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''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">10:00</span>''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> ''Break and group photo''</span>
10:30 Continuation of Theme presentations<br/>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">10:300 Continuation of Theme presentations</span>
11:00 '''[[:File:AR-Zambia project rev n plan_Theme2report2015-2016.pptx.pptx| Theme 2: Strengthening OFSP planting material systems]]''' – Felistus Chipungu, CIP<br/>
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* <span style="color: #58eb67; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">10:30 - 11: 00</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> '''[[:File:AR-Zambia project rev n plan_Theme2report2015-2016.pptx.pptx| Theme 2: Strengthening OFSP planting material systems]]''' – Felistus Chipungu, CIP</span>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> In your work with OFSP, are you also addressing the colour for the skin of the tubers? This is because in supermarkets they prefer the red skin. But most of the red skin varieties are white fleshed.</span>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''
  
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Comment:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> You seem to have done so well. I don’t seem to understand why you have so many challenges! Just how much better could you have done if you didn’t have these unfaithful partners!</span>
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> In your work with OFSP, are you also addressing the colour for the skin of the tubers? This is because in supermarkets they prefer the red skin. But most of the red skin varieties are white fleshed.</span><br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<br/>
 
  
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Who owns the intellectual property rights for the OFSP varieties, especially considering the path towards commercialization?</span>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> OFSP is a public good, so as long as anyone who seeks to commercialize pays tax it is okay.</span>
  
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Comment:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> There is a shift in policy going on at the moment in Zambia (and within the wider SADC bloc) where in future ZARI and other lead centers will soon seek to collect some “small” amount of royalties for their varieties that are commercialized. More clarity should be sought on this matter going forward.</span>
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Comment:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> You seem to have done so well. I don’t seem to understand why you have so many challenges! Just how much better could you have done if you didn’t have these unfaithful partners!</span><br/>
 
  
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> You indicated that you are working with CRS in Petauke. Is it possible to expand your partnership with CRS to Chipata and Lundazi?</span>
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<br/>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Actually we used to work with CRS in Chipata and Lundazi before. However that relationship did not materialize very well for various reasons. But we can explore this further. </span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Who owns the intellectual property rights for the OFSP varieties, especially considering the path towards commercialization?</span><br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> OFSP is a public good, so as long as anyone who seeks to commercialize pays tax it is okay.</span><br/>
 
  
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* <span style="color: #58eb67; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">11: 00 - 11:30</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> '''[[:File:AR-Zambia project rev n plan_Theme3report2015-2016.pptx.pptx| Theme 3: Sustainable intensification of low-input maize-legume systems]]''' – Peter Setimela, CIMMYT</span>
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Comment:</span>'''<br/>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> You showed nice figures of adoption, but they were mainly percentages. How do you define your adopters? What about the spill-overs? What was your methodology?</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> There is a shift in policy going on at the moment in Zambia (and within the wider SADC bloc) where in future ZARI and other lead centers will soon seek to collect some “small” amount of royalties for their varieties that are commercialized. More clarity should be sought on this matter going forward.</span><br/>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Monitoring adoption is tricky and the only way to clearly establish it is to do a proper adoption surveys. The team tried to monitor this within the limited budget it had to track adoption (based on the surveys it had done before + the PRAs). Because our work was building from activities implemented in the past, our baseline was 2011 and so we followed up in 2015. We are basically comparing what the status was when we started implementing activities to now. So these are the results that were presented. </span>
  
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Comment:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> To carry out adoption we also need to be careful with the issue of attribution, so that we don’t steal credit/ignore the work implemented by others within the same communities.</span>
  
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> You didn’t report on the benefits/ impacts of the green manure (lablab relays) cover. Could you shed some light on that?</span>
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<br/>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> We just started on the green manure activity and in the first year you can’t see any benefit of green manure. This is more likely to be seen in the second year. Better data will be available in the coming year. </span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> You indicated that you are working with CRS in Petauke. Is it possible to expand your partnership with CRS to Chipata and Lundazi?</span><br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Actually we used to work with CRS in Chipata and Lundazi before. However that relationship did not materialize very well for various reasons. But we can explore this further. </span><br/>
 
  
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> What does it mean in your presentation that ZARI will take over some of the activities? Could you clarify what “taking – over” will entail?</span>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer: </span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This is still all part of Africa RISING, what it means that we (CIMMYT) will give ZARI more of our portion of the budget to implement these activities. It doesn’t mean that ZARI should get their own funds to implement these activities.</span>
  
