinerary.xlsx|'''26 January - 9 February:''']]Internally Commissioned External Review Team visit to project sites in Malawi & Tanzania)
*26 February: [[:File:CSB-DASPAFeb2020.pdf|Meeting between Community Seed Bank Lead Farmers, Dodoma Agricultural Seed Producers Association (DASPA) and Kibaigwa Flour Supplies Company (KFC)]]
*31 January: [[:File:WvG-IdPmeeting-31Jan2020.docx|Iles de Paix - WorldVeg partners meeting]] - Karatu, Tanzania
*17 January: [[:File:Rschtrainings dec2019.docx|On-farm research establishment for research farmer and research managed trials]] - Dodoma, Tanzania
*13 January: [[:File:DASPAJan2020.pdf|Kongwa Kiteto partners meeting with Dodoma Agricultural Seed Producers Association (DASPA)]]- Dodoma, Tanzania

==='''2019'''===
*29 December: [[:File:Rschtrainings dec2019.docx|On-farm research establishment for research farmer and research managed trials]] - Dodoma, Tanzania
*29 December: [[:File:KkteamtgJan2020.pdf|Africa RISING Kongwa Kiteto Project Partners meeting]] - Dodoma, Tanzania
* 11 - 13 November: [[Tzpreplan2019|Africa RISING Tanzania Research Team country pre-planning meeting]] - Dodoma, Tanzania
* 22 October: Pre-testing Africa RISING - NAFAKA training manuals and cropping calendars - Iringa, Tanzania
* 12 September: Africa RISING ESA Project Steering Committee Meeting - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
* 10 - 11 September: [[Esarevplan2019|Africa RISING ESA Project Review and Planning Meeting]] - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
*5 - 7 September: Training for farmers hosting poultry experiments – Seloto & Matufa, Babati, Tanzania
*3 – 4 September: Training for farmers hosting poultry experiments – Mlali, Kongwa, Tanzania
*31 August – 1 September: Training for farmers hosting poultry experiments – Mwanya, Kiteto, Tanzania
*30 August: Karatu seed fair and food fair - Karatu, Tanzania
*27 – 29 August: Training for farmers hosting dairy experiments – Babati, Tanzania
*26 August: Meeting with development partners for scaling livestock technologies – Babati, Tanzania
*19 - 27 August: Vegetable nutrition training for farmers - Babati, Tanzania
*14 - 16 August:[[BabatiPharvestraining Aug19| Post harvest handling and drying of vegetables training for farmer]] - Babati, Tanzania
* 8 August: Nane nane exhibition
*2 - 3 August: Introductory workshop on social science research on soil and water conservation practices in Kongwa/Kiteto - Dodoma, Tanzania
*1 - 7 August: Field visit/work social science research on soil and water conservation practices in Kongwa/Kiteto
*15 - 17 July: Africa RISING East and Southern Africa Project - Malawi Country Meeting - Lilongwe, Malawi
*9-12 July: Farmers field day - Grow and eat more vegetables for improved income and nutrition - Babati, Tanzania
*08 - 10 July: [[ESApreplan2019|Africa RISING East and Southern Africa Project - Tanzania Country Meeting]] - Arusha, Tanzania
*3 - 4 July:[[Ar-nafaka r&p2019| Africa RISING - NAFAKA Project review and planning meeting]] - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
*13 - 14 May:Africa RISING Tanzania Livestock Integration planning meeting - Arusha, Tanzania
* [[IOPmeeting| 15 April: Meeting on monitoring of AR technologies being scaled by Islands of Peace - Virtual (Skype)]]
*18 - 29 March: [[:File:Monitoring visit2019 Tz.pptx| Africa RISING Tanzania monitoring field visit - different project locations in Tanzania]]
*18 February: M&E Officer meeting with LEAD Foundation - Karatu, Tanzania

==='''2018'''===
* 3 - 5 October: [[ESA_rev_planning_Oct2018| Africa RISING ESA Project Review and Planning Meeting]] - Lilongwe, Malawi
* 27 September: [[AR-Zambia_Review-End-of-Project_Sept2018| End-of-Project meeting for Africa RISING going to scale in Eastern Province of Zambia Project]] - Chipata, Zambia
* 26 - 27 June: [[ar-nafaka_rev_planning_June2018| Africa RISING - NAFAKA annual review and planning meeting]] - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
* 14 June: [[ph_standards_training| Extension and producer organization leaders post-harvest training on grain quality standards]] - Mbeya,Tanzania
*13 April: [[MwFD_130418|Africa RISING Malawi Project farmers filed day]]- Linthipe EPA, Dedza District
* 24 - 25 April: [[esa_wa_strategic_planning| Africa RISING ESA & WA projects joint strategic planning meeting]] - Livingstone, Zambia
* 5 - 12 March: [https://spark.adobe.com/page/ITdAoZGJ3CYiB/| Africa RISING - SIIL Joint field visit to Tanzania] (different sites AR & SIIL project sites) - Tanzania
* 15 - 17 February: [https://spark.adobe.com/page/6mgR6jpa6wpVG/| Malawi Field monitoring visit] - Dedza, Machinga, Mangochi, Malawi
* 12 -14 February: [https://spark.adobe.com/page/CfXHi9RvkbYbO/| Zambia Field monitoring visit ] - Chipata, Zambia
* 5 - 6 February: [https://africa-rising.net/2018/03/04/africa-rising-nafaka-project-trains-government-extension-staff-and-farmers-in-tanzania-on-fall-army-worm-management/| Africa RISING - NAFAKA Project training for extension staff on fall army worm management ]- Iringa, Tanzania
* 22 - 26 January: [https://africa-rising.net/2018/03/04/africa-rising-nafaka-project-trains-government-extension-staff-and-farmers-in-tanzania-on-fall-army-worm-management/| Africa RISING - NAFAKA Project training for extension staff on fall army worm management] - Iringa, Tanzania

==='''2017'''===
* 23 November: [[AR_ESA_WA_Project_Team_Meeting_23Nov| Africa RISING ESA and West Africa project team meeting]] - Ibadan, Nigeria
* 11 - 15 September: [[ESA_review_planning_2017| Africa RISING ESA Project Review and Planning Meeting]] - Zanzibar, Tanzania
* 7 - 8 September: [[ AR-Zambia_Review-End-of-Project_Sept2017| AR going to scale in Eastern Province of Zambia Project Review and End-of-Project Meeting]] - Lusaka, Zambia
* 28 - 29 August: [[AR-NAFAKA_planning_meeting_August2017| Africa RISING-NAFAKA scaling project planning meeting]], Dar es Salaam - Tanzania
* 14-15 August: [[AR_livestock_stakeholders_meeting_August2017| Livestock stakeholders meeting]] - Babati, Tanzania
* 8 August: Nane nane agricultural fair exhibitions in Arusha and Kongwa/Kiteto
* 26 - 28 July: [[Vegetable_nutrition_training_July2017| Vegetable nutrition training Matufa, Seloto and Shaurimoyo]] - Babati District, Tanzania
* 7 - 10 July: [[:File:Poultry_husbandry_practices_training_AR_Tz.docx| Poultry husbandry practices training]] - Babati, Tanzania
* 3 - 4 July: [[AR-NAFAKA_end-of-phase&review_meeting_July2017| Africa RISING-NAFAKA scaling project end-of-phase and review meeting]], Dar-es-Salaam - Tanzania
* 29 - 30 June: [[INVC_BA_Review&Planning_June2017| INVC Bridging Activity Project review and planning meeting]] - Lilongwe, Malawi
* 28 - 29 June: [[Veg_FFD_Bermi_Shaurimoyo_June2017| Vegetables team farmers field day in Bermi and Shaurimoyo Villages]] - Babati District, Tanzania
* 28 June: [[ASA_field_day_June2017| Field day at Arusha Seed Farm]] - Arusha, Tanzania
* 16 June: [[input-output_market_linkage_for_farmers_training| Training on how to link the target farmers’ groups/pmgs to inputs and output markets]] - Babati District, Tanzania
* 12 - 13 June: [[GART_June2017_Lilongwe| Gender in Agricultural Research Training]] - Lilongwe, Malawi
* 8 - 9 June: [[GART_June2017_Arusha| Gender in Agricultural Research Training ]]- Arusha, Tanzania
* 5 - 7 June: [[AR_Malawi_sys_design_model_training_June2017| Africa RISING Malawi cropping system design modelling training]] - Lilongwe, Malawi
* 4 - 10 June: [[:File:Livestock_training_AR_Tz.pptx| Training on Improved forage production and Use to Dairy Farmers ]]- Babati, Tanzania
* 5 June: [[AR_and_NAFAKA_comms._joint_meeting_June2017| Africa RISING project and NAFAKA project communications team joint meeting ]](virtual - Skype)
* 25 May: Malawi Research team meeting - Lilongwe, Malawi
* 16 - 19 May: [[:File:Feed_processing_training_AR_Tz.docx| Feed processing and Improved use of crop residues training]] - Babati, Tanzania
* 15 - 19 May: [https://africa-rising.wikispaces.com/file/detail/Haroon_ET_ToT_Report_May2017.docx| Feedback report by Haroon on AR Ethiopia ToT training for scaling partners] in Amhara region
* 11 - 12 May: [[AR-NAFAKA_Vegetables_IPM_training_Babati_May2017| Training on integrated pest and diseases management strategies for vegetables]] - Babati, Tanzania
* 9 - 11 May:[[AR-NAFAKA_extension_officers_training_May2017| Africa RISING-NAFAKA scaling project training for government extension staff from Kongwa and Kiteto districts in Tanzania]]
* 8 - 14 May: [[:File:Dairy_poultry_housing_training_AR_Tz.pptx| Smallholder dairy/poultry housing and feed storage training]] - Babati, Tanzania
* 3 - 10 May: [[:File:Poultry_husbandry_practices_training_AR_Tz.docx| Poultry husbandry practices training]] - Babati, Tanzania
* 3 May: [[AR_and_NAFAKA_comms._joint_meeting_May2017| Africa RISING project and NAFAKA project communications team joint meeting (]]virtual - Skype)
* 24 - 29 April: [[kongwa_kiteto_internal_review_April2017| Kongwa & Kiteto team research meeting ]] - Dodoma, Tanzania
* 10 - 13 April: [[AR_Babati_Collective_Action_Training_April2017| Farmer group dynamics, leadership and soil and water management training]] , Babati -Tanzania
* 5 - 21 April: [[:File:Forage_est_n_data_collection_AR_Tz.ppt| Forage establishment and data collection]] - Babati, District
* 30 March - 1 April: [[Extension_Training_AR-MalawiProjects2017| Sustainable intensification for building resilience in farming systems workshop]] - Lilongwe, Malawi
* 24 March: [[farmers_extension_training_on_agribusiness_Babati_March2017| Training farmers and extensionists in marketing ,agri business skills, and the use of e-soko access market information]] - Babati District, Tanzania
* 22 March: Farmer's field day/exchange in Dedza EPA (about 60 farmers from Nsipe EPA from Ntcheu District visiting) - Malawi
* 21 March - 30 March: [[AR_Tanzania_Monitoring_Visit| Africa RISING Management team visit to project sites in Tanzania]]
* 20 March: Farmer's field day/exchange, Mtiya village, Mangochi EPA (about 60 farmers from Lungwena EPA visiting) - Malawi
* 16 March: Farmer's field day/exchange, Kandeu village, Ntcheu EPA (about 60 farmers from Golomoti EPA visiting) - Malawi
* 16 March: [[Arusha_pilot_workshop_for_ARgendertools| Short workshop to pilot gender tools for evaluating Africa RISING innovations, Arusha - Tanzania]]
* 10 March: [[:File:Babati_Partners_Minutes_Feb2017.doc| Babati Research Team meeting]] (virtual)
* 10 March: Updates on work done and streamlining roles and responsibilities for 2017 activities, Babati DAICO offices - Tanzania
* 28 February: [[Babati_foragechoppers_research_review_workshop| Workshop to review research on forage choppers on smallholder farms in Babati District ]](held as part of [[Livestock_component_review_&_planning| Livestock component review and planning meeting]])
* 20 - 22 February:[[AR_management_monitoring_visit_Zambia_Feb2017| Africa RISING Management Monitoring Visit to project sites in Eastern Province of Zambia]]
* 17 February: Farmer's field day Naymbi and Ntubwi (Machinga EPA) - Malawi (held as part of Africa RISING management visit to project sites)
* 15 - 18 February: [[AR_management_monitoring_visit_Malawi_Feb2017| Africa RISING Management Monitoring Visit to project sites in Malawi]]
* 27 February-3 March: [[Livestock_component_review_&_planning| Livestock component review and planning meeting, Arusha -Tanzania]]
* 22-24 February: [[Babati_wardlevel_r4d_inception_meetings| Ward level R4D platform inception meetings, Babati district - Tanzania]]

===2016===
* 17 November: [[Babati-JUMBA_stakeholders_meeting-Nov2016| JUMBA Annual Stakeholders Meeting, Babati District-Tanzania]]
* 5-8 October: [[AR_ESA_phase2_inception-review&planning_Oct2016| Phase 2 inception/planning meeting]], Lilongwe, Malawi
* 3-4 October: [[AR_ESA_phase2_participatory-research-design-training_Oct2016| Training workshop on farming systems research methods]], Lilongwe, Malawi
* 20 September: [[:File:Minutes_BabatiRschTeam_20Sept2016.doc| Babati Research Team meeting]] (virtual)
* 30 - 31 August: [[AR-Zambia_Rev&Plan_Aug2016| AR going to scale in Eastern Province of Zambia Project review and planing meeting]], Lusaka - Zambia
* 4 - 5 July: [[AR-NAFAKA rev&plan_July 2016| Africa RISING-NAFAKA scaling project review and planning meeting]], Dar-es-Salaam - Tanzania
* 30 June - 2 July: [[AR_ESA_phase-1-legacy-meeting_June2016| Africa RISING ESA phase 1 legacy meeting]], Dar-es-Salaam-Tanzania
* 13 - 14 June: [[AR-INVC_bridging_activity_inception_June2016| Africa RISING - INVC Bridging Activity Inception Workshop]], Lilongwe - Malawi
* 4 June: [https://www.slideshare.net/secret/kWdquDXhgOEeIb| Africa RISING - NAFAKA Project farmers field day] in Morogoro, Tanzania
* 6 - 10 June: [[AR-NAFAKA scaling project farmer field days in Babati District Arusha - Tanzania| Africa RISING-NAFAKA scaling project farmer field days in Babati District, Arusha - Tanzania]]
* 27 May: [[:File:AR_Tz_BabatiRSCH_minutes - May 2016 edited.doc| Babati Research Team meeting]] (virtual)
* 18 May: [[:File:Ratiba siku ya Wakulima Selotho Babati tarehe 18 Mei.docx| Farmers Field Day Seloto Village]], Babati District -Tanzania
* 6 May: [https://www.slideshare.net/secret/J5dKGEDiGorpT9| Africa RISING - NAFAKA Project farmer's learning visit in Kiteto], Tanzania
* 3 - 4 May: [[:File:AR-NAFAKA ME training May2016.docx| ME training]], Morogoro - Tanzania (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* 19 April: [[:File:AR-NAFAKA Project team visit to Sabilo-Seloto Villages - April 2016.docx| Project team participatory learning visit to Sabilo and Seloto Villages]], Babati District - Tanzania
* 18 - 19 April: [[AR-NAFAKA_project_team_meeting-April2016| Project team review meeting,]] Arusha - Tanzania (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* 8 - 30 March: Establishment of green forage/crop residues based rations field trip, Babati District - Tanzania
* 16 - 17 March: Integrated livestock feeds workshop, Arusha - Tanzania
* 24 - 26 February: [[ESA_phase2_proposal_writeshop| Africa RISING ESA Phase 2 proposal write shop, Arusha - Tanzania]]
* 11 - 18 February: Aflatoxin bio-control applications, Babati District - Tanzania
* 24 - 30 January: Monitoring progress on demo sites in Babati, Kongwa-Kiteto and Mbozi Districts - Tanzania (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* 22 January: Malawi - R4D platform & researchers combined field trip to Linthipe
* 21 January: [[:File:Rice Team Stakeholders Planning Meeting - Jan 2016.docx| Rice team stakeholders planning meeting Morogoro - Tanzania AR - NAFAKA scaling project]]

===2015===
* 11 December: [[:File:Maize minutes - Dec 11 HS input.doc| Maize team planning meeting Morogoro - Tanzania AR - NAFAKA scaling project]]
* 4-5 December: Lead farmers and extension officers training (maize/legumes), Kilolo District - Tanzania (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* 1-2 December: Lead farmers and extension officers training (maize/legumes) , Mbozi District - Tanzania (AR-NAFAKA scaling project)
* 29 Nov - 1 December: Site selection field trip for Variety and fertilizer demonstrations in Kilombero region (rice) (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* 26 - 27 November: - Site selection field trip - variety, fertilizer demos, alternate wetting and drying (AWD) demos in Dakawa region (rice) (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* 21 November: Field staff training on new technology demonstration protocols(rice) (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* 20 November: [[:File:Malawi Partners Meeting -201115.docx| Malawi Partners Meeting]]
* 11-14 November: [[:File:AFRICA RISING feedback meetings nov 2015.doc| Babati feedback meetings and site selection meetings]]
* 9 -10 November: [[:File:AR Joint Planning Meeeting - Nov 2015 - final edition.doc| Africa RISING Africa RISING - NAFAKA scaling project joint planning meeting]], Arusha-Tanzania
* 6 November: Malawi - [[:File:Dedza R4D platform minutes_November 2015.doc| Dedza R4D platform meeting]]
* 29-30 September: [[maize-team-Sept2015| Maize team meeting (AR - NAFAKA scaling project]])
* 18 September: [[:File:Malawi Partners Meeting -180915.docx| Malawi Partners Meeting]]
* 25-26 August: Africa RISING PMMT Training in Arusha, Tanzania
* 17-28 August: [[Mbeya & Iringa scoping visit| Scoping visit to Mbeya and Iringa, Tanzania]] (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* [[Sharing Africa RISING Baseline Data Summary with Farmers in Malawi| 20-22 July: Sharing Africa RISING Baseline Data Summary with Farmers in Malawi]]
* [[Africa RISING PMMT in Lilongwe (Malawi)| 17-18 July: Africa RISING PMMT Training in Lilongwe, Malawi]]
* 16 July: [[:File:ESA Steering Committee - 290715.doc| Africa RISING ESA Project Steering Committee Meeting Mangochi Malawi ]]
* 14 -16 July: [[ESA_review_meeting2015_16| Africa RISING ESA Project Annual Review and Planning Meeting]], Mangochi, Malawi
* 10 July: [[:File:PMT meeting minutes1 - 1310.doc| Management Team Meeting AR - NAFAKA scaling project]]
* 8-10 July: [[AR-NAFAKA-TUBOCHA_rev&plan_July2015| Annual Review and Planning Meeting]] (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* [[:File:Malawi Partners Meeting -180615.docx| 18 June: Malawi Partners Meeting]]
* 12 June: Farmers Field Day (Long Village, Babati District)
* [[FFD2015_KilosaDistrict| 10-13 June: Farmers Field Day (Ulaya Village, Kilosa District)]]
* [[:File:Dedza R4D platform launch_May 2015.docx| 15 May: Dedza District R4D Platform launch]]
* 12 - 13 May:Farmers Field Day in Kongwa - Kiteto Districts
* 5 - 7 May: Implementation review meeting for the maize based component (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* 20 - 21 April: [[Forage, Data Collection and Soil Water Management Training - Babati| Forage, Data Collection and Soil Water Management Training - Babati, Tanzania]]
* 31 March - 1 April: [[Meeting of Partners Africa RISING - NAFAKA and TUBOCHA Scaling Project| Meeting of Partners]] (AR-NAFAKA scaling project)
* 22 February - 16 March:[[ESA_Project_External_Evaluation| External Mid-Term Review of Africa RISING East/Southern Africa Project (Tanzania and Malawi only)]]
* 27-28 January: [[Babati_JUMBA_Retreat2015| Babati R4D Platform (JUMBA) Retreat]]
* 19-20 January: Malawi Project Sites Field Visits

