ethiopia_planning_oct2013

Ethiopia Review and Planning Meeting 31 October - 1 November 2013 Addis Ababa

Meeting Objectives • Review project progress and results • Synthesize the ongoing diagnostic work • Agree outline workplans for 2013-2014 and general responsibilities of partners

=Agenda =

31 October 2013

Group exercise / Generate key messages (constraints and opportunities) from each diagnosis IFPRI baselines, FEAST, digital stories Peter Thorne Aster Eliud Gebrehiwot || Johannes ||
 * Time || Activity ||  ||
 * 0830 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Registration ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">0900 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Aims, Objectives, introductions || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Peter Thorne and Peter Ballantyne ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">0930 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Project update
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Activities
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Actions from last planning meeting
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Actions from learning event
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Emerging findings
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Partnerships
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">M&E
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Comms || Peter Thorne and Kindu Mekonnen [and activity leaders ] ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1030 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Break ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1100 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Project progress review (SWOT exercise) || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Simret Yasabu ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1230 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Break ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1400 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Update on ongoing/completed diagnostic work
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Impactlite; PCA; SLATE; AKT5; VCA; Phone surveys
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Gap analysis in plenary || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Kindu
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1630 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Partner perspectives on progress || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Sultan
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1700 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Review and plans for day 2 ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1715 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Close ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1800 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Social activity ||  ||

1 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> November 2013

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Introduction Day 2 ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">0845 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Review day 1
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">0915 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">R4D Planning for the project


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Review, clustering and prioritization of the diagnostic activity products and key messages ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1000 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Break ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1030 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">R4D Planning for the project


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Planning work on the prioritized activities (use standard planning template) ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1200 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">R4D Planning for the project


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Quick reports back to plenary ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1230 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Break ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1400 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">R4D Planning for the project

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Day one: 31 October 2013 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Peter Ballantyne started by giving an overview of the agenda which is planned for the two days and invited Peter Thorne ,to give a welcoming remark as well as the aim and objective of the two days review and planning meeting. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">This was followed up by introduction of every participant by going around and shake every participants hands. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Peter Thorne and Kindu Mekonnen then gave a presentation on project update. This was accompanied by Africa RISING Cg partners and communication update.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Cross-cutting work: IPs, M&E/indicators, comms, scaling, partnerships, capdev, nutrition, gender, management/coordination ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1530 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Break ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1600 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Synthesis ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1700 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Close ||  ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Break <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">After the break the participants were divided in to five groups (Oromia ,Amhara,Tigray,SNNPR and national) to do a SWOT analysis <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Simret Lead this session and explained to the participants to look in to the international strength and weakness and the external opportunities and threats. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Synthesis of the group discussions <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Strength
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">International ,national and local partners, technologies and experience
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Holistic system approach
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Adopt participatory ,demand driven approach
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Commitment of partners
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Participatory and demand driven
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Financial and logistics
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Multi stakeholder and Multi-disciplinary
 * 8) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Communication
 * 9) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The experts (the team-AR has great specialist)
 * 10) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The combination of research and development in the AR project
 * 11) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The integration approach used- research components
 * 12) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Partnership and capacity building
 * 13) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The cross team learning
 * 14) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The site coordinators
 * 15) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Team composition –local and international
 * 16) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Diagnostic survey followed by action research
 * 17) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">System approach
 * 18) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Frequent meeting (communication and different views /ideas)
 * 19) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Recruitment of the site coordinators
 * 20) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Good attention to logistics and facilities for all sites
 * 21) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Communication tools

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Weaknesses
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Low activity integration e.g ATA
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Gap on project finding ,updates to community and partners
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Limited time allocation on lead partners activities
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Weak M7E-no clear indicator (outputs, outcomes)
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Delay in project implementation
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Failure to establish the required bureaucracy y line (e.g MOU with the regions )
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Lack of joint field planning among CG centers and partners
 * 8) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Small area coverage
 * 9) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The low incorporation of nutrition aspect in the project
 * 10) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Poor linkage of the different diagnosis work done by the teams
 * 11) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Clash of interest between agriculture (crop) and forestry intervention e.g CIP
 * 12) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Clash between the market oriented intervention and nutrition oriented
 * 13) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Integration of differ institutions (CIP,IWMI..)
 * 14) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">No defined owner for social –cultural issues
 * 15) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Less attention for livestock in demonstrations
 * 16) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Less attention to government bureaucracy e.g MOU
 * 17) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Less stakeholders integration and information
 * 18) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Delay of MOU with stakeholders
 * 19) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Budget delivery system
 * 20) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Lack of capacity building and logistics
 * 21) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Lack of contact person at institution or stakeholder level