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> I didn’t see any figures on the Land Equivalence Ratios comparing the maize intercropping and the double-up systems? </span>
11:30 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> '''[[:File:AR-Zambia project rev n plan_Theme3report2015-2016.pptx.pptx| Theme 3: Sustainable intensification of low-input maize-legume systems]]''' – Peter Setimela, CIMMYT</span><br/>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer: </span>'''
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> You showed nice figures of adoption, but they were mainly percentages. How do you define your adopters? What about the spill-overs? What was your methodology?</span><br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Monitoring adoption is tricky and the only way to clearly establish it is to do a proper adoption surveys. The team tried to monitor this within the limited budget it had to track adoption (based on the surveys it had done before + the PRAs). Because our work was building from activities implemented in the past, our baseline was 2011 and so we followed up in 2015. We are basically comparing what the status was when we started implementing activities to now. So these are the results that were presented. </span><br/>
 
  
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> There also seems to be a very big depression of the groundnut yield (in the doubled-up systems) because of the pigeon pea this year. This is supposed to be a win-win situation. What could have happened?</span>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer: </span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Moisture has been very limiting this year and that affected one part of the double up system. This invariably has effect on the other parts as well. However what we are more interested in despite the challenges this year are the varieties, which ones can we rely on for the most stable outcomes.</span>
  
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* <span style="color: #58eb67; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">11:30 - 12:00</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> '''[[:File:AR-Zambia project rev n plan_Theme4report2015-2016.pptx.ppt| Theme 4: Commercializing Aflasafe as biocontrol agent for aflatoxin mitigation]]''' – Juliet Akello, IITA</span>
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Comment:</span>'''<br/>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> You data shows only 50% effect of Aflasafe on groundnuts! Previous results have reported 97%. Is that the range or there is a reason for that?</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> To carry out adoption we also need to be careful with the issue of attribution, so that we don’t steal credit/ignore the work implemented by others within the same communities.</span><br/>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> These are preliminary results. We have so far analyzed only 50% of our samples, so don’t treat these as conclusive just yet! When we have completed the analysis we will share the final results.</span>
  
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> When are you going to be able to finish analysis of the samples?</span>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> We hope to finish this by end of this year.</span>
  
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Why didn’t you also factor in other aspects like storage when talking about Aflatoxin contamination?</span>
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span><br/>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> I agree that this is also an important factor. When we are sensitizing farmers we always give them a complete package that includes also storage including pre-and post-harvest handling. We don’t only focus on Aflasafe alone. Although we have done studies and established that Aflasafe actually protects the grains even when farmers store poorly, but that is not the message we would ever want to promote!</span>
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> You didn’t report on the benefits/ impacts of the green manure (lablab relays) cover. Could you shed some light on that?</span><br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> We just started on the green manure activity and in the first year you can’t see any benefit of green manure. This is more likely to be seen in the second year. Better data will be available in the coming year. </span><br/>
 
  
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''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">12:00 Lunch Break</span>''
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">13:00 '''[[:File:AR-Zambia project rev n plan_RegisMalawiARoverview.pptx| Overview of Africa RISING in Malawi]]''' – Regis Chikowo, Michigan State University</span>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Have you experimented with ratooning the pigeon pea? We’d like to explore ratooning in Africa RISING Zambia.</span>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> We’ve tried but were a bit disappointed….maybe we didn’t do it correctly. The animals (goats) either fed on the ratooned parts or in the dry parts the ratooned stems just died off. A challenge with ratooning is also the high diseases (fusarium wilt) and pests build up…in fact in Malawi the government has banned ratooning.</span>
  
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> What are some of the interesting insights of your Africa RISING work in Malawi?</span>
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<br/>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> We were getting land equivalence ratios of at least 1.3…so the technologies are clearly adding value and enabling farmers to produce more. We are also currently doing some panel studies at the moment that are not concluded, but will in the near future provide more insights on the benefits of these technologies.</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> What does it mean in your presentation that ZARI will take over some of the activities? Could you clarify what “taking – over” will entail?</span><br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer: </span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This is still all part of Africa RISING, what it means that we (CIMMYT) will give ZARI more of our portion of the budget to implement these activities. It doesn’t mean that ZARI should get their own funds to implement these activities.</span><br/>
 