===2014===
* [http://africa-rising.net/2015/01/19/research-for-by-farmers/| 14-18 December: Farmer Feedback Meetings in Babati District Project Sites]
* [[:File:AR-TUBOCHA-NAFAKA_planning meetingprogrammaize based component.docx| 25 - 26 November: Maize based component planning meeting]] (AR-NAFAKA scaling project)
* [[Work package 3 Introduction to pasture, forage and establishment training workshop| 18 November: Africa RISING (WP3) introduction to pasture/forage and establishment training workshop, Babati, Tanzania]]
* [[:File:SAGMinutes-Nov2014.docx| 13 November: Scientific Advisory Group meeting Arusha Tanzania]]
* [[:File:AR_NAFAKA_TUBOCHA_InceptionAgendaListofParticipants.doc| 30 - 31 October: Project inception meeting]] (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* [[Babati District R4D Platform, General Meeting| 22 October: Babati District R4D Platform, General Meeting]]
* [[:File:Africa RISING East an Southern Africa Project Steering Committee Meeting....docx| 10 September: ]]span stylefont-family: Calibrisans-serif font-size: 11pt[[:File:Africa RISING East an Southern Africa Project Steering Committee Meeting....docx| ESA Steering Committee meeting]]
* [[ESA_review_meeting2014_15| 9-11 September: Africa RISING ESA Review and Planning meeting, Arusha, Tanzania]]
* [[Participatory systems modelling workshop by MSU, Zambia| 13-15 August: Participatory systems modelling workshop by MSU, Zambia]]
* [[:File:SIMLEZA Planning and Evaluation meeting August 2014.docx| 5-8 August: SIMLEZA planning meeting]]
* [[:File:Africa RISING Malawi Writeshop for website.docx| 27 July - 1 August: write-shop to prepare handbook on scalable technologies Malawi]]
* [[:File:Afria RISING Babati Team Wite-shop Arusha 21-24 Jul.doc| 21-24 July: RO1 write shop Babati team]]
* May: Field days Kongwa-Kiteto, Babati, Tanzania
* [[Impact of Sustainable Intensification on Landscapes and Livelihoods; Project Introductory workshop, Mfuwe and Lusaka, Zambia| 13- 15 May: Impact of Sustainable Intensification on Landscapes and Livelihoods; Project Introductory workshop, Mfuwe and Lusaka, Zambia]]
* [[:File:Trip Report to Africa RISING Sites in Tanzania 9-14 April 2014.docx| 12-14 April: Steering Committee members field trip to Babati sites]]
* [[Inauguration of Babati R4D Platform, Babati,Tanzania| 9-11 April: Inauguration of Babati R4D Platform, White Rose Hotel, Babati,Tanzania]]
* 3-5 April: Regional logframe development meeting, Salima, Malawi
* 16-21 March: USAID field trip to Tanzania action sites
* [[Exchange visit to Malawi sites by Tanzania and Zambia research teams| 6-7 March: Exchange visit to Malawi sites by Tanzania and Zambia research teams]]
* [[:File:Africa RISING INNOVATION PLATFORM report final 3.docx| 27 February: Africa RISING innovation platform workshop Dodoma Tanzania.]]
* 17-20 January: Field visit to Malawi and Zambia sites by Project Coordinator and Chief Scientist

===2013===
* [[Joint Babati Africa RISING field planning meeting| 17-19 October: Joint Babati Africa RISING field planning meeting]]
* [[Africa RISING - SIMLEZA collaboration meeting| 6-7 September: Africa RISING-SIMLEZA collaboration meeting]]
* [[ESA_PSC Meeting Malawi| 4 September: Africa RISING ESA Project Steering Committee meeting]]
* [[ESA_review_meeting| 3-5 September 2013: Africa RISING ESA review and planning meeting]]
* [[Modelling workshop and planning meeting for Malawi component| 29 July-1 August: Modelling workshop and planning meeting for Malawi component]]
* [[SIMLEZA - Africa RISING meeting, 28-29 May 2013| 28-29 May 2013: SIMLEZA - Africa RISING Meeting - Lilongwe]]
* [[:File:Survey Design Workshop Report Dar es Salaam 27-30 Jan 2013.doc| 28-30 January 2013: Research Output 1 and ME Survey Instrument Design and harmonization Meeting: Dar es Salaam ESA Project-wide]]

===2012===
* [[:File:Report -Participaory Training Workshop for Extension Agencies in Malawi.docx| 7-10 November 2012: Participatory Training Workshop for Extension Agencies in Malawi]]
* [[ESA_planning_Oct2012| October 2012: East and Southern Africa annual review and planning meeting]]
* [[esa_mycoxins| April 2012: Mycotoxin prevalence and biocontrol in Tanzania Early Win project inception workshop, Tanzania]]
* [[dar_workshop| February 2012: Sustainable Intensification of Cereal‐based Farming Systems in East and Southern Africa - Project Inception Workshop, Tanzania]]

==Ethiopian Highlands project events==
===2022===
*24 - 25 January: [[ETHCloseOut| Africa RISING Ethiopian Highlands Project Closeout Event & Mixed Farming Systems Initiative Meeting for Ethiopia Stakeholders]] - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [ILRI Campus]

===2020===
*17 August: SNNPR project progress update meeting – virtual
*30 July: Africa RISING project updates with site coordinators – virtual
*15 May: Forage seed scaling options discussion meeting – virtual
*9 May: Africa RISING project in the Ethiopia scaling and research for development planning meeting- virtual
*3-6 February: Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands annual planning, reviewing and staff retreat Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

===2019===
*3 December: Field day in Bale - Oromia, Ethiopia
*3 November: Training on Feed & Forage Management, Seed production, Muti-stakeholders’ engagements, Gender and Data management - Addis Ababa and Bishofthu,Ethiopia
*5 November: [[FFDlemo2019 | Field day in Lemo]] - Hossahan, SNNPR Ethiopia
*[[:File:ICER_EtItinerary.xlsx|'''28 September - 7 October:''']]Internally Commissioned External Review Team visit to project sites in Ethiopia

===2018===
* 28 September - 10 October: Internally Commissioned External Review Team visit to project sites in Ethiopia - different activity sites in Ethiopia
* 23 May: 3 May 2018: Africa RISING Key partners planning meeting. Debre Birhan, Amhara, Ethiopia
* 21 - 22 May: [[ETH rev planning May2019 | Africa RISING Ethiopian Highlands Project Review and Planning Meeting]] - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
* 13 May 2018: Africa RISING Key partners planning meeting; Maychew, Tigray ,Ethiopia
* 3 May 2018: Africa RISING Key partners planning meeting; Hossana,SNNPR,Ethiopia
* 19-21 April 2018: Africa RISING Ethiopia team retreat, Bishoftu, Ethiopia
* 16-20 April 2018: Training on the Rural Household Multiple Indicator Survey ( RHoMIS),ILRI Campus, Addis Ababa,Ethiopia
* 16-18 March 2018; The 1st International conference on Enhancing Sustainable Development toward Climate Change Adaptation and Resilient Environment,Shashemene, Ethiopia
* 26-27 February 2018: Training on Management and Utilization of Improved Forages, Lemo woreda, SNNPR, Ethiopia
* 2 January 2018: Africa RISING Sinana site successfully organized mid-season evaluation field day at Selka kebele, Oromia region,Ethiopia

===2017===
* 24 December, 2017: Africa RISING Basona site together with the Woreda livestock development & promotion office had organized a field day at Goshe Bado Kebele,Amhara region,Ethiopia
* 20 December 2017:Africa RISING Sinana Site organized farmers’ training on cultivated fodder management and utilization in Goba district: Oromia region, Ethiopia
* 23 November 2017:The second SAIRLA - National Learning Alliance Workshop , ILRI campus, Addis Ababa , Ethiopia
* 2 December 2017: Africa RISING Sinana Research site effectively organized a midseason evaluation field day on faba bean, chick pea and malt barley PVS at Ilu-Sanbitu kebele,Oromia region, Ethiopia
* 29 November to 1 December 2017: Africa RISING Sinana Site in collaboration with partners,successfully organized farmers’ training on cultivated forages management and utilization in three kebeles of sinana district and one kebele of Agarfa district.,Oromia region, Ethiopia
* 15-16 November 2017: Feed conservation and utilization training,Gudo Beret Kebele, Amhara region
* 5 - November 2017: Africa RISING Endamehoni Site had mid season evaluation on Malt barley, Fababean and chickpea PVS,Tigray region,Ethiopia
* 5 November 2017: Field day for main cropping season R4D and scaling activities,Gudo Beret Kebele, Amhara Region
* 19-21 October 2017: Africa RISING Sinana team organized a field visit to conduct M&E of crop technologies scaling/pre-scaling in Sinana, Goba, Dinsho and Agarfa woredas of Bale Zone,Oromia region, Ethiopia
* 11 October 2017: Research dialogue on SAI with SAIRLA-NLA research boundary partners, ILRI Campus , Addis Ababa,Ethiopia
* On 4 October 2017: Field visit to Africa RISING animal feed adaptation trials at Ilu-Sanbitu kebele,Oromia region, Ethiopia
* 21-26 September 2017: Field days,Sinana; Goba; Dinsho and Agarfa woredas, bale Zone, Oromia region
* 6 September 2017: SAIRLA- National Learning Alliance(NLA) Ethiopia steering committee meeting, ILRI campus Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
* 22-24 July 2017 Third round of training on apple production and management,Tarmaber Woreda,Amhara region, Ethiopia
* 15-17 July 2017 Second round of training on apple production and management , Angolelana Tera Woreda, Amhara region ,Ethiopia
* 8 - 10 July 2017: First round of training on apple production and management, Basona Worena woreda, Amhara region, Ethiopia
* 29 June 2017: Development Agents training on how to manage and utilize Africa RISING crops and livestock feed technologies/innovations, mobilize and engage farmers for wider scaling- Oromia Region, Ethiopia
* 27 June 2017: [[:File:Bahir Dar trip report.docx| Discussion on production of early generation high quality seed potato for Belg 2018 Africa RISING Adet Amhara Region Ethiopia ]]
* 17 June 2017: Taining for Livestock and Crop Development Agents, Maichew ATVET college campus, Tigray
* 6 June 2017 : Training for Development partners on Africa RISING Ethiopia validated Technologies and scaling plan, Amhara Region
* 2 June 2017: Training on Apple and Mango orchard management, disease and pest management practices, Tigray, Ethiopia
* 24-26 April 2017:Training of Trainers (ToT) for scaling of technologies and practices of the Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands, Amhara region ,Ethiopia
* 19-21 April 2017:Training of Trainers (ToT) for scaling of technologies and practices of the Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands, Tigray region ,Ethiopia
* 4 -6 April 2017: Training of Trainers (ToT) for scaling of technologies and practices of the Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands, Hossana, SNNPR
* [[27-28 March SAIRLA– National Learning Alliance Launching and Outcome Mapping Workshop,ILRI campus Addis Ababa| 2]][[27-28 March SAIRLA– National Learning Alliance Launching and Outcome Mapping Workshop,ILRI campus Addis Ababa| 7-28 March SAIRLA– National Learning Alliance Launching and Outcome Mapping Workshop,ILRI campus Addis Ababa]]
* 25 February 2017: Briefing partners on Africa RISING best technologies and practices and soliciting partners scaling plan, Bale Robe ,Oromia Region 
* 27 January 2017: Basona Werena site half day meeting to have discussion with key zonal and Woreda partners of the project tested and validated technologies/innovations,Amhara region
* 13 January 2017: Africa RISING Oromia region, Sinana site, meeting with decision makers from key Government offices,Oromia region

===2016===
* 22 December 2016: Africa RISING Sinana Research site farmer field day at Ilu-Sanbitu and Salka Kebeles,Oromia region
* 21-Decemebr 2016: Africa RISING Endamehoni site zonal level scaling out discussion,Tigray region
* [[Africa RISING_LIVES_N2Africa| 8-9 December:Workshop and Exhibition on Promoting Productivity and Market Access Technologies and Approaches to Improve Farm Income and Livelihoods in Ethiopia: Lessons from Action research projects]]
* 6 December : Africa RISING CGIAR partners monthly meeting, ILRI campus ,Addis Ababa,Ethiopia
* 1-2 December : evidence generation for sustainable land management and integrated soil fertility management practice in Ethiopia , EIAR campus, Addis Ababa
* [[ethiopia_planning_nov2016| 29-30 November: Africa RISING Ethiopia review and planning meeting, Addis Ababa Ethiopia]]
* 27-28 October: Lemo/Hossana site farmers’ field day, SNNPR
* 5-6 May : Debre Birhan team visit to watershed in Hossana , Lemo woreda
* 3-4 May : Hosanna team watershad visit to Gudo Beret and Adisge: Basona Worena woreda
* 15 April: Independent Science Partnership Council forum(SF16) participants field visit to Africa RISING site in Ethiopia : Basona Worena woreda
* 12-14 April :Independent Science Partnership Council forum(SF16) , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
* 4 April : Africa RISING CGIAR partners monthly meeting, ILRI campus ,Addis Ababa,Ethiopia
* 25 March : Forage Production, Feed management and Utilization Training for farmers, Gudo Beret Kebele,Basona worena woreda
* 22 March: Forage Production, Feed management and Utilization Training for farmers,Gosh Bado Kebele , Basona worena woreda
* 25-27 February : EIAR 50th anniversary exhibition, EIAR campus ,Addis Ababa
* 25-26 February :Africa RISING nutrition research Training of Trainers (ToT), Debre Birhan 
* 15-18 February : Africa RISING nutrition research Training of Trainers (ToT) ,Sinana
* [[ethiopia_planning_feb2016| 10-11 February: Ethiopia Review and Planning meeting]]
* 28 January : Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands –CGIAR partners monthly meeting

===2015===
* 1st December 2015, Africa RISING Sinana site farmer’s field day at Salka Kebele
* 25 November 2015: Africa RISING Sinana site end season evaluation field day at Ilu-Sanbitu kebele
* 28 October : Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands –CGIAR partners monthly meeting
* 27th and 28th October: field day in Lemo woreda
* 16 - 17 October:Africa RISING Basona Worena site field day
* 8 October: Africa RISING Endamehoni site field visit for higher officials/ policymakers.
* 17-18 August: [[Project Monitoring and Mapping Tool(PMMT), ILRI ,Addis Ababa| Project Monitoring and Mapping Tool(PMMT) Training, Axum Meeting room , ILRI ,Addis Ababa]]
* [[ethiopia_writeshop_2015| 4-7 August: Africa RISING Ethiopia writeshop, ILRI, Addis Ababa]]
* 30 June: Sinana Woreda 3rd Innovation Platform( IP) meeting
* 27 June: Training of Household Survey Enumerators, Jegol meeting room ,ILRI ,Addis Ababa
* [[ethiopia_partners_meeting_20150625| 25 June: Africa RISING CGIAR Partners monthly meeting :InfoCentre ,ILRI,Addis Ababa]]
* 15-23 June: Nutrition research household survey, Basona Worena and Sinana Woredas
* [[livestock-fish/ethiopia_peg_2015| 15-19 June: Participatory Epidemiology and Gender training : ILRI Addis Ababa]]
* 12 -13 June: Basona Worena 3rd Innovation Platform(IP) meeting
* 6-7 June: Endamehoni Woreda 3rd Innovation Platform (IP) meeting
* 2-3 June: Lemo Woreda 3rd Innovation Platform (IP) meeting
* 1-5 June: Training of 6 Africa RISING service providers on small mechanization (two-wheel tractors and ancillary equipment),ILRI Addis Ababa
* [[ethiopia_partners_meeting_20150512| 12 May: Africa RISING CGIAR Partners monthly meeting: Info Centre , ILRI Addis Ababa]]
* 19-26 April: Ethiopia Landscape / Watershed Exchange Visit
* 2-3 April: pre-survey enumerator training workshop , ILRI Addis Ababa
* 1 April : Africa RISING project mid-term review half day feedback workshop, Konso Meeting Room , ILRI Addis
* 22 March- 2 April: [[ETH Project External Evaluation| Africa RISING Ethiopia project internally commissioned external evaluation: Lemo and Endamhoni woredas]]
* 19 February: 2nd Innovation Platform meeting In Lemo woreda

===2014===
* 20-25 December: a training workshop on watershed management and field visit program: Michew and (Tigray)
* 17-19 December : a training workshop on watershed management and field visit program: Debre Birhan (Amhara)
* 14-15 December: a training workshop on watershed management and field visit program : Hossana (SNNPR)
* [[ethiopia_planning_dec2014| 2-3 December: Ethiopia review and planning meeting]]
* [[CropSysttraining| 24-28]][[CropSysttraining| November 2014:]][[CropSysttraining| CropSyst training course, Addis Ababa ]]
* 16-20 November 2014 : Photojournalist trip : Lemo Woreda
* 2-6 November 2014 : Photojournalist trip , Endamhoni
* [[Facilitation and M&E training| 4-6 September 2014: IP Facilitation and M&E training for IP Technical Group members, Addis Ababa]]
* [[Integrating Gender into Agricultural Programming,ILRI Addis Ababa Campus, Large Auditorium| 18-20 August 2014: Integrating Gender into Agricultural Programming, Addis Ababa]]
* 14-15 May 2014: Africa RISING CGIAR partners field visit to Africa RISING sites in Amhara region
* 6–9 May 2014: Africa RISING CGIAR partners field visit to Africa RISING sites in SNNPR region
* [[Africa RISING Value Chain Write shop| 23-25th April 2014: Africa RISING Value Chain Writeshop,Addis Ababa,Ethiopia]]
* [[Africa RISING training workshop on Innovation Platform , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia| 23-24 January 2014: Africa RISING training workshop on Innovation Platforms, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia]]
* [[ip_amhara_jan2014| January - March 2014: IP establishment in Africa RISING in the Ethiopian Highlands]]

===2013===
* 18–21 November: Feast and Techfit training workshop for NARS and Universities
* [[ethiopia_planning_oct2013| 31 October-1 November: Ethiopia review and planning meeting]]
* 29–30 October : market/value chain studies team meeting
* 2–3 September: the market and value chain studies
* 18–19 June: Participatory Community Assessment and Social Mobilization sensitization workshop 
* [[SLATE_TOT_apr2013| 2-4 April Training of Trainers in the use of SLATE: A tool for Sustainable Livelihoods Asset Evaluation]]
* [[ET_planning_Feb2013| February 2013: Ethiopia project planning meeting]]

===2012===
* [[Ethiopia_planning_Sep2012| September 2012: Ethiopia project annual review and planning meeting]]
* [[QuickWater_final_workshop| September 2012: Quick Water 'early win' project final meeting, Ethiopia]]
* [[R4D_Aug12| September 2012: Targeting research 'Early Win' Project workshop, Ethiopia]]
* [[moneval_experts_2012| September 2012: Africa RISING M&E Expert Meeting, Ethiopia]]
* [[quickfeeds/Synthesis meeting| September 2012: Quick Feeds 'Early Win' Project final meeting, Ethiopia]]
* [[nilebdc/nationalplatform3| July 2012: Sustainable tree-crop-livestock intensification 'Early Win' meeting with the National Platform Meeting on Land and Water Management in Ethiopia]]
* [[quickfeeds/Training week| June 2012: Quick Feeds 'Early Win' Project training week, Ethiopia]]
* [[quickfeeds/Inception meeting| May 2012: Quick Feeds 'Early Win' Project Inception Workshop, Ethiopia]]
* [[addis_workshop| January 2012: Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands - Project Design Workshop, Ethiopia]]

==West Africa project events==
===2022===
* 1 - 3 November: [[WA_closeout2022|West Africa Project Close-out Meeting]] - Bamako, Mali

===2021===
* 03 Nov:[[WAVES03Nov| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]
* 06 Oct: [[WAVES 06 OCT| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]
* 01 Sept: [[WAVES 01 SEPT| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]
* 04 August: [[WAVES 04 AUGUST| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]Virtual Ms Teams
* 07 July: [[WAVES 07JULY| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]Virtual Ms Teams
* 02 June: [[WAVES 02 JUNE| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]
* 26 - 27 May: [[WA rev planning May2021| West Africa Review and Planning meeting ]] - Hybrid [virtual and in-person]
* 6 - 7 May: Stakeholder consultative and planning meeting by WorldVeg in Tamale and Navrongo
* 05 May: [[WAVES0505| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]
* 08 April: Stakeholders' Validation Workshop''' '''
* 07 April: [[WAVES0704| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]
* 03 March: [[WAVES0303| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]
* 03 February: [[WAVES| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]
* 11 - 15 January: Training of smallholder farmers in northern Ghana on repair and maintenance of diesel-powered maize shelling machines

