ESA_Comms

= AFRICA RISING = = = = East and Southern Africa project communication =
 * Check our (program) comms tools and resources **

Each project has its own specific communication and knowledge sharing activities: East and Southern Africa project communication and West Africa project communication are facilitated by IITA. In the Ethiopian Highlands, communication and knowledge sharing activities are facilitated by ILRI - these pages are related to communication in that particular project and region. Program level communication and knowledge sharing is also facilitated by ILRI.

**Specific East and Southern Africa communication resources** = =
 * East and Southern Africa partners banner
 * East and Southern Africa poster
 * East and Southern Africa brochure

Communication plan priorities (yearly overview)
Communication activities are structured around five main clusters of activities. Specific priorities and plans for each year are summarized in the table below. Specific details are available below the table.


 * **Year** || **Communication for wider influence and impact** || **Translating the program's output into research, development and policy outcomes, getting knowledge into use** || **Knowledge sharing and learning-Enriching learning, interaction and exchange across the program** || **Publishing- Capturing and dissemination research products and outputs of the program** || **Communication** ||
 * 2013 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 2014 || lOrganize discussions with policy makers and journalist to understand better the Africa RISING programme and that will lead to policies that would improve farming systems both for live stock and crops || To distill information from the baseline studies and characterization work into digestible formats that can more easily influence implementing partner organizations and their respective networks. || peer to peer exchange with scientists || Capture everything systematically-at team meetings, with partners, field visits with relevant media tools and produce promotional and informative materials eg. Brochures, documentaries on success stories, Posters, field banners etc || Provide communication support to activities and events based on calendar of event provided by the coordinators in the sties. ||
 * || Come up with press release from major event || Develop success stories from visit to sites || Enrich learning from project-develop fact sheets on technologies on different areas(eg seed, nutrition etc) depending on the need in the different site quarterly || Systematically update website and other sites, wiki, cg space with key publication as the need arises || Devise means to encourage constant use of existing social platforms such as yammer, wiki, flicker, ensure account are managed daily ||
 * ||  ||   || Identify and translate specific key documents into French language such as brochure, posters for the project countries by end of 1st quarter. || Contribute information to IITA Africa matters arising bulletin and Africa RISING bulletin atleast 2 stories per quarter (Mali and Ghana one story each) || Produce communication materials for media, donors, other stakeholders, eg brochure, posters, fact sheets, essential material flyer on how to make cheese from goat milk. ||
 * ||  ||   ||   || Publish 2013 technical report, community analysis reports on wiki and cg spaces || Do inventory of training need of comms team for Capacity building of staff on use of existing media tools ||
 * ||  ||   ||   || Ensure that branding guidelines are adhered to in publishing of communication materials ||   ||

Specific communication plans
See the 2014 communication plan for the East and Southern Africa.