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 *'''PCT page'''-[http://africa-rising-wiki.net/Pct]
 *'''PCT follow-up action points'''-[http://africa-rising-wiki.net/PCT_Actions]
-*'''[[Ext_PCT_Oct2018|Extended PCT meeting notes]]'''
+*'''[[Ext_PCT_Oct2018|Extended PCT meeting notes & decisions]]'''
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 <br />'''Agenda'''<br />

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-=='''Africa RISING PCT #31 and extended PCT meeting <br />01 - 02 October 2018<br />Lilongwe, Malawi'''==
+=='''Africa RISING PCT #31 <br />01 - 02 October 2018<br />Lilongwe, Malawi'''==
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 [[File:AR_PCT31.jpeg|500px|thumb|right|Africa RISING extended PCT meeting participants]]
 <br />'''Participants'''<br />
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 *'''PCT page'''-[http://africa-rising-wiki.net/Pct]
 *'''PCT follow-up action points'''-[http://africa-rising-wiki.net/PCT_Actions]
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 <br />'''Agenda'''<br />

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 #Soil Health Initiative/Consortium led by IFDC and Kansas State University will soon be unveiled. The initiative will have a budget of $1 million/year. The goal of the consortium is to get all centrally funded [by USAID Washington] investments in soils, fertilizers and soil health better coordinated and integrated so that better progress can be made across the different production regions in West Africa initially and later in East Africa. It will consists of both biophysical, socio-economic, and policy areas. Key collaborating partners from US Universities will also include Universities of Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas State and Michigan State. Africa RISING should be able to contribute and get involved in this consortium by nominating a contact person for this.
 #The mechanization consortium led by University of Illinois will soon be leading efforts to streamline the mechanization agenda by all USAID funded projects. The aim of this initiative is to: reduce duplications/unnecessary transaction costs in the processes of machinery development, testing and deployment to smallholder farmers; streamline the machinery models developed; and to avoid development of very context/location specific machinery. The initiative will aim to identify 4 – 5 machinery models/designs for different categories e.g. maize shelling, bean thresher, planters etc. that are easily adaptable across various locations and contexts for the benefit of more smallholder farmers. The selected designs will go through a certain validation process that will ensure specifications and data [incl. socio-economic] are easily accessible and transferrable. Africa RISING has developed/validated some machinery prototypes and should therefore feedback their data into this initiative once it gets underway.
 <br />'''Annual learning event and SI Assessment Framework Workshop'''<br />
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 :'''Action:'''
-:Harmonization is still an important goal/aspiration for the Africa RISISNG program. Since the CoPs haven’t been effective for achieving this, the PCT and the Chief Scientist will take up this role through taskforces that will be set-up to focus on specific aspects of harmonization like technology transfer, common approaches, methodologies, ICT and definitions. On a case-by-case basis the taskforces may also incorporate external experts from other projects/programs like SIIL.
+:*Harmonization is still an important goal/aspiration for the Africa RISING program. Since the CoPs haven’t been effective for achieving this, the PCT and the Chief Scientist will take up this role through taskforces that will be set-up to focus on specific aspects of harmonization like technology transfer, common approaches, methodologies, ICT and definitions. On a case-by-case basis the taskforce may also incorporate external experts from other projects/programs like SIIL.
-:PT, IHZ  and the Chief Scientists to hold a follow up discussion on how to operationalize these taskforces and report during the next PCT meeting.
+:*PT, IHZ  and the Chief Scientists to hold a follow up discussion on how to operationalize these taskforce and report during the next PCT meeting.
 <br />'''SRA advocacy document'''<br />
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 :*Revised document from this round of reviews/revisions to be resubmitted to Green Ink for editing, infographic design and layout/design.
-##Horizon 2020 proposal
+<br />'''ongoing proposals development'''<br />
-***BV – This proposal is still being developed and still requires a lot of work. IITA and ILRI are involved. If funded, the project will also embed the SI Assessment Framework.
+*ACIAR proposal
-##GCRF proposal
+*GCRF proposal
-***PT - Still being drafted, but also if funded will also be focused on further development and implementation of the SI Assessment Framework.
+:*PT - Still being drafted, but also if funded will also be focused on further development and implementation of the SI Assessment Framework.
-#handover of the role of Chair from ILRI to IITA
+<br />'''handover of the role of Chair from ILRI to IITA
-***SM handed over the PCT to BV for the coming year. Members congratulated SM for leading the team successfully despite the very challenging times faced by the program.
+*SM handed over the PCT to BV for the coming year. Members congratulated SM for leading the team successfully despite the very challenging times faced by the program.
-<br />'''Any other Business'''<br />
+<br />
-#BV and Fred Kizito to represent Africa RISING on the soil health consortium.
+[['''Next meeting to be held virtually 15 November 2018 at 17:00 East Africa Time. JO to send a calendar reminder to all PCT members.''']]

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 *PT & IHZ – In response to BV question, probably the exercise that has most impacted how we do things in Africa RISING phase I was the internally commissioned external review. Perhaps instead we can plan to have a similar exercise for phase II and then probably involve some of the SAG members in that.
 *JG – an internally commissioned external review would be helpful and next year [2019] is year 3 of AR Phase II so probably the team could consider doing that.
+<br />
 :'''Action:'''
 :*''Internally commissioned external review of the program to be organized from July - October 2019 [in Ethiopia & West Africa], and between December 2018 - February 2019 [in ESA].Some members of the SAG could be approached to be part of the review team.''
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 *PT – Since the CoPs haven’t been successful, maybe it is time for us to try an alternative approach of creating a task force that would be responsible for identifying the relevant issues that need to be transferred across the project sites/regions and then make recommendations which then the Chief Scientists can follow up on with partners in the respective projects.
 *IHZ – Our collaboration with SIIL is still a bit weak. Are there avenues through which we can formalize it?
+<br />
 :'''Action:'''
 :Harmonization is still an important goal/aspiration for the Africa RISISNG program. Since the CoPs haven’t been effective for achieving this, the PCT and the Chief Scientist will take up this role through taskforces that will be set-up to focus on specific aspects of harmonization like technology transfer, common approaches, methodologies, ICT and definitions. On a case-by-case basis the taskforces may also incorporate external experts from other projects/programs like SIIL.
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 *BV – We could probably aim to make this document a position paper on systems research for agriculture.
 *SM – We could engage Peter Ballantyne to help with review of the document/provide feedback which then we can use to revise the draft.
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 :'''Action:'''
 :*JG, PT, BV, and Ken Giller to meet on 2 – 3 November in Accra after the SI Assessment Framework Workshop to revise the document. The revised document version would then be shared with Sieg Snapp and Daniel Rodrigues for an additional look.

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 <br />'''Lilongwe, Malawi'''<br />
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-<br />[[File:AR_PCT31.jpeg|800px|thumb|right|Africa RISING extended PCT meeting participants]] <br />
+[[File:AR_PCT31.jpeg|500px|thumb|right|Africa RISING extended PCT meeting participants]]
-<br />'''Expected outputs from extended PCT'''<br />
+'''Expected outputs from extended PCT'''
 *Common understanding of how the program approaches systems research
 *Identification of common things that we can do together as a program
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 #James Hammond
-<br />
+----
-*PCT page
+*'''PCT page'''-[http://africa-rising-wiki.net/Pct]
-*PCT follow-up action points
+*'''PCT follow-up action points'''-[http://africa-rising-wiki.net/PCT_Actions]
+----
 <br />'''Agenda'''<br />
 <br />[[Day 1]] [Oct. 1]<br />