westafrica_management

=West Africa Project Coordination and Management=


 * 1) Constitute Project Steering Committee [IITA by February 15]
 * 2) CGIAR (4): IITA, ICRISAT, AfricaRice, IFPRI
 * 3) NARS (2): CSIR, IER
 * 4) USAID: Jerry
 * 5) Cross-project linkage representative: (ILRI)
 * 6) Cross-project research representative: Sieg Snapp (MSU)
 * 7) CRP 1.1 representative WA: (ICRAF)
 * 8) CRP 1.2 representative: ?
 * 9) CRSP representative: ?
 * 10) Coordinator (ex-officio): Irmgard
 * 11) CORAF?
 * 12) Steering committee meetings
 * 13) Meet in person once/year
 * 14) Meet virtually at least quarterly
 * 15) Formal agreements
 * 16) Project agreement (IITA-USAID)
 * 17) IITA->ICRISAT, AfricaRice etc. sub-contracts [April 1]
 * 18) Project documents
 * 19) M&E plan (Stan Woods) [April 1?]
 * 20) Logframe (Drafting team: IITA-Alpha, ICRISAT-Eva, AfricaRice-Olupomi, IFPRI-Stan, IWMI-Fred, ICRAF-Antoine K., ILRI-Abdou F., AVRDC-Abdou T., CSIR- Stephen, IER-Diarisso) [April 1]
 * 21) Concept note (Drafting team) [March 1]
 * 22) Annual workplan and budget (through Sept 2012; Irmgard) [March 15]
 * 23) Report Oct. 2011-Dec. 2011 [Jan 31]
 * 24) Year 1 Activities
 * 25) Anchor site activity descriptions
 * 26) Technology transfer descriptions
 * 27) CGIAR/NARS staff recruitment as needed
 * 28) Funding of activities (planting season begins as early as May)
 * 29) Research Design Process
 * 30) Analyze research models (Mother-baby design: Snapp, SANREM, ICRISAT, IITA, N2Africa)
 * 31) Site selection process
 * 32) Site characterization [April 1]
 * 33) Component inventory (relevant work, technology, practices; Stan asks NARS, CGIAR)
 * 34) Identification of partners (research and development; Steering Committee)
 * 35) Design scientifically rigorous research plan [September 30 – if by June 1, can plant in 2012]
 * 36) overall experimental design [March 1]
 * 37) identify treatments, controls, packages
 * 38) methodology: data collection, management
 * 39) technology transfer plan
 * 40) Research Design Team
 * 41) NARS, Alpha, Eva, Sibiry, Vara Prassad, social scientist, ILRI, AfricaRice, IFPRI M&E, ICRAF
 * 42) Research Design Review [June 1]
 * 43) NARS, Jerry Glover, Ajayi Olupomi, Sieg Snapp, ILRI-Addis
 * 44) Implementation
 * 45) Implementation workshops
 * 46) Fast-track work plans
 * 47) Detailed work plans from design process if appropriate
 * 48) Communication
 * 49) Jerry and Irmgard talk weekly
 * 50) Irmgard talks weekly with ICRISAT, AfricaRice, IITA
 * 51) Keep well informed:
 * 52) USAID/Mali
 * 53) USAID/Ghana
 * 54) USAID/West Africa
 * 55) CRSPs

Queries and Comments from group:
 * Subcontracts may be onerous for reporting
 * Communication should be within wider group, partners
 * Steering committee has only research: other stakeholders including farmers unions? CORAF?
 * External advisory committee needed?
 * Prefinancing? Planning costs, etc.