===2020===

* 21 - 22 December: Training of smallholder farmers in northern Ghana on repair and maintenance of diesel-powered maize shelling machines
* 16 - 19 November: Mali Farmer Field Days (Bougouni and Koutiala Districts)
* 26 - 27 October: Ghana Farmer Field Schools on Best Post Harvest and Shelling Practices in four communities in the Upper East region (Bonia, Gia, Nyangua and Samboligo)
* 07 - 20 October: Community Field Days in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions of Ghana
* 17 - 18 September: Livestock Value Chain Analysis in the Duko and Tibali communities, Tamale, Ghana
* 20 - 21 August: Replanting of Napier Grass and Pigeon Pea on the Duko Technology Park, Tamale, Ghana
* 10 - 14 August: Pre-season sensitization in the AR communities in the Upper East, Upper West and Northern regions, Ghana
* 24 - 25 June:[[WA rev planning June2020| West Africa Review and Planning meeting ]] - Tamale, Ghana
* 30 - 31 March: Pre-planning meeting in Tamale (Ghana partners)
* 23 - 24 March:Pre-planning meeting in Sikasso (Mali partners)
* 12 - 14; 19-21 February: Formation of Innovation Platform and small ruminant value chain analysis (Upper East and Upper West regions)
* 06 February:Progress Workshop in Tamale, AR - West Africa (Ghana) Partners
* 30 January: Progress Workshop in Bamako, for AR - West Africa (Mali) Partners
* 03 - 05 February: Training on Container Gardens in Tamale by the World Vegetable Centre
* 19 - 24 January: Data collection on efficient feed utilization through the use of improved feed troughs in the Upper East region of Ghana
* 08 - 18 January: NUTRITION - Inauguration of Care Groups in the Upper West and Northern regions of Ghana
*

===2019===

* 18 - 28 November: Reinforcement of Small Ruminants Value Chain in the Upper East and Upper West regions of Ghana
* 05 - 06 November: Farmer Field Days in AR Mali sites
* 08 - 18 October: Farmer Field Days - Assessment of validated agronomic technologies by Africa RISING farmers in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions of Ghana
* 03 October: Farmer Field Day on Feed / Food production
* [[:File:Ghana Itinerary1508.docx|'''15 September - 21 September:''']]Internally Commissioned External Review Team visit to project sites in Ghana & Mali
* 12 - 19 August: Training/capacity building on development of constitution for maize shellers user groups in northern Ghana - Tamale, Ghana
* 17 -21 June: Exchange Visit from ESA, Ethiopian Highlands - Ghana
* 10 - 11 June: Biometric training workshop - Mali
* 3 - 4 June: Biometric training workshop - Ghana
* 14 - 16 May: [[WA_rev_planning_May2019|Annual Review and Planning meeting]] - Accra, Ghana
* 21 - 27 April: Gender analysis on Improved African Eggplant and Tomato Varieties Production
* 4 April: Pre-Season meeting - Tamale, Ghana
* 17 - 23 March: Gender Evaluation - Bougouni and Koutiala - Mali
* 18 - 20 March: Pre-planning team meeting - Tamale, Ghana
* 11 - 13 March: Pre-planning team meeting - Sikasso, Mali
* 3 - 7 March: Trial Event - Tamale, Ghana
* 16 Feb - 6 March: Field visit and Data collection by CSIR-STEPRI - North, Upper East and West regions, Ghana
* 25 - 26 February: Farmers training on good vegetable production practices - Bougouni and Koutiala, Mali
* 21 - 25 February: Youth Mappers to Africa RISING Programme - Upper West and East regions, Ghana
* 22 February: Field visit on livestock - Tibali, Tamale, Ghana
* 21 - 22 February: Visit to Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab by Director (SIIL) - Tamale, Ghana
* 17 - 20 February: Youth Mappers to Africa RISING Programme - Tamale, Ghana

===2018===
* 17 October: [[:File:BougouniFD 102019.pdf| Farmers field day]] - Bogouni, Mali
* 29 - 07 October: [[:File:Pharvest report.docx| Stockage des céréales et formation après récolte]] - Mali
* 18 October:[[FFD2018_Koutiala| Africa RISING Mali Farmers Field Day]]- Koutiala, Mali
* 17 October:[[FFD2018_bougouni| Africa RISING Mali Farmers Field Day]]- Bougouni, Mali
* 6 - 8 June: [[WA_rev_planning_June2018| West Africa review and planning meeting ]]- Accra, Ghana
* 24 - 25 April: [[esa_wa_strategic_planning| Africa RISING ESA & WA projects joint strategic planning meeting ]]- Livingstone, Zambia

===2017===
* 23 November: [[AR_ESA_WA_Project_Team_Meeting_23Nov| Africa RISING ESA and West Africa project team meeting ]]- Ibadan, Nigeria
* 10 November:[[:File:feedback_report_SWC_training_Nyangua_and_Bonia_0711.docx| Follow-up surveys on socio-economic issues around soil and water conservation]] - Nyangua, Ghana
* 9 November: [[:File:SWC_training_Nyangua_0911.pptx| Soil and water conservation training]] - Nyangua, Ghana
* 8 November: [[:File:feedback_report_SWC_training_Nyangua_and_Bonia_0711.docx| Follow-up surveys on socio-economic issues around soil and water conservation]] - Bonia, Ghana
* 7 November: [[:File:SWC_training_Bonia_0711.docx| soil and water Conservation training]] - Bonia, Ghana
* 3 - 6 October: [[:File:AR-Mali_FFD_Oct17.pdf| Farmer field day events in Bougouni and Koutiala]] - Mali
* 25 - 29 September: Africa RISING Management Monitoring Visit to project sites in northern Ghana
* 11 - 12 September: [[GART_September2017_Bamako| Gender in Agricultural Research Training]] - Bamako, Mali
* 7 - 8 September: [[GART_September2017_Tamale| Gender in Agricultural Research Training]] - Tamale, Ghana
* 5 September: Farmers field day at Koutiala Technology park
* 3 September: Farmers field day at Bougouni Technology park
* 23 August: [[Formative_design_meeting_ICT_to_support_scaling_in_Mali| Formative design meeting- use of interactive radio to support scaling of Africa RISING technologies]] - Bamako, Mali
* 13 - 14 July: [[AR_Phase_II_M&E_tools_workshop_WA| AR Phase II M&E tools and data management workshop]] - Tamale, Ghana
* 17 June: [[AR_Mali_Partners_Meeting_Bougouni_June2017| Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]] - Bougouni, Mali
* 15-16 June: [[AR_Mali_Partners_Meeting_June2017| Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]] - Koutiala, Mali
* 4 - 10 May: [[AR_Mali_PICSA_ToT_training| PICSA ToT training gathering]] - Bougouni, Mali
* 21 - 22 March: [[USAID_FtF_Ghana_Partners_Meeting_March2017| USAID Feed the Future Implementing Partners Meeting]] - Accra, Ghana
* 9 - 10 March: [[AR_Mali_Partners_Meeting_March2017| Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]], Bamako - Mali
* 1 - 3 February: [[Africa_RISING_WA_planning_meeting_Feb2017| Africa RISING West Africa planning workshop]], Accra - Ghana
* 30-31 January: [[AR_WA_participatory-research-design-training_Jan2017| Training workshop on farming systems research methods]], Accra - Ghana

===2016===
* 20 December: Ghana Upper East Region research team meeting
* 15 December: Ghana Upper West Region research team meeting
* 14 December: Ghana Northern Region research team meeting
* 12 - 13 December: [[AR_WA_phase-1-legacy-meeting_Dec2016| Africa RISING West Africa phase 1 legacy meeting]], Bamako - Mali
* 8 - 9 December: [[Mali_livestockstakeholders_meeting-Dec2016| Livestock stakeholders’ consultation meeting - Mali]]
* 15 - 16 November: [[Ghana_livestockstakeholders_meeting-Nov2016| Livestock stakeholders’ consultation meeting - Ghana]]
* 2 November: [[:File:SLW-undp_visit_FlolaPark.docx| Visit of Africa RISING technology park in FLOLA by UNDP Sustainable Land and Water Management Project]]
* 19 - 21 October: [[ar_managementvisit_Mali_Oct2016| Africa RISING program management visit to project sites in Bougouni and Koutiala]]
* 18 October: [[:File:Minutes - MALI Team Meeting 18October2016.doc| Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]]
* 20 September: Ghana Upper East Region research team meeting
* 16 September: Ghana Upper West Region research team meeting
* 14 September: Ghana Northern Region research team meeting
* 30 August: [[:File:Mali partners meeting -30August2016.docx| Mali partners meeting]]
* 22 August: [[:File:Ghana Research Team visit to Upper East Region Project Sites - 22Aug2016.docx| Ghana Research Team visit to Upper East Region Project Sites]]
* 28 June: [[:File:AR-Mali-PartnersMeeting-June2016.docx| Mali partners meeting Bamako]] - Mali
* 24 June: Ghana Upper West Region research team meeting
* 21 June: Ghana Upper East Region research team meeting
* 15 June: [[:File:AR-Ghana-NorthernRegionMinutes - June2016.docx| Ghana Northern Region research team meeting]]
* 17 May: [[:File:Ghana northern region research team meeting -17May2016.docx| Ghana Northern Region research team meeting]]
* 14 April: [[:File:AR-Ghana-UERegionMinutes - April2016.docx| Ghana Upper East Region research team meeting]]
* 31 March: West Africa Steering Committee meeting - Accra, Ghana
* 30 March - 1 April: [[West_Africa_Planning_Mar2016| West Africa annual review and planning meeting - Accra, Ghana]]
* 24 March: [[:File:AR-Ghana-UWRegionMinutes - April2016.docx| Ghana Upper West Region research team meeting]]
* 22 March: Ghana Upper East Region research team meeting
* 11 March: Workshop on agricultural water management for farmers and extension workers in Navrongo
* 22 - 26 February: Installation of irrigation systems and irrigation scheduling tools in northern Ghana (Tekuru & Nyangua)
* 16-18 February: [[WA_phase2_proposal_writeshop| West Africa Phase 2 proposal write shop]]
* 8 - 12 February: Workshop on data analysis and results summary for activity leaders In Ghana, Kumasi
* 18 - 22 January: [[:File:Mali workshop on data analysis report - Jan2016.docx| Workshop on data analysis and summary of results for activity leaders - Sikasso Mali]]
* 11 - 15 January: [[:File:AR-Mali-PartnersMeeting-Jan2016.docx| Mali partners meeting - Bamako Mali]]

===2015===
* 22 December: [[:File:AR-Ghana-NRegionMinutes - Dec2015.docx| Ghana Northern Region Research team meeting]]
* [[:File:upper west region - 1809.docx| 18 December: Ghana Upper West Region research team meeting]]
* [[:File:northern region - 1709.docx| 17 September: Ghana Northern Region Research team meeting]]
* [[:File:upper east region - 1109.docx| 11 September:Upper East Region research team meeting - Ministry of Food and Agriculture Office Navrongo Ghana]]
* [[research team meeting - Ghana Northern Region| 10 September: Northern Region research team meeting - IITA conference room, Tamale, Ghana]]
* 7-12 September: Farmers field days - Ghana
* 03 September: [[:File:upper west region - 0309.docx| Ghana Upper West Region research team meeting]]
* [[:File:Africa RISING Mali Minutes for September15.docx| 02 September: Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]]
* [[Project Mapping and Monitoring Tool (PMMT) Training - Bamako, Mali| 27-28 August: Project Mapping and Monitoring Tool (PMMT) Training - Bamako, Mali]]
* [[Project Mapping and Monitoring Tool (PMMT) Training - Tamale, Ghana| 24-25 August: Project Mapping and Monitoring Tool (PMMT) Training - Tamale, Ghana]]
* 24-28 August (postponed to later date): Exchange visit: Mali research team visits Ghana - Tamale, Ghana
* [[:File:training_report-28012016.docx| 12 August: Training on the production of fodder under supplementary irrigation]], Duko, near Tamale, Northern Ghana
* 11 – 13 August: Data entry clerks training for adoption monitoring study - Tamale, IITA Ghana office; Wa, Africa RISING office; and Navrongo, Africa RISING office
* [[AdoptionStudyTraining-29July15| 29 July - 2 August: Field staff training on data collection for adoption monitoring study - IITA Ghana office, Tamale]], Ghana
* [[:File:Mali Partners Meeting - 240715.docx| 24 July: Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]]
* 30 June: [[:File:Upper West Region - Reasearch Team Meeting 30Jun15.docx| Upper West Region research team meeting - Ministry of Food and Agriculture Office Wa Ghana]]
* 23 June: [[:File:northern region - 2306.docx| Northern Region research team meeting - IITA conference room Tamale Ghana]]
* [[:File:Minutes_AR-Mali-5June2015.doc| 5 June: Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]]
* 21 May: Bougouni Innovation Platform meeting (Africa RISING Mali)
* 19 May: Koutiala Innovation Platform meeting (Africa RISING Mali)
* [[:File:AR Mali Partners0518.doc| 8 May: Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]]
* [[:File:Minutes-AfricaRISINGMali-10April2015.doc| 10 April: Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]]
* [[:File:Minutes-ICRISATILRIIER-7April2015.doc| 7 April: Africa RISING Mali - ICRISAT IER and ILRI meeting for theme 3 component]]
* 25 March:[[:File:Minutes - MALI Team Meeting 25March2015.doc| Mali research team meeting 6:00 - 7:00pm - Accra Ghana ]]
* [[West Africa Project Steering Committee Meeting - March2015| 25 March: West Africa Project Steering Committee Meeting]]
* [[WA_planning_Mar2015| 24-25 March: West Africa review and planning meeting - Accra, Ghana]]
* [[:File:AR Mali Team Meeting Minutes - 27 feb 2015.doc| 27 February: Africa RISING Mali partners meeting ]]
* 26-27 February: [[:File:Sikasso_workshop_Report.pdf| Africa RISING Mali Progress Report/Work Plan Review Meeting ]]
* 12 February: [[:File:Madina-Sirakel-12March2015.doc| Africa RISING Mali: Field day at Madina and Sirakle]]
* February: Experimental design short-course - Ghana
* [[Ghana&Mali_Joint_Planning_Meeting_Jan2015| 14-16 January: Joint Ghana/Mali Review and Planning Meeting on Improving Household Nutrition]] - Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
* 12 January: Africa RISING and Heifer International planning meeting - Accra Ghana
* [[AR Mali Management Meeting - 8Jan15| 8 January: Africa RISING Mali Management meeting to discuss West Africa external review report]] - Bamako, Mali

===2014===
* 18 December 2014 - Bongo District (Upper East Region, Ghana) R4D platform launch
* 16 December 2014: Kassena Nankana East District (Upper East Region, Ghana) R4D platform launch
* 18-22 November 2014: Workshops on participation conflict management in Koutiala and Bougouni, Mali (ILRI, AMEDD)
* 16-18 September 2014: Validation workshops on local Conventions in Koutiala and Bougouni, Mali (ILRI, AMEDD)
* [[:File:Biometrics Course Report_18AugAL.docx| 4-8 August 2014: ]]SAS Data Analysis short course, Ghana, Mali
* [[:File:Crop-Livestock Course Report_18AugAL.docx| 21-25 July 2014: ]]Africa RISING integrated crop-livestock course, Ghana and Mali
* [[WA Regional Stakeholder Meeting| 18 June, 2014: Upper West Regional Stakeholders meeting, Ghana]].
* 21 February 2014: Africa RISING West Africa work-plan review meeting, Tamale, Ghana
* [[WA_SC2| 4 February 2014: ]]Africa RISING West Africa Steering Committee meeting, Bamako, Mali
* [[WA_planning_Feb2014| 3-4 February 2014:]] Africa RISING West Africa review and planning meeting, Bamako, Mali

===2013===
* [[Mali site visit 21 Oct| 21-25 October 2013: Mali site visits]]
* [[WA_SC1| 24 January 2013: West Africa steering committee meeting]]
* [[WA_StakeholderMeeting_Dec2012| 23 January 2013: West Africa stakeholder meeting]]

===2012===
* [[WA_planning_Oct2012| October 2012: West Africa annual review and planning meeting]]
* [[tamale_workshop| January 2012: Sustainable Intensification of Cereal-based Farming Systems in the Sudano-Sahelian Zone of West Africa - Project Design Workshop, Ghana]]

'''PRE-SURVEY ENUMERATOR TRAINING WORKSHOP HELD ON 2-3 APRIL 2015'''
Nutrition research household survey will take place in Basona Worena and Sinana Woredas from 15th – 23 June 2015. '''Training of Household Survey Enumerators'''(about 60 farmers from Lungwena EPA visiting)
'''training on integrated pest and diseases management strategies on vegetables'''

Gudo Beret Kebele
'''Africa RISING Key Partners Meeting'''

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='''Africa RISING Events List'''=

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''This page lists important events happening at either program level (e.g. program learning events, M&E meetings etc.) or at project level (e.g. ESA planning meeting, field trip in West Africa, FEAST training course in Ethiopia). Please list these events under the correct heading and if you are unsure contact Jonathan Odhong' at ''''j.odhong [at] cgiar.org''''.'' ''For your information, all events are featured here, while only most important events are featured on the (Google) [[Calendar| calendar of events]].''

