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Overview of the Southern Cluster Partnership: The scope, progresses and way forward
N2Africa Partnership Meeting
14 September,2015
Beshale Hotel
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Tulu Degefu, HwU’s N2Africa project coordinator
Hawassa University
Partnership objectives
The scope of the partnership
Progresses
The way forward
Outline
Partnership objectives
• A systematic attempt to facilitate change through joint action
• Problems in a system can be hard to tackle piecemeal– Scale:– Complexity, Information etc….
Formation of partnership: Changing roles of various stakeholders at different phases
Local participants
R&D Organisations
Bringing partners together
Phase 1: Engaging with stakeholders
Phase 2: Planning, learning and assessing
Phase 3: Ensuring sustainability
Interest
Collaboration
OwnershipLeadership
Leadership
Facilitation
Backstopping
Private Sector
Interest
Collaboration
Commercial opportunity and farmer
support
Tim
e
Key result by 2018
• 25,000 farmers in Sidama, west Arsi, Shala, Halaba and Wolyta will have access to improved legume technology package and linked to market
• Average productivity of common bean rotating crops will increase by 30% and 20%, respectively
• 25% women participation
Pillars/Strategic Objectives of the Partnership
Nurturing long-term sustainability
of
LoI signed….ILRI N2Africa
• The parties have decided to work together, thus had LoI, which defines the framework for the cooperation
• The partnership is based on mutual recognition of complementarities and synergies to achieve the projects activities through joint implementation
The Scope: Key partners and role mapping
Designing and Facilitation of partnerships
Technical support
M&E
Grants and leverage resources
Evidence generation
M&E, communication
Technical support
Develop extension materials
Liaise with other VC partners
Trainings on legume business,
Support technology dissemination campaigns,
Technology dissemination and scale up,
Mobilize and facilitate dissemination campaigns
Supply inoculants
Trainings on inoculant applications, handling, storage and distribution
Channel for Input delivery distribution and product bulking, marketing
Mobilizing farmers
Source of grain legumes
Grain buyer,
Seed supply (ACOS variety, limited amt)
Support trainings on grain quality & grading
Communication & coordination
The Scope: Beneficiary farmers
Targeting (25000 farm households By 2018)Site and SHFs identification (Coop members)
Target Woredas
Target Farmer Organization (PCs and Clusters)
Total Targets
Total Beneficiaries (75% success rate)
Boricha Sidama Elto Union (Kayo PC)
6,250 5,000
Damot Gale Damota Wolayita Union
6,250 5,000Sodo Zuria 6,250 5,000Halaba
Uta Wayu Union6,250 5,000
Shalla 6,250 5,000Target Women Farmers (25% of the total beneficiaries)
6,250
Capacity Development
A total of 4Trainings (2 by HwU & 1 by CRS & 1 by MARC)
on legume agronomy, inoculation
BoA mobilized and coordinated the training participants
(farmers, etc)
HwU, CRS, MARC & BoA was responsible for
training data collection
How far we went in terms of the four pillars
Partnership Progresses
Dissemination (Demo and Adaptation trials)
Demonstration Cluster
We have established a total of 26
demonstration trials for haricot bean of
which
10 demo trials in Boricha and Halaba (5
in each) , 3 were established at Sodo
zuria woreda with Nasir Variety
Partnership Progresses…cont’d
• While 10 demo trials by MARC at Shala and the remaining 3 were established at Boricha involving coops members (ACOS Keyo Haricot Bean seed )
The red bean variety was sourced from
ACOS
All gender disaggregated (25% women)
Adaptation Cluster
A total of 780 farmers were reached
400 farmers by HwU and 130 farmers by
partners (CRS and Sidama Elto Union), 250
farmers by MARC
BoA , the Unions mobilized and coordinated
farmers for dissemination
Partnership Progresses…cont’d
Input Supply
MBI with biofertilizer (700+ sachet), Nasir variety from Sidama Elto
Unions and other sources, and red bean variety (50kg) from ACOS
Inclusion of red bean variety was the interest of buyer (ACOS)
Input distribution was coordinated…fairly all partners were involved
For example red bean variety distribution partners (ILRI, ACOS,
SEU, HwU, BOA) all were involved
The inputs were distributed to individual farmers via their
organization
Partnership Progresses…cont’d
Market linkages
ACOS provided red bean variety (50kg) for potential market
links
3 demo site at Boricha each with 25 farmers/demo site
30 farmers participated on adaptation trial
All farmers coops member
Taken together, the synergy among partners is not
functioning as expected (a reflection that PPP is new).
Partnership Progresses…cont’d
Major challenges and opportunities
• There is lack of understanding among partners involved (roles and responsibilities)
• Lack of robust communication among the key partners
• Country-wide flactuation and erratic rain
Way forward
• Role mapping to let all partners know their roles and responsibilities
• So that the platform will really function well – i.e we work together as a cluster not as an individual
SOME PICS
Thank You