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Africa RISING West AfricaPhase 2 ProposalAsamoah Larbi (IITA)Africa RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting1-2 February, 2017Accra, GhanaProject purposeTo provide pathways out of hunger and poverty for smallholder families through sustainably intensified farming systems that sufficiently improve food, nutrition, and income security, particularly for women and children, and conserve or enhance the natural resource baseVision of success - targetsPhase 1 Phase 2Target – direct beneficiaries engaged in technology development and numbering thousandsDirect beneficiaries engaged via development partners and numbering hundreds of thousands of individualsPhase 1 Phase 2In Ghana:25 communities in the northern (10), Upper West (10) and Upper East (5) regionsExtending to 5 more communities in the Upper East and reducing to 5 communities in the Upper WestProject sites – scale of operationTheme Phase 1 Phase 21 Socio-economic assessment of innovation Policies and markets, gender (Output 3)Delivery, adoption and learning (Output 42 Intensification of crop production Enhanced productivity and resilience of crop-livestock systems (Output 1)3 Intensification of livestock production4 Soil, water and land management5 Nutrition, food safety, post-harvest mycotoxin managementImproved household nutrition, food  and food safety, value addition (Output 2)Research focusResearch approachPhase 1 Phase 2Generic research on technology identification, testing and validation▪Generic and research to backstop scaling initiatives with development partners. ▪More social science analysis▪Application of typologies for targetingPartnerships Phase 1 Phase 2Primarily with disciplinary experts in public sector and farmersExpanding to include more private-sector actors and moving towards stronger development partnershipsResearch-for-development platformsPhase 1 Phase 2Implemented at community and district levelsMulti-stakeholder interest group for specific innovation at the community and district levelsMonitoring and evaluationPhase 1 Phase 2▪Ad hoc monitoring via field visits▪Mostly opportunistic.▪Greater quantitative emphasis▪Beneficiary tracking system to capture  technology dissemination▪Implement the sustainable indicator frameworkDissemination and scalingPhase 1 Phase 2Ad hoc dissemination and scaling arising from technology generation and demonstration activitiesSystematic horizontal and vertical scaling of Phase technologies and practices with development partners.0 2 4 6 8 10 12U of GhanaU for Development StudiesKwame Nkrumah U S&TStudents fundedMScPhDCapacity buildingPhase 1 Phase 2▪No strategy▪Focused more on students, e.g. Ghana▪Develop capacity building strategy▪More attention to gender- women, youthWhat is new in phase 2•Targets – 90,000 households•Research focus•Research approach•Partnership•Research for development platforms•Develop, nutrition and livestock research strategies•Monitoring and evaluation•Scaling and delivery•Training and capacity building •Integration of the crop-livestock-soil activities.•Link the livestock, crop and nutrition activities•Small-scale mechanization (labor-saving)•Strengthen post-harvest and value addition•Focus on climate-smart crop-livestock systemsAfrica Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generationafrica-rising.netThe presentation has a Creative Commons licence. You are free to re-use or distribute this work, provided credit is given to ILRI.Thank You

Africa RISING West Africa: Phase 2 Proposal

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