addis_earlywinscrosscutting


 * 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 **


 * Early wins (non site-specific) - day 2 **

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).

 Early win: learning and impact, after 1 year (September deadline is tight) Non-sites: a) methods, measures, approaches, b) policy, c) markets / 'organic' growth Harmonisation across three FtF projects (M&E indicators, indices) Review on lessons/methods/approaches and success stories Baseline/appraisal: harmonised? Access to already collected data? socio-economic vs. biophysical. Quick understanding of systems and scales. Beyond specific crop --> go for production and nutrition  Methods and co: Policy: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Markets / organic growth: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Normalise data methods across FtF projects (baseline, q. appraisal, s.data)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Develop index/indicators/metrics FtF (intensification, sustainability) e.g. seed propagation, planting material, equity scale
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Ground truthing site-selection;
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Participatory visioning - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Visualizing future context
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Prospective analysis of technology;
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Get policymakers involved (alignment with national policy);
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Identify 'good' investment (catalyst of change) an dgovernance, still linked to sites; working with farmers.