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Opportunites
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">High demand in technology gap in intervention
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Project activities in line with government development agenda
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Community based and local institutions +ARDPLAC
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Farmers awareness and participation
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Existing government structure
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Current policy
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Diversifies farming system
 * 8) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Presence of technologies
 * 9) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Availability of research centers and universities
 * 10) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The government policy
 * 11) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Leverage of the existing knowledge
 * 12) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The 1-5 network
 * 13) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Divers partnership (private-public)
 * 14) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The long term project (commitment of donor)
 * 15) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The cross cutting M&E
 * 16) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Recommended research outputs …which are available
 * 17) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Trained local partners
 * 18) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">High demand for agri –techs by farmers
 * 19) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Conducive government policy

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Threats
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Climate change
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Partners’ time availability and turn over
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Government role on input supply on sustainability
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Climate change effects
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Staff turnover of partner institutions
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Different incentive approach y different institutions
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Great expectation
 * 8) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Lack of harmonized incentive policies among CG center
 * 9) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Input supplies on time (where the farmers can access the promoted inputs)
 * 10) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Access and connection to internet
 * 11) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Timely availability of technologies /inputs
 * 12) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Quarantine for seed/starting materials
 * 13) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Unexpected pest outbreaks
 * 14) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Accountability of partners –turn over
 * 15) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Mono cropping farming system
 * 16) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Farmers resistance to adopt labor intensive technology
 * 17) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Mechanization
 * 18) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Sudden outbreak of crop disease
 * 19) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Less attention of farmers for livestock feed

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Lunch Break <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">After lunch Break Peter Ballantyne takes the participants through the next exercise which is to discuss on the diagnosis approaches used so far. Leader from each diagnostic work lead the world café type of discussion where by participants get the chance to contribute to the discussion on every diagnostic work. The exercises focused on generating key messages ,challenges and opportunities and also coming up with possible research themes/ topics which the project could take up for next year <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Break <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Key research questions emerging from the Diagnostic work discussion.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">PCA-Gebrehiwot
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> SLATE-Peter Thorne
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">AKT5-Aster
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Phone surveys-Kindu
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Value chain –Eluid
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Forage development and improving utilization
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Improved management of communal grazing land
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Feed supply system (forage cooperatives)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Water and land management –upstream and downstream
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Water development and management utilization technology
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Integrated soil and water management at community level
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Community based seed multiplication
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Improving seed system
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Promotion of small-scale farm implementation –mechanized
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Promotion of agroforestry practices
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Knowledge management, information sharing and capacity building
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Identifying skill gaps and capacity building
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">ICT for market information
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Rural energy
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Establishing and strengthening market linkages
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Insects, disease and weeds control
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Testing innovative financing for market oriented producers and input suppliers
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Improve livestock breads and productivity and link to VC
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Breeds (Lis) system
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Pest disease, VET services -effectiveness
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Collective action for processing and marketing
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Crop-livestock –tree integration
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Post harvesting technologies
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Platforms
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">M&E
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Nutrition availability, diversity and processing
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Climate change
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Evolution farming system
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Introduction and promotion of high value crops
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Developing optimal integrated –on farm experiments on integrated tree-crop –livestock

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">END of Day One <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Dinner and Mesheta

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Day Two: 1 November 2013

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Peter Ballantyne started the second day of the review and planning meeting by asking reflection from the participants of the first day if there are issues they would like to reflect on. This was then followed by a presentation from Peter Thorne on the world café discussion outcomes from the first day. Aster from ICRAF then presented the thematic area where the question which were identified on the second day from the discussion of the diagnostic workfalls. Accordingly thematic areas are identifed
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Feed and forage development
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Land and water management
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Knowledge skills and capacity development
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Improved varieties and management of field crops
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">High value crops
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Farming system integration

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Based on the thematic areas identified the participants were asked to plan for the next 18 month and a maximum of three years. Peter Thorne presented the planning sample template to help and guide the groups on how they needs to work on the planning. The participants where divided up in to six groups.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Lunch <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Group discussion on cross cutting themes - facilitated by Ewen Le Borgne <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Key thematic topics were picked up for group discussion. Group Leaders were identified to lead the discussion and report back. the discussion focused on key issues, questions that needs clarification and suggestions

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Group discussion feed back


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Communication and knowledge management **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Issues <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- how to involve farmers <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- how to widely share what Africa RISING is doing particularly those partners who needs the information from Africa RISING <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Questions/ Clarification <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- those who access web and other tools, how can they give /share their questions and comments <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Which knowledge are we talking about? local /indigenous knowledge <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> suggestions <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- To involve farmers: participatory group discussion ,leaflets in local languages <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Use existing mass media-TV ,Radio to address the wider audience