  
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">13:30 Group exercise: Synergies between themes and common Africa RISING denominators</span>
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<br/>
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'''''Instructions'''''
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> I didn’t see any figures on the Land Equivalence Ratios comparing the maize intercropping and the double-up systems? </span><br/>
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* <span style="line-height: 1.5;">Form 2 groups - group A and B</span>
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer: </span>'''<br/>
 
  
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'''''Group A: Theme 2 + Theme 3 members'''''
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* <span style="line-height: 1.5;">How the interventions and experiences from theme 2 benefit the farming communities targeted by theme 3 and vice-versa? What is the current status, what needs to be improved going forward?</span>
  
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'''''Group B: Everybody else not in theme 2 and theme 3'''''
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<br/>
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* <span style="line-height: 1.5;">Which research results/ experiences from AR Malawi can benefit AR going to scale in Eastern Zambia and vice versa</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> There also seems to be a very big depression of the groundnut yield (in the doubled-up systems) because of the pigeon pea this year. This is supposed to be a win-win situation. What could have happened?</span><br/>
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* <span style="line-height: 1.5;">Are there possible entry points for livestock into the work done in the two countries?</span>
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer: </span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Moisture has been very limiting this year and that affected one part of the double up system. This invariably has effect on the other parts as well. However what we are more interested in despite the challenges this year are the varieties, which ones can we rely on for the most stable outcomes.</span><br/>
 
  
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<u>'''Feedback from groups:'''</u>
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'''''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Group A: How the interventions and experiences from theme 2 are benefit the farming communities targeted by theme 3 and vice-versa? What is the current status, what needs to be improved going forward?</span>'''''
  
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Current status:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Activities are not fully integrated; But are currently implemented in 5 common camps - Chiparamba, Vuu, Hoya, Chanje and Kawala.</span>
* <span style="color: #58eb67; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">12:00</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <br/>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Possibilities for consideration: </span>'''
'''[[:File:AR-Zambia project rev n plan_Theme4report2015-2016.pptx.ppt| Theme 4: Commercializing Aflasafe as biocontrol agent for aflatoxin mitigation]]''' – Juliet Akello, IITA</span><br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> You data shows only 50% effect of Aflasafe on groundnuts! Previous results have reported 97%. Is that the range or there is a reason for that?</span><br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> These are preliminary results. We have so far analyzed only 50% of our samples, so don’t treat these as conclusive just yet! When we have completed the analysis we will share the final results.</span><br/>
 
 
 
 
 
<br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> When are you going to be able to finish analysis of the samples?</span><br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> We hope to finish this by end of this year.</span><br/>
 
 
 
<br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Why didn’t you also factor in other aspects like storage when talking about Aflatoxin contamination?</span><br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> I agree that this is also an important factor. When we are sensitizing farmers we always give them a complete package that includes also storage including pre-and post-harvest handling. We don’t only focus on Aflasafe alone. Although we have done studies and established that Aflasafe actually protects the grains even when farmers store poorly, but that is not the message we would ever want to promote!</span><br/>
 
 
 
<br/>
 
12:00 Lunch Break<br/>
 
13:00 '''[[:File:AR-Zambia project rev n plan_RegisMalawiARoverview.pptx| Overview of Africa RISING in Malawi]]''' – Regis Chikowo, Michigan State University<br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Have you experimented with ratooning the pigeon pea? We’d like to explore ratooning in Africa RISING Zambia.</span><br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> We’ve tried but were a bit disappointed….maybe we didn’t do it correctly. The animals (goats) either fed on the ratooned parts or in the dry parts the ratooned stems just died off. A challenge with ratooning is also the high diseases (fusarium wilt) and pests build up…in fact in Malawi the government has banned ratooning.</span><br/>
 
 
 
 
 
<br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> What are some of the interesting insights of your Africa RISING work in Malawi?</span><br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> We were getting land equivalence ratios of at least 1.3…so the technologies are clearly adding value and enabling farmers to produce more. We are also currently doing some panel studies at the moment that are not concluded, but will in the near future provide more insights on the benefits of these technologies.</span><br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">13:30 Group exercise: Synergies between themes and common Africa RISING denominators</span><br/>
 
 
 
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'''Instructions'''<br/>
 
* <span style="line-height: 1.5;">Form 2 groups - group A and B</span><br/>
 
 
 