==Program level events==
===2023===
* 7-9 February: [[ProgCloseOut|Africa RISING End-of-Program Close-Out Event]] - Accra, Ghana

===2022===
* 8 April: [[2022closeoutbrainstoming|Brainstorm meeting for AR End-of-Program event]]
* [[pct| See PCT meetings]]

===2021===
* 8 October: [[SI-MFS|PCT organized interactions between select Global and Regional Initiatives and the SI-MFS Initiative]]
* 4 March: [[2021learningeventbrainstorm|Brainstorming meeting, Africa RISING Learning event]]
* [[pct| See PCT meetings]]

===2020===
* 3 - 5 November: [[ARmini-workshop Nov2020|Mini-workshop: The future of Africa RISING, SI and systems research in One CGIAR]] - Virtual via Zoom
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* [[pct| See PCT meetings]]

===2019===
* 5 December: [[CSs&PMs|AR Chief Scientists and Project Managers Meeting]] - Virtual (Skype)
* 4 - 9 February: [[Learning_event_2019|Africa RISING learning event]] - Lilongwe, Malawi
* [[pct| See PCT meetings]]

===2018===
* 30 October - 2 November: [[SI assesment framework workshop]]- Accra,Ghana
* 29 October: [[Data mngt training 2018]] - Accra, Ghana
* 1-2 October: [[Ext_PCT_Oct2018|Extended PCT meeting]] - Lilongwe, Malawi
* 13 - 15 March: [[ar_simlesa_learning_event_2018| Africa RISING - SIMLESA joint learning event]] - Arusha, Tanzania
* [[pct| See PCT meetings]]

===2017===
* [http://africa-rising-wiki.net/File:Africa_Rising_Arusha_SAG_23Jun17.docx= 22-23 June: PCT/SAG meeting, Arusha, Tanzania]
* 19 - 21 April: [[AR_ESA-WA_CS_TOT_crosslearning_visit| Africa RISING ESA & WA Chief Scientists cross-learning visit to Ethiopia for ToT on scaling technologies]]
* [[science_event17| 17-19 January: Africa RISING science for impact event, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania]]
* [[pct| See PCT meetings]]
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===2016===
* 21-23 March 2016: [[retreat2016| PCT phase 2 proposal development retreat, Arusha]]
* [[pct| See PCT meetings]]

===2015===
* 20 December 2015: [[pct14| Program coordination meeting (PCT14), Online]]
* 18 November 2015: [[pct13| Program coordination meeting (PCT13), Online]]
* 9 October 2015: [[pct12| Program coordination meeting (PCT12), Mali]]
* 6-8 October 2015:[[AR-strategy2015| Africa RISING Program Strategy Workshop, Mali]]
* 1-4 September 2015: [[pct11| Africa RISING phase 2 design team meeting, Wageningen University, Netherlands]]
* 31 August - 1 September 2015: [[typologies| Farm typology meeting, Wageningen University, Netherlands]]
* 5 June 2015: [[pct8| Program coordination meeting (PCT8)]]
* 2-5 June 2015: [[retreat2015| Africa RISING Program Coordination Team retreat, Washington DC]]
* 16 April 2015: [[pct7| Africa RISING Program Coordination Team(virtual) Meeting]]
* 19-25 April 2015: [[AR_WA-ESA Learning Trip to Ethiopia| Africa RISING West Africa and East/Southern Africa project scientists learning visit to Africa RISING Ethiopia]]
* 16 April 2015: [[pct7| Program coordination meeting (PCT7)]]
* [https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2015/webprogram/Session9761.html| 13 February 2015: Beyond Intensification: Measuring the "Sustainable" in Sustainable Intensification, San Jose, California]
* [http://africa-rising.net/2015/03/02/a-photo-trip-report-of-the-africa-rising-csisa-cross-learning-exchange/| 25 January - 8 February: Cross–learning visit to CSISA project sites in Bangladesh and India]

===2014===
* [[moneval3| 13-14 November 2014: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) meeting, Arusha, Tanzania]]
* [[Learning2| 11-12 November 2014: Africa RISING learning event, Arusha, Tanzania]]
* [[SAG2| 11-13 November: Science Advisory Group Second Meeting, Arusha, Tanzania]]
* [[PCT6| 10 November 2014: Program Coordination Team Meeting (PCT 6), Arusha, Tanzania]]
* [[SII_Arusha2014| 10 November 2014: Sustainable Intensification Indicators meeting, Arusha, Tanzania]]
* [[SAG1| 17-18 July 2014 : Science Advisory Group First Meeting, London, UK]]
* [[PCT5| 18 July 2014: Program Coordination Team meeting]]
* [[pct4| 10 January 2014: Program Coordination Team (virtual) meeting]] (PCT 4)

===2013===
* [[Feed Assessment Tools Training| 18-21 November 2013: Feed Assessment Tools Training Workshop]]
* [[Moneval2| 11-13 November 2013: Africa RISING-CSISA Joint Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) meeting]]
* [[pct3| 27 September 2013: Program Coordination Team (PCT) meeting, face-to-face, Addis Ababa]] (PCT 3)
* [[learning1| 24-26 September 2013: Africa RISING learning event]]
* [[Digital Storytelling training| 8-11 July 2013 : Digital Storytelling Training]]
* [[pct2| 24 June 2013 - Program Coordination Team (virtual) meeting]] (PCT 2)
* [[201303_Program_research_methodology_Malawi| 6-8 March 2013: Africa RISING research methodology meeting, Lilongwe, Malawi]]
* [[pct1| 25 January 2013: Program coordination team meeting]] (PCT 1)

===2012===
* [[moneval_experts_2012| 5-7 September 2012 Monitoring and evaluation expert meeting]]
* [[Research Framework Workshop July 2012| July 2012: Workshop on a Research Framework for Africa RISING, Nigeria]]

==East and Southern Africa project events==
===2022===
* 24 - 26 August: [[ESA ScienceImpactsReviewMeet 2022|Africa RISING ESA Project Science Outcomes and Impacts Review Meeting/ Tanzania Project Close-Out Event]] - Dododma, Tanzania
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===2021===
* 25-27 November:[[KaratuSeedFair2021|Karatu Local seed and Food Fair]] - Karatu, Tanzania
* 8 November:[[ESApartnersmeet November2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
* 7 October: [[ESApartnersmeet October2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
* 14 - 16 September: [[ARESA2021|ESA Project Review and Planning Meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
* 2 September: [[ESApartnersmeet Sept2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
* 5 August: [[ESApartnersmeetAug2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
* 1 July: [[Africa RISING ESA Project Partners meeting 1 July 2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
* 3 June: [[ESApartnersupdateJune2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
* 6 May: [[ESApartnersupdateMay2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
* 1 April: [[ESApartnersupdateApril2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
*15 - 17 March: [[:File:Worldveg regfarmermonitoring march2021.docx|Farmer monitoring visit in second generation villages]] - Karatu District
* 4 March: [[ESApartnersupdateMarch2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS
*16-19 / 24 - 28 February: [[:File:Worldveg-dataandsuccess fieldtrip feb2021.docx|Data Quality assessment and success story documentation]] - Babati and Karatu Districts
* 4 February: [[ARESA2021|ESA Project partners update meeting]] - virtual via MS TEAMS

===2020===
*16-18 December: [[:File:FFD veg Karatu Dec2020.docx| Farmer's field day - vegetable production for increased production]] - Karatu District, Tanzania
*8 - 13 December: [[:File:Worldveg-demonitor Dec2020.docx| Vegetable demo plots data collection in first generation villages]] - Karatu District
* 28-30 September: [[EsaPlan2020|Africa RISING ESA Review and Planning virtual meeting]] - virtual
* 31 August - 5 September: [[:File:WorldVegdemomngttrainingdocx.docx|Vegetable farmer's training on demo plot management]] - [Chemchem, Rhotia- Kainam, Bashay, Bugeri, Changarawe, Kambi ya Simba, Slahhamo and G’lambo Villages]Karatu District, Tanzania
* 18 - 22 August: [[:File:WVegToT.docx|Training of Trainers course (TOTs) on sustainable vegetable production]] - Karatu District, Tanzania
* 11-25 August: [[AR-NAFAKAcloseouts|Africa RISING - NAFAKA project close-out meetings]]
* 30 July: [[MwZmPlan20|Malawi and Zambia project partners review meeting]] - virtual
* 28 July: [[Tzplan20|Tanzania project partners review meeting]] - virtual
* 6-11 July: [[:File:Wvegmonitoringbackstopping.docx|Monitoring and backstopping for vegetable farmers]] - Karatu District, Tanzania
* 18 May: [[:File:WVegdemomonitoring.docx|WorldVeg demo plots monitoring visit]] - Karatu District, Tanzania
*17-23 March:[[:File:WvG-IdPfarmerfeedbackmeetings-March2020.docx|Iles de Paix - WorldVeg farmer feedback sessions]] - Karatu, District
*16 - 20 March: [[:File:WvG-IdPToT-March2020.docx|Vegetable component good agricultural practices (GAP) training for farmers]]- Babati District, Tanzania
*5 -13 March: Livestock component end-line survey on the impact of disseminating information through the MWANGA platform on knowledge attitude and practices of recipient farmers - Babati District, Tanzania
*[[:File:MalawiFieldDays March2020.docx| 4 - 6 March: Africa RISING Malawi farmer field days in Machinga, Ntcheu and Dedza Districts]]
*[[:File:ICER_MwTzItinerary.xlsx|'''26 January - 9 February:''']]Internally Commissioned External Review Team visit to project sites in Malawi & Tanzania)
*26 February: [[:File:CSB-DASPAFeb2020.pdf|Meeting between Community Seed Bank Lead Farmers, Dodoma Agricultural Seed Producers Association (DASPA) and Kibaigwa Flour Supplies Company (KFC)]]
*31 January: [[:File:WvG-IdPmeeting-31Jan2020.docx|Iles de Paix - WorldVeg partners meeting]] - Karatu, Tanzania
*17 January: [[:File:Rschtrainings dec2019.docx|On-farm research establishment for research farmer and research managed trials]] - Dodoma, Tanzania
*13 January: [[:File:DASPAJan2020.pdf|Kongwa Kiteto partners meeting with Dodoma Agricultural Seed Producers Association (DASPA)]]- Dodoma, Tanzania

==='''2019'''===
*29 December: [[:File:Rschtrainings dec2019.docx|On-farm research establishment for research farmer and research managed trials]] - Dodoma, Tanzania
*29 December: [[:File:KkteamtgJan2020.pdf|Africa RISING Kongwa Kiteto Project Partners meeting]] - Dodoma, Tanzania
* 11 - 13 November: [[Tzpreplan2019|Africa RISING Tanzania Research Team country pre-planning meeting]] - Dodoma, Tanzania
* 22 October: Pre-testing Africa RISING - NAFAKA training manuals and cropping calendars - Iringa, Tanzania
* 12 September: Africa RISING ESA Project Steering Committee Meeting - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
* 10 - 11 September: [[Esarevplan2019|Africa RISING ESA Project Review and Planning Meeting]] - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
*5 - 7 September: Training for farmers hosting poultry experiments – Seloto & Matufa, Babati, Tanzania
*3 – 4 September: Training for farmers hosting poultry experiments – Mlali, Kongwa, Tanzania
*31 August – 1 September: Training for farmers hosting poultry experiments – Mwanya, Kiteto, Tanzania
*30 August: Karatu seed fair and food fair - Karatu, Tanzania
*27 – 29 August: Training for farmers hosting dairy experiments – Babati, Tanzania
*26 August: Meeting with development partners for scaling livestock technologies – Babati, Tanzania
*19 - 27 August: Vegetable nutrition training for farmers - Babati, Tanzania
*14 - 16 August:[[BabatiPharvestraining Aug19| Post harvest handling and drying of vegetables training for farmer]] - Babati, Tanzania
* 8 August: Nane nane exhibition
*2 - 3 August: Introductory workshop on social science research on soil and water conservation practices in Kongwa/Kiteto - Dodoma, Tanzania
*1 - 7 August: Field visit/work social science research on soil and water conservation practices in Kongwa/Kiteto
*15 - 17 July: Africa RISING East and Southern Africa Project - Malawi Country Meeting - Lilongwe, Malawi
*9-12 July: Farmers field day - Grow and eat more vegetables for improved income and nutrition - Babati, Tanzania
*08 - 10 July: [[ESApreplan2019|Africa RISING East and Southern Africa Project - Tanzania Country Meeting]] - Arusha, Tanzania
*3 - 4 July:[[Ar-nafaka r&p2019| Africa RISING - NAFAKA Project review and planning meeting]] - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
*13 - 14 May:Africa RISING Tanzania Livestock Integration planning meeting - Arusha, Tanzania
* [[IOPmeeting| 15 April: Meeting on monitoring of AR technologies being scaled by Islands of Peace - Virtual (Skype)]]
*18 - 29 March: [[:File:Monitoring visit2019 Tz.pptx| Africa RISING Tanzania monitoring field visit - different project locations in Tanzania]]
*18 February: M&E Officer meeting with LEAD Foundation - Karatu, Tanzania

==='''2018'''===
* 3 - 5 October: [[ESA_rev_planning_Oct2018| Africa RISING ESA Project Review and Planning Meeting]] - Lilongwe, Malawi
* 27 September: [[AR-Zambia_Review-End-of-Project_Sept2018| End-of-Project meeting for Africa RISING going to scale in Eastern Province of Zambia Project]] - Chipata, Zambia
* 26 - 27 June: [[ar-nafaka_rev_planning_June2018| Africa RISING - NAFAKA annual review and planning meeting]] - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
* 14 June: [[ph_standards_training| Extension and producer organization leaders post-harvest training on grain quality standards]] - Mbeya,Tanzania
*13 April: [[MwFD_130418|Africa RISING Malawi Project farmers filed day]]- Linthipe EPA, Dedza District
* 24 - 25 April: [[esa_wa_strategic_planning| Africa RISING ESA & WA projects joint strategic planning meeting]] - Livingstone, Zambia
* 5 - 12 March: [https://spark.adobe.com/page/ITdAoZGJ3CYiB/| Africa RISING - SIIL Joint field visit to Tanzania] (different sites AR & SIIL project sites) - Tanzania
* 15 - 17 February: [https://spark.adobe.com/page/6mgR6jpa6wpVG/| Malawi Field monitoring visit] - Dedza, Machinga, Mangochi, Malawi
* 12 -14 February: [https://spark.adobe.com/page/CfXHi9RvkbYbO/| Zambia Field monitoring visit ] - Chipata, Zambia
* 5 - 6 February: [https://africa-rising.net/2018/03/04/africa-rising-nafaka-project-trains-government-extension-staff-and-farmers-in-tanzania-on-fall-army-worm-management/| Africa RISING - NAFAKA Project training for extension staff on fall army worm management ]- Iringa, Tanzania
* 22 - 26 January: [https://africa-rising.net/2018/03/04/africa-rising-nafaka-project-trains-government-extension-staff-and-farmers-in-tanzania-on-fall-army-worm-management/| Africa RISING - NAFAKA Project training for extension staff on fall army worm management] - Iringa, Tanzania

==='''2017'''===
* 23 November: [[AR_ESA_WA_Project_Team_Meeting_23Nov| Africa RISING ESA and West Africa project team meeting]] - Ibadan, Nigeria
* 11 - 15 September: [[ESA_review_planning_2017| Africa RISING ESA Project Review and Planning Meeting]] - Zanzibar, Tanzania
* 7 - 8 September: [[ AR-Zambia_Review-End-of-Project_Sept2017| AR going to scale in Eastern Province of Zambia Project Review and End-of-Project Meeting]] - Lusaka, Zambia
* 28 - 29 August: [[AR-NAFAKA_planning_meeting_August2017| Africa RISING-NAFAKA scaling project planning meeting]], Dar es Salaam - Tanzania
* 14-15 August: [[AR_livestock_stakeholders_meeting_August2017| Livestock stakeholders meeting]] - Babati, Tanzania
* 8 August: Nane nane agricultural fair exhibitions in Arusha and Kongwa/Kiteto
* 26 - 28 July: [[Vegetable_nutrition_training_July2017| Vegetable nutrition training Matufa, Seloto and Shaurimoyo]] - Babati District, Tanzania
* 7 - 10 July: [[:File:Poultry_husbandry_practices_training_AR_Tz.docx| Poultry husbandry practices training]] - Babati, Tanzania
* 3 - 4 July: [[AR-NAFAKA_end-of-phase&review_meeting_July2017| Africa RISING-NAFAKA scaling project end-of-phase and review meeting]], Dar-es-Salaam - Tanzania
* 29 - 30 June: [[INVC_BA_Review&Planning_June2017| INVC Bridging Activity Project review and planning meeting]] - Lilongwe, Malawi
* 28 - 29 June: [[Veg_FFD_Bermi_Shaurimoyo_June2017| Vegetables team farmers field day in Bermi and Shaurimoyo Villages]] - Babati District, Tanzania
* 28 June: [[ASA_field_day_June2017| Field day at Arusha Seed Farm]] - Arusha, Tanzania
* 16 June: [[input-output_market_linkage_for_farmers_training| Training on how to link the target farmers’ groups/pmgs to inputs and output markets]] - Babati District, Tanzania
* 12 - 13 June: [[GART_June2017_Lilongwe| Gender in Agricultural Research Training]] - Lilongwe, Malawi
* 8 - 9 June: [[GART_June2017_Arusha| Gender in Agricultural Research Training ]]- Arusha, Tanzania
* 5 - 7 June: [[AR_Malawi_sys_design_model_training_June2017| Africa RISING Malawi cropping system design modelling training]] - Lilongwe, Malawi
* 4 - 10 June: [[:File:Livestock_training_AR_Tz.pptx| Training on Improved forage production and Use to Dairy Farmers ]]- Babati, Tanzania
* 5 June: [[AR_and_NAFAKA_comms._joint_meeting_June2017| Africa RISING project and NAFAKA project communications team joint meeting ]](virtual - Skype)
* 25 May: Malawi Research team meeting - Lilongwe, Malawi
* 16 - 19 May: [[:File:Feed_processing_training_AR_Tz.docx| Feed processing and Improved use of crop residues training]] - Babati, Tanzania
* 15 - 19 May: [https://africa-rising.wikispaces.com/file/detail/Haroon_ET_ToT_Report_May2017.docx| Feedback report by Haroon on AR Ethiopia ToT training for scaling partners] in Amhara region
* 11 - 12 May: [[AR-NAFAKA_Vegetables_IPM_training_Babati_May2017| Training on integrated pest and diseases management strategies for vegetables]] - Babati, Tanzania
* 9 - 11 May:[[AR-NAFAKA_extension_officers_training_May2017| Africa RISING-NAFAKA scaling project training for government extension staff from Kongwa and Kiteto districts in Tanzania]]
* 8 - 14 May: [[:File:Dairy_poultry_housing_training_AR_Tz.pptx| Smallholder dairy/poultry housing and feed storage training]] - Babati, Tanzania
* 3 - 10 May: [[:File:Poultry_husbandry_practices_training_AR_Tz.docx| Poultry husbandry practices training]] - Babati, Tanzania
* 3 May: [[AR_and_NAFAKA_comms._joint_meeting_May2017| Africa RISING project and NAFAKA project communications team joint meeting (]]virtual - Skype)
* 24 - 29 April: [[kongwa_kiteto_internal_review_April2017| Kongwa & Kiteto team research meeting ]] - Dodoma, Tanzania
* 10 - 13 April: [[AR_Babati_Collective_Action_Training_April2017| Farmer group dynamics, leadership and soil and water management training]] , Babati -Tanzania
* 5 - 21 April: [[:File:Forage_est_n_data_collection_AR_Tz.ppt| Forage establishment and data collection]] - Babati, District
* 30 March - 1 April: [[Extension_Training_AR-MalawiProjects2017| Sustainable intensification for building resilience in farming systems workshop]] - Lilongwe, Malawi
* 24 March: [[farmers_extension_training_on_agribusiness_Babati_March2017| Training farmers and extensionists in marketing ,agri business skills, and the use of e-soko access market information]] - Babati District, Tanzania
* 22 March: Farmer's field day/exchange in Dedza EPA (about 60 farmers from Nsipe EPA from Ntcheu District visiting) - Malawi
* 21 March - 30 March: [[AR_Tanzania_Monitoring_Visit| Africa RISING Management team visit to project sites in Tanzania]]
* 20 March: Farmer's field day/exchange, Mtiya village, Mangochi EPA (about 60 farmers from Lungwena EPA visiting) - Malawi
* 16 March: Farmer's field day/exchange, Kandeu village, Ntcheu EPA (about 60 farmers from Golomoti EPA visiting) - Malawi
* 16 March: [[Arusha_pilot_workshop_for_ARgendertools| Short workshop to pilot gender tools for evaluating Africa RISING innovations, Arusha - Tanzania]]
* 10 March: [[:File:Babati_Partners_Minutes_Feb2017.doc| Babati Research Team meeting]] (virtual)
* 10 March: Updates on work done and streamlining roles and responsibilities for 2017 activities, Babati DAICO offices - Tanzania
* 28 February: [[Babati_foragechoppers_research_review_workshop| Workshop to review research on forage choppers on smallholder farms in Babati District ]](held as part of [[Livestock_component_review_&_planning| Livestock component review and planning meeting]])
* 20 - 22 February:[[AR_management_monitoring_visit_Zambia_Feb2017| Africa RISING Management Monitoring Visit to project sites in Eastern Province of Zambia]]
* 17 February: Farmer's field day Naymbi and Ntubwi (Machinga EPA) - Malawi (held as part of Africa RISING management visit to project sites)
* 15 - 18 February: [[AR_management_monitoring_visit_Malawi_Feb2017| Africa RISING Management Monitoring Visit to project sites in Malawi]]
* 27 February-3 March: [[Livestock_component_review_&_planning| Livestock component review and planning meeting, Arusha -Tanzania]]
* 22-24 February: [[Babati_wardlevel_r4d_inception_meetings| Ward level R4D platform inception meetings, Babati district - Tanzania]]