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Issues <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Focus and type of capacity development (target group ,type of job ,long term..) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Scope of capacity building (width and depth ) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Access/delivery to training inputs (farm tools ,computer and access) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Knowledge management center (establish..) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- System integration (various practices and efforts) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Awareness creation on specific use of agro chemicals ,livestock vet services <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> Questions/clarification <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- What are the focus and scope of capacity building of the project <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Who are the beneficiaries of the project intervention <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- What are the role of partners on capacity building <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- What are the candidates tools for capacity building?(demo.)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Capacity development **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Suggestions <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Relevant training tools should be used <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Capacity building should target all relevant stakeholders <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Capacity building components : practices ,technologies ,maintenance, infrastructure development

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Less involvement and participation of women in program level <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Most of the technologies are gender biased <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Poor identification of the targeted beneficiaries <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Women are most vulnerable in the project (water scarcity ,fuel ,nutrition /food for children)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Questions/clarifications

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- What is the gender strategy in the AR project (gender mainstreaming ) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- How do we make sure the AR intervention are gender sensitive <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- How do we target the key beneficiaries better in our interventions <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- How do we empower women ,youth ,aged and disadvantaged

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Suggestions

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Gender disaggregated M&E <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Gender focal person on the sites(Per) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Involving community women group in the research and implementation process <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Involve men in gender work to understand women burdens <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Gender mainstreaming and sensitization across the partners <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Encouraging attendance of husbands on training workshops <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Having incentives to encourage women participations for example nursing mother ,pregnant


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">M&E **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Issues <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- M&E key tools <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- M&E should go at every phases of planning, implementation but not seen <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- M&E outputs and outcome indicator need to be identified and communicated <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Baseline survey need to be conducted <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- M&E integration with the other tools

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Questions/clarifications <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- From where M&E tools start, by whom it is conducted <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- How can the project impact is evaluated

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Suggestion

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Baseline survey should be conducted <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Responsible institutions should committee to undertake M&E <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- M&E should be participatory and time frame based

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Issues <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Decision making <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- MOU /contracts <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Incentive for staff and farmers <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Financing inputs <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- engagement with development partners <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- integrated Knowledge management
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Management and partnership **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Questions/clarification <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- With whom, duration ,amendment ,level <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Fine tuning /compensation ,field days <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Harmonization across partners <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Why pays/credit /cost recovery/collective measures <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Communication /funding ,rules /disbursement

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Suggestions <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Establishment of steering committee <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Discuss with steering committee and prepare proposals

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Issues <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Information, knowledge ,experience generated and transferred ,M&E joint planning implementation <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Questions/clarifications <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Among what issues? levels ,leadership ,facilitation ,financing ,sustainability, incentive (individual , institutions ,group ,organization ) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Staff turnover
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Innovation platforms **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Suggestions <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Explore existing platforms /networks at different levels <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Working modalities <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Lessons from other projects <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Stakeholder analysis at different levels <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Need based platforms –incentive identified <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Institutional linkages not individual

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Issues <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Questions/clarifications <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Inputs to jumpstart scaling without jeopardizing economic sustainability <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Consequences of up scaling
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Scaling up **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Suggestions <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Capacity development <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Integrating farming system <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Agroforestry synergies

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Nutrition** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Issues <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- All food are not nutritional rich <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Low awareness on consumption and feeding <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- unavailability of high nutritious foods <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Inadequate technology for food processing <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Inappropriate access distribution of food <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Hidden hunger (micro nutrients deficiency)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Questions <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- How can we address these problems <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Nutrition education <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Introduction and evaluation of existing technology (adoption ,accessibility ,affordability ) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Value additions (time ,place and form utility) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Promotion and consumption of micro nutrients rich food <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Bio fortification – focus on micronutrients <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- How gardening production <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Evaluation of indicators of key nutrition and health. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> Break <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Presentation : sustainable intensification <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">discussion <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Our main partners are the AGP woreda and they should have been involved to know what they want <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- AR is moving deeper than expected <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- What needs to be improved- progress reports should have been presented e.g the on farm activities <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Consideration of Non AGP and pastoralist areas <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Gender, nutrition and value chain needs to be linked <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- We have discussed a lot on the planning but didn’t get the time to finalize and also integrate the different thematic areas <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- It would have been good to know the result of assessments which could have helped the planning <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- A lot of emphasis has been on technologies- link reporting to the final project <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Communication systems needs to be improved among partners <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- M&E should be strengthen <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">closing : Peter Thorne
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Reflection **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">In his closing remark Peter gave thanks for all those involved for their active participation and said the work plans proposed by the different groups will be merged to have one work plan for the coming year and will be sent for their comments one week later.

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