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'''Group A: Theme 2 + Theme 3 members'''<br/>
 
* <span style="line-height: 1.5;">How the interventions and experiences from theme 2 benefit the farming communities targeted by theme 3 and vice-versa? What is the current status, what needs to be improved going forward?</span><br/>
 
 
 
 
 
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'''Group B: Everybody else not in theme 2 and theme 3'''<br/>
 
* <span style="line-height: 1.5;">Which research results/ experiences from AR Malawi can benefit AR going to scale in Eastern Zambia and vice versa</span><br/>
 
* <span style="line-height: 1.5;">Are there possible entry points for livestock into the work done in the two countries?</span><br/>
 
 
 
 
 
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<u>'''Feedback from groups:'''</u><br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Group A: How the interventions and experiences from theme 2 are benefit the farming communities targeted by theme 3 and vice-versa? What is the current status, what needs to be improved going forward?</span>'''<br/>
 
 
 
 
 
<br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Current status:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Activities are not fully integrated; But are currently implemented in 5 common camps - Chiparamba, Vuu, Hoya, Chanje and Kawala.</span><br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Possibilities for consideration: </span>'''<br/>
 
 
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mega demonstration plots-combined technology demonstration, </span>
 
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mega demonstration plots-combined technology demonstration, </span>
 
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">promote various technologies at the same plot Joint adoption and monitoring, </span>
 
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">promote various technologies at the same plot Joint adoption and monitoring, </span>
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* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">strengthen synergies (joint bulletin/Newsletter)</span>
 
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">strengthen synergies (joint bulletin/Newsletter)</span>
  
 
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'''''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Group B: Which research results/experiences from AR Malawi can benefit AR in going to scale in Eastern Zambia and vice versa? Are there entry points for livestock work into the activities being implemented in the two countries?</span>'''''
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Which research results/experiences from AR Malawi can benefit AR in going to scale in Eastern Zambia and vice versa?</span>
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Group B: Which research results/experiences from AR Malawi can benefit AR in going to scale in Eastern Zambia and vice versa? Are there entry points for livestock work into the activities being implemented in the two countries?</span>'''<br/>
 
 
 
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Which research results/experiences from AR Malawi can benefit AR in going to scale in Eastern Zambia and vice versa?</span><br/>
 
 
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Orange-fleshed potato, </span>
 
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Orange-fleshed potato, </span>
 
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Double-up. </span>
 
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Double-up. </span>
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* '''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[[:File:AR-Zambia project rev n plan_Theme3workplan2016-2017.xls| Theme 3 draft work plan ]]</span>'''
 
* '''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[[:File:AR-Zambia project rev n plan_Theme3workplan2016-2017.xls| Theme 3 draft work plan ]]</span>'''
 
* '''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[[:File:AR-Zambia project rev n plan_Theme4workplan2016-2017.xls| Theme 4 draft work plan ]]</span>'''
 
* '''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[[:File:AR-Zambia project rev n plan_Theme4workplan2016-2017.xls| Theme 4 draft work plan ]]</span>'''
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">16:30 Break</span><br/>
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''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">16:30 Break</span>''
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">17:00 Presentation of draft work plans by themes for 2016/2017 cont’d </span><br/>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">17:00 Presentation of draft work plans by themes for 2016/2017 cont’d </span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">18:00 wrap up day 1</span><br/>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">18:00 wrap up day 1</span>
 
 
  
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'''<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Day 2 (31 August)</span>'''
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">8:00 Overview of agenda for the day – Jonathan Odhong’</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">8:05 Expectations from USAID Mission for year 2 – Harry Ngoma, USAID Zambia Mission</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The mission basically has the same focus this year – ensuring that productivity of our key value chains of interest is addressed (through research). The USAID Zambia Feed the Future country strategy for 2010 – 2015 has come to end and we are in the process of revising it and will soon transition to a new strategy at some point next year. So what we expect in this last year of the funding cycle is that we should conclude our research and generate key results, come up with sound recommendations which our development partners can run with. We very much appreciate the effort put in by the teams in the past two years. For some pieces of work that haven’t been concluded, we can only expect that as we formulate the new mission strategy some of those unresolved issues can be addressed in the next cycle of Feed the Future. The FTF program will continue in the next cycle. Some of you may be aware that it was signed to an Act by the US president so it means that the expected administration changes in November will not be disruptive. We would also like you to also work with your linkages to local organizations (NGOs and CBOs) and private sector for scaling of some of the promising technologies after research is concluded. In terms of budget levels we are not expecting changes from last year. I think last year we were working with a figure of 1 million USD and this was funded from different sources. This is going to remain the same. So I just hope that we will have a better year – weather wise. Already weather projections indicate that this year we will have La Nina, which is associated with more rains in southern Africa, although they are downgrading it to a weak La Nina. Anyway, this means that the rains will be much better than last season. So hopefully we will do much better than last season. The legume sector is very important because of these linkages for nutrition, so we would like to see how more legume seeds can be brought on board. In fact we just recently got on board with a mechanism in USAID Washington which promotes working with the private sector called – innovation for partnering for innovation. And we are currently evaluating those applications. Quite a number of them are looking at addressing the seed challenge especially in the legume sector. We hope that at the end of the year we can have tangible materials that will reach farmers and create impact at the household levels. So we wish you well in the coming year. We are expecting new leadership at the Mission in December.</span>
  
