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<div></div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Addis_gaps_Comms&diff=59Addis gaps Comms2012-02-12T13:51:53Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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<div>Report of the comms world cafe group discussion:<br />
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[[:File:addis_comms_notes_pb.doc]]</div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Dar_programmanagement_day4&diff=561Dar programmanagement day42012-02-09T11:43:59Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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<div>=<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Sustainable intensification of cereal-based farming systems in Eastern and Southern Africa</span>= <br />
=<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Project Inception Workshop</span>= <br />
=<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">6-9 February 2012, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania</span>= <br />
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=<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">MANAGING THE OVERALL PROGRAM</span>= <br />
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">1. Program level has:</span>'''<br />
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Program M&E</span>'''<br />
- own process [ifpri]<br />
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Program comms and faciliation</span>'''<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- ilri to lead</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> - coordinated and consistent approach/strategy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> - drawing in comms expertise from partners</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> - single web presence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> - collab space, facilititation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> - email, beyond the web</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> - need an approach/strategy by April 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- needs a budget / who the people</span><br />
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Program research approach</span>'''<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> - own process</span><br />
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Program coordination</span>'''<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> - program coordination team</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- advises USAID</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- coordination and integration / not supervisory</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- ensures good comms and learning</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> - standard setting / guidelines</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> - convene/sponsor an annual program-wide learning/coordination meeting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> - convene/sponsor/approve the research approach design process </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- meets annual face to face / plus virtual at least quarterly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- composition: project coordinators + ifpri + usaid + comms/facilitation role + any other key role</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> - reporting? project - > usaid ; cc this group?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- comms group needs to act as the secretary</span><br />
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'''2 other issues'''<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">ifpri reporting? also into the regional project reports</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">can we change the reporting to 6-monthly? annual report [+ 6-monthly update]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">decide on a program-wide event/meeting/coordination and learning space, before May 31, 2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">USAID to compose a 'signal letter'; indicating next steps, timelines etc</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Project workplans will set out the process for 'early wins' ; each early win would have a little workplan</span></div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Dar_Site_selection&diff=568Dar Site selection2012-02-08T13:29:52Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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<div>=<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Sustainable intensification of cereal-based farming systems in Eastern and Southern Africa</span>= <br />
=<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Project Inception Workshop</span>= <br />
=<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">6-9 February 2012, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania</span>= <br />
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=<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Site selection: where are we at? (Stanley Wood, IFPRI)</span>= <br />
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* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Two aspects of site selection: a) quick and dirty early win/jumpstart track and b) longer term track.</span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Rain-fed agricultural potential and market access.</span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Quick start stratification, done with help of Sieglinde with high - high (potential rainfed - market access), high-low, low-high and low-low.</span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">3 sets of ''sites'' (defined as administrative levels): Eco-Ag, rice, SIMLESA.</span><br />
*</div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Program_outcomes&diff=1407Program outcomes2012-02-08T13:22:18Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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<div>AFRICA RISING<br />
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Sustainable increase of whole farm productivity<br />
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Improved on- and off-farm natural resource management<br />
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Improved connectivity to and utilization of off-farm systems (e.g., markets, inputs suppliers) that support sustainable intensification <br />
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Increased nutritional and economic levels of the target populations, especially women and children<br />
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Reduced vulnerability and increased resilience of the target population and farming systems to adverse environmental and economic challenges.</div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Program_objectives&diff=1406Program objectives2012-02-08T13:21:34Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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<div>AFRICA RISING<br />
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Identify demand-driven sustainable intensification options that are socially acceptable, economically feasible, and environmentally sound.<br />
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Combine and adapt these options to address constraints and exploit opportunities.<br />
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Evaluate their effectiveness at multiple scales. <br />
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Catalyze ongoing sustainable farm intensification.</div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Program_purpose&diff=1409Program purpose2012-02-08T13:20:41Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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<div>AFRICA RISING<br />
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Provide pathways out of hunger and poverty for small holder families, particularly for women and children, through sustainably intensified farming systems. <br />
? Nutrition captured?<br />