===2016===
* 17 November: [[Babati-JUMBA_stakeholders_meeting-Nov2016| JUMBA Annual Stakeholders Meeting, Babati District-Tanzania]]
* 5-8 October: [[AR_ESA_phase2_inception-review&planning_Oct2016| Phase 2 inception/planning meeting]], Lilongwe, Malawi
* 3-4 October: [[AR_ESA_phase2_participatory-research-design-training_Oct2016| Training workshop on farming systems research methods]], Lilongwe, Malawi
* 20 September: [[:File:Minutes_BabatiRschTeam_20Sept2016.doc| Babati Research Team meeting]] (virtual)
* 30 - 31 August: [[AR-Zambia_Rev&Plan_Aug2016| AR going to scale in Eastern Province of Zambia Project review and planing meeting]], Lusaka - Zambia
* 4 - 5 July: [[AR-NAFAKA rev&plan_July 2016| Africa RISING-NAFAKA scaling project review and planning meeting]], Dar-es-Salaam - Tanzania
* 30 June - 2 July: [[AR_ESA_phase-1-legacy-meeting_June2016| Africa RISING ESA phase 1 legacy meeting]], Dar-es-Salaam-Tanzania
* 13 - 14 June: [[AR-INVC_bridging_activity_inception_June2016| Africa RISING - INVC Bridging Activity Inception Workshop]], Lilongwe - Malawi
* 4 June: [https://www.slideshare.net/secret/kWdquDXhgOEeIb| Africa RISING - NAFAKA Project farmers field day] in Morogoro, Tanzania
* 6 - 10 June: [[AR-NAFAKA scaling project farmer field days in Babati District Arusha - Tanzania| Africa RISING-NAFAKA scaling project farmer field days in Babati District, Arusha - Tanzania]]
* 27 May: [[:File:AR_Tz_BabatiRSCH_minutes - May 2016 edited.doc| Babati Research Team meeting]] (virtual)
* 18 May: [[:File:Ratiba siku ya Wakulima Selotho Babati tarehe 18 Mei.docx| Farmers Field Day Seloto Village]], Babati District -Tanzania
* 6 May: [https://www.slideshare.net/secret/J5dKGEDiGorpT9| Africa RISING - NAFAKA Project farmer's learning visit in Kiteto], Tanzania
* 3 - 4 May: [[:File:AR-NAFAKA ME training May2016.docx| ME training]], Morogoro - Tanzania (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* 19 April: [[:File:AR-NAFAKA Project team visit to Sabilo-Seloto Villages - April 2016.docx| Project team participatory learning visit to Sabilo and Seloto Villages]], Babati District - Tanzania
* 18 - 19 April: [[AR-NAFAKA_project_team_meeting-April2016| Project team review meeting,]] Arusha - Tanzania (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* 8 - 30 March: Establishment of green forage/crop residues based rations field trip, Babati District - Tanzania
* 16 - 17 March: Integrated livestock feeds workshop, Arusha - Tanzania
* 24 - 26 February: [[ESA_phase2_proposal_writeshop| Africa RISING ESA Phase 2 proposal write shop, Arusha - Tanzania]]
* 11 - 18 February: Aflatoxin bio-control applications, Babati District - Tanzania
* 24 - 30 January: Monitoring progress on demo sites in Babati, Kongwa-Kiteto and Mbozi Districts - Tanzania (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* 22 January: Malawi - R4D platform & researchers combined field trip to Linthipe
* 21 January: [[:File:Rice Team Stakeholders Planning Meeting - Jan 2016.docx| Rice team stakeholders planning meeting Morogoro - Tanzania AR - NAFAKA scaling project]]

===2015===
* 11 December: [[:File:Maize minutes - Dec 11 HS input.doc| Maize team planning meeting Morogoro - Tanzania AR - NAFAKA scaling project]]
* 4-5 December: Lead farmers and extension officers training (maize/legumes), Kilolo District - Tanzania (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* 1-2 December: Lead farmers and extension officers training (maize/legumes) , Mbozi District - Tanzania (AR-NAFAKA scaling project)
* 29 Nov - 1 December: Site selection field trip for Variety and fertilizer demonstrations in Kilombero region (rice) (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* 26 - 27 November: - Site selection field trip - variety, fertilizer demos, alternate wetting and drying (AWD) demos in Dakawa region (rice) (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* 21 November: Field staff training on new technology demonstration protocols(rice) (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* 20 November: [[:File:Malawi Partners Meeting -201115.docx| Malawi Partners Meeting]]
* 11-14 November: [[:File:AFRICA RISING feedback meetings nov 2015.doc| Babati feedback meetings and site selection meetings]]
* 9 -10 November: [[:File:AR Joint Planning Meeeting - Nov 2015 - final edition.doc| Africa RISING Africa RISING - NAFAKA scaling project joint planning meeting]], Arusha-Tanzania
* 6 November: Malawi - [[:File:Dedza R4D platform minutes_November 2015.doc| Dedza R4D platform meeting]]
* 29-30 September: [[maize-team-Sept2015| Maize team meeting (AR - NAFAKA scaling project]])
* 18 September: [[:File:Malawi Partners Meeting -180915.docx| Malawi Partners Meeting]]
* 25-26 August: Africa RISING PMMT Training in Arusha, Tanzania
* 17-28 August: [[Mbeya & Iringa scoping visit| Scoping visit to Mbeya and Iringa, Tanzania]] (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* [[Sharing Africa RISING Baseline Data Summary with Farmers in Malawi| 20-22 July: Sharing Africa RISING Baseline Data Summary with Farmers in Malawi]]
* [[Africa RISING PMMT in Lilongwe (Malawi)| 17-18 July: Africa RISING PMMT Training in Lilongwe, Malawi]]
* 16 July: [[:File:ESA Steering Committee - 290715.doc| Africa RISING ESA Project Steering Committee Meeting Mangochi Malawi ]]
* 14 -16 July: [[ESA_review_meeting2015_16| Africa RISING ESA Project Annual Review and Planning Meeting]], Mangochi, Malawi
* 10 July: [[:File:PMT meeting minutes1 - 1310.doc| Management Team Meeting AR - NAFAKA scaling project]]
* 8-10 July: [[AR-NAFAKA-TUBOCHA_rev&plan_July2015| Annual Review and Planning Meeting]] (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* [[:File:Malawi Partners Meeting -180615.docx| 18 June: Malawi Partners Meeting]]
* 12 June: Farmers Field Day (Long Village, Babati District)
* [[FFD2015_KilosaDistrict| 10-13 June: Farmers Field Day (Ulaya Village, Kilosa District)]]
* [[:File:Dedza R4D platform launch_May 2015.docx| 15 May: Dedza District R4D Platform launch]]
* 12 - 13 May:Farmers Field Day in Kongwa - Kiteto Districts
* 5 - 7 May: Implementation review meeting for the maize based component (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* 20 - 21 April: [[Forage, Data Collection and Soil Water Management Training - Babati| Forage, Data Collection and Soil Water Management Training - Babati, Tanzania]]
* 31 March - 1 April: [[Meeting of Partners Africa RISING - NAFAKA and TUBOCHA Scaling Project| Meeting of Partners]] (AR-NAFAKA scaling project)
* 22 February - 16 March:[[ESA_Project_External_Evaluation| External Mid-Term Review of Africa RISING East/Southern Africa Project (Tanzania and Malawi only)]]
* 27-28 January: [[Babati_JUMBA_Retreat2015| Babati R4D Platform (JUMBA) Retreat]]
* 19-20 January: Malawi Project Sites Field Visits

===2014===
* [http://africa-rising.net/2015/01/19/research-for-by-farmers/| 14-18 December: Farmer Feedback Meetings in Babati District Project Sites]
* [[:File:AR-TUBOCHA-NAFAKA_planning meetingprogrammaize based component.docx| 25 - 26 November: Maize based component planning meeting]] (AR-NAFAKA scaling project)
* [[Work package 3 Introduction to pasture, forage and establishment training workshop| 18 November: Africa RISING (WP3) introduction to pasture/forage and establishment training workshop, Babati, Tanzania]]
* [[:File:SAGMinutes-Nov2014.docx| 13 November: Scientific Advisory Group meeting Arusha Tanzania]]
* [[:File:AR_NAFAKA_TUBOCHA_InceptionAgendaListofParticipants.doc| 30 - 31 October: Project inception meeting]] (AR - NAFAKA scaling project)
* [[Babati District R4D Platform, General Meeting| 22 October: Babati District R4D Platform, General Meeting]]
* [[:File:Africa RISING East an Southern Africa Project Steering Committee Meeting....docx| 10 September: ]]span stylefont-family: Calibrisans-serif font-size: 11pt[[:File:Africa RISING East an Southern Africa Project Steering Committee Meeting....docx| ESA Steering Committee meeting]]
* [[ESA_review_meeting2014_15| 9-11 September: Africa RISING ESA Review and Planning meeting, Arusha, Tanzania]]
* [[Participatory systems modelling workshop by MSU, Zambia| 13-15 August: Participatory systems modelling workshop by MSU, Zambia]]
* [[:File:SIMLEZA Planning and Evaluation meeting August 2014.docx| 5-8 August: SIMLEZA planning meeting]]
* [[:File:Africa RISING Malawi Writeshop for website.docx| 27 July - 1 August: write-shop to prepare handbook on scalable technologies Malawi]]
* [[:File:Afria RISING Babati Team Wite-shop Arusha 21-24 Jul.doc| 21-24 July: RO1 write shop Babati team]]
* May: Field days Kongwa-Kiteto, Babati, Tanzania
* [[Impact of Sustainable Intensification on Landscapes and Livelihoods; Project Introductory workshop, Mfuwe and Lusaka, Zambia| 13- 15 May: Impact of Sustainable Intensification on Landscapes and Livelihoods; Project Introductory workshop, Mfuwe and Lusaka, Zambia]]
* [[:File:Trip Report to Africa RISING Sites in Tanzania 9-14 April 2014.docx| 12-14 April: Steering Committee members field trip to Babati sites]]
* [[Inauguration of Babati R4D Platform, Babati,Tanzania| 9-11 April: Inauguration of Babati R4D Platform, White Rose Hotel, Babati,Tanzania]]
* 3-5 April: Regional logframe development meeting, Salima, Malawi
* 16-21 March: USAID field trip to Tanzania action sites
* [[Exchange visit to Malawi sites by Tanzania and Zambia research teams| 6-7 March: Exchange visit to Malawi sites by Tanzania and Zambia research teams]]
* [[:File:Africa RISING INNOVATION PLATFORM report final 3.docx| 27 February: Africa RISING innovation platform workshop Dodoma Tanzania.]]
* 17-20 January: Field visit to Malawi and Zambia sites by Project Coordinator and Chief Scientist

===2013===
* [[Joint Babati Africa RISING field planning meeting| 17-19 October: Joint Babati Africa RISING field planning meeting]]
* [[Africa RISING - SIMLEZA collaboration meeting| 6-7 September: Africa RISING-SIMLEZA collaboration meeting]]
* [[ESA_PSC Meeting Malawi| 4 September: Africa RISING ESA Project Steering Committee meeting]]
* [[ESA_review_meeting| 3-5 September 2013: Africa RISING ESA review and planning meeting]]
* [[Modelling workshop and planning meeting for Malawi component| 29 July-1 August: Modelling workshop and planning meeting for Malawi component]]
* [[SIMLEZA - Africa RISING meeting, 28-29 May 2013| 28-29 May 2013: SIMLEZA - Africa RISING Meeting - Lilongwe]]
* [[:File:Survey Design Workshop Report Dar es Salaam 27-30 Jan 2013.doc| 28-30 January 2013: Research Output 1 and ME Survey Instrument Design and harmonization Meeting: Dar es Salaam ESA Project-wide]]

===2012===
* [[:File:Report -Participaory Training Workshop for Extension Agencies in Malawi.docx| 7-10 November 2012: Participatory Training Workshop for Extension Agencies in Malawi]]
* [[ESA_planning_Oct2012| October 2012: East and Southern Africa annual review and planning meeting]]
* [[esa_mycoxins| April 2012: Mycotoxin prevalence and biocontrol in Tanzania Early Win project inception workshop, Tanzania]]
* [[dar_workshop| February 2012: Sustainable Intensification of Cereal‐based Farming Systems in East and Southern Africa - Project Inception Workshop, Tanzania]]

==Ethiopian Highlands project events==
===2022===
*24 - 25 January: [[ETHCloseOut| Africa RISING Ethiopian Highlands Project Closeout Event & Mixed Farming Systems Initiative Meeting for Ethiopia Stakeholders]] - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [ILRI Campus]

===2020===
*17 August: SNNPR project progress update meeting – virtual
*30 July: Africa RISING project updates with site coordinators – virtual
*15 May: Forage seed scaling options discussion meeting – virtual
*9 May: Africa RISING project in the Ethiopia scaling and research for development planning meeting- virtual
*3-6 February: Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands annual planning, reviewing and staff retreat Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

===2019===
*3 December: Field day in Bale - Oromia, Ethiopia
*3 November: Training on Feed & Forage Management, Seed production, Muti-stakeholders’ engagements, Gender and Data management - Addis Ababa and Bishofthu,Ethiopia
*5 November: [[FFDlemo2019 | Field day in Lemo]] - Hossahan, SNNPR Ethiopia
*[[:File:ICER_EtItinerary.xlsx|'''28 September - 7 October:''']]Internally Commissioned External Review Team visit to project sites in Ethiopia

===2018===
* 28 September - 10 October: Internally Commissioned External Review Team visit to project sites in Ethiopia - different activity sites in Ethiopia
* 23 May: 3 May 2018: Africa RISING Key partners planning meeting. Debre Birhan, Amhara, Ethiopia
* 21 - 22 May: [[ETH rev planning May2019 | Africa RISING Ethiopian Highlands Project Review and Planning Meeting]] - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
* 13 May 2018: Africa RISING Key partners planning meeting; Maychew, Tigray ,Ethiopia
* 3 May 2018: Africa RISING Key partners planning meeting; Hossana,SNNPR,Ethiopia
* 19-21 April 2018: Africa RISING Ethiopia team retreat, Bishoftu, Ethiopia
* 16-20 April 2018: Training on the Rural Household Multiple Indicator Survey ( RHoMIS),ILRI Campus, Addis Ababa,Ethiopia
* 16-18 March 2018; The 1st International conference on Enhancing Sustainable Development toward Climate Change Adaptation and Resilient Environment,Shashemene, Ethiopia
* 26-27 February 2018: Training on Management and Utilization of Improved Forages, Lemo woreda, SNNPR, Ethiopia
* 2 January 2018: Africa RISING Sinana site successfully organized mid-season evaluation field day at Selka kebele, Oromia region,Ethiopia

===2017===
* 24 December, 2017: Africa RISING Basona site together with the Woreda livestock development & promotion office had organized a field day at Goshe Bado Kebele,Amhara region,Ethiopia
* 20 December 2017:Africa RISING Sinana Site organized farmers’ training on cultivated fodder management and utilization in Goba district: Oromia region, Ethiopia
* 23 November 2017:The second SAIRLA - National Learning Alliance Workshop , ILRI campus, Addis Ababa , Ethiopia
* 2 December 2017: Africa RISING Sinana Research site effectively organized a midseason evaluation field day on faba bean, chick pea and malt barley PVS at Ilu-Sanbitu kebele,Oromia region, Ethiopia
* 29 November to 1 December 2017: Africa RISING Sinana Site in collaboration with partners,successfully organized farmers’ training on cultivated forages management and utilization in three kebeles of sinana district and one kebele of Agarfa district.,Oromia region, Ethiopia
* 15-16 November 2017: Feed conservation and utilization training,Gudo Beret Kebele, Amhara region
* 5 - November 2017: Africa RISING Endamehoni Site had mid season evaluation on Malt barley, Fababean and chickpea PVS,Tigray region,Ethiopia
* 5 November 2017: Field day for main cropping season R4D and scaling activities,Gudo Beret Kebele, Amhara Region
* 19-21 October 2017: Africa RISING Sinana team organized a field visit to conduct M&E of crop technologies scaling/pre-scaling in Sinana, Goba, Dinsho and Agarfa woredas of Bale Zone,Oromia region, Ethiopia
* 11 October 2017: Research dialogue on SAI with SAIRLA-NLA research boundary partners, ILRI Campus , Addis Ababa,Ethiopia
* On 4 October 2017: Field visit to Africa RISING animal feed adaptation trials at Ilu-Sanbitu kebele,Oromia region, Ethiopia
* 21-26 September 2017: Field days,Sinana; Goba; Dinsho and Agarfa woredas, bale Zone, Oromia region
* 6 September 2017: SAIRLA- National Learning Alliance(NLA) Ethiopia steering committee meeting, ILRI campus Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
* 22-24 July 2017 Third round of training on apple production and management,Tarmaber Woreda,Amhara region, Ethiopia
* 15-17 July 2017 Second round of training on apple production and management , Angolelana Tera Woreda, Amhara region ,Ethiopia
* 8 - 10 July 2017: First round of training on apple production and management, Basona Worena woreda, Amhara region, Ethiopia
* 29 June 2017: Development Agents training on how to manage and utilize Africa RISING crops and livestock feed technologies/innovations, mobilize and engage farmers for wider scaling- Oromia Region, Ethiopia
* 27 June 2017: [[:File:Bahir Dar trip report.docx| Discussion on production of early generation high quality seed potato for Belg 2018 Africa RISING Adet Amhara Region Ethiopia ]]
* 17 June 2017: Taining for Livestock and Crop Development Agents, Maichew ATVET college campus, Tigray
* 6 June 2017 : Training for Development partners on Africa RISING Ethiopia validated Technologies and scaling plan, Amhara Region
* 2 June 2017: Training on Apple and Mango orchard management, disease and pest management practices, Tigray, Ethiopia
* 24-26 April 2017:Training of Trainers (ToT) for scaling of technologies and practices of the Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands, Amhara region ,Ethiopia
* 19-21 April 2017:Training of Trainers (ToT) for scaling of technologies and practices of the Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands, Tigray region ,Ethiopia
* 4 -6 April 2017: Training of Trainers (ToT) for scaling of technologies and practices of the Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands, Hossana, SNNPR
* [[27-28 March SAIRLA– National Learning Alliance Launching and Outcome Mapping Workshop,ILRI campus Addis Ababa| 2]][[27-28 March SAIRLA– National Learning Alliance Launching and Outcome Mapping Workshop,ILRI campus Addis Ababa| 7-28 March SAIRLA– National Learning Alliance Launching and Outcome Mapping Workshop,ILRI campus Addis Ababa]]
* 25 February 2017: Briefing partners on Africa RISING best technologies and practices and soliciting partners scaling plan, Bale Robe ,Oromia Region 
* 27 January 2017: Basona Werena site half day meeting to have discussion with key zonal and Woreda partners of the project tested and validated technologies/innovations,Amhara region
* 13 January 2017: Africa RISING Oromia region, Sinana site, meeting with decision makers from key Government offices,Oromia region

===2016===
* 22 December 2016: Africa RISING Sinana Research site farmer field day at Ilu-Sanbitu and Salka Kebeles,Oromia region
* 21-Decemebr 2016: Africa RISING Endamehoni site zonal level scaling out discussion,Tigray region
* [[Africa RISING_LIVES_N2Africa| 8-9 December:Workshop and Exhibition on Promoting Productivity and Market Access Technologies and Approaches to Improve Farm Income and Livelihoods in Ethiopia: Lessons from Action research projects]]
* 6 December : Africa RISING CGIAR partners monthly meeting, ILRI campus ,Addis Ababa,Ethiopia
* 1-2 December : evidence generation for sustainable land management and integrated soil fertility management practice in Ethiopia , EIAR campus, Addis Ababa
* [[ethiopia_planning_nov2016| 29-30 November: Africa RISING Ethiopia review and planning meeting, Addis Ababa Ethiopia]]
* 27-28 October: Lemo/Hossana site farmers’ field day, SNNPR
* 5-6 May : Debre Birhan team visit to watershed in Hossana , Lemo woreda
* 3-4 May : Hosanna team watershad visit to Gudo Beret and Adisge: Basona Worena woreda
* 15 April: Independent Science Partnership Council forum(SF16) participants field visit to Africa RISING site in Ethiopia : Basona Worena woreda
* 12-14 April :Independent Science Partnership Council forum(SF16) , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
* 4 April : Africa RISING CGIAR partners monthly meeting, ILRI campus ,Addis Ababa,Ethiopia
* 25 March : Forage Production, Feed management and Utilization Training for farmers, Gudo Beret Kebele,Basona worena woreda
* 22 March: Forage Production, Feed management and Utilization Training for farmers,Gosh Bado Kebele , Basona worena woreda
* 25-27 February : EIAR 50th anniversary exhibition, EIAR campus ,Addis Ababa
* 25-26 February :Africa RISING nutrition research Training of Trainers (ToT), Debre Birhan 
* 15-18 February : Africa RISING nutrition research Training of Trainers (ToT) ,Sinana
* [[ethiopia_planning_feb2016| 10-11 February: Ethiopia Review and Planning meeting]]
* 28 January : Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands –CGIAR partners monthly meeting

