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Presented by Peter Thorne at the ILRI Ethiopia Projects meeting, Addis Ababa, 11 March 2013
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The Africa RISING project in Ethiopia
Peter Thorne
ILRI Ethiopia Projects meeting
Addis Ababa, 11 March 2013
www.feedthefuture.gov
Overview
Feed the Future Research Strategy
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3 Major
Research
Programs
Integrated
Cross-
Cutting
Programs
Research in
key farming
systems
Program for Safe
and Nutritious Foods
Program for Policy
Research and Support
Program for Human and
Institutional Capacity Building
• Guinea Savannah in West Africa
• Maize-mixed systems in East and Southern Africa
• Ethiopian highlands
Key geographies:
• Alignment with CAADP priorities
• Coordination with other donors
• Alignment with USAID mission investments
• The Impact Imperative: What can we do now?
• An R&D model (coordination, alignment, and integration with impact) that is scalable and adaptable
The bigger picture
Program Coordination Team (IITA, ILRI, IFPRI, USAID)
E&SA Project Steering Committee (IITA)
Ethiopian Highlands Project Steering Committee (ILRI)
West Africa ProjectSteering Committee
(IITA)
Communications Team(ILRI, USAID)
Monitoring and Evaluation Team(IFPRI)
External Science Advice
Mechanism
Management structure
Early Win Projects
“Quick Feeds” – ILRI / ICARDA / EIAR / ORARI
“Quick Water” – IWMI / ILRI / Addis Ababa, Bahir Dar, Arba Minch Universties
“Quick Trees” – ICRAF / ILRI / EIAR / Mekele University
“Quick Pulses” – ICARDA / EIAR / ORARI / Farm Africa
Research Design – CIMMYT / ILRI
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Nutrition
M & E
RO 1Situation
analysis and program-wide
synthesis
RO 2Integrated
systems improvement
RO 3Scaling and
delivery
Gender
Policy
Current household management strategy
Improved household management strategy
Household management strategies of peer group
Innovation generated by researchers
Markets
Policies
Institutions
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Access to NRs
Human capacity
Knowledge brokers
Endogenous Driver of Innovation Exogenous
Community characterisation and stratification
Inventory of current technologies /
practices and their sources
Participatory problem
identification and gap analysis
Opportunities for scaling innovation (endogenous and
exogenous)
Research component 1
Biophysical and socio-economic
benchmarks
Research component 2
Identified market opportunities
Characterisation of specific value chains (actors and links)
Research component 4
Functioning multi-stakeholder platforms
Review of best technology / management
options
Validate technologies / management practicesEx ante modelling /
impact assessment
Research component 5
Scaling: to be developed
Adaptation and integration of technologies /
management practices
Community knowledge exchange groups established
Research component 3
System characterisation and analysis
Community institutions and knowledge
exchange
Markets and wider stakeholders
Outputs to outcomes
“Action research”
Work packages
1. Data collection
2. Livelihoods-based stratification (typology)
3. Inventory of current practices / IK survey etc.
4. Establish community knowledge exchange groups / initial benchmarking
5. Characterise market opportunities and value chains
6. Establish multi-stakeholder platforms
7. Problem identification / gap analysis/ ex ante impact assessment
Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation
africa-rising.net