? Explicit links to drivers? – markets; population? Need a strong hypothesis; policies, land tenure implications?</div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Addis_project_boundaries&diff=83Addis project boundaries2012-02-08T07:58:52Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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<div>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands</span>'''<br />
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Project Design Workshop</span>'''<br />
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia</span>'''<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 33px;">'''Group work results / Project boundaries - What not'''</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This workshop provides an opportunity for a broad group of important stakeholders to both learn about the project plans and to share their views on expectations from and opportunities for synergies with the project (days 1 and 2) and for the core project team to finalize the project details (days 3 and 4).</span><br />
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Presentation by Diego:<br />
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[[:File:addis_boundaries.ppt]]<br />
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* Our boundaries included scale, sustainable intensification<br />
* Scale:<br />
''' Decision units are household/farm and communal resources/process<br />
''' Focused scale would be household/farm<br />
* Sustainable Intensification:<br />
''' The plot is not our focus, farm production is;<br />
''' We look at biophysical / socio-economic drivers but don't do research on it (e.g. climate change could be a driver, we'll include it in the research but will not conduct more research about it);<br />
''' Diversity of households = typologies;<br />
''' We are not focusing on the poorest of the poor (no means to test technologies, it's difficult).<br />
* Research - development:<br />
''' We will not do reserach on development components (we will improve and combine current technologies). The link is with development, research + policy programs.<br />
''' This is not a value chain project but we have to be aware of it;<br />
''' More integration with national and regional partners.<br />
''' Ideas for R4D:<br />
'''* Participatory selection of basket of opportunities;<br />
'''* Farmers/communities decide which ones to implement (understanding decision-making, co-learning);<br />
'''* Assessment at farm, but also down/up scales. Qualitative and quantitative (difficult) analyses = process & social research (M&E)<br />
''' Note: this is a time demanding process<br />
''' No pilot studies/projects<br />
''' Rather than linking with on-going projects (whose paths might be difficult to change), link with projects at design phase (eg LGP); co-designing and co-learning with partners; Funding institutions' role on leverage for this process; review of coming initiatives/project (site selection); Risk of quick wins - no sustainable unless linked to strong current processes. Better focus on processes than on numbers.<br />
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'''Comments''':<br />
* (on SI) Looking at PSNP, there's a program focusing on direct beneficiaries and we need to look at that group, not the safety net group.<br />
* (on R4D) household members are in the same scale;<br />
* The presentation makes us realise that there's a whole sub-part of the project that is much more about institutions - the people around the table are not that sort of people - where is the disconnect. Is this a key part of the project that needs to be addressed?<br />
* We can't have more than <u>one</u> focused scale.<br />
* The farm, as the unit, is very different to what we usually as bio-physical scientists - we need to be aware of this.<br />
* What about the spillover/benefit effects for the poorest of the poor;<br />
* The word 'development' brings about different images: not crop development but development work. Here we were just saying we were not working on plant breeding. We are also not working on fertilizer response tries.<br />
* No value chain project because we don't have the resources;<br />
* Regional here means 'Ethiopian regions' not Eastern Africa region - sub-regional research organizations are important.<br />
* It's better to focus on development projects at design phase and start working together e.g. LGP.<br />
* No pilot studies etc.: but we are focusing on farm level so how do we combine this? --> we're not going to sites where there is no other project going on;<br />
* No link with ongoing projects might be a problem, it's misleading. Many dev projects are flexible and looking for tech options --> the experimental design we foresee will require funding and activities from dev and research projects. We focus on 'basket of technologies', not technologies. This will not be a stand-alone project.<br />
* The point here is to emphasize the embedding of the research in starting projects.<br />
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'''Conclusion: as for other groups, more or less accepted but a group will further revise this text.'''</div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Dar_Synthesis-implications&diff=570Dar Synthesis-implications2012-02-07T14:12:12Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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<div>=<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Sustainable intensification of cereal-based farming systems in Eastern and Southern Africa</span>= <br />
=<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Project Inception Workshop</span>= <br />
=<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">6-9 February 2012, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania</span>= <br />
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=<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">REFLECTIONS ON THE DAYS FROM THE WRITERS</span>= <br />
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Bekele</span>'''<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">what's new ... systems approach came out much more clearly / postharvest issues came up in addition to the production aspects</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">what's missing in our CN ... gender, needs to be much more clearly articulated, with numbers / climate change linkages?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">drastic change needed: our mindset/attitudes to deliver on multi-component, multi-org approach / need to engage more the farmers and the national partners, they are not enough in this discussion / move more to applied research that makes a difference to smallholders</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">we want to work together</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">still need to clearly define and decide who will do what in the project</span><br />
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">africa rice</span>'''<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">what's new ... boundaries conversation; impact process; new purpose and goal and pillars of our CN</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">what's missing in our CN ... different geo location</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">what we will do together: baseline; something; strong involvement of development partners</span><br />
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'''ben'''<br />
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what's missing in our CN ... taking advantage of synergies ; planning for the early wins ; defining scale of focus/research/operation ; emphasis on capacity building<br />
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drastic change needed ... livestock are in the background of the CN; livestock not really in the proposed activities<br />
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what we will do together ... define roles of the partners; joint planning<br />
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'''someone from iita'''<br />
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what's new ...<br />
