pct21

=Africa RISING PCT meeting= 9 February 2017 Skype

Participants

Bernard Vanlauwe (BV) - chair Siboniso Moyo (SM) Peter Thorne (PT) Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon (IHZ) Carlo Azzarri (CA) Peter Ballantyne (PB) Jerry Glover (JG)

PCT page


 * Agenda**

Decision at this PCT A revised TOR was approved.
 * 1. PCT TOR**


 * 2. SAG membership**

Members reviewed a list of potential members. A short list of 6 people was identified. Invitations will be sent by the PCT chair

3. COP next steps

see notes in the word file

4. Data management - Ckan/dataverse decisions and strategy - Based on briefing note by Carlo



Main problem: turnaround for support and bugs. from ILRI. Decision by IFPRI as it is their responsibility SI lab will go with the same platform What about the users? not so much impact need to make sure that current metadata, unique identities etc remain need to communicate to all the partners; SI lab action points from Carlo

5. Next meeting

4 April 15:00 Ibadan time 17:00 Nairobi time

Agenda items for future PCTs:

5. Plans for cross-project visits and exchanges (perhaps linked to the COPs)

6. Plans for champions for each major program-wide element and development plans: Si framework, typologies, scaling, program analysis and research questions, capacity development, data management, gender ...

7. How do we define and measure 'reach' across the projects and the program. Critical for the phase 2 targets.

8. AOB

Data sharing:data sharing ethics, sharing and guidelines among project partners.
 * Action: Each project coordinator to contact centre Legal/IP specialists for advice. Discuss at March PCT (PCT22)