Pct13
Africa RISING PCT meeting
18 November 2015
Virtual 1600-1730(EAT)[edit | edit source]
Participants[edit | edit source]
Boni Moyo (BM) - chair
Peter Thorne (PT)
Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon (IHZ)
Bernard van Lauwe (BvL)
Carlo Azzarri (CA)
Peter Ballantyne (PB) - notes
Apologies:
Jerry Glover (JG)
Agenda
- Phase 2 writing team activities and actions
- External evaluations process and updates/actions
- Phase 1 science symposium? - reconfirm previous discussion: DEFER TO THE START OF PHASE 2 (Oct/Nov 2016). But regions can do own as needed.
- Other business
- Next PCT meeting - 9 or 10 December?
SI Overall action points | ||
Action | Status | Notes and Actions update |
Phase 2 proposal | Largely addressed in program strategy workshop See also timetable and milestones for this |
SEE ALL ACTIONS BELOW +: ACTION: PCT team to review all outputs |
External evaluation reviews and updates |
regional proposals will be very similar (structure etc) with some local customizing
Need to be sure we work towards what USAID really want. |
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Theory of change and impact pathways | By and large finalized. Not many comments on the document that was generated in Wageningen and presented in Bamako | Integrate as part of proposal ACTION: PT to provide clean template to insert xyz (see more notes on that above) |
Systems research | Well covered at program strategy workshop in Bamako. see results Proposal phase2 work Ongoing collection of stories/possible briefs - to check continually at PCT (what could be added to this pipeline) |
Integrate as part of proposal |
Integrate as part of proposal | Smallholder small ruminant productivity and livelihood can be improved markedly through feed and health interventions Doubled-up legume technology: Boosting land productivity by intercropping two grain legumes with different growth habits |
ACTION: ELB to share template and criteria with chief scientists ACTION: PCT to table, on an ongoing basis, the identification of potential brief topics. |
Cost-benefit analysis | Nearly there. Good model for Ghana and the methodology is there but we need to improve this. Once we improve it it's usable. | ACTION: IHZ will be working on this with Patrick Okori and Gundula Fischer next week: done |
Engaging multi-stakeholders into program activities | Nearly there. IHZ has a revised version. |
ACTION: IHZ to work with MB and Regis for ESA guidelines for payment, and with Asamoah and Birhanu for Mali: Not done ACTION: BvL could ask Marc Schut (who works on M&E of platforms in HumidTropics) what is possible for a program like Africa RISING |
Typologies | We will be producing the first typologies by end November and we will circulate these typologies to research teams. | ACTION: Chief scientists to (ask their scientists to) provide a rationale about: "Under what circumstances are inputs provided that are subsidized or not"? including data to back this up. We need a trials list with 3 rows: inputs provided, subsidized, not provided. |
Targets and SI benefits | Real progress made there but we need to be able to explain how we came up with target figures. Integrated with vision of success | ACTION: KM to circulate a format to chief scientist. ACTION: Carlo & Bernard to work further on this (DONE) |
SI framework and indicators | Sieg and her group took this on and refined the template, the framework (added indicators), refined definitions, dropped some indicators. They made progress but we need to keep on eye on the complexity. They're working on a more complex data collection for the research teams. It may make them reluctant to collect so we may have to balance these objectives with the capacity we have on the ground. | |
Research questions | Not progressed much in Bamako - work pending on taking stock of all other inputs into phase 2 proposal | ACTION: Writing team to revisit these research questions once all other work streams have been reviewed by the team and brought together again. |
Nutrition | All outputs delivered | ACTION: PCT team to review these outputs |
Gender & diversity | All outputs delivered | ACTION: IHZ & PT to ask Annet, Gundula, Mariama and Caroline Sobgui to look into the nutrition experiences in Mali. ACTION: PCT team to review these outputs |
Data management and M&E | Plans elaborated with participants. See more details in the Bamako pages | ACTION: Specify, in the proposal, the data that will be collected and uploaded onto the data platform. |
Comms | All outputs delivered | ACTION: PCT team to review these outputs |
USAID commissioned external evaluation | Ongoing | ACTION: Project coordinators and chief scientists to ensure all key documents are made available for the evaluators |
Strengthen relations with AID missions | To discuss Had discussions with Ghana Mission |
ACTION: Boni to table this high up on the next PCT agenda (PCT13) |
Strengthen national partners | To discuss | ACTION: Boni to table this high up on the next PCT agenda (PCT13) |
administrator/manager for program level work packages | To discuss | ACTION: Boni to table this high up on the next PCT agenda (PCT13) |
Farm typologies work |
Action | Discussion points/actions | Format | Team |
Document and contextualize impact/adoption through data. Explain/document R&D impact and institutional impact. Carry out socioeconomic analysis ad risks. | reports,flyers, materials with evidence, case studies per country, some for symposium? Selling our key USPs - systems, the 5 SI domains | Carlo+4, Bekele, Asamoah, Mateete, Peter T., Jonathan, Simret, Peter B., | |
Identify and document technology packages and protocols (link to farmer typologies) | database of technologies; some other types of derivative products (factsheets) | ALL through the PMMT, Peter T., Jeroen, Carlo, bernard | |
Develop and use system-wide SI indicators; AR own small group to speed this up. | Discuss at October workshop | Irmgard, Peter T., Bernard, Jerry, Carlo | |
Data management: farm/farmer data; queryable database of AR farmers | LATER | PT/CA to discuss soon | IFPRI team, ILRI, in collaboration with the research teams |
Boosting cross-project science learning, science symposium | LATER | Peter B., Irmgard, Peter T. | |
Projects to clarify R4D/IPs roles, objectives and approach - especially to IP members and participants. ESA and WA to document their platforms and guidelines and practices | useful for the external review team / include in symposium maybe | Mateete, Asamoah, Peter T. | |
Recruit AR manager/administrator for program level work packages | LATER | July/aug pct meeting discuss further. | Irmgard, Peter T., Peter B., Carlo |
Recruit M&E data staffing/people into each regional project | LATER | include in phase 2 based on phase 1 experiences. TOR by Carlo; recruitment joint effort | Irmgard, Peter T., Peter B., Carlo |
Strengthen relations with AID missions | LATER | do streams B and C for missions. Use Tracey in Ethiopia | chief scientists; PT, IHZ |
Strengthen national partners | LATER | YES | Mateete, Asamoah, Peter T. |