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Africa RISING in the Ethiopian Highlands

Peter Thorne

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Timeline

January 2012: Project design workshop March 2012: Quick Win projects identified April – September 2012: Quick Win

projects operating September 2012: Project review and

planning meeting

Quick 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 / ILRI3

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Entry pointsResearch

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ModelingParticipatory

evaluation

AdaptationCombination

Farm-level

impacts

Sustainability / resilience

DS tools

Meta analysis