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==West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES) 5 MAY 2021 Virtual (Skype)==
Attendance
- A. Ayantunde – ILRI
- A. Berdjour – IITA
- A. Folorunso – ICRISAT
- A.R. Nurudeen – IITA
- B. Boyubie – IITA
APOLOGIES
- B. Kotu – IITA
- B. Nebie – ICRISAT
- B. Traore – ICRISAT
- B. Zemadim – ICRISAT
- D. Agathe – ICRISAT
Agenda
- Updates from partners
- Presentation on ‘Bulb yield stability study of onions lines’ by Jean Baptiste Tignegre
Updates / Introductory remarks
• Zeledon – from the Africa RISING programmatic level, nothing much is happening recently, except for the PCT members who were busy with the drafting of the pre-concept notes for the new ONE CGIAR initiative. This was submitted on 16 April 2021. Ten days later, we got initial feedback from external reviewers which have been addressed and resubmitted. We were told that this week we would informed of the way forward. I have not yet heard anything from the CGIAR office. I was not unhappy about it because we are currently focusing on finalizing the Africa RISING’s 6 months report to USAID; I have been quite busy with it. I hope Fred can submit later today. We all know the process of this report – after my review it will be submitted to the steering committee for their comments and approval. When the steering committee’s comments are addressed, it will be submitted to the professional editor. Jonathan will then do the final formatting, and it will be submitted to USAID.
• Kizito – Thank you Irmgard for the agreed insights. I’m sure many of us in this virtual meeting have also in one way or another been involved in different independent design teams around the ONE CGIAR. It’s a crazy dust, and I hope it will settle over time. We thank partners who were able to submit their reports on time. I would like to entreat you all on the aspects on the emphasis around what you promised on the SIAF. We had proposed during the drafting of our work plans that we would have:
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Critical questions to ask the customers during these interactive sessions should cover a broad range of areas including product quality, current demand and supply, potential consumers, etc.
Product quality is an important issue for customers as well as consumers. Because customers want to satisfy the consumer, the customer is equally concerned about product quality. Therefore, customers should be consulted and questioned extensively on issues related to product quality. The questions to be asked and activities to be carried out are summarised in Figure 4.
After organizing the meetings their inputs should be recorded accurately to aid the development of an action plan during future activities to develop the value chain.