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what's missing ... we need quantitative targets in the outcomes<br />
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drastic change needed ... nutrition is not enough defined what we need to do<br />
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what we will do together ... need to meet other key stakeholders not represented here<br />
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'''said'''<br />
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what's new ... here we left our institutional baggage behind<br />
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drastic change needed ... need to bring the regional focus in more clearly (spillovers, learning platforms ..?)<br />
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'''joseph'''<br />
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what's missing in the CN ... our vision, what will we deliver? with evidence<br />
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drastic changes ... not enough impact-oriented; be accountable for impact from our research (short and long term) / need to work more with the wider NARS (traders etc as well as extension as usual)<br />
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what we will do together ... still to come; trust, inclusiveness, transparency, team working approaches<br />
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'''jerry'''<br />
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challenge ... need to (how to) revise the local CN's to the overarching project goals etc<br />
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these workshops moving us to a richer conceptual place<br />
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'''last person'''<br />
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what's new ... geo focus to align with FtF, hoping for spillover to other rice-based areas; new purpose, etc<br />
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what we will do together ... make a stakeholder platform; stakeholder to be shareholders</div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Dar_day1close&diff=551Dar day1close2012-02-06T14:46:14Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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<div>Susanne Poland reflected on the first day:<br />
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My take-away themes<br />
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- the importance of 'working together', in teams<br />
- diverse views on the meaning of SI<br />
- outstanding opening from the Minister<br />
- investing in agriculture as an engine for development changes<br />
- FtF investing in research 4 development<br />
- CGIAR changes, the CRPs, bringng centers' expertise together in an integrative way<br />
- USAID mission updates and CAADP process, about leveraging changes, through working together<br />
- scoping the many projects<br />
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our challenge .... 'working together'</div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Dar_Alignment_with_key_development_(and_research)_initiatives_with_synergies_within_the_new_project&diff=545Dar Alignment with key development (and research) initiatives with synergies within the new project2012-02-06T14:41:15Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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<div>we captured brief info on xx projects<br />
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groups got together to look at them<br />
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what patterns did we see?:<br />
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NRM PROJECTS<br />
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??? projects<br />
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- much conservation agriculture<br />
- focus on soils<br />
- many existing projects, eg o water and watersheds, missing<br />
- work on tradeoffs is there <br />
- water harvesting projects here<br />
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SYSTEMS PROJECTS<br />
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??? projects<br />
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- strong connection with NRM projects; blurring of boundaries<br />
- dissemination of technologies, improved varieties, improved production systems<br />
- tend not to be very specific; paper too small to describe them<br />
- lot of conservation agriculture<br />
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CROPS PROJECTS<br />
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- much breeding against stress, drought<br />
- seed systems and seed delivery<br />
- many are regional in scope<br />
- dominance of legumes and maize<br />
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LIVESTOCK PROJECTS<br />
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- many fewer projects compared to crops<br />
- separating crops from livestock not helpful; many should be in a systems grouping (aspirational)<br />
- fish largely missing<br />
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OTHER PROJECTS<br />
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25 projects<br />
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focus on:<br />
- nutrition<br />
- capacity building<br />
- markets<br />
- plant health<br />
- mycotoxins<br />
- food safety<br />
- climate change/adaptation<br />
- strengthening faculty/grad students</div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Dar_USAID_Missions%27_priorities&diff=573Dar USAID Missions' priorities2012-02-06T11:39:07Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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<div>USAID presentation<br />
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Susanne Poland<br />
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[[:File:Dar PresentationZE.ppt]]<br />
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'''Tanzania'''<br />
Tom Hobgood (USAID Tanzania)<br />
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80% of USAID efforts focused on the corridor<br />
3 VCs: rice, maize, horticulture<br />
morogoro (main focus), dodoma, manyara<br />
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Explicitly aiming to include women; climate change ...<br />
we need to be sure to link up well with MinOfAg and SUA<br />
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'''East African region level'''<br />
focus: increase access, availability and utilization of african-grown staple crops<br />
trade flows<br />
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'''Malawi'''<br />
improved nutrirtional behaviours (via dairy and legumes)<br />
high potential value chains to develop markets<br />
policy engagement<br />
south-central (7 districts)<br />
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'''Zambia'''<br />
legumes and oilseeds; maize, horticulture value chains<br />
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'''Southern Africa region level'''<br />
increased ag trade of key commodities<br />
increased agricultural productivity<br />
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critical that this project is part of what the missions are trying to accomplish</div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Addis_AssumptionsOutcomes&diff=49Addis AssumptionsOutcomes2012-02-02T09:36:10Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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<div>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands</span>'''<br />
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Project Design Workshop</span>'''<br />
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia</span>'''<br />
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Group work: assumptions and outcomes</span>'''<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This workshop provides an opportunity for a broad group of important stakeholders to both learn about the project plans and to share their views on expectations from and opportunities for synergies with the project (days 1 and 2) and for the core project team to finalize the project details (days 3 and 4).</span><br />
