Moneval3 - Revision history

PopoolaSamuel001: /* Project monitoring and mapping tool (PMMT) */

2018-11-28T14:48:33Z

‎Project monitoring and mapping tool (PMMT)

PopoolaSamuel001: /* Ex-ante modeling analysis. Maize yield responses to nutrient management options in Malawi */

2018-11-28T14:41:55Z

‎Ex-ante modeling analysis. Maize yield responses to nutrient management options in Malawi

PopoolaSamuel001: /* The CSISA experience */

2018-11-28T14:36:46Z

‎The CSISA experience

PopoolaSamuel001: /* The CSISA experience */

2018-11-28T14:21:51Z

‎The CSISA experience

PopoolaSamuel001: /* DAHBSIM Dynamic Agricultural Household Bio-economic Simulation Model */

2018-11-28T14:12:55Z

‎DAHBSIM Dynamic Agricultural Household Bio-economic Simulation Model

PopoolaSamuel001: /* Ex-ante modeling analysis. Maize yield responses to nutrient management options in Malawi */

2018-11-28T14:03:00Z

‎Ex-ante modeling analysis. Maize yield responses to nutrient management options in Malawi

PopoolaSamuel001: /* Talk show about program overview and issues */

2018-11-28T13:53:59Z

‎Talk show about program overview and issues

PopoolaSamuel001: /* Africa RISING Program evaluation design, spatial distribution of Africa RISING technologies, farmer typologies */

2018-11-28T13:45:22Z

‎Africa RISING Program evaluation design, spatial distribution of Africa RISING technologies, farmer typologies

PopoolaSamuel001: /* Africa RISING Program evaluation design, spatial distribution of Africa RISING technologies, farmer typologies */

2018-11-28T13:44:56Z

‎Africa RISING Program evaluation design, spatial distribution of Africa RISING technologies, farmer typologies

PopoolaSamuel001: /* Africa RISING Program evaluation design, spatial distribution of Africa RISING technologies, farmer typologies */

2018-11-28T13:43:56Z

‎Africa RISING Program evaluation design, spatial distribution of Africa RISING technologies, farmer typologies

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 How will you scale to national partners in Mali? You can't scale with NGOs. We have various recommendations for all those issues. That will be dealt with in the next 1.5 years... IITA is hosting Humidtropics and we concluded from all of it that if you think that Africa RISING has sthg to contribute, that relationship has to allow for your identity to be kept.
-=Project monitoring and mapping tool (PMMT)=
+===Project monitoring and mapping tool (PMMT)===
-''[http:''www.slideshare.net/africa-rising/ar-me-bacounov2014| See presentation by Mélanie Bacou]//
+[http://www.slideshare.net/africa-rising/ar-me-bacounov2014 See presentation by Mélanie Bacou]<br/>
 =Data management plan=

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 ==Ex-ante modeling analysis. Maize yield responses to nutrient management options in Malawi==
-''[http:''www.slideshare.net/africa-rising/ar-me-koonov2014| See presentation by Jawoo Koo]//
+[http://www.slideshare.net/africa-rising/ar-me-koonov2014 See presentation by Jawoo Koo]<br/>
 Action sites Dedza and Ntcheu.

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 =Ex-ante analysis of crop outcomes=
 ===The CSISA experience===
-''[http://''www.slideshare.net/africa-rising/ar-me-spielmannov2014 See presentation by David Spielman on CSISA]
+[http://www.slideshare.net/africa-rising/ar-me-spielmannov2014 See presentation by David Spielman on CSISA]<br/>
 There are a lot of lesser-known, harder to measure and unobserved constraints (informational constraints) and individual preferences. Your learning approach might not be the right one... And we need rigor in our design.

