Africa RISING West Africa Mega Site M&E Activities Summary

Africa RISING Project Steering Committee Meeting February 4, 2014; Bamako, Mali

Beliyou Haile, IFPRI

Based on CGIAR/DFID/USAID (draft) protocols Customized to AR and AR Project Monitoring and Mapping Tool

(PMT) http://dev.harvestchoice.org/africarising/ To be reviewed by AR team (who should review the draft

protocol?) Will be part of the program framework (PF) (during PF

revision?)

AR Data Management Protocol

What goes into AR Protocol? types of data, samples, physical collections, software/tools,

curriculum materials, and other relevant materials to be produced during the course of the project

standards to be used for data and metadata format and content (where existing standards are absent or deemed inadequate, this should be documented along with any proposed solutions or remedies)

AR Data Management Protocol

What goes into AR Protocol? policies for access and sharing, including provisions for

appropriate protection of privacy, confidentiality, security, intellectual property, or other rights or requirements

policies and provisions for re-use, re-distribution, and the production of derivatives, and

plans for archiving data, samples, and other research products, and for preservation of access to them

Additional topics of interest?

AR Data Management Protocol

AR Data Manager (TOR) Support AR researchers in completing yearly data management plans; help with

cleaning, summarizing, and reporting of data products to be posted to the PMT Support local AR M&E coordinators with timely collection and publication of

performance indicators in accordance with AR M&E logframe In coordination with AR Communications team, assemble, summarize and publish

activity summaries (incl. some HTML and multimedia content, photos and/or videos) to Africa RISING "mapping and reporting" platform

Make suggestions for improving the ease-of-use and overall reach of AR web-based platforms

Support AR M&E Team in preparing documents and presentations for key events and training workshops

Participate in the organization of key meetings including documenting events/sessions and preparing reports

AR Data Management Protocol