===2015===
* 1st December 2015, Africa RISING Sinana site farmer’s field day at Salka Kebele
* 25 November 2015: Africa RISING Sinana site end season evaluation field day at Ilu-Sanbitu kebele
* 28 October : Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands –CGIAR partners monthly meeting
* 27th and 28th October: field day in Lemo woreda
* 16 - 17 October:Africa RISING Basona Worena site field day
* 8 October: Africa RISING Endamehoni site field visit for higher officials/ policymakers.
* 17-18 August: [[Project Monitoring and Mapping Tool(PMMT), ILRI ,Addis Ababa| Project Monitoring and Mapping Tool(PMMT) Training, Axum Meeting room , ILRI ,Addis Ababa]]
* [[ethiopia_writeshop_2015| 4-7 August: Africa RISING Ethiopia writeshop, ILRI, Addis Ababa]]
* 30 June: Sinana Woreda 3rd Innovation Platform( IP) meeting
* 27 June: Training of Household Survey Enumerators, Jegol meeting room ,ILRI ,Addis Ababa
* [[ethiopia_partners_meeting_20150625| 25 June: Africa RISING CGIAR Partners monthly meeting :InfoCentre ,ILRI,Addis Ababa]]
* 15-23 June: Nutrition research household survey, Basona Worena and Sinana Woredas
* [[livestock-fish/ethiopia_peg_2015| 15-19 June: Participatory Epidemiology and Gender training : ILRI Addis Ababa]]
* 12 -13 June: Basona Worena 3rd Innovation Platform(IP) meeting
* 6-7 June: Endamehoni Woreda 3rd Innovation Platform (IP) meeting
* 2-3 June: Lemo Woreda 3rd Innovation Platform (IP) meeting
* 1-5 June: Training of 6 Africa RISING service providers on small mechanization (two-wheel tractors and ancillary equipment),ILRI Addis Ababa
* [[ethiopia_partners_meeting_20150512| 12 May: Africa RISING CGIAR Partners monthly meeting: Info Centre , ILRI Addis Ababa]]
* 19-26 April: Ethiopia Landscape / Watershed Exchange Visit
* 2-3 April: pre-survey enumerator training workshop , ILRI Addis Ababa
* 1 April : Africa RISING project mid-term review half day feedback workshop, Konso Meeting Room , ILRI Addis
* 22 March- 2 April: [[ETH Project External Evaluation| Africa RISING Ethiopia project internally commissioned external evaluation: Lemo and Endamhoni woredas]]
* 19 February: 2nd Innovation Platform meeting In Lemo woreda

===2014===
* 20-25 December: a training workshop on watershed management and field visit program: Michew and (Tigray)
* 17-19 December : a training workshop on watershed management and field visit program: Debre Birhan (Amhara)
* 14-15 December: a training workshop on watershed management and field visit program : Hossana (SNNPR)
* [[ethiopia_planning_dec2014| 2-3 December: Ethiopia review and planning meeting]]
* [[CropSysttraining| 24-28]][[CropSysttraining| November 2014:]][[CropSysttraining| CropSyst training course, Addis Ababa ]]
* 16-20 November 2014 : Photojournalist trip : Lemo Woreda
* 2-6 November 2014 : Photojournalist trip , Endamhoni
* [[Facilitation and M&E training| 4-6 September 2014: IP Facilitation and M&E training for IP Technical Group members, Addis Ababa]]
* [[Integrating Gender into Agricultural Programming,ILRI Addis Ababa Campus, Large Auditorium| 18-20 August 2014: Integrating Gender into Agricultural Programming, Addis Ababa]]
* 14-15 May 2014: Africa RISING CGIAR partners field visit to Africa RISING sites in Amhara region
* 6–9 May 2014: Africa RISING CGIAR partners field visit to Africa RISING sites in SNNPR region
* [[Africa RISING Value Chain Write shop| 23-25th April 2014: Africa RISING Value Chain Writeshop,Addis Ababa,Ethiopia]]
* [[Africa RISING training workshop on Innovation Platform , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia| 23-24 January 2014: Africa RISING training workshop on Innovation Platforms, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia]]
* [[ip_amhara_jan2014| January - March 2014: IP establishment in Africa RISING in the Ethiopian Highlands]]

===2013===
* 18–21 November: Feast and Techfit training workshop for NARS and Universities
* [[ethiopia_planning_oct2013| 31 October-1 November: Ethiopia review and planning meeting]]
* 29–30 October : market/value chain studies team meeting
* 2–3 September: the market and value chain studies
* 18–19 June: Participatory Community Assessment and Social Mobilization sensitization workshop 
* [[SLATE_TOT_apr2013| 2-4 April Training of Trainers in the use of SLATE: A tool for Sustainable Livelihoods Asset Evaluation]]
* [[ET_planning_Feb2013| February 2013: Ethiopia project planning meeting]]

===2012===
* [[Ethiopia_planning_Sep2012| September 2012: Ethiopia project annual review and planning meeting]]
* [[QuickWater_final_workshop| September 2012: Quick Water 'early win' project final meeting, Ethiopia]]
* [[R4D_Aug12| September 2012: Targeting research 'Early Win' Project workshop, Ethiopia]]
* [[moneval_experts_2012| September 2012: Africa RISING M&E Expert Meeting, Ethiopia]]
* [[quickfeeds/Synthesis meeting| September 2012: Quick Feeds 'Early Win' Project final meeting, Ethiopia]]
* [[nilebdc/nationalplatform3| July 2012: Sustainable tree-crop-livestock intensification 'Early Win' meeting with the National Platform Meeting on Land and Water Management in Ethiopia]]
* [[quickfeeds/Training week| June 2012: Quick Feeds 'Early Win' Project training week, Ethiopia]]
* [[quickfeeds/Inception meeting| May 2012: Quick Feeds 'Early Win' Project Inception Workshop, Ethiopia]]
* [[addis_workshop| January 2012: Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands - Project Design Workshop, Ethiopia]]

==West Africa project events==
===2022===
* 1 - 3 November: [[WA_closeout2022|West Africa Project Close-out Meeting]] - Bamako, Mali

===2021===
* 03 Nov:[[WAVES03Nov| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]
* 06 Oct: [[WAVES 06 OCT| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]
* 01 Sept: [[WAVES 01 SEPT| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]
* 04 August: [[WAVES 04 AUGUST| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]Virtual Ms Teams
* 07 July: [[WAVES 07JULY| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]Virtual Ms Teams
* 02 June: [[WAVES 02 JUNE| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]
* 26 - 27 May: [[WA rev planning May2021| West Africa Review and Planning meeting ]] - Hybrid [virtual and in-person]
* 6 - 7 May: Stakeholder consultative and planning meeting by WorldVeg in Tamale and Navrongo
* 05 May: [[WAVES0505| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]
* 08 April: Stakeholders' Validation Workshop''' '''
* 07 April: [[WAVES0704| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]
* 03 March: [[WAVES0303| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]
* 03 February: [[WAVES| West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) ]]
* 11 - 15 January: Training of smallholder farmers in northern Ghana on repair and maintenance of diesel-powered maize shelling machines

===2020===

* 21 - 22 December: Training of smallholder farmers in northern Ghana on repair and maintenance of diesel-powered maize shelling machines
* 16 - 19 November: Mali Farmer Field Days (Bougouni and Koutiala Districts)
* 26 - 27 October: Ghana Farmer Field Schools on Best Post Harvest and Shelling Practices in four communities in the Upper East region (Bonia, Gia, Nyangua and Samboligo)
* 07 - 20 October: Community Field Days in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions of Ghana
* 17 - 18 September: Livestock Value Chain Analysis in the Duko and Tibali communities, Tamale, Ghana
* 20 - 21 August: Replanting of Napier Grass and Pigeon Pea on the Duko Technology Park, Tamale, Ghana
* 10 - 14 August: Pre-season sensitization in the AR communities in the Upper East, Upper West and Northern regions, Ghana
* 24 - 25 June:[[WA rev planning June2020| West Africa Review and Planning meeting ]] - Tamale, Ghana
* 30 - 31 March: Pre-planning meeting in Tamale (Ghana partners)
* 23 - 24 March:Pre-planning meeting in Sikasso (Mali partners)
* 12 - 14; 19-21 February: Formation of Innovation Platform and small ruminant value chain analysis (Upper East and Upper West regions)
* 06 February:Progress Workshop in Tamale, AR - West Africa (Ghana) Partners
* 30 January: Progress Workshop in Bamako, for AR - West Africa (Mali) Partners
* 03 - 05 February: Training on Container Gardens in Tamale by the World Vegetable Centre
* 19 - 24 January: Data collection on efficient feed utilization through the use of improved feed troughs in the Upper East region of Ghana
* 08 - 18 January: NUTRITION - Inauguration of Care Groups in the Upper West and Northern regions of Ghana
*

===2019===

* 18 - 28 November: Reinforcement of Small Ruminants Value Chain in the Upper East and Upper West regions of Ghana
* 05 - 06 November: Farmer Field Days in AR Mali sites
* 08 - 18 October: Farmer Field Days - Assessment of validated agronomic technologies by Africa RISING farmers in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions of Ghana
* 03 October: Farmer Field Day on Feed / Food production
* [[:File:Ghana Itinerary1508.docx|'''15 September - 21 September:''']]Internally Commissioned External Review Team visit to project sites in Ghana & Mali
* 12 - 19 August: Training/capacity building on development of constitution for maize shellers user groups in northern Ghana - Tamale, Ghana
* 17 -21 June: Exchange Visit from ESA, Ethiopian Highlands - Ghana
* 10 - 11 June: Biometric training workshop - Mali
* 3 - 4 June: Biometric training workshop - Ghana
* 14 - 16 May: [[WA_rev_planning_May2019|Annual Review and Planning meeting]] - Accra, Ghana
* 21 - 27 April: Gender analysis on Improved African Eggplant and Tomato Varieties Production
* 4 April: Pre-Season meeting - Tamale, Ghana
* 17 - 23 March: Gender Evaluation - Bougouni and Koutiala - Mali
* 18 - 20 March: Pre-planning team meeting - Tamale, Ghana
* 11 - 13 March: Pre-planning team meeting - Sikasso, Mali
* 3 - 7 March: Trial Event - Tamale, Ghana
* 16 Feb - 6 March: Field visit and Data collection by CSIR-STEPRI - North, Upper East and West regions, Ghana
* 25 - 26 February: Farmers training on good vegetable production practices - Bougouni and Koutiala, Mali
* 21 - 25 February: Youth Mappers to Africa RISING Programme - Upper West and East regions, Ghana
* 22 February: Field visit on livestock - Tibali, Tamale, Ghana
* 21 - 22 February: Visit to Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab by Director (SIIL) - Tamale, Ghana
* 17 - 20 February: Youth Mappers to Africa RISING Programme - Tamale, Ghana

===2018===
* 17 October: [[:File:BougouniFD 102019.pdf| Farmers field day]] - Bogouni, Mali
* 29 - 07 October: [[:File:Pharvest report.docx| Stockage des céréales et formation après récolte]] - Mali
* 18 October:[[FFD2018_Koutiala| Africa RISING Mali Farmers Field Day]]- Koutiala, Mali
* 17 October:[[FFD2018_bougouni| Africa RISING Mali Farmers Field Day]]- Bougouni, Mali
* 6 - 8 June: [[WA_rev_planning_June2018| West Africa review and planning meeting ]]- Accra, Ghana
* 24 - 25 April: [[esa_wa_strategic_planning| Africa RISING ESA & WA projects joint strategic planning meeting ]]- Livingstone, Zambia

===2017===
* 23 November: [[AR_ESA_WA_Project_Team_Meeting_23Nov| Africa RISING ESA and West Africa project team meeting ]]- Ibadan, Nigeria
* 10 November:[[:File:feedback_report_SWC_training_Nyangua_and_Bonia_0711.docx| Follow-up surveys on socio-economic issues around soil and water conservation]] - Nyangua, Ghana
* 9 November: [[:File:SWC_training_Nyangua_0911.pptx| Soil and water conservation training]] - Nyangua, Ghana
* 8 November: [[:File:feedback_report_SWC_training_Nyangua_and_Bonia_0711.docx| Follow-up surveys on socio-economic issues around soil and water conservation]] - Bonia, Ghana
* 7 November: [[:File:SWC_training_Bonia_0711.docx| soil and water Conservation training]] - Bonia, Ghana
* 3 - 6 October: [[:File:AR-Mali_FFD_Oct17.pdf| Farmer field day events in Bougouni and Koutiala]] - Mali
* 25 - 29 September: Africa RISING Management Monitoring Visit to project sites in northern Ghana
* 11 - 12 September: [[GART_September2017_Bamako| Gender in Agricultural Research Training]] - Bamako, Mali
* 7 - 8 September: [[GART_September2017_Tamale| Gender in Agricultural Research Training]] - Tamale, Ghana
* 5 September: Farmers field day at Koutiala Technology park
* 3 September: Farmers field day at Bougouni Technology park
* 23 August: [[Formative_design_meeting_ICT_to_support_scaling_in_Mali| Formative design meeting- use of interactive radio to support scaling of Africa RISING technologies]] - Bamako, Mali
* 13 - 14 July: [[AR_Phase_II_M&E_tools_workshop_WA| AR Phase II M&E tools and data management workshop]] - Tamale, Ghana
* 17 June: [[AR_Mali_Partners_Meeting_Bougouni_June2017| Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]] - Bougouni, Mali
* 15-16 June: [[AR_Mali_Partners_Meeting_June2017| Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]] - Koutiala, Mali
* 4 - 10 May: [[AR_Mali_PICSA_ToT_training| PICSA ToT training gathering]] - Bougouni, Mali
* 21 - 22 March: [[USAID_FtF_Ghana_Partners_Meeting_March2017| USAID Feed the Future Implementing Partners Meeting]] - Accra, Ghana
* 9 - 10 March: [[AR_Mali_Partners_Meeting_March2017| Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]], Bamako - Mali
* 1 - 3 February: [[Africa_RISING_WA_planning_meeting_Feb2017| Africa RISING West Africa planning workshop]], Accra - Ghana
* 30-31 January: [[AR_WA_participatory-research-design-training_Jan2017| Training workshop on farming systems research methods]], Accra - Ghana

===2016===
* 20 December: Ghana Upper East Region research team meeting
* 15 December: Ghana Upper West Region research team meeting
* 14 December: Ghana Northern Region research team meeting
* 12 - 13 December: [[AR_WA_phase-1-legacy-meeting_Dec2016| Africa RISING West Africa phase 1 legacy meeting]], Bamako - Mali
* 8 - 9 December: [[Mali_livestockstakeholders_meeting-Dec2016| Livestock stakeholders’ consultation meeting - Mali]]
* 15 - 16 November: [[Ghana_livestockstakeholders_meeting-Nov2016| Livestock stakeholders’ consultation meeting - Ghana]]
* 2 November: [[:File:SLW-undp_visit_FlolaPark.docx| Visit of Africa RISING technology park in FLOLA by UNDP Sustainable Land and Water Management Project]]
* 19 - 21 October: [[ar_managementvisit_Mali_Oct2016| Africa RISING program management visit to project sites in Bougouni and Koutiala]]
* 18 October: [[:File:Minutes - MALI Team Meeting 18October2016.doc| Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]]
* 20 September: Ghana Upper East Region research team meeting
* 16 September: Ghana Upper West Region research team meeting
* 14 September: Ghana Northern Region research team meeting
* 30 August: [[:File:Mali partners meeting -30August2016.docx| Mali partners meeting]]
* 22 August: [[:File:Ghana Research Team visit to Upper East Region Project Sites - 22Aug2016.docx| Ghana Research Team visit to Upper East Region Project Sites]]
* 28 June: [[:File:AR-Mali-PartnersMeeting-June2016.docx| Mali partners meeting Bamako]] - Mali
* 24 June: Ghana Upper West Region research team meeting
* 21 June: Ghana Upper East Region research team meeting
* 15 June: [[:File:AR-Ghana-NorthernRegionMinutes - June2016.docx| Ghana Northern Region research team meeting]]
* 17 May: [[:File:Ghana northern region research team meeting -17May2016.docx| Ghana Northern Region research team meeting]]
* 14 April: [[:File:AR-Ghana-UERegionMinutes - April2016.docx| Ghana Upper East Region research team meeting]]
* 31 March: West Africa Steering Committee meeting - Accra, Ghana
* 30 March - 1 April: [[West_Africa_Planning_Mar2016| West Africa annual review and planning meeting - Accra, Ghana]]
* 24 March: [[:File:AR-Ghana-UWRegionMinutes - April2016.docx| Ghana Upper West Region research team meeting]]
* 22 March: Ghana Upper East Region research team meeting
* 11 March: Workshop on agricultural water management for farmers and extension workers in Navrongo
* 22 - 26 February: Installation of irrigation systems and irrigation scheduling tools in northern Ghana (Tekuru & Nyangua)
* 16-18 February: [[WA_phase2_proposal_writeshop| West Africa Phase 2 proposal write shop]]
* 8 - 12 February: Workshop on data analysis and results summary for activity leaders In Ghana, Kumasi
* 18 - 22 January: [[:File:Mali workshop on data analysis report - Jan2016.docx| Workshop on data analysis and summary of results for activity leaders - Sikasso Mali]]
* 11 - 15 January: [[:File:AR-Mali-PartnersMeeting-Jan2016.docx| Mali partners meeting - Bamako Mali]]

===2015===
* 22 December: [[:File:AR-Ghana-NRegionMinutes - Dec2015.docx| Ghana Northern Region Research team meeting]]
* [[:File:upper west region - 1809.docx| 18 December: Ghana Upper West Region research team meeting]]
* [[:File:northern region - 1709.docx| 17 September: Ghana Northern Region Research team meeting]]
* [[:File:upper east region - 1109.docx| 11 September:Upper East Region research team meeting - Ministry of Food and Agriculture Office Navrongo Ghana]]
* [[research team meeting - Ghana Northern Region| 10 September: Northern Region research team meeting - IITA conference room, Tamale, Ghana]]
* 7-12 September: Farmers field days - Ghana
* 03 September: [[:File:upper west region - 0309.docx| Ghana Upper West Region research team meeting]]
* [[:File:Africa RISING Mali Minutes for September15.docx| 02 September: Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]]
* [[Project Mapping and Monitoring Tool (PMMT) Training - Bamako, Mali| 27-28 August: Project Mapping and Monitoring Tool (PMMT) Training - Bamako, Mali]]
* [[Project Mapping and Monitoring Tool (PMMT) Training - Tamale, Ghana| 24-25 August: Project Mapping and Monitoring Tool (PMMT) Training - Tamale, Ghana]]
* 24-28 August (postponed to later date): Exchange visit: Mali research team visits Ghana - Tamale, Ghana
* [[:File:training_report-28012016.docx| 12 August: Training on the production of fodder under supplementary irrigation]], Duko, near Tamale, Northern Ghana
* 11 – 13 August: Data entry clerks training for adoption monitoring study - Tamale, IITA Ghana office; Wa, Africa RISING office; and Navrongo, Africa RISING office
* [[AdoptionStudyTraining-29July15| 29 July - 2 August: Field staff training on data collection for adoption monitoring study - IITA Ghana office, Tamale]], Ghana
* [[:File:Mali Partners Meeting - 240715.docx| 24 July: Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]]
* 30 June: [[:File:Upper West Region - Reasearch Team Meeting 30Jun15.docx| Upper West Region research team meeting - Ministry of Food and Agriculture Office Wa Ghana]]
* 23 June: [[:File:northern region - 2306.docx| Northern Region research team meeting - IITA conference room Tamale Ghana]]
* [[:File:Minutes_AR-Mali-5June2015.doc| 5 June: Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]]
* 21 May: Bougouni Innovation Platform meeting (Africa RISING Mali)
* 19 May: Koutiala Innovation Platform meeting (Africa RISING Mali)
* [[:File:AR Mali Partners0518.doc| 8 May: Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]]
* [[:File:Minutes-AfricaRISINGMali-10April2015.doc| 10 April: Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]]
* [[:File:Minutes-ICRISATILRIIER-7April2015.doc| 7 April: Africa RISING Mali - ICRISAT IER and ILRI meeting for theme 3 component]]
* 25 March:[[:File:Minutes - MALI Team Meeting 25March2015.doc| Mali research team meeting 6:00 - 7:00pm - Accra Ghana ]]
* [[West Africa Project Steering Committee Meeting - March2015| 25 March: West Africa Project Steering Committee Meeting]]
* [[WA_planning_Mar2015| 24-25 March: West Africa review and planning meeting - Accra, Ghana]]
* [[:File:AR Mali Team Meeting Minutes - 27 feb 2015.doc| 27 February: Africa RISING Mali partners meeting ]]
* 26-27 February: [[:File:Sikasso_workshop_Report.pdf| Africa RISING Mali Progress Report/Work Plan Review Meeting ]]
* 12 February: [[:File:Madina-Sirakel-12March2015.doc| Africa RISING Mali: Field day at Madina and Sirakle]]
* February: Experimental design short-course - Ghana
* [[Ghana&Mali_Joint_Planning_Meeting_Jan2015| 14-16 January: Joint Ghana/Mali Review and Planning Meeting on Improving Household Nutrition]] - Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
* 12 January: Africa RISING and Heifer International planning meeting - Accra Ghana
* [[AR Mali Management Meeting - 8Jan15| 8 January: Africa RISING Mali Management meeting to discuss West Africa external review report]] - Bamako, Mali