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> How soon can we expect the mission to okay contracting?</span>
'''<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Day 2 (31 August)</span>'''<br/>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> There is an office Director at the mission who will approve the contracts once they are ready. So this will not be a challenge.</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">08:00 Overview of agenda for the day – Jonathan Odhong’</span><br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">08:05 Expectations from USAID Mission for year 2 – Harry Ngoma, USAID Zambia Mission</span><br/>
 
  
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">8:30 '''[[:File:AR-Zambia project rev n plan_budgetdiscussion.docx| Discussion of available budget and allocation to Themes]]''' – Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The mission basically has the same focus this year – ensuring that productivity of our key value chains of interest is addressed (through research). The USAID Zambia Feed the Future country strategy for 2010 – 2015 has come to end and we are in the process of revising it and will soon transition to a new strategy at some point next year. So what we expect in this last year of the funding cycle is that we should conclude our research and generate key results, come up with sound recommendations which our development partners can run with. We very much appreciate the effort put in by the teams in the past two years. For some pieces of work that haven’t been concluded, we can only expect that as we formulate the new mission strategy some of those unresolved issues can be addressed in the next cycle of Feed the Future. The FTF program will continue in the next cycle. Some of you may be aware that it was signed to an Act by the US president so it means that the expected administration changes in November will not be disruptive. We would also like you to also work with your linkages to local organizations (NGOs and CBOs) and private sector for scaling of some of the promising technologies after research is concluded. In terms of budget levels we are not expecting changes from last year. I think last year we were working with a figure of 1 million USD and this was funded from different sources. This is going to remain the same. So I just hope that we will have a better year – weather wise. Already weather projections indicate that this year we will have La Nina, which is associated with more rains in southern Africa, although they are downgrading it to a weak La Nina. Anyway, this means that the rains will be much better than last season. So hopefully we will do much better than last season. The legume sector is very important because of these linkages for nutrition, so we would like to see how more legume seeds can be brought on board. In fact we just recently got on board with a mechanism in USAID Washington which promotes working with the private sector called – innovation for partnering for innovation. And we are currently evaluating those applications. Quite a number of them are looking at addressing the seed challenge especially in the legume sector. We hope that at the end of the year we can have tangible materials that will reach farmers and create impact at the household levels. So we wish you well in the coming year. We are expecting new leadership at the Mission in December.</span><br/>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">9:00 Revision of draft work plans (based on inputs/comments received the previous day)</span>
 
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> ''10:00 Break''</span>
 
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">10:30 Continuation of revision of draft work plans</span>
 
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">11:30 Presentation of revised work plans by themes ''(15 minutes presentation + 15 minutes discussion after each presentation'')</span>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> How soon can we expect the mission to okay contracting?</span><br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> There is an office Director at the mission who will approve the contracts once they are ready. So this will not be a challenge.</span><br/>
 
 
 
 
 
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">08:30 '''[[:File:AR-Zambia project rev n plan_budgetdiscussion.docx| Discussion of available budget and allocation to Themes]]''' – Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon</span><br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">09:00 Revision of draft work plans (based on inputs/comments received the previous day)</span><br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">10:00 Break</span><br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">10:30 Continuation of revision of draft work plans</span><br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">11:30 Presentation of revised work plans by themes ''(15 minutes presentation + 15 minutes discussion after each presentation'')</span><br/>
 
