Gebreyes, Million

Mekonnen, Kindu

Thorne, Peter J.

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Multi-Stakeholder Engagement, Partnerships and Capacity Building  Million Gebreyes, Kindu Mekonnen and Peter ThorneInternational Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Ethiopia  Introduction• Innovation Platforms have been an integral part of AfricaRISING project work in the Ethiopian Highlands.• The multi-stakeholder engagement continued through thesecond phase in various formats.• We aim to re-invigorate the engagement through what we call“Multi-Stakeholder Innovation Platforms” (MSIPs).Results/AchievementsMethod/Approaches• Interview with CG and site level partners• Review of reports and documents• ConsultationsPartnerships:• Working with over 60 partners in four regionsCapacity Building:• In the last two years (2017 and 2018), some 3461 (23%Female) partners benefited from our field days, trainings, visits,meetings, workshops.• The project managed to attach 7 MSc and 5 PhD) students forpostgraduate studies.• The project produced a total of 80 products in 2017 and 2018.Out of which 13% are peer reviewed journal articles.Multi-Stakeholders Engagements:• Training of trainers (ToT) conducted in all the sites on AfricaRISING validated technologies.• Review and Planning Meeting held in all the sites.Observed Results from Multi-Stakeholder Engagements• Goal Alignment: Africa RISING scaling partners understoodits goals and have been committed to work together.• Involvement: Scaling partners committed staff time and someresource to scale Africa RISING validated technologies.• Institutional Embeddedness: Africa RISING works areincreasingly entering into mainstream research and extensiondelivery such as seed units, cooperatives and unions, farmerstraining centers and annual work programs of governmentinstitutions.• Formal launch of MSIPs• Facilitate Innovation Clusters, Technical Committee andMSIPs meetings.• Outcome harvesting on “what works and what does not”in MSIPs engagements.Plan for 2019• Difference in annual workflows among partners• Complexity of some systems, such as seed systems• High expectations from some scaling partnersThe Africa Research In Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) program comprises three research-for-development projects supported by the United States Agency for International Development as part of the U.S. government’s Feed the Future initiative. Through action research and development partnerships, Africa RISING will create opportunities for smallholder farm households to move out of hunger and poverty through sustainably intensified farming systems that improve food, nutrition, and income security, particularly for women and children, and conserve or enhance the natural resource base.The three projects are led by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (in West Africa and East and Southern Africa) and the International Livestock Research Institute (in the Ethiopian Highlands). The International Food Policy Research Institute leads an associated project on monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment.www.africa-rising.net Key challenges and lessonsWe thank farmers, site coordinators, local and CGIAR partners in Africa RISING sites and ILRI for their contributions andinputs. We also thank USAID for its financial support through the Feed the Future Initiative.AcknowledgementFigure 1. Review and Planning Meetings, Lemo and Robe, May 2019. Figure 2. Word Cloud of Africa RISING Ethiopia Highlands Project Partners. Table 1. Africa RISING training, field-days and visits in 2017 and 2018.CapDev 2017Regions Male  Participants Female participants TotalAmhara 1755 366 2121Tigray 1924 1017 2941Oromia 1831 412 2243SNNPR 577 76 653Total 6087 1871 7958CapDev 2018Amhara 594 127 721Tigray 2161 746 2907Oromia 1698 498 2196SNNPR 1282 219 1501Total 5735 1590 7325Overall total 11822 3461 15283

Multi-stakeholder engagement, partnerships and capacity building

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