===2014===
* 18 December 2014 - Bongo District (Upper East Region, Ghana) R4D platform launch
* 16 December 2014: Kassena Nankana East District (Upper East Region, Ghana) R4D platform launch
* 18-22 November 2014: Workshops on participation conflict management in Koutiala and Bougouni, Mali (ILRI, AMEDD)
* 16-18 September 2014: Validation workshops on local Conventions in Koutiala and Bougouni, Mali (ILRI, AMEDD)
* [[:File:Biometrics Course Report_18AugAL.docx| 4-8 August 2014: ]]SAS Data Analysis short course, Ghana, Mali
* [[:File:Crop-Livestock Course Report_18AugAL.docx| 21-25 July 2014: ]]Africa RISING integrated crop-livestock course, Ghana and Mali
* [[WA Regional Stakeholder Meeting| 18 June, 2014: Upper West Regional Stakeholders meeting, Ghana]].
* 21 February 2014: Africa RISING West Africa work-plan review meeting, Tamale, Ghana
* [[WA_SC2| 4 February 2014: ]]Africa RISING West Africa Steering Committee meeting, Bamako, Mali
* [[WA_planning_Feb2014| 3-4 February 2014:]] Africa RISING West Africa review and planning meeting, Bamako, Mali

===2013===
* [[Mali site visit 21 Oct| 21-25 October 2013: Mali site visits]]
* [[WA_SC1| 24 January 2013: West Africa steering committee meeting]]
* [[WA_StakeholderMeeting_Dec2012| 23 January 2013: West Africa stakeholder meeting]]

===2012===
* [[WA_planning_Oct2012| October 2012: West Africa annual review and planning meeting]]
* [[tamale_workshop| January 2012: Sustainable Intensification of Cereal-based Farming Systems in the Sudano-Sahelian Zone of West Africa - Project Design Workshop, Ghana]]

'''PRE-SURVEY ENUMERATOR TRAINING WORKSHOP HELD ON 2-3 APRIL 2015'''
Nutrition research household survey will take place in Basona Worena and Sinana Woredas from 15th – 23 June 2015. '''Training of Household Survey Enumerators'''(about 60 farmers from Lungwena EPA visiting)
'''training on integrated pest and diseases management strategies on vegetables'''

Gudo Beret Kebele
'''Africa RISING Key Partners Meeting'''

File:Nane nane flyer.pdf

2023-04-28T17:33:29Z

J Odhong:

2023-01-30T09:28:13Z

J Odhong: /* Phase 2 research-in-development plans */

__NOTOC__
'''Africa RISING'''
Sustainable Intensification of Crop - Livestock Farming Systems in the Guinea and Sudano Savannah Zone of West Africa
----
='''Introduction'''=

The project is operating in the Guinea and Sudano−Sahelian zones of northern Ghana and southern Mali. In Phase 1 (2011–2016), research activities aimed at establishing the best-bet technologies that would deliver adoptable development solutions to smallholder farm families were tested and validated through participatory research approaches together with the farming communities. Phase 2 of the project (2016−2021) will combine continuity with evolutionary change to ensure that the technologies identified in Phase 1 drive wider adoption at scale through effective development partnerships. The project envisions that, by 2021, over 100,000 smallholder farm households in Ghana and Mali will benefit from Africa RISING technologies.
Based on the experiences and lessons learned from Phase 1, expected outcomes of the Africa RISING West Africa Project in Phase 2 are:
* '''Outcome 1:''' Farmers and farming communities in the project area are practicing more productive, resilient, profitable, and sustainably intensified crop–livestock systems linked to markets.
* '''Outcome 2:''' More farmers and farm families are adopting technologies and practices to improve nutrition, food and feed safety, postharvest handling, and value addition.
* '''Outcome 3:''' Farmers and other value chain actors have greater and equitable access to production assets and markets (input and output) through enabling institutions and policies.
* '''Outcome 4:''' Effective partnerships are built with farmers, local communities, and research and development partners in the private and public sectors to ensure delivery and uptake at scale of sustainable intensification technologies, innovations, and practices.

='''Project sites'''=
The project is implemented in a total of 25 communities – the Northern, Upper West and Upper East regions of Ghana. In Mali, activities are implemented in 10 villages in the Bougouni - Yanfolila and Koutiala Districts of the Sikasso Region in southern Mali. From 2015, and for various reasons, Yorobougoula village (in Yanfolila District) will no longer be part of Africa RISING intervention villages thereby reducing the intervention villages to nine.
{|
| [[File:Smallimage_Africa-RISING-intervention-communities-in-Ghana.jpg]] | | [[File:Smallimage_Mali map action sites.jpg]]
|-
|}
''Click on image to enlarge.''

=Project interventions=
Through a participatory and demand-driven approach to research, project partners are implementing adaptive research on various technologies and working with development organizations to get them into the hands of farmers at scale. The activities include testing and disseminating: (i) improved crop varieties (drought and Striga resistant food and feed crops); (ii) appropriate agronomic practices (planting density, cereal−legume rotations and

intercropping, multiple cropping, increasing cropping cycles within a season, efficient use of input resources and agroforestry); (iii) climate-smart land management practices (conservation agriculture, physical barriers to soil and water loss, in-situ water harvesting, and soil cover crops); (iv) improved animal husbandry practices (semi-intensive and intensive management); and (v) technologies for reducing pre- and postharvest losses. The project also facilitates linkages between farmers and input/output markets. The objective is to build well-integrated and productive crop and livestock enterprises that minimize natural resource degradation.

To diversify household nutrition, the project is introducing new nutritious food preparation techniques based on locally available ingredients for household members, particularly children. Nutrition field schools are being used to promote knowledge exchange on best practices for processing and storage of cereals, legumes, and vegetable-based foods.

Group and individual trainings are conducted to strengthen the capacities of all actors (farmers, research and extension staff, input and output dealers, and policy makers). Academic training at the MSc and PhD level is applied to address important knowledge gaps, and to develop the “next” generation of scientists. Information exchange is being promoted through field days, radio programs, exchange visits, and video shows.

The project gives special attention to gender equality and underprivileged groups within the society. Enabling policies and institutions to improve access to input and output markets, formation of effective partnerships, and access to knowledge and information are advocated for, especially through operational level R4D/Innovation platforms.

'''''Technologies validated by the project during Phase 1.'''''

{|
| '''Broad category''' || '''Validated flagship technologies''' || '''Validation sites'''
|-
| New crops and varieties to overcome existing biotic and abiotic stresses and improve productivity per unit land area || New, high-yielding crop varieties, e.g.: * Drought and ''Striga'' tolerant, extra-early, and early-maturing maize, * Nutrient-efficient rice * Aflatoxin resistant groundnut * Sorghum hybrids * Early-maturing cowpea * Dual-purpose cowpea * Short-duration soybean * Medium soybean * High yielding and disease-resistant varieties of vegetables (okra, roselle, tomato, eggplant, and pepper) || Ghana (Northern, Upper West, and Upper East regions) and Mali (Bougouni and Koutiala districts)
|-
| Agronomic practices to increase grain and fodder yield and soil nitrogen content || Cereal−legume intercropping Cereal−legume rotations Dual-purpose food legumes Cereal−vegetable intercropping || Ghana (Northern, Upper West, and Upper East regions) and Mali (Bougouni and Koutiala districts)
|-
| Integrated soil fertility management as a cost-effective approach to replenish soil fertility || Optimized N and P fertilizer rates Fertilizer micro-dosing Livestock corralling for manure/urine Cereal−legume rotations Cereal−legume intercropping || Ghana (Northern, Upper West, and Upper East regions) and Mali (Bougouni and Koutiala districts)
|-
| Land management technologies to reduce soil loss and enhance water utilization || ''In-situ'' water harvesting Physical barriers to reduce soil erosion Contour bunding with trees || Ghana (Northern, and Upper East regions) and Mali (Bougouni and Koutiala districts)
|-
| Agroforestry technologies to increase fruit, vegetable, and feed production per unit land area and conserve soil and water || New provenances of indigenous trees (''Adansonia digitata'', ''Ziziphus mauritania'', ''Tamarindus indica'') Grafting Pruning management Contour bunding with trees || Mali (Bougouni and Koutiala districts)
|-
| Improved livestock feed, and feeding, housing, health and breeding management packages || Sheep/goat flock feeding Sheep/goat health care Housing for poultry Guinea fowl brooding management Stover quality improvement || Ghana (Northern, and Upper East regions)
|-
| Pre- and postharvest technologies to reduce food waste and improve food safety || Grain storage in PICS bags and plastic drums Aflasafe application in maize and groundnut fields || Ghana (Northern, and Upper East regions)
|-
|}
='''Research plans'''=
=='''Phase 2 research-in-development plans'''==
*[[:File:WA worplan 2021 2022.docx| 2021/2022 workplan]]
*[[:File:Gh+Ml 2020-2021combinedworkplan 2505.docx| 2020/2021 workplan]]
*[[:File:Gh+Ml 2019-2020combinedworkplan v0406.docx| 2019/2020 workplan]]
*[[:File:Wa_workplan_2018-19.pdf| 2018/2019 workplan]]
*[[:File:Ghana Mali 2017-18workplan combined.pdf| 2017/2018 workplan]]

==Phase 1 research plans==
* [[:File:WA workplan_03_08_2016.docx| 2016/2017 workplan]]
* [[:File:Africa RISING WA finalwork plan-0624.docx| 2014/2016 workplan]]
* [[:File:WA Workplan Final_25June14_AL.pdf| 2013/2014 workplan]]

=[[WA_Key_Documents| Key Documents]]=
= =
=[[ar_wa_partners| Partners]]=
===Partners meetings===
*click '''[[events| here]]''' to view comprehensive events list

'''2018'''

'''2017'''
* 17 june: [[AR_Mali_Partners_Meeting_Bougouni_June2017| Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]] - Bougouni, Mali
* 15 June: [[AR_Mali_Partners_Meeting_June2017| Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]] - Koutiala, Mali
* 9 - 10 March: [[AR_Mali_Partners_Meeting_March2017| Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]], Bamako - Mali
* 1 - 3 February: [[Africa_RISING_WA_planning_meeting_Feb2017| Africa RISING West Africa planning workshop]], Accra - Ghana

'''2016'''
* 18 October: [[:File:Minutes - MALI Team Meeting 18October2016.doc| Africa RISING Mali partners meeting]]
* 30 August: [[:File:Mali partners meeting -30August2016.docx| Mali partners meeting]]
* 22 August: [[:File:Ghana Research Team visit to Upper East Region Project Sites - 22Aug2016.docx| Ghana Research Team visit to Upper East Region Project Sites]]
* 28 June: [[:File:AR-Mali-PartnersMeeting-June2016.docx| Mali partners meeting Bamako]]
* 17 May: [[:File:Ghana northern region research team meeting -17May2016.docx| Ghana Northern Region research team meeting]]
* 15 June: [[:File:AR-Ghana-NorthernRegionMinutes - June2016.docx| Ghana Northern Region research team meeting]]
* 14 April: [[:File:AR-Ghana-UERegionMinutes - April2016.docx| Ghana Upper East Region research team meeting]]
* 24 March: [[:File:AR-Ghana-UWRegionMinutes - April2016.docx| Ghana Upper West Region research team meeting]]
* 11 - 15 January: [[:File:AR-Mali-PartnersMeeting-Jan2016.docx| Mali partners meeting - Bamako Mali]]

'''2015'''
* 22 December: [[:File:AR-Ghana-NRegionMinutes - Dec2015.docx| Ghana Northern Region Research team meeting]]
* 18 December - [[:File:upper west region - 1809.docx| Ghana Upper West Region research team meeting]]
* 17 September - [[:File:northern region - 1709.docx| Ghana Northern Region research team meeting]]
* 11 September - [[:File:upper east region - 1109.docx| Ghana Upper East Region research team meeting]]
* 03 September - [[:File:upper west region - 0309.docx| Ghana Upper West Region research team meeting]]
* [[:File:Africa RISING Mali Minutes for September15.docx| 02 September]] - Mali partners meeting
* [[:File:Mali Partners Meeting - 240715.docx| 24 July ]]- Mali partners meeting
>>>>>>>>>>>+ [[:File:Bougouni Report by Site Coordinator.pptx| PPT presentation: Activities at Flola technology park]]
>>>>>>>>>>>+ [[:File:Koutiala Report by Site Coordinator.pptx| PPT presentation: Activities at Koutiala area]]
* 30 June - [[:File:Upper West Region - Reasearch Team Meeting 30Jun15.docx| Ghana Upper West Region Research Team meeting]]
* 23 June - [[:File:northern region - 2306.docx| Ghana Northern Region research team meeting]]
* [[:File:Minutes_AR-Mali-5June2015.doc| 5 June ]]- Mali partners meeting
>>>>>>>>>>>+ [[:File:Africa RISING Mali Progress Update.pptx| PPT presentation: Africa RISING Mali progress update]]
* [[:File:AR Mali Partners0518.doc| 8 May]]- Mali partners meeting
* [[:File:Minutes-AfricaRISINGMali-10April2015.doc| 10 April]]- Mali partners meeting
* [[:File:Minutes-ICRISATILRIIER-7April2015.doc| 7 April]]- ICRISAT, IER and ILRI meeting for theme 3 component
* [[:File:Minutes - MALI Team Meeting 25March2015.doc| 25 March]]- Mali partners meeting (held at the end of the West Africa Review and Planning Meeting 2015)
* - Field day at Madina and Sirakélé
* [[:File:AR Mali Team Meeting Minutes - 27 feb 2015.doc| 27 February]] - Mali partners meeting held at the sidelines of span stylebackground-color: ffffff[[:File:Sikasso_workshop_Report.pdf| Africa RISING Mali Progress Report/Work Plan Review Meeting]])
* [[AR Mali Management Meeting - 8Jan15| 8 January]] - Mali partners meeting

'''2014'''
* [[:File:Upper West Regional Research Team Meeting Report-August 2.docx| 15 August ]]- Ghana Upper West Region research team meeting
* [[:File:Upper East Regional Team Meeting Report-August.docx| 14 August ]]- Ghana Upper East Region research team meeting
* [[:File:Research Team Meeting-Northern Region-August14 ab.docx| 13 August ]]- Ghana Northern Region research team meeting
* [[:File:Regional Stakeholders Meeting_18June14_AL.docx| 18 June ]]- Ghana Upper West Region research team meeting
* [[:File:Report_April Meeting IHZ.docx| 22 April]]- Ghana research team meeting
* [[:File:Report on review work-package meeting.docx| 21 February]]- Review Meeting for 2014 Work-Packages

==='''Innovation Platforms/R4D Platforms'''===
'''2015'''
* [[:File:Mali IP Workshop Report 19-21 May.docx| 21 May 2015]] - Bougouni Innovation Platform meeting
* [[:File:Mali IP Workshop Report 19-21 May.docx| 19 May 2015 ]]- Koutiala Innovation Platform meeting
* [[:File:R4D Report-Savelugu0521.docx| 21 January 2015]] - Savelugu District (Northern Region, Ghana) R4D platform launch
* [[:File:R4D Report-Tolon0521.docx| 20 January 2015 ]]- Tolon District (Northern Region, Ghana) R4D platform launch

'''2014'''
* [[:File:R4D Report Bongo0521.docx| 18 December 2014]] - Bongo District (Upper East Region, Ghana) R4D platform launch
* [[:File:R4D Report Kassena Nankana0521.docx| 16 December 2014]] - Kassena Nankana East District (Upper East Region, Ghana) R4D platform launch

=[[WA_Project_Evaluation| Mid-Term External Evaluation (2014)]]=

=[http://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/16499/browse| Reports and Documents]=
*Click header above to view the final reports published by the project on CG Space 

:'''Adjunct reports from project partners'''
:* [[:File:Intensification des systems sidibe.docx | Intensification durable des systemes de production a base des cereales etat des realisations des activites de la fenabe ]] - June 2019
:* [[:File:Formation sur les mangeoires.pdf | Compte rendu de la formation des producteurs de m’pessoba, sirakele et zanzoni sur l’utilisation des mangeoires ameliorees ]] - February 2019

=Training materials=
* [[:File:ZECC brief.docx| Zero Energy Cooling Chamber (ZECC) for Vegetable Storage and Preservation]] - WorldVeg (10 October 2021)
* [[:File:Fiche Technique Jus oignon.pdf| Boisson a l'oignon]] - Produced by Institut de Technologie Alimentaire (ITA)
* [https://d-lab.mit.edu/resources/publications/guide-assembling-using-and-maintaining-clay-pot-coolers | A Guide to Assembling, Using, and Maintaining Clay Pot Coolers] - Produced by the MIT D-Lab, the World Vegetable Center, and Institut d'Economie Rurale (IER)
* [[:File:Onion varieties validated in Africa RISING Ghana - Mali.pptx | Onion varieties validated by Africa RISING in Ghana and Mali ]] (10 October 2021)
* [[:File:TB_contourbunding_Mali.docx | Contour bunding in Mali - technology brief ]]
* [[:File:socio-economic_survey_instrument_0911.docx| Socio-economic survey instrument for soil and water conservation measure]] (9 November 2017)
* [[:File:SWC_training_Nyangua_training_presentation_0711.pptx| Soil and water conservation training presentation]] (7 November 2017)
* [[:File:SWC_training_brochure_0711.pptx| Soil and water conservation training brochure]] (7 November 2017)
* [[int.radio_scaling_mali_training_materials| Interactive radio to scale-up in agriculture and nutrition in Africa RISING Mali]] (December 2017)

=[[WA_RT_Protocols_Questionnaires| Protocols, questionnaires, PhD proposals]]=
*Click header above to view the research protocols

=[https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/16507| Posters and presentations]=
*Click header above to view the latest posters & presentations

=[http://africa-rising.net/category/regions/west-africa/| News and Updates]=
*Click header above to view the latest news and updates
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='''Key contacts'''=
* Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon, Manager Africa RISING West Africa and East / Southern Africa Projects - I.Hoeschle-Zeledon(at)cgiar.org
* Fred Kizito, Chief Scientist Africa RISING West Africa Project – F.Kizito(at)cgiar.org
* Birhanu Zemadim, Scientist ICRISAT/Africa RISING Coordinator Mali - Z.Birhanu(at)cgiar.org
* Wilhelmina Ofori-Duah, Research Communication Specialist, Africa RISING West Africa Project - W.Ofori-Duah (at) cgiar.org

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East southern africa

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'''Africa RISING'''
Sustainable Intensification of Cereal – Legume – Livestock Integrated Farming Systems in East and Southern Africa
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='''Introduction'''=

The Africa RISING East and Southern Africa Project is implemented in the maize-dominated cereal−legume farming systems of Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia. In Phase 1 (2011–2016) the project implemented research activities aimed at establishing best-bet technologies that would deliver adoptable development solutions to smallholder farm families. Phase 2 of the project (2016−2021) will combine continuity with evolutionary change to ensure that the technologies identified in Phase 1 drive wider adoption at scale through effective co-working with tangible development partnerships. The project envisions that, by 2021, at least 300,000 smallholder farm households will have had access to Africa RISING technologies.

Based on the experiences and lessons learned from Phase 1, the expected outcomes of the Africa RISING East and Southern Africa project in Phase 2 are:
* '''Outcome 1:''' Productivity, diversity, and income of crop−livestock systems in selected agroecologies enhanced under climate variability.
* '''Outcome 2:''' Natural resource integrity and resilience to climate change enhanced for the target communities and agroecologies.
* '''Outcome 3:''' Food and feed safety, nutritional quality, and income security of target smallholder families improved equitably (within households).
* '''Outcome 4:''' Functionality of input and output markets and other institutions to deliver demand-driven sustainable intensification research products improved.
* '''Outcome 5:''' Partnerships for the scaling of sustainable intensification research products and innovations operationalized.

