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Africa RISING design team meeting
1-3 September 2015
Wageningen
Phase 2 design team meeting with most PCT members plus some others
Bernard PeterT
Irmgard Kindu
Asamoah Mateete
Peter B
Jeroen Carlo
Agenda/topics with leads
- Systems approach - bernard [2-pager, evidence, arguments, messages, implications, value proposition - what 'we' mean by 'research'; research design considerations; farming systems versus livelihoods systems]
- Phase 2 vision of success - bernard
- Phase 2 theory of change - bernard
- Impact pathways / theory of change prototype - peter t
- phase 2 scaling targets / zones of influence - carlo
- farmer engagement guidelines - irmgard
- IP guidelines - irmgard
- AR 'immediate' SI assessment framework - carlo [short-term]
- Phase 2 hypotheses - bernard [testable for phase 2]
- evidence based narratives - peter b/carlo
- typologies - irmgard
Documents
see also documents from Washington DC
12. October workshop Planning
Work stream | Discussion points/actions | people responsible (process shepherd pre-meeting) | Preparation phase |
Logistics | Irmgard leading organizing committee | Organizing committee Invitations sent; IHZ: WILL BE DONE BY ICRISAT NEXT WEEK | |
Evidence-based narratives, stories, briefs, products for different audiences | PB to follow up with Carlo | Carlo; PeterB, Asamoah, Mateete | Agree template (2-pager); - ET project testing one this week. Produce model (with content); |
Reflections and guidance on typologies, farmer engagement, and R4DPs/IPs | Irmgard; Jeroen, Carlo, Asamoah, Mateete, Kindu | Tables of typologies by country; Info on ways we engage with farmers by country; | |
Targets and scaling approaches | Carlo; Bernard (for diagram write-up) | Draft template across the 5 SI dimensions; Proof of concept of possible scaling targets | |
SI indicators and assessment framework | Sieg, Carlo, PeterT |
Draft assessment framework; SI lab concept note | |
Phase II proposal | Bernard, PeterT, Jeroen | Vision of success; ToC; |
Systems research/approach
- -do we do something new? change? or just more of the same?
- -increased attention to interactions and tradeoffs?
- -defining 'boundaries'
- -shift the emphasis ...? moving up?
- -some cross-project similar 'integrated' activities?
- -what criteria to start/stop in next phase?
- -specify entry themes as a way to limit demand/focus?
- -exit strategy in case no phase 2?
Vision of success
- diagram
- targets
- benefits - Y axis
- by country
- blue and purple lines
- legend different
Theory of change
File:ToC-IP_generic_aug2015.xlsx
File:ToC-IP_ethiopia_aug2015.xlsx
Outcomes
1. By 2021, within Africa RISING target areas/communities, improvements in livelihood status (income, nutrition) by X% for at least Y households with Z improvement of NRM status and ensuring that benefits are equitably shared within farming communities….
2. By 2021, X development/scaling/value chain partners are advancing research results to Y households beyond the Africa RISING target areas/communities…
do we bring back the original objectives and outcomes
Research questions
- which combinations of technologies/interventions/components (spatial/temporal) result in the most attractive/highest net benefits in terms of at least 3 SI dimensions for all farm/household typologies and agro-ecologies?
- How and in what ways does systems research (and its various components/elements) deliver higher/more attractive net benefits (in terms of SI dimensions) than traditional/conventional component research does?
- How can innovations be best scaled? What scaling approaches work?
- How do cross-scale (plot, farm, landscape) interactions affect the net benefits (in terms of SI dimensions)?
- How can systems research inform farmer, policy maker and research decision makers to implement SI?
- Extra action/question to be asked at end of phase 1: What are the application domains of phase 1 results that need to be continued into phase 2? To guide the process of selecting the promising innovations to continue into phase 2 - where, and how
SI framework
complete the rapid assessment tool/instrument
validate in bamako
test via the postdocs
devise the aggregation protocol for the net benefits [proof of concept with weights and current data]
then the regional projects can use it
Farmer engagement
File:Summary of Farmer Engagement and Participation in Africa RISING -2408.docx File:Farmers engagement Ethiopia.docx File:AR_engagement_standards_jan2014.pdf
M&E
phase 2 - ifpri has a modified scope envisaged. ifpri to finance 'data managers' in each regional project need to also have local M&E specialists in each regional project/country - perhaps same person as the data manager. aim to recruit these folks to be in place before phase 2 starts need clear guidance on what data needs to be collected for program M&E as well as research purposes need joint M&E/research planning in the planning meetings. nothing much we can change now for phase 1 / aiming for phase 2 [also session in bamako]
Typologies
- 4 uses - get from Jeroen
- scientists to be trained to use/build typologies
- see the action list from Carlo first 2
- science symposium in march 2016 the big exposure of the scientists to using typologies
*how to move from typologies to targeting
2016 science symposium
phase 2 writing team
proposal target date april/may 2016
core team - who
wider engagement - process
PCT decide in bamako
'template' / outline / table of contents - use it in the bamako meeting - asamoah
Products
systems piece - bernard and jeroen to send next draft; then comments
then session in bamako research questions - peter to update and re-order and simplify; develop sub-questions in bamako
typologies piece for proposal, generate typologies in phase 1;
plan of action to use the typologies - carlo and jeroen follow up. - with systems piece discuss in bamako.
vision of success diagram [country diagrams (carlo) and to validate, overall diagram, assumptions narrative for each country] -
success targets and SI benefits - carlo, peterT, jeroen [the aggregator/weighting thing] - include the postdocs; available after bamako.
TOC and IPs piece - peter to tidy. complete fr ethioipia. other regions after banmako meeting.
SI framework to validate then test - carlo to update/validate; then to bamako,
then to postdocs farmer and IP engagement piece - irmgard to complete,
then to bamako phase 2 proposal outline/template - asamoah to draft
narratives - peter circulate model; carlo a couple with ifpri info; several examples (also of cba studies) review in bamako; then produce more
event planning
- prepare messages from icrisat - peter and irmgard
- agenda update - peter and ewen
- session assignments and session process and documentation- peter and ewen
- per diems message to icrisat - peter