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Team meeting on Communications
Venue: Sof Omar
Time 4:00-11:00am
Attendees :Peter Thorne, Peter Ballantyne, Kindu Mekonnen and Simret Yasabu

'''Agenda Items for the meeting'''
# Updating progress on communications (Simret/Peter B)
# Capturing some scaling practices that are happening (Peter and Kindu )
# Communications champions – how to engage them more (Simret/Zelalem email)
# Naming consistency(Simret)
# Possible support for theses on communication, Knowledge management ,social learning(Kindu )

'''Updating progress on communications (Simret/Peter B)'''
'''Publications'''
* Lots of documents produced
* Woreda briefs
* IP brief
* Gender brief
* Rapid market assessment briefs
Website
* regular blog posting
* Updated with woreda briefs
* Kindu and Peter has been active in their contributions
* Not many people have still subscribed - so it was discuss to push lots of people to subscribe, encourage the site coordinators and assistant site coordinators

Flickr
* pictures from the photojournalist are uploaded
* Maps of our woreda has been uploaded
* IPpictures are also uploaded

Wiki
* regularly Updated – events
* New pages have been created - for the reviewers, PCT

Field visit
* Kindu and SImret have had a field trip to Debre Birhan to see the progress of treelucern . Simret has interviewed some farmers for blog post

'''Capturing some scaling practices (Kindu and Peter )'''
* Identify two-three things which needs to be captured for scaling
* Digital green for wider publicity / intensive campaign
* Comms team – identify one person/team member who could be part of this process, to support in the scaling
* Research on Scaling – feeding mapping of the diffusion of technologies in the kebeles and beyond
* Community seed production-another topic for scaling

'''Communication champions'''
* We have champions at the woreda strategic IP
* Zelalem has shared a document specifying the different communication tools identified for /by the IP
* some of the tools are already been identified by the communication team : posters, short videos, photos , woreda specific brochures
* it was pointed and discussed that we could use this champions and for that we may think about Capacity building?

'''Naming consistency'''
# People use different wording for sites,
# team members also use abbreviations on official documents : AR,CG
# it was suggested to have Africa RISING glossary: Simret to draft this

'''Possible support for Thesis on communication, Knowledge management ,social learning(Kindu )'''
Kindu shared with the team a proposal from one of our partners to do a thesis on communications, knowledge managment . it was suggested that this is a good idea but we need to tailor it to our demand. Peter B. has expressed his willingness to support in supervising the student

'''Knowledge center-''' this has bben on the discussion long time but not much has been done . it was suggested the site coordinator lead on the establishment . Simret agreed to develop concept note and share with the team

'''other action points'''
* to have a quarterly project newsletter - to start with English and then see if translation is needed. this newsletter target the woreda
* to have an Annual CD - knowledge product of the year- but this was suggested to come later when we have lots of publications to share
* Kindu to share all the maps being produced to Simret and Peter B

Communication team meeting 2015 04 03 - Revision history

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