='''Project sites'''=
The project is implemented in three districts in Tanzania - Babati and Kiteto in Manyara Region of northern Tanzania as well as Kongwa District in Dodoma Region. In Malawi, the project activities are implemented in Ntcheu and Dedza Districts in central Malawi. Activities in Zambia are implemented in Katete and Chipata Districts in the Eastern Province and Lusaka District.
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| [[File:Tanzania_research_scaling_sites.jpg]] | | [[File:Malawi_research_scaling_sites.jpg]] || [[File:Zambia_research_scaling_sites.jpg|link=@file:Zambia_research_scaling_sites.jpg]]
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=Characteristics and challenges of the East and Southern Africa farming systems=
A number of key challenges affect agricultural productivity in East and Southern Africa. The region is dominated by small-scale, resource-poor farmers whose livelihoods depend on rain-fed crop, livestock, and crop−livestock farming systems. The main staple crops are cereals (maize, sorghum, millet, rice) and legumes (groundnut, beans, cowpea, soybean, pigeon pea). Livestock are mainly cattle, poultry, and small ruminants.

These enterprises operate in diverse agroecological zones in the three countries and are characterized by land degradation, with the arid and semi-arid areas exhibiting the highest levels of soil loss. The soils in the region are also inherently poor in terms of fertility making this a leading biophysical cause of low agricultural productivity. The situation is further compounded by low use of mineral fertilizers and organic amendments. For example, in Babati District of Tanzania, Africa RISING studies established that at least 52% of the fields had negative nutrient balances yet only about 3% of the households use mineral fertilizers.

Livestock offer an opportunity for improving security in food, nutrition, and income. However, productivity is low due to shortages in quality feed, expensive and thus unaffordable commercial feeds for many farmers, and inappropriate husbandry (feeding, health care, housing) practices. Local breeds dominate the livestock enterprise.
In general, the crop and livestock enterprises are weakly integrated for mutual enhancement and synergistic benefits to the farmers.

According to the World Resources Institute, approximately 23% of the available food in sub-Saharan Africa is lost or wasted. This is equal to the loss of 545 kilocalories per person a day across a subcontinent where 24.8% of the population is undernourished. In addition to this massive food loss, mycotoxin contamination is equally a challenge caused and/or increased by poor handling of the produce and processing during storage. It was established during Phase 1 that in a maize-based farming system in the semi-arid areas of Central and Northern Tanzania, quantitative pre- and postharvest losses of economic importance occur in the field (15%), during processing (13−20%), and during storage (15−25%).

The diets of most rural, poor farm families are often dominated by the intake of basic staple foods (e.g., maize, rice, millet, and sorghum) which are usually deficient in micronutrients such as vitamin A, iron, and zinc needed to prevent malnutrition. The nutritional status of most farm household members, especially pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and children below 24 months of age, is therefore poor, leading to chronic malnutrition. For example, stunting for the new born exceeds 15% in Tanzania.

Farmers have limited access to input and output markets and enabling institutions and policies are lacking. Due to inadequacies of traditional promotional and scaling-up/out pathways, there is a large unmet demand for information about improved agricultural technologies and for access to the technologies themselves, especially by women. This has led to low adoption of improved technologies and best practices to reduce food and nutrition insecurity, poverty, and natural resource degradation.

=Project interventions=
Through a participatory and demand-driven approach to research, project partners are implementing adaptive research on various technologies and working with development organizations to get them into the hands of farmers at scale. The activities include testing and disseminating: (i) improved crop varieties (drought and Striga resistant food and feed crops); (ii) appropriate agronomic practices (planting density, cereal−legume rotations and intercropping, multiple cropping, increasing cropping cycles within a season, efficient use of input resources and agroforestry); (iii) climate-smart land management practices (conservation agriculture, physical barriers to soil and water loss, in-situ water harvesting, and soil cover crops); (iv) improved animal husbandry practices (semi-intensive and intensive management); and (v) technologies for reducing pre- and postharvest losses. The project also facilitates linkages between farmers and input/output markets. The objective is to build well-integrated and productive crop and livestock enterprises that minimize natural resource degradation.

To diversify household nutrition, the project is introducing new nutritious food preparation techniques based on locally available ingredients for household members, particularly children. Nutrition field schools are being used to promote knowledge exchange on best practices for processing and storage of cereals, legumes, and vegetable-based foods.

Group and individual trainings are conducted to strengthen the capacities of all actors (farmers, research and extension staff, input and output dealers, and policy makers). Academic training at the MSc and PhD level is applied to address important knowledge gaps, and to develop the “next” generation of scientists. Information exchange is being promoted through field days, radio programs, exchange visits, and video shows.

The project gives special attention to gender equality and underprivileged groups within the society. Enabling policies and institutions to improve access to input and output markets, formation of effective partnerships, and access to knowledge and information are advocated for, especially through operational level R4D/Innovation platforms.

=Scaling pathways=
Scaling of validated technologies to smallholder farm households by working through innovative partnerships is at the core of the Africa RISING East and Southern Africa project strategy. Through three sub-projects funded by respective USAID country missions in Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia, improved agricultural technologies are disseminated to farmers and adaptive research informed by the development partners is implemented by scientists to achieve the project’s scaling targets and livelihood improvement goals. This new paradigm is called Research in Development (R-in-D).

:'''The''' [[AR_NAFAKA_TUBOCHA_Project| '''Africa RISING-NAFAKA scaling project''']] (Enhancing partnership among Africa RISING, NAFAKA, and TUBORESHE CHAKULA Programs for fast tracking delivery and scaling of agricultural technologies in Tanzania) is an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional project that aims to address smallholder farmers’ needs in the semi-arid and subhumid zones of Tanzania. The project is funded by the USAID Country Mission as part of the US Government’s Feed the Future Initiative.Through participatory on-farm approaches, candidate technologies validated by Africa RISING are being scaled. This is achieved through the networks already established by Tanzania Staples Value Chain (NAFAKA) and other institutional grassroots organizations, creating an opportunity for mainstreaming into wider rural development programs, beyond Africa RISING’s original intervention sites./br>

:'''INVC Bridging Activity (Malawi)''': The INVC Bridging Activity is a two-year project funded by the USAID Country Mission. It is a relay project/activity between the Integrating Nutrition in Value Chains (INVC) 1 Project which came to an end in October 2016 and its successor project, Malawi Agricultural Diversification Activity (AgDIV). The Bridging Activity was commissioned with the objective of ensuring that the gains achieved by the INVC 1 project are not lost in between the transition phase from INVC 1 to Ag. Div. It therefore carries on with the implementation of some of the actions implemented under INVC 1. Specifically, the Bridging Activity provides continuity in assistance to a subset of smallholder farmer groups and Extension Planning Areas that received services from INVC 1. It also includes the latest research findings from the Africa RISING project to further boost production of the activity beneficiaries./br>

:'''Africa RISING going to scale in the Eastern Province of Zambia''': The project aims to stimulate the commercialization and distribution of improved legume seeds, contribute to increased frequency of intake of vitamin A through orange-fleshed sweet potato consumption, especially by women and children under 5 years, sustainably intensify current maize-based, low input production systems; and commercialize the Aflasafe biocontrol products for aflatoxin mitigation./br>/br>

'''''Technologies validated by the project during Phase 1.'''''
{|
| '''Broad category''' || '''Validated flagship technology''' || '''Validation sites'''
|-
| Genetic integration involving introduction of new crops and varieties to overcome existing biotic and abiotic stresses || Drought-tolerant maize, groundnut, bambara nut, millet, sorghum || Tanzania (Kongwa and Kiteto districts)
|-
|^ || Climbing bean || Tanzania (Babati District) and Malawi (Dedza District)
|-
|^ || Short-duration pigeon pea || Malawi (Dedza and Ntcheu districts)
|-
| Manipulation of crop ecologies to get more crops on limited land and maximize biological nitrogen fixation || Doubled-up food legumes || Malawi (Dedza and Ntcheu districts), Zambia (Sinda, Chipata, and Lundazi)
|-
|^ || Doubled-up food and fodder legumes || Tanzania (Kongwa and Kiteto districts)
|-
|^ || Cereal−legume intercropping, crop rotations || All project sites
|-
| Integrated soil fertility management as a cost effective approach to replenish soil fertility || Optimized fertilizer rates, Composts || Tanzania (Babati, Kongwa, and Kiteto districts), Malawi (Dedza and Ntcheu districts)
|-
|^ || Livestock manure || Tanzania (Babati, Kongwa, and Kiteto districts)
|-
|^ || Cover crop composts || Tanzania (Babati District)
|-
| Introduction of land management technologies to reduce soil loss and enhance water utilization || ''In-situ'' water harvesting || Tanzania (Babati, Kongwa, and Kiteto districts)
|-
|^ || Physical barriers to reduce erosion – “fanya juu”, “fanya chini”, and shelterbelts || Tanzania (Kongwa and Kiteto districts)
|-
|^ || Cover crops || Tanzania (Babati District) and Zambia (Chipata and Lundazi districts)
|-
|^ || Conservation agriculture || Zambia (Sinda, Chipata, and Lundazi districts)
|-
| Improved livestock feed quality and quantity || Quality forage and fodder based feed rations || Tanzania (Babati, Kongwa, and Kiteto districts) and Malawi (Dedza District)
|-
| || Poultry feeds with vegetable rations || Tanzania (Babati, Kongwa, and Kiteto districts)
|-
| || Livestock feed with fodder rations || Malawi (Dedza District)
|-
| Pre- and postharvest approaches to reduce food waste and improve food safety || Motorized shelling machine, collapsible dryer cases, PICS bags || Tanzania (Babati District)
|-
|^ || Aflasafe application in maize and groundnut fields || Tanzania (Babati District) and Zambia (Kazungula, Sesheke, Serenje, and Chipata districts)
|-
| Nutrient-rich food crops for improved household nutrition || Vegetables || Tanzania (Babati District)
|-
| || Quality protein maize || Tanzania (Kongwa and Kiteto districts), Zambia (Chipata District).
|-
| || Orange-fleshed sweet potato || Zambia (Lundazi, Chipata, Katete, and Sinda districts)
|-
|}

='''Research plans'''=

==Phase 2 research-in-development plans==
* [[:File:ESA workplan 2021-2022.docx| 2021/2022]]
* [[:File:ESA 2020-21 workplan-Fin042022.docx| 2020/2021]]
* [[:File:ESA 2019-20 workplan.docx| 2019/2020]]
* [[:File:ESA workplan 2018-2019.pdf| 2018/2019]]

==Phase 1 research plans==

2016/2017
* [[:File:Babati_workplan_2016-17.xlsx| Babati]]
* [[:File:Kongwa-Kiteto_workplan_2016-17.xlsx| Kongwa-Kiteto]]
* [[:File:AR-Malawi-core_workplan_2016-17.xlsx| Malawi]] (core project)
* [[:File:AR-Malawi-expansion_workplan_2016-17.xlsx| Malawi ]](expansion activity)

[[ESA_Research_Proposals(2015-2016)| 2015/2016 (updated research plans)]]
* [[:File:updtdBabati Proposal 2015-16.doc| Babati Tanzania]]
kkkkkkkk'''-''' [[:File:JUMBA work plan 15-16.doc| JUMBA Babati R4D platform workplan]]
* [[:File:updtdMalawi Proposal 2015-16.doc| Malawi]]
* [[:File:updtdKongwa Kiteto Proposal 2015-2016.doc| Kongwa/Kiteto Tanzania]]
* [[:File:Zambia Workplan 2015_2016.xls| Zambia]]

[[ESA_Research_Proposals(2014-2016)| 2014/2016]]
* [[:File:BabatiProposal2014-162.docx| Babati Tanzania]]
* [[:File:SIMLEZA-AR proposal 2014-2015.doc| SIMLEZA - AR Zambia]]
* [[:File:MalawiProposal2014-162.doc| Malawi]]
* [[:File:KongwaKitetoProposal2015-162.docx| Kongwa/Kiteto Tanzania]]

[[ESA_Research_Proposals(2013-2014)| 2013/2014]]
* [[:File:Babati workplan Final March 11.pdf| Babati Tanzania]]
* [[:File:SIMLEZA-AR- Proposal 10 October 2013 final.pdf| SIMLEZA - AR Zambia]]
* [[:File:2013-14_Malawi Africa RISING Proposal_nov 2013_finall.pdf| Malawi]]
* [[:File:Africa RISING_ESA_Kongwa Kiteto Combined Proposal_version Final revision 2.pdf| Kongwa/Kiteto Tanzania]]
* [[:File:SoW-Impact of Sustainable Intensification on Landscapes and Livelihoods.pdf| Scope of Work]] [[:File:Achievements_AR_Climate_Change_Mitigation_Project.pdf| Project achievements]] - Africa RISING Global Climate Change mitigation Project

=[[ESA_Key_Documents| Key Documents]]=

=[[Ar_esa_partners| Partners]]=
===Partners monthly meetings===
*click '''[[events| here]]''' to view comprehensive events list

'''2018'''

'''2017'''
* 5 June: [[AR_and_NAFAKA_comms._joint_meeting_June2017| Africa RISING project and NAFAKA project communications team joint meeting ]](virtual - Skype)
* 3 May: [[AR_and_NAFAKA_comms._joint_meeting_May2017| Africa RISING project and NAFAKA project communications team joint meeting (]]virtual - Skype)
* 24 - 29 April: [[kongwa_kiteto_internal_review_April2017| Kongwa & Kiteto team research meeting]] - Dodoma, Tanzania
* 10 March: [[:File:Babati_Partners_Minutes_Feb2017.doc| Babati Research Team meeting]] (virtual)
* 15 - 18 February: [[AR_management_monitoring_visit_Malawi_Feb2017| Africa RISING Management Monitoring Visit to project sites in Malawi]]
* 22-24 February: [[Babati_wardlevel_r4d_inception_meetings| Ward level R4D platform inception meetings, Babati district - Tanzania]]
'''2016'''
* 17 November:[[:File:JUMBA NOTES.docx| Babati JUMBA R4D platform meeting]]
* 20 September: [[:File:Minutes_BabatiRschTeam_20Sept2016.doc| Babati Research Team meeting]] (virtual)
* 27 May: [[:File:AR_Tz_BabatiRSCH_minutes - May 2016 edited.doc| Babati Research Team meeting]] (virtual)
* 22 January - [[:File:Malawi_combined researchers and R4D platforms field trip_January 2016.docx| Combined R4D platforms and researchers field tour in Linthipe Dedza District]]
'''2015'''
* 20 November - [[:File:Malawi Partners Meeting -201115.docx| Malawi Partners Meeting]]
* 6 November: Malawi - [[:File:Dedza R4D platform minutes_November 2015.doc| Dedza R4D platform meeting]]
* 11-14 November: [[:File:AFRICA RISING feedback meetings nov 2015.doc| Babati feedback meetings and site selection meetings]]
* 9 - 10 November - [[:File:AR Joint Planning Meeeting - Nov 2015 - final edition.doc| Tanzania Partners Meeting preparations for USAID external review]]
* 18 September - [[:File:Malawi Partners Meeting -180915.docx| Malawi Partners Meeting]]
* 18 June - [[:File:Malawi Partners Meeting -180615.docx| Malawi Partners Meeting]]

'''2014'''
* 24 November - [[:File:Malawi_ResearchTeam_Meeting_Nov20142.docx| Malawi Partners Meeting ]][[:File:Malawi_ResearchTeam_Meeting_Nov20142.docx| Report]])
* 14 February - [[:File:Minutes first skype meeting 14.1.2014.doc| Babati Partners Meeting]]
* 4 March - [[:File:MINUTES SECOND MEETING SKYPE MARCH 4. 2014.doc| Babati Partners Meeting]]
* 6 June - [[:File:Third Skype Meeting Minutes 6th June 2014 edited.doc| Babati Partners Meeting]]
* 4 July - [[:File:Fourth Skype Meeting Minutes 4th July 2014.doc| Babati Partners Meeting]]

==='''Innovation Platforms/R4D Platforms'''===
* 15 September 2016 - Kongwa & Kiteto R4D platform meeting
* 14 September 2016 - [[KK_R4D-IPmeetings_13-14Sept2016| Kongwa & Kiteto R4D platform meeting with Kiteto District Council]]
* 13 September 2016 - [[KK_R4D-IPmeetings_13-14Sept2016| Kongwa & Kiteto R4D platform meeting with Kongwa District Council]]
* 23 February 2016 - Dedza Innovation Platform meeting (Kumwenda to share the minutes)
* [[:File:Mkutano Mkuu_Wa Mwaka_Jukwaa_La_Utafiti_kwa_Maendeleo_Wilaya_ya_Babati_22-10-2014.doc| 22 October 2014]] - Minutes Babati R4D Platform Annual General Meeting I [[:File:Mkutano Mkuu_Wa Mwaka_Jukwaa_La_Utafiti_kwa_Maendeleo_Wilaya_ya_Babati_22-10-2014.doc| Swahili]]''' I English
* [[:File:MalawiR4DPlatformsProceedings_Aug2014.docx| 14-15 August 2014]] - Ntcheu & Dedza R4D Platform Workshops
* [https:''cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/67778| 10-11 April 2014 ]- Babati District R4D Platform Inaugural Workshop ([https:''cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/67778| Report])
* [[:File:Report of the Kongwa Kiteto action sites innovation platform launch.pdf| 27 February 2014]] - Kongwa-Kiteto Innovation Platform Launch [[:File:Report of the Kongwa Kiteto action sites innovation platform launch.pdf| Report]]''')

=[[ESA_Project_External_Evaluation| Mid-Term External Evaluation]] (2015)=

=[http://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/16501| Reports and Documents]:=
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=Training materials=
*[[:File:Key lessons scaling veg in Karatu 21April.docx|Key lessons from scaling up vegetable technologies in Karatu District, Tanzania]]
*[[:File:Tz newveg recipes Nov2020.docx|New vegetable recipes for good health (Tanzania)]] - produced in November 2020
*[[:File:Worldveg KAPreport.docx|Understanding the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of vegetable production for improving household nutrition in Karatu District, Tanzania]]
*[[:File:Biofortified beans brief draft2602.docx|Biofortified Beans Technology Brief]]
*[[:File:AflatoxinBR kiswahili.pdf|Ukweli Kuhusu Sumu Kuvu)]]
*[[:File:AflatoxinBR2 kiswahili.pdf.pdf|Ijue Sumu Kuvu-maana, athari na udhibiti wake]]
* [[:File:Common bean pests brochure1.pdf|Common bean pests training brochure (Malawi/Chichewa) - June 2018]]
* [[:File:Common bean diseases brochure.pdf|Common bean diseases training brochure (Malawi/Chichewa) - June 2018]]
* [[:File:Improved poultry housing plans.docx| Improved poultry housing designs in Babati Tanzania]] - August 2017
* [[:File:Majani ya nyakachimbu.pdf| How to grow buffel grass]] (Kiswahili training material) - August 2017
* [[:File:Majani_tembo.pdf| How to grow Napier grass]] (Kiswahili training material) - August 2017
* [[:File:Karanga_mwitu.pdf| How to grow desmodium]] (Kiswahili training material) - August 2017
* [[:File:Improved poultry feeding-leaflet.pdf| Improved poultry feeding leaflet]] (Kiswahili training material) - August 2017
* [[:File:Poultry diseases- leaflet.pdf| Poultry diseases leaflet]] (Kiswahili training material) - August 2017
* [[:File:Swai_animal_traction_16-17.pdf| Training on animal traction during 2016/2017 cropping season]] - August 2016
* [[:File:Munthali_sorghum_guidelines.pdf| Sorghum production guidelines]] - August 2016

=[[ESA_RT_Protocols_Questionnaires| Research protocols & Questionnaires]]=
*Click header above to view the research protocols

='''[https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/16510| Posters and presentations]'''=
*Click header above to view the latest posters and presentations

=[http://africa-rising.net/category/regions/east-africa/| News and Updates]=
*Click header above to read the latest news and updates

='''Key Contacts'''=
* Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon, Manager Africa RISING West Africa and East/Southern Africa Projects - I.Hoeschle-Zeledon(at)cgiar.org
* Mateete Bekunda, Chief Scientist Africa RISING East and Southern Africa Project - M.Bekunda(at)cgiar.org
* Jonathan Odhong’, CKM Leader Africa RISING West Africa and East/Southern Africa Projects – J.Odhong(at)cgiar.org

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2022-11-30T11:28:38Z

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