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Capacity development, knowledge management, research and promotion. Zonal LIVES workshops. Capacity development . Capacitating stakeholders to contribute value chain development Public sector extension staff F armers producing inputs and outputs - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Capacity development, knowledge management, research and promotion
Zonal LIVES workshops
Capacity development
• Capacitating stakeholders to contribute value chain development
– Public sector extension staff– Farmers producing inputs and outputs– Input/service providers (private, public,
cooperatives)– Processing/marketing businesses
Principles of capacity building
•Working with and through partner training organizations
•Focus on the key actors along the value chain
•Integrated with related projects in the same locations,
•Bulk of the training will be aimed at District level
•Make use of relevant training materials
Capacity development Strategy-LIVES
Capacity development – in service TOT training public sector staff
Rapid value chain assessment for potential interventions -teams Participatory market oriented extension – extension staff Gender mainstreaming – extension staff Knowledge management/ICT – extension staff Results based monitoring – specialist staff Irrigation technologies – specialist staff Irrigated crop value chain development – specialist staff Livestock value chain development – specialist staff Environmental impact assessment of livestock and crop
commodities – specialist staff
Training input and service suppliers
• AI service delivery – mass insemination• Para-veterinary skills, • Multiplication of seed/seedlings, animals, bee
colonies• Repair services irrigation equipment• Community management for use of water
schemes and communual grazing land • Food safety
Capacity Development- Key training topics- Farmers
•irrigation crop and livestock technologies and practices •production of inputs such as seedlings and seeds.•marketing of outputs•feed resources development •Post-harvest handling
Capacity Development- Postgraduate training
•100 students fully sponsored for tuition and Theses•100 students supported for theses only•ILRI and IWMI will provide selection criteria to identify suitable students for the MSc program.•will strive to ensure gender balance. •ILRI, IWMI and EIAR staff will co-identify research problems with partners and national universities ILRI, IWMI and EIAR provide co-supervision with national universities
Knowledge Management
Knowledge management is about getting the right knowledge, in the right place at the right time through different mechanisms
Knowledge Management Federal level
Strengthening Ethiopian Agriculture Portal National learning events/conferences, Video production e-extension (Use of ICT: radio, e-reader, mobile phone)
Regional/zonal/District level
Knowledge center development Learning events/conferences/workshops Study tours Exhibitions Field days New IT technologies
Ethiopian Agriculture Portal
EAP contains;• Best practices• Manuals• Research outputs• Packages • Could be accessed
online or offline • Documents in local
language
Agricultural Knowledge Centers (AKC)
AKC will have;• Computers• Internet access• Various publications• Reading and working
area• Book shelves and other
furniture• TV• DVD player• Videos, radio programs,
Posters….
Research in LIVESRapid assessment of value chains and
public support services
Value chain interventions on supply/production of inputs, production/processing/marketing of outputs
Knowledge Mngt and capacity development interventions
Diagnosis Action Impact
RESEARCH/STUDIES
Learning Learning
Promotion for scaling up
• Facilitate project visits by key policy makers and donors
• Participation in government/non- government national, regional learning platforms, conferences and workshops
• Use of mass media
• Publications
• Newsletters• Promotional materials• Leveraging new investment into value chain
development.
Engendering LIVES by
Ensuring Gender Equity Mainly in:– Capacity Development– Knowledge Management– Institutional Dev. & Decision Making– Commodity/Value Chain Development– Adoption of Suitable Technologies
www.lives-ethiopia.org