 
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">Theme 1</span>
 
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">Theme 1</span>
 
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">Theme 2</span>
 
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">Theme 2</span>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<br/>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Do we only have to report only one indicator per activity? For example if you have 500 demos, this can be reported as No. of farmers who have applied technology or Are under improved technologies.</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Do we only have to report only one indicator per activity? For example if you have 500 demos, this can be reported as No. of farmers who have applied technology or Are under improved technologies.</span><br/>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> You report on both in that case because they are two different indicators.</span>
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> You report on both in that case because they are two different indicators.</span><br/>
 
 
 
 
 
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question: </span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">What should we do if only 2 of the 8 indicators we are supposed to report on are applicable to my project?</span><br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> You only report on the relevant indicators. </span><br/>
 
 
 
  
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question: </span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">What should we do if only 2 of the 8 indicators we are supposed to report on are applicable to my project?</span>
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<br/>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> You only report on the relevant indicators. </span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> There has been a challenge of duplicated reporting/double counting. For example if you are implementing 2 different technologies on the same farmer…..is that double counted, or what happens?</span><br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> You report this as indicator for No. farmers using technologies as 2; But for the indicator No. of farmers reached this is counted as 1. The aggregation of numbers once entered into the PMMT is always done by IFPRI.</span><br/>
 
  
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> There has been a challenge of duplicated reporting/double counting. For example if you are implementing 2 different technologies on the same farmer…..is that double counted, or what happens?</span>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> You report this as indicator for No. farmers using technologies as 2; But for the indicator No. of farmers reached this is counted as 1. The aggregation of numbers once entered into the PMMT is always done by IFPRI.</span>
  
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Have the numbers for these indicators now been entered into the system for the previous year/</span>
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Question:</span>'''<br/>
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'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Not yet, but all the theme leaders have committed to entering the numbers before the end of the year.</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Have the numbers for these indicators now been entered into the system for the previous year/</span><br/>
 
'''<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer:</span>'''<br/>
 
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Not yet, but all the theme leaders have committed to entering the numbers before the end of the year.</span><br/>
 
  
 
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">15:00 Publication of success stories - Jonathan Odhong</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">15:00 Publication of success stories - Jonathan Odhong</span><br/>
 
 
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">'''[[:File:Success Story Info Gathering Tool_12Aug15.docx| Hand out for success story collection]]''' (click to download)</span>
 
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">'''[[:File:Success Story Info Gathering Tool_12Aug15.docx| Hand out for success story collection]]''' (click to download)</span>
 
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">'''[[comms_tools|  Link to all project templates]]''' (Click to download)</span>
 
* <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">'''[[comms_tools|  Link to all project templates]]''' (Click to download)</span>
  
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">15:30 Refinement of work plans based on feedback received </span><br/>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">15:30 Refinement of work plans based on feedback received </span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">16:30 Way forward – I. Hoeschle - Zeledon</span><br/>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">16:30 Way forward – I. Hoeschle - Zeledon</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Thank you all for very high levels of participation over the past two days of the meeting! So next, since the work plans are near final now from this meeting we hope to move fast with submission of budgets and then approvals. I would request you to please be very realistic with the budgets because we still don’t have a definite figure/ amount for this year’s budget. So if you send me by Monday the work plans and budget, then if need be provide immediate feedback. We will send it to the Mission (Harry) in the week beginning 12 September. </span><br/>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Thank you all for very high levels of participation over the past two days of the meeting! So next, since the work plans are near final now from this meeting we hope to move fast with submission of budgets and then approvals. I would request you to please be very realistic with the budgets because we still don’t have a definite figure/ amount for this year’s budget. So if you send me by Monday the work plans and budget, then if need be provide immediate feedback. We will send it to the Mission (Harry) in the week beginning 12 September. </span>
 
 
  
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Soon we will also submit our technical progress report to USAID for the period April – September, 2016.This technical report is usually a compilation of all the smaller report that you send to IITA. I am therefore reminding you all to be on time in submitting your reports so that we can meet this obligation to our donor in good time.</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Soon we will also submit our technical progress report to USAID for the period April – September, 2016.This technical report is usually a compilation of all the smaller report that you send to IITA. I am therefore reminding you all to be on time in submitting your reports so that we can meet this obligation to our donor in good time.</span><br/>
 
  
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">17:00 Wrap up meeting </span><br/>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">17:00 Wrap up meeting </span>
  
  

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