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Presentation by Charles:<br />
[[:File:addis_outcomes.pptx]]<br />
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'''Outcomes presented''':<br />
* Sustainable increase of landscape productivity;<br />
* Improved landscape natural resource management;<br />
* Increased resilience of farming systems and target pops (Target population/TP; esp. women and children) to adverse environmental (e.g. climatic) and economic changes);<br />
* Enhance livelihoods (e.g. food security) of the TP;<br />
* Increased participation of the TP in the market opportunities and tech adoption;<br />
* Enhanced human and institutional capacity in research and extension (broadly defined) for sustainable intensification.<br />
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Our hypotheses morphed into assumptions.<br />
We only added 2 (scales) to the outcomes mentioned in Ghana.<br />
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'''Comments:'''<br />
* How to scale out? we need to include knowledge management for this!<br />
* In contrast to previous presentation there is no explicit reference to nutrition here.<br />
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'''Next step: there will be a writing group that will take this further.'''</div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Addis_Goalpurposeobjectives&diff=63Addis Goalpurposeobjectives2012-02-02T09:35:48Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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<div>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands</span>'''<br />
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Project Design Workshop</span>'''<br />
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia</span>'''<br />
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Group work: purpose and objectives</span>'''<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This workshop provides an opportunity for a broad group of important stakeholders to both learn about the project plans and to share their views on expectations from and opportunities for synergies with the project (days 1 and 2) and for the core project team to finalize the project details (days 3 and 4).</span><br />
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Presentation by Max Rothschild:<br />
[[:File:addis_goal-purpose.ppt]]<br />
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Overall big goal (aspirational):<br />
* 100% increase in overall system productivity in target areas<br />
* Reduce farmers' risks from seasonal production variability by 50%<br />
* 75% reduction in harvest losses and post-harvest losses<br />
* 50% value addition to theharvest<br />
* Lift X thousand people out of poverty<br />
* Eliminate the hungry season in target populations<br />
The figures were debated within the group<br />
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'''Assumptions''':<br />
* Governments of countries involved invest in capacity building and relevant infrastructure to bring researrch outputs to end users<br />
* CGIAR and NARS partners deliver project outputs<br />
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'''Project purpose''':<br />
Provide sustainable pathways out of hunger and poverty for rural populations, particularly for women and childrne, through sufficiently improved food, nutrition, and income security and conservation and enhancement of the natural resource base.<br />
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'''Project objectives''':<br />
* Identify, combine, adapt and evaluate sustainable intensification farming options<br />
* Effectively deliver and help scale out research outputs to end users<br />
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'''Project outcomes'''<br />
* Sustainable increase of whole farm productivity<br />
* Sufficiently improved on- and off-farm natural resource management (''we argued about this'')<br />
* Increased nutritional and economic levels of the target populations, especially women and children<br />
* Reduced vulnerability and increased resilience of all members of the target population and of the farming systems to adverse environmental and economic challenges.<br />
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'''Comments''':<br />
About the big goal:<br />
* Figures are too high! (3 participants)<br />
* What about the target area?<br />
* System productivity is in the big goal but other figures and statements are more about the crop side.<br />
* It would be useful to have an ex-ante assessment and get to more realistic figures once we know about the technologies used etc.<br />
* There is an analytical framework that we can put against that and it should tell us where we can be;<br />
* Answer from Max: These are aspirational.<br />
* '''Conclusion: a group will have to work on this further'''.<br />
About the project purpose:<br />
* Can we put indicators to this? It will be expected.<br />
* The notion of intensification should be featured in the purpose too.<br />
About the project objectives:<br />
* This is about combining certain components, not overall options;<br />
* We need to combine the 2 points rather than follow them sequentially;<br />
* 'Farming options' is good but we also need to consider options outside farming;<br />
* Let's indicate 'participation and co-evaluation with farmers and other stakeholders;<br />
* The term 'farming options' was chosen over technological options because farmers do not use the term 'technology'.<br />
About project outcomes:<br />
* 'Reducing vulnerability' is better than 'resilience' because the former preempts the latter (prevention rather than fixing);<br />
* Is this technology used in USAid? What about outputs, outcomes, impact...</div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Addis_integration_hihi&diff=70Addis integration hihi2012-02-01T12:42:02Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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<div>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands</span>'''<br />
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Project Design Workshop</span>'''<br />
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia</span>'''<br />
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Feedback from working groups on the hypotheses, goals/purpose</span>'''<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This workshop provides an opportunity for a broad group of important stakeholders to both learn about the project plans and to share their views on expectations from and opportunities for synergies with the project (days 1 and 2) and for the core project team to finalize the project details (days 3 and 4).</span><br />
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==Pathways group (Alexander, Bruno)== <br />
Powerpoint presentation:<br />
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'''REVISED Hypothesis''': Interventions intended to achieve sustainable intensification of smallholder crop-livestock systems are conditioned by the desired outcomes, initial conditions and external drivers, all of which express themselves at different scales (HH, village, region). These factors furthermore constrain possible trajectories between low and high levels of sustainability and intensification .<br />
* '''Desired outcomes''': for smallholder crop-livestock systems should be determined through the involvement of multiple stakeholders and should include gender and nutrition via a visioning exercise for 15-20 years.<br />
* '''Initial conditions''': specific sub-systems (agroecological & socioeconomic) and levels and trends of sustainability and intensification<br />
* '''External drivers''' include: climate change and variability, local and global markets and access, policy environment, population growth, health, education, urbanization.<br />
About the picture this group drew...<br />