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 <span style="display: block; text-align: center;"><u>'''Day 2'''</u></span>
 =Ex-ante analysis of crop outcomes=
-==The CSISA experience==
+===The CSISA experience===
-''[http:''www.slideshare.net/africa-rising/ar-me-spielmannov2014| See presentation by David Spielman on CSISA]//
+''[http://''www.slideshare.net/africa-rising/ar-me-spielmannov2014 See presentation by David Spielman on CSISA]
 There are a lot of lesser-known, harder to measure and unobserved constraints (informational constraints) and individual preferences. Your learning approach might not be the right one... And we need rigor in our design.
-Q&A
+'''Q&A'''<br/>
-* '''Comment''': Africa RISING is at a different stage than CSISA and it seems you are more focused on extension and development. It's great that Africa RISING can learn from CSISA. What skillsets do you need to learn about learning?
+:-Comment: Africa RISING is at a different stage than CSISA and it seems you are more focused on extension and development. It's great that Africa RISING can learn from CSISA. What skillsets do you need to learn about learning?
-* '''A''': Our NARS partners are quite weak on this kind of methodologies and that's a struggle for us. We brought in some very good partners from Univ. Davis, Georgia etc. We have 1.45 FTE working on this out of 25 people working. You have to find collaboration outside to work on these things. SIMLESA etc. also have the same partnerships.
+A: Our NARS partners are quite weak on this kind of methodologies and that's a struggle for us. We brought in some very good partners from Univ. Davis, Georgia etc. We have 1.45 FTE working on this out of 25 people working. You have to find collaboration outside to work on these things. SIMLESA etc. also have the same partnerships.<br/>
-* '''Comment''': Your research on redundancy of diagnostics - you challenged yourself to look for less tangible aspects of adoption. A lot of projects are measuring things that we measured before and we need to beef up our diagnostics.
+:- Comment: Your research on redundancy of diagnostics - you challenged yourself to look for less tangible aspects of adoption. A lot of projects are measuring things that we measured before and we need to beef up our diagnostics.
 ''' Yes, we need to work on diagnostics. We sometimes work on our research questions and our diagnostics reveal that our research questions are not correct.
-* '''Q''': You talked about extension approach work etc. This is RO3.
+Q: You talked about extension approach work etc. This is RO3.
-* '''A''': There are some things that we are not doing e.g. Ex-ante modelling was lost. Evaluating extension approaches is our dream e.g. 'try chalk and talk here, demonstration plots there, mother-baby trials there etc.' and I want to find out what has been helpful. We have hypotheses on some of that work. This is a research project so we need to learn from what we're doing.
+* A: There are some things that we are not doing e.g. Ex-ante modelling was lost. Evaluating extension approaches is our dream e.g. 'try chalk and talk here, demonstration plots there, mother-baby trials there etc.' and I want to find out what has been helpful. We have hypotheses on some of that work. This is a research project so we need to learn from what we're doing.
-* '''Q''': On scaling up, CSISA and AR are such a small segment of what needs to happen. How would you compare the 2 projects around policy level engagement?
+Q: On scaling up, CSISA and AR are such a small segment of what needs to happen. How would you compare the 2 projects around policy level engagement?
-* '''A''': It's complex. We try to pitch our work at policy level. You should have some real policy domain engagement and extension engagement strategies. CAADP is one of the best channels to do that through.
+* A: It's complex. We try to pitch our work at policy level. You should have some real policy domain engagement and extension engagement strategies. CAADP is one of the best channels to do that through.
-* '''Q''': Governments and government extension... in Mali there's no governmental extension. Apart from telling them 'you should do extension', how do you suggest going to scale?
+Q: Governments and government extension... in Mali there's no governmental extension. Apart from telling them 'you should do extension', how do you suggest going to scale?
-* '''A''': Turn back to the CAADP process and ask why there's no extension. Ethiopia has one of the most extensive extension systems.
+* A: Turn back to the CAADP process and ask why there's no extension. Ethiopia has one of the most extensive extension systems.
-* '''Q''': RCT approach to evaluation but RCTs by definition use a baseline survey. How have you managed that?
+Q: RCT approach to evaluation but RCTs by definition use a baseline survey. How have you managed that?
-* '''A''': I use surveys. We evaluate smaller areas of work but we use surveys also. A baseline survey of an entire project is huge and probably not advisable.
+* A: I use surveys. We evaluate smaller areas of work but we use surveys also. A baseline survey of an entire project is huge and probably not advisable.
 ==Ex-ante modeling analysis. Maize yield responses to nutrient management options in Malawi==

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 * A : I haven't seen the ICRISAT data. Another project is indeed comparing crop models etc. and they are looking at different agro-ecologies and different modeling tools to inform system stability etc. over time. This presentation is also premature compared with the quality of our research publications.
-==DAHBSIM Dynamic Agricultural Household Bio-economic Simulation Model==
+===DAHBSIM Dynamic Agricultural Household Bio-economic Simulation Model===
-''[http:''www.slideshare.net/africa-rising/ar-me-komarekinov2014| See presentation by Adam Komarek]//
+''[http://''www.slideshare.net/africa-rising/ar-me-komarekinov2014 See presentation by Adam Komarek]
-Q&A
+Q&A<br/>
-* '''Q''': What is the relation between production and consumption? How do you deal with that?
-* '''A''': The model is capable of looking at production systems and consumption systems.
+Q: What is the relation between production and consumption? How do you deal with that?
-* '''Q''': This looks like a proper model for sustainable intensification. Where does the livestock component get integrated here?
+* A: The model is capable of looking at production systems and consumption systems.
-* '''A''': We have a separate livestock module and 3 different levels of production (extensive, semi-intensive and intensive). We have a series of standard calculations (nutrient demand) which calculate average nutrient supply and the model says how many animals you can have in that system. We choose the production level that we think matches the system but we don't do it at a continuous level of growth.
+Q: This looks like a proper model for sustainable intensification. Where does the livestock component get integrated here?
-* '''Q''': What are the cost benefits of using this module? There are sensitivities around rainfall etc. so how do you deal with these. How do you reconcile different scales for models to remain sensitive?
+* A: We have a separate livestock module and 3 different levels of production (extensive, semi-intensive and intensive). We have a series of standard calculations (nutrient demand) which calculate average nutrient supply and the model says how many animals you can have in that system. We choose the production level that we think matches the system but we don't do it at a continuous level of growth.
-* '''A''': In a month's time we'll have more data and we can talk to the agronomists to build that module.
+Q: What are the cost benefits of using this module? There are sensitivities around rainfall etc. so how do you deal with these. How do you reconcile different scales for models to remain sensitive?
-* '''Q''': What is the decision-making concept. You don't mention the other factors determining farmers/households expectations. Is the decision-making seems to be based around farmers, not households, so is that not biasing the results? If you model doesn't explain that, what is your plan B to include non farmer-based but household-based decision-making? There are lots of decision-makers in a household.
+* A: In a month's time we'll have more data and we can talk to the agronomists to build that module.
-* '''A''': The model is calibrated on the basis of how farms work. I'll have to look into this more and we still need to do more farm analysis. We need to simplify the model.
+Q: What is the decision-making concept. You don't mention the other factors determining farmers/households expectations. Is the decision-making seems to be based around farmers, not households, so is that not biasing the results? If you model doesn't explain that, what is your plan B to include non farmer-based but household-based decision-making? There are lots of decision-makers in a household.
-* '''Comment''': The best models I've seen are when they are integrated with various disciplines and you get opportunities with such projects as this.
+* A: The model is calibrated on the basis of how farms work. I'll have to look into this more and we still need to do more farm analysis. We need to simplify the model.
 =Africa RISING external evaluation results=

