Dar_Recap-day3


 * Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands **
 * Project Design Workshop **
 * 30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia **


 * Recap day 3 (Peter Ballantyne) **

This workshop provides an opportunity for a broad group of important stakeholders to both learn about the project plans and to share their views on expectations from and opportunities for synergies with the project (days 1 and 2) and for the core project team to finalize the project details (days 3 and 4).

 __Comments__:  **What we have to work on for the next 2 days**:  Comments:  **About site selection**:  
 * Everything you need and everything that has been discussed is on this wiki.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">For this project, we are using 'Africa RISING' - if you can think of a better name that's great.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Where are we?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">There are 4 objectives (from 2 objectives), 5 outcomes;
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">We have a lot of program framework issues: research design, scale, scope, R4D, assumptions and hypotheses, intensification gradients and site selection;
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">We have for each regional project some specific targets;
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">And then we have on the side another 2 outcomes for coordination and for M&E/comms/learning.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">We want to work on the targets.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Program purpose and objectives were refined and will be used for the overall project.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">M&E and site selection have to be refined.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">We have indicative regional targets and assumptions.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">These targets seem not to be research-specific targets but rather development/extension targets. --> Research has long been disconnected from development and value chains.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">I would like to see knowledge part of these targets.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">I don't see that these objectives are under the control of research. It takes a lot of resources and capacities to implement this and make this happen. How can we be held accountable to someone else's efforts? --> we are committed to ensure that we strongly influence other partners to leverage these results.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Why aren't these partners here if they are so important?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">This project must have a catalytic role for development partners to develop the products they have.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">We have to sit down together and come up with a comprehensive plan - and this is not the last planning workshop.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">We talked a lot about sustainability metrics etc. --> These targets are similar to the USAid targets in the countries of this program.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Some partners from the private sector were invited but they have no time to sit for 3 days with us. It would be good to include some targets on RoI and profitability.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Nutrition is missing among these targets. It's not simple to measure.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">These are not just USAid targets but also CAADP country plan targets.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">These targets are scary, but it really depends on the size of the target population concerned.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Management/coordination
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Program framework (5 years)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Activation phase (9 months) (early wins process, criteria and decisions)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Early wins (what is the win? Why is it selected? Who would do it?)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Site selection
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">M&E
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Research outputs and activities
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Targets (with metrics)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">What can we learn along the way?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">We could look at the targets for the sites that we are zooming in on.