We thought we were a bit conceptual but then again it's good to start with concepts and zoom in on practical aspects. On the X axis here you have sustainability indicators and on the Y axis, intensification (which can be land, labour, water productivity or any combination thereof). Then wherever you are, you can design a pathway that remains low on intensification but high on sustainability. Another pathway could be to move from low intensification to high intensification. There are other models that are high on intensification but low on sustainability (linked to markets etc.); perhaps we want to keep them high on both axes or just increase sustainability. There are direct and indirect pathways. e.g. from low-low to high-high you can go directly or you can use an indirect route (e.g. intensification with market access) and not care about environment first and then include payment for ecoservices and increase sustainability. Our timeframe is 15-20 years.<br />
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Reactions:<br />
* Why 15-20 years? --> It's a more realistic timeframe;<br />
* What is the 'index' you're talking about? --> an indicator, and it is researchable; The index could be a multi-input measurement system.<br />
* We can't really look at those indicators in 15-20 years, we need to look at the macro-economics of Ethiopian highlands --> Yes that's why it's important to have this visioning exercise (and keep it broad);<br />
* A huge amount of work has gone into this in the past but there must be metrics for certain kinds of environmental services (e.g. erosion) and benchmarks that can help us measure --> Yes but we need to put metrics on that or we won't be able to talk about sustainability.<br />
* The complexity of this picture requires technological sustainability too.<br />
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==Site selection group (An)== <br />
Powerpoint presentation: [[:File:Site selection.pptx]]<br />
# Decide who will do the site selection<br />
# Decide on criteria to be used in the different steps<br />
# Define target zone (wheat systems, AGP woredas)<br />
# Spatial stratification and selection sets of suitable sites (sub-systems, sustainability index, intensification index)<br />
# Validation<br />
# Scoring of potential sites (representativeness, out-scaling potential, synergies with ongoing work/CRPs, sthg different, potential for impact, applicable and adaptable technologies, human capacity, engagement with local communities, presence of extension services, existing farmer organisations/CBOs etc.<br />
# Agreement on final set of sites<br />
# Start implementation of the project<br />
During the next few days?<br />
* List and select early wins<br />
* Rough delineation and stratification of target zones<br />
* Map potential early sites<br />
* Quick scoring<br />
<u>Reactions/comments:</u><br />
* In Tamale we projected work in the coming months, not years --> We didn't involve much consultation in West Africa so we had a few dimensions e.g. water availability, population growth etc. so certain parameters here were not talked about. We have to examine the priority sites by the GoE based on the list of sites that comes out of our analytical/conceptual approach here. <\ we also need to potentially add sites in future years. /> For quick wins, we have to think<br />
* What is the potential for linking with private sector, market, supply etc.? --> to be integrated indeed.<br />
* Some studies around potential areas (e.g. from AGP), would it help to go back to those sites 2-3 years after intervention to see how it could inform us? --> Yes we can!<br />
* Would the link with the private sector not be included with the intensification index? --> Access to extension etc. could well be fed into that.<br />
* In West Africa, there was a convergence on a couple of areas but there's a clear focus on environmental aspects of the work. What's striking here is that on the sustainability index, are we talking about characterizing certain environments?<br />
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==Technology group (Alan)== <br />
Powerpoint presentation: [[:File:Technologies group feedback.pptx]]<br />
'''Hypothesis''':<br />
* Difficult to test because it's vague. But needs additional explnations in sub-paragraph<br />
* ???<br />
* Target systems: this project would probably focus on 'productive Ethipia' because eof the potential for SI. In degraded areas one must first sort out NRM; Farm level productivity is also important here and it's difficult to choose target systems.<br />
* Objectives/outputs: objectives need to be split (or include explanatory notes)? Confusing hierarchy of outputs;<br />
* Quick wins: skepticism about the short-time scale. It might cause more harm than good. But we could also start with the 70+ projects and identify some successes from those; What do we mean by quick wins: cash in pocket, farmer interest etc.? Various options. Approaches to follow: primary (for longer project) with full process and secondary sites, and extract lessons; design mechanisms to identify quick wins: success from existing systems projects, combine tech from individual crop and livestock projects, high potential for outscaling.<br />
<u>Reactions</u><br />
* Very clear presentation. Selection criteria for quick wins includes looking at existing successful initiatives. Could there be any quick wins on advising some national initiatives? --> It's difficult to influence governmental programs if they're not involved in the design or this project or others.<br />
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==Tradeoffs group (Alastair, Diego)== <br />
* This is also about synergies, not just tradeoffs.<br />
* We changed our hypothesis: the evaluation of tradeoffs and synergies<br />
* We want to look at livelihood and environmental dimensions with substantial benefits to women and children<br />
* Tradeoffs and synergies we looked at:<br />
''' Short/Long term - sustainability means you have to make money this year to be around next year.<br />
''' Farm vs. community<br />
''' High yield vs. high biomass<br />
''' Feeding vs. soil productivity - Feeding biomass vs. productivity; grains are for farmers, residues are for soil.<br />
''' Crops for market vs. food security;<br />
* Quick wins here are about an evaluation of trade-offs and synergies:<br />
''' Have a farmer perspective (not just scientists);<br />
''' Tap into best practices from other projects - don't reinvent the wheel;<br />
''' Not one approach but mix of qualitative and quantitative;<br />
''' Something practical (e.g. spreadsheet format) to identify strengths and gaps of particular technologies;<br />
''' Diagnostic feedback<br />
''' Linked with M&E and impact indicators too<br />
''' We can develop a robust tool by the end of 2012, tested at action sites.<br />
* Relevant partners:<br />
''' Many projects are dealing with this. We need meta-data of what all these 70 projects are doing to assess most relevant partners.<br />
''' CRSPs, NARS projects, CGIAR impact assessment, SLP project, SANREM etc.<br />
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==Connecting group (Jerry)== <br />
* Critical aspect for Ethiopia. In West Africa the main difference was that the administrative levels are fewer to connect with and require less approval to get traction than in Ethiopia. Change of hypothesis here too. A lot of these hypotheses are actually assumptions.<br />
* <u>Our suggested revised hypothesis is</u>: institutional innovations and options at all relevant administration levels that build and enhance... (bonding, bridging)...<br />
* <u>Objective</u>: to integrate an effective strategy for institutional engagement at relevant administrative levels that enable.support SI R&D. Project objectives (including gender, nutrition, health)...<br />
* <u>Activities</u>:<br />
''' Characterize/ inventory of engagement strategies (e.g. community activities to engage them there) for various specific stakeholders (e.g. AGP etc.)<br />
''' Understand how all institutions are working at different admin levels e.g. water management might work at a different admin and expertise level than another issue. It requires solid understanding and well-designed engagement strategy.<br />
''' Figure out how to integrate engagement strategy with project itself;<br />
''' Engagement with all relevant partners/activities e.g. donor community, NGOs, private sector etc. not just public.<br />
* <u>Outputs?</u><br />
''' Innovation platforms to catalyse activities and results that we want and promote intersections with relevant partners (government, private sector, various admin levels, int'l)<br />
''' Requires well-designed comms platforms and continuous comms up and down those levels - at relevant and multiple levels<br />
''' A SI R&D project aligned, coordinated and integrated with other relevant partners and activities.<br />
* Quick/early wins:<br />
''' Didn't really fit this group yet...<br />
''' Formalization & approval of project by relevant admin levels (woreda, regional) & USAid mission, MoA.<br />
''' Survey of modes of engagement (assessment);<br />
''' Strengthened existing platforms.<br />
''' One agreement at regional and woreda level through specific processes to get project recognised and fitting within national GoE programs and ensure alignment with USAid mission.<br />
''' Survey of modes of engagement could be useful: formal processes, informal processes.<br />
''' Based on that survey and better comms, we can help strengthen existing comms activities.<br />
* Relevant partners:<br />
<u>Comments/observations</u>:<br />
* Nothing mentioned about different admin levels in West Africa.<br />
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=='Purpose of the project' group (Diego)== <br />
* How far is the project going? Dissemination? List of options?<br />
* Extent of the project?<br />
* The purpose? we listed 4 things to include in it:<br />
''' Enabling (integrated) opportunities;<br />
''' Sustainable Intensification;<br />
''' Linkage between research and development;<br />
''' Overall goal is to contribute to enhance production etc. but the focus should be on how to achieve this?<br />
* The goal we suggest:<br />
<u>Comments/questions</u>:<br />
* To what extent can you replicate the West Africa purpose etc.? --> We hope indeed to combine the higher level objectives and goals to have an over-arching template across the three systems. We could achieve that quickly in the next 2 days. In West Africa we went from a convoluted template to a very concise and refined template.<br />
* The big 'impact' numbers, we are precisely on the link between research and development. It will not come from the research.</div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Addis_Site_selection&diff=87Addis Site selection2012-02-01T12:30:28Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Project Design Workshop</span>'''<br />
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia</span>'''<br />
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Site selection and criteria to be used (Stanley Wood and An Notenbaert)</span>'''<br />
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* We first zoomed in on highland areas;<br />
* Then, if we zoom in on wheat areas, we exclude a large number of woredas;<br />
* Then we can look at 'AGP woredas';<br />
* We can display the map of dominant crops;<br />
* We want to be guided by Dr. Adefris for the site selection;<br />
* (Jerry) there will be a process for site selection. The sites selected today potentially won't be the only ones. There might be different gaps to fill in as we go along;<br />
* (Adefris) As part of the CAADP project, the government is indicating where to go; there is always an approval process between the CAADP and the government --> that can be another overlay e.g. 83 AGP woredas + CAADP and government policy priorities. AGP woredas were selected also for early wins to show to donors. In West Africa, there are very fertile woredas. We expect much less productivity from the highlands than from the West of the country.<br />
* (Suzanne): looking at wheat-producing+AGP woredas, what's left is hungry Ethiopia with degraded natural resources and investments from the Safety Net.<br />
* We need to agree on all the criteria; If we follow the criterias, we look at the target zones and look at gradients (intensification index, land degradation, ag potential side e.g. length of growing period);<br />
* Looking at the remoteness and length of growing period, when combining we get to 4 zones: arid, semi-arid but not so remote, humid zones and market-accessible or not).<br />
* From that map we could decide to pick the zones where we would work.</div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Addis_Synthesis_and_implications_for_the_program&diff=91Addis Synthesis and implications for the program2012-02-01T12:20:37Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Project Design Workshop</span>'''<br />
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia</span>'''<br />
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Synthesis and implications for the program</span>'''<br />
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Ater the working group feedback on the hypotheses, resource persons involved in the concept note development were asked to respnd to what they had heard:<br />
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What resource persons have to do when giving feedback:<br />
Any particularly useful insights, comments you picked up<br />
Any significant confirmations/validations you heard that reinforce the concept note directions<br />
Any significant feedback or critique that calls for substantial change or reorientation of any part of the proposal…<br />
What changes you think are needed to the proposal as is, including the impact and indicators<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">One new thing you've picked up from this workshop.</span><br />
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* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">'''Jerry''': Understanding the importance of communicating up and down all administrative levels was not addressed in West Africa;</span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">'''Stan''': The project's so focused on integration but having a specific discussion about integration is lacking and that's the knob of it all - we need to address this core concern. Putting together components in new ways is crucial. </span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">'''Geletu''' (what you want to do): Changes in hypothesis, new approaches proposed etc. we need to revise the concept note and come up with an outline that complies with the ideas of the group.</span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">'''Katherine''': Happy to see that water is on the agenda. Also pleased about how we fleshed out institutional issues, which is critical for this project and all projects.</span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">'''Bruno''': Need to align and find synergies is very useful. R4D is talked a lot about but rarely implemented; I hope it will happen this time. Investments of USAid in Ethiopia are a lot bigger than investments in research. We are a small player and we need to listen. The biggest challenge will be to get on board of large initiatives. Also, we're on the right track for integration at different scales - but how to do it is vastly unexplored.</span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">'''Tsedeke''': I'm pleased to hear about cultural change among CG centers. 10-15 years ago there wouldn't have been cooperation. But we have heard the ''primo piato'' only. The secundo piato and the dessert is yet to come in the next 2 days. The actual answers will come then.</span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">'''Iain''': One concern I had was that we broadened the conversation deliberately and now how do we focus back? It's also part of the process. No real concern otherwise. In some respects, it's difficult for me to know about the systems in the Ethiopian highlands but I will learn quickly enough. There are things we can learn from Asia. In 20 years' time, Africa will look very different.</span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">'''Dr. Getnet''': With some efforts we can change the productivity of crop-livestock systems, particularly of livestock.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Concerns?</span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">'''Jerry''': We want to not just integrate research components but also move to a new level if possible by identifying new level of integration of these components/practices/technologies. It's been messy in West Africa and the follow-up work requires more work.</span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">'''Geletu''': Making an impact means improving the lives of up to 40 million people - how can we achieve such change? How can we integrate livestock and crop to increase productivity?</span><br />