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 Action sites Dedza and Ntcheu.
-Q&A
+===Q&A===
-* '''Comment''': What will IFPRI do for us and what can we do with you? You and Bekele should talk together about this work.
+:- Comment: What will IFPRI do for us and what can we do with you? You and Bekele should talk together about this work.
-''' What we do with action sites is looking at modeling tools etc. There are many things we can do together.
+:- What we do with action sites is looking at modeling tools etc. There are many things we can do together.
-* '''Q''': You should use the data we have to validate this. We have sufficient data for treatment site ex-ante analysis. In Malawi, we started a similar approach and we should work together on the formats.
+Q: You should use the data we have to validate this. We have sufficient data for treatment site ex-ante analysis. In Malawi, we started a similar approach and we should work together on the formats.
-* '''Q''': In the maize yield/maize-cowpea rotation, is that the result of every 2 years? (Yes). You get yield of 4 tons/Ha without fertilizer, is that realistic?
+Q: In the maize yield/maize-cowpea rotation, is that the result of every 2 years? (Yes). You get yield of 4 tons/Ha without fertilizer, is that realistic?
-* '''A''': We are simulating and something could be wrong there, we'll have to look into this. We can correct these data. If we look at a several years' time period, 4 tons/Ha. The first few years of the research should not be considered.
+* A : We are simulating and something could be wrong there, we'll have to look into this. We can correct these data. If we look at a several years' time period, 4 tons/Ha. The first few years of the research should not be considered.
-* '''Q''': To what extent can you see any of Eric Crawford's data in Zambia. It would be good to compare these.
+Q: To what extent can you see any of Eric Crawford's data in Zambia. It would be good to compare these.
-* '''A''': I haven't seen the ICRISAT data. Another project is indeed comparing crop models etc. and they are looking at different agro-ecologies and different modeling tools to inform system stability etc. over time. This presentation is also premature compared with the quality of our research publications.
+* A : I haven't seen the ICRISAT data. Another project is indeed comparing crop models etc. and they are looking at different agro-ecologies and different modeling tools to inform system stability etc. over time. This presentation is also premature compared with the quality of our research publications.
 ==DAHBSIM Dynamic Agricultural Household Bio-economic Simulation Model==

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 ===Talk show about program overview and issues===
-[[http:www.slideshare.net/africa-rising/ar-me-bekundanov2014 | See presentation Mateete Bekunda - M&E in East and Southern Africa]]
+[http://www.slideshare.net/africa-rising/ar-me-bekundanov2014 See presentation Mateete Bekunda - M&E in East and Southern Africa]
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 * Researchers do internal M&E for their projects.

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 ===<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Africa RISING Program evaluation design, spatial distribution of Africa RISING technologies, farmer typologies</span>===
 *[http://www.slideshare.net/africa-rising/ar-me-grootnov2014 See presentation of Jeroen Groot on farming system analysis] <br/>
-* [[http://www.slideshare.net/africa-rising/ar-me-hailenov2014| See presentation of Carlo Azzarri on the program evaluation design]<br/>
+* [http://www.slideshare.net/africa-rising/ar-me-hailenov2014| See presentation of Carlo Azzarri on the program evaluation design]<br/>
 * [http://www.slideshare.net/africa-rising/ar-me-azzarrinov2014 See presentation of Carlo Azzarri on farm typology]<br/>
 * [http://www.slideshare.net/africa-rising/ar-me-groot2nov2014 See presentation of Jeroen Groot on farm typology]<br/>