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= Africa RISING Ethiopia Review and Planning meeting =
 * 2-3 December 2014 **
 * ILRI Addis Info Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia **

Objectives

 * Review project progress and results and share lessons learned.
 * Develop approaches and candidates for scaling with site level partners.

Agenda
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 * Tuesday 2 December **
 * 8.30 Registration
 * 9.00 Welcome and introduction (objectives, agenda, participants) + icebreaker - (SM and TG)
 * //Process: quick introduction with speed dating and spectrogram ( only for new comers to introduce themselves for the whole group, 10 minute, TG)//
 * //Welcome (10 minutes, Boni)//
 * 9:20 The wider context: Feed the Future (10 minutes, ?)
 * 9.30 Past year highlights. How we have implemented the work plans developed at last year's planning meeting. Plenary presentation (KM / PT)
 * //Presentation ( Kindu and Peter, 3 0 minutes) and Q & A (15 minutes)//
 * 10.15 Break
 * 10.30 Review progress with and insights from the research that has been implemented. Bus stops (total = 9, 7 research themes and two cross cutting issues; TG)
 * // there will be three station : Feed and forage + cross cutting issue (20 minutes with Q&A) //
 * // Crop residues (Melkamu,) //
 * // Irrigation fodder sheep fattening (Abera) //
 * // Gender (Annet) //
 * // Value chains (Eliude and Dirk) //
 * Seed (Kalpana // ) //
 * // High value crops + systems + knowledge management (20 minutes with Q&A) //
 * //Multi-purpose trees (Aster)//
 * //Cropping system for nutrition (Tilahun)//
 * //Tree Lucerne (kindu)//
 * //Innovation platforms (Zelalem and Elias)//
 * //Enset (Zerihun yemataw)//
 * //Land and water + field crops selection (20 minutes with Q&A) The grouping will be done 1,2,3..5 numbering or partcipants choose the subject they want to hear?//
 * //Soil management (Rolf)//
 * //Land scape management (Leuelseged)//
 * //Yield gaps (Tilahun)//
 * Participatory varietal selection (Frédéric, Steffen //)//
 * //Step wise intensification (Abera)//
 * // The station holder will introduce their station //
 * //Depending on time ask participants to move to other bus stops (check with Peter tomorrow)?//
 * //Inform the station keepers during the break//
 * 12.00 Emerging research issues. Open Space (TG).
 * // Ask participants, If they have any topic they would like to address, ask them to write the topic on the card, choose station and invite people//
 * // 40 minutes to work in a group, 5 minutes for reporting //
 * // Just brief the principle to participants but not the details //
 * 13.00 Lunch break
 * 14.00 Reflection of the overall implementation of the project over the last year. SWOT analysis (Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and threats; TG)
 * //Group participants 1,2,3..5 numbering//
 * //Ask them to discuss in groups and write on the card (40 minutes )//
 * //Somewhere on the wall we will have matrix of the SWOT and we will ask participants to do clustering of the cards (20 minutes) (Ewen is willing to help)//
 * 15.00 Reflection on issues arising at sites (accomplishments, challenges, successes, mapping key issues, actors, partners, scaling candidates etc). Group work / report back (by site).
 * //group exercise per site/ site coordinators will lead this (40 minutes)//
 * //give instruction for reporting back not to take more than 5 minutes/ TG follow timing//
 * //ask them to prepare a summary for reporting back / maximum two sheet//
 * //Once they are done// //the reporting back, ask them to post it on the wall so that others will get a chance to read the details//
 * 17.15 Close
 * 17.30 Reception


 * Wednesday 3 December **
 * 8.45 Previous day recap. // Presentation  // (KM / PT / TG)
 * Ask them to repeat what happened yesterday?
 * What was the striking point of yesterdays discussion ?
 * How do you see yesterday, what is your reflection?
 * What did you learn?
 * 9.00 General reflections on scaling approaches. //Talk show// (Panel - Tilahun Amede ICRISAT, Steffen Schulz CIP, Selamyihun Kidane ATA, Dirk Hoekstra ILRI, Interviewer - Peter Thorne ILRI).
 * // Everything is set with Peter T //
 * 9.45 Identification / formulation of potential scaling approaches. //Group work// (Groups each focus on one of seven higher level outcomes; productivity, market access and income, nutrition and health, gender inclusivity, environmental sustainability, adoptability; TG). (1 hour)
 * // Who lead the session will be decided with Kindu and Peter tomorrow? //
 * //Ask participants to join the topic/outcome they choose,//
 * //Ask any volunteer to star//
 * 12:00 Report back on scaling approaches. //Plenary presentations// (group rapporteurs)
 * // Reporting back shouldn't take more than 5 minutes //
 * // After one or two reporting ask clarification question /feedback //
 * // At the end of all presentation ask Q & A / feed back of all the reporting //
 * 13.00 //Lunch break//
 * 14.00 Clustering scaling approaches into more generic strategies for testing (identify key elements for different strategies). //Plenary presentation and discussion// (TG)
 * to be discussed on the second day?
 * 15.00 Identify potential components of a scaling plan (identification of candidate technologies for scaling (by theme, as per progress review on day 1; specify time of implementation, need a long list (c. 8) for implementation in early 2015). //Group work// (TG).
 * //Ask group to document on power point or flip chart/ would be nice if they do it on both//
 * //Ask them to document the summary//
 * 16.30 Report back on proposals for inclusion in scaling plans. //Plenary presentations// (group rapporteurs)
 * // Ask one group to critique the other one after they listen the reporting //
 * 17;00 close
 * 17;00 close