* '''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Bruno</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">: We've worked a lot so far at community level but we need to work at farm level. Scientists create a lot of fake problems for farmers to solve but instead of working on our own comfortable niche we should look at real priorities for farmers;</span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">'''Katherine''': The proposal is a bit vague about 'what people are we talking about' - there are lots of farms in Ethiopia. If we are to achieve our larger goals we have to think about which households are important to effect impact. Farmers understand about integration, that's all they do. We can learn FROM them in this project.</span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">'''Tsedeke''': Most important issue for this kind of project is that we are preaching to the converted here but we will have to convince many others about changes. Also, we will have to get the confidence of our clients. We Ethiopians are not very outspoken. We have to be convinced that we belong to the project and the project belongs to us;</span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">'''Stan''': this seems to be one of the biggest changes with West Africa - perhaps because 2 countries in West Africa. There wasn't much emphasis on demand in W-A but here the feedback is actually clear: "you need to follow what we do", not the other way around. This will be a great test-case for the project. The probability of success will be exponential if we integrate the demand side. </span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">'''Geletu''': Tsedeke mentioned a good point. From the Gov't until now, we need raw materials for industries. We want to integrate crop production in agro-industry. We have to think about how to link with all resource people possible. </span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">'''Jerry''': Yes, we need to hear from farmers about decision-making but... That was emphasized in West Africa, together with emphasizing that conditions are changing and farmers also have to integrate other issues which they might not be aware of... </span></div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Addis_Alignment_with_key_development_(and_research)_initiatives_with_synergies_within_the_new_project&diff=47Addis Alignment with key development (and research) initiatives with synergies within the new project2012-01-31T16:54:52Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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<div>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands</span>'''<br />
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Project Design Workshop</span>'''<br />
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia</span>'''<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This workshop provides an opportunity for a broad group of important stakeholders to both learn about the project plans and to share their views on expectations from and opportunities for synergies with the project (days 1 and 2) and for the core project team to finalize the project details (days 3 and 4).</span><br />
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We collected very brief information on more than 70 projects/initiatives.<br />
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[http://agintensificationafrica.wikispaces.com/file/view/addis_projectsinventory.xls| Download the project list here (xls)]<br />
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We also discussed the question in groups (crops, livestock, markets, systems/NRM) ; 'How can 'this' project (our one) align and connect with other projects in the sector.<br />
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feedback:<br />
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LIVESTOCK<br />
- what can we learn from others in terms of this intensification gradient? eg the safety net project? ag growth program?<br />
- all of the projects have much diagnostic information (gaps, problems, etc) that we can feed into our design<br />
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CROPS<br />
- what are the criteria to use to select crop improvement interventions?<br />
- eg high biomass (for fodder); suitable varieties for straw improvement; biofortification? improving the quality of seed? improving quality of the grain (for health)?<br />
- to work on dual purpose crops in the system (food, feed ...)<br />
- work on water efficient varieties<br />
- work on nitrogen fixing crops/legumes that are economically viable for small farmers<br />
- work on processing quality of crops<br />
- heat and drought tolerant varieties<br />
- these criteria to be used to id/select existing research that can be capitalized on<br />
- we need an inventory of the technologies/components before the project takes off<br />
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SYSTEMS/NRM<br />
- need to tie into the outcomes of existing systems projects<br />
- need to attend to issues around the scale - farner, household, landscape etc<br />
- we can pick up on existing/emrging outputs and outcomes and build on them; 'quick wins'<br />
- better understand the decision making processes of farmers.<br />
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SITE SELECTION<br />
- a stepwise process; zoom in on and define target areas; stratify according to variables (eg gradient, ag potential, market access etc); leading to potential sites to work<br />
- decide on scoring criteria (eg representativeness, potential for impact, existing collaborators); leading to a top 3 or a top 5 sites.<br />
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Markets group did not meet ... GAP<br />
we also need to focus on Nutrition ... GAP</div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Addis_day1Recap&diff=52Addis day1Recap2012-01-31T07:57:28Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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=Day 1 recap by Shirley Tarawali= <br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Thinking and discussing about sustainable intensification</span><br />
* <span style="font-size: 10pt;">a range of views</span><br />
* <span style="font-size: 10pt;">on what this encompasses</span><br />
* <span style="font-size: 10pt;">on the extent to which it is ‘the’ or ‘a’ solution</span><br />
* <span style="font-size: 10pt;">everyone sees some value</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sustainable intensification in CGIAR research programs</span><br />
* <span style="font-size: 10pt;">In the project under discussion</span><br />
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''<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Consensus</span>''<br />
* <span style="font-size: 10pt;">markets important & integral part</span><br />
* <span style="font-size: 10pt;">private sector</span><br />
* <span style="font-size: 10pt;">some kind of ‘intensification gradient’ makes sense - how we define, that is much less clear</span><br />
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''<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Challenges</span>''<br />
* <span style="font-size: 10pt;">What is ‘in’ and what is ‘out’?</span><br />
* <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Many times – broadening</span><br />
* <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Bay for project proponents is how to define <u>success</u></span><br />
* <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lots of ideas & possible metrics from Stan</span><br />
* <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lined up with USAID priorities but health/nutrition missing</span><br />
* <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Catalyse? Synergies? Leverage? Alignment</span><br />
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<span style="display: block; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Level of work, level of success indicators & time frame - yes we may impost on nutrition – but that may be an outcome further down the road – several years – what are the measurable steps for us to know we are leading the right way?</span><br />
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<span style="display: block; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Leveraging & connecting with other programmes is essential – that is where there is significant resources to take research results to scale.</span><br />
<span style="display: block; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Over 70 projects & programmes in this rather small sub sample of R&D!</span></div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Addis_Impact_assessment_and_monitoring_%26_evaluation_in_the_program&diff=66Addis Impact assessment and monitoring & evaluation in the program2012-01-30T11:21:15Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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<div>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands</span>'''<br />
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Project Design Workshop</span>'''<br />
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia</span>'''<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 23px;">'''Presentation: Impact assessment and M&E in this program (Stan Wood, IFPRI)'''</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This workshop provides an opportunity for a broad group of important stakeholders to both learn about the project plans and to share their views on expectations from and opportunities for synergies with the project (days 1 and 2) and for the core project team to finalize the project details (days 3 and 4).</span><br />
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'''Sustainable intensification of farming systems: M&E goals, implementation strategy and data analysis platforms.'''<br />
* M&E guiding principles:<br />
''' Compliance with USAid's FtF, GoE and CRP;<br />
'''* Multi-scale, multi-site reporting: action site/sub-system and system reporting; country reports, regional reports, SSA reports.<br />
'''* Monitoring and projection: short term projections of key indicators, updated annually. Links with analytical tools.<br />
'''* Scaling indicators up and out (spatial & temporal) for various outcomes.<br />
'''* Open-access data and analysis platforms.<br />
* ''Required'' indicators to make you think about the selection of components etc.<br />
* Some 'required if applicable' indicators - looking at the integrated picture: measures of partial productivity are going to be complex and we might need some additional indicators in some areas e.g. individuals receiving short term training, value of incremental sales etc.<br />
* We will have to take some tough decisions later on re: indicators and M&E generally;<br />
* Monitoring and reporting levels: at action sites, sub-systems, larger systems (geographically disparate in Ethiopia and across the other project countries) - we need analytical tools for this!<br />
* We will overlay all information collected.<br />
* Impact pathway from a) sub-system resource potential (land, rainfall) to b) anthropization (market-access, population density) and c) site/household specific attributes( topography, endowment, household typologies). NEXT: look into spatial analysis to provide geographic definition and characterization.<br />
* Various tools to combine to provide us a big picture.<br />
* Some key M&E activities (not shown)<br />
* M&E implementation to date:<br />
''' Establish core FtF monitoring obligations (agree required core indicators and reporting timelines)<br />
''' Recruit M&E coordinator<br />
''' Establish the M&E implementation community;<br />
''' M&E open access, web-based platform;<br />
''' Annual M&E technical meeting;<br />
* Pragmatic take: collect data and information on site/station - inventorise.<br />
* Questions:<br />
''' Split of M&E resources between early assessments and outcome / impact;<br />
''' Process to select components;<br />
''' cost of meeting donor's minimum indicator needs?<br />
''' Internal project management versus strategic M&E needs?<br />
''' Establishing shared roles in data and tool dev't and applicationo;<br />
''' Interest in being part of the wider M&E community (national partners)?<br />
''' Any likely candidates for M&E coordinator?</div>Peterballantynehttps://africa-rising-wiki.net/index.php?title=Addis_Buzz_group_and_plenary_feedback_discussion&diff=50Addis Buzz group and plenary feedback discussion2012-01-30T09:48:15Z<p>Peterballantyne: Imported from Wikispaces</p>
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<div>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands</span>'''<br />
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Project Design Workshop</span>'''<br />
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia</span>'''<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 23px;">'''Buzz group and feedback day 1'''</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This workshop provides an opportunity for a broad group of important stakeholders to both learn about the project plans and to share their views on expectations from and opportunities for synergies with the project (days 1 and 2) and for the core project team to finalize the project details (days 3 and 4).</span><br />
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iain - likes<br />
useful to see all the CRP linkages<br />
useful overview<br />
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iain - gaps<br />
not possible to link with each and everyone; need to select which is most relevant, and which sites most relevant. prioritizaton<br />
private sector partners not mentioned<br />
did not yet zoom into the ET highlands<br />
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shirley - likes<br />
like the element of 'cultural change'; involving all stakeholders<br />
nicely aligned<br />
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shirley - gaps<br />
trees seem to be missing<br />
climate change not enough?<br />
legumes not secondary crops!<br />
water management missing?<br />
need to identify the unit of interventions, households, communities?<br />
need to clearly state what's unique and novel<br />
value chain issues?<br />
markets for ecosystems services?<br />
gender issues<br />
need to focus on several major components, or will be too broad?<br />
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shirley: challenge is to focus on a small (mixed) subset and also intersect with other projects and opportunities<br />
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stan - gaps<br />
what we measure in w africa can't be a template for here<br />
what are we really measuring - numbers - or ...<br />
main focus seems to be ex-ante, not clear what we will measure on the impact side?<br />
what about issues around social processes?<br />
missing some connections with how to measure the intensification gradient?<br />
what about diversification; longer term sustainability indicators?<br />
how to address (and measure) the prioirities of the government, and of the farmers<br />
what's the driving force for the intensification .. land productivity, water availability/productivity, ...<br />
pretty large gap/disconnect between the indicators/approach and what was presented by Iain and Shirley.<br />
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stan: tension between not having too many indicators and better understanding very complex subject/issues. How are we going to capture, eg social capital? Got to have really good a priori thinking about theories of change; then chop down into what you can actually do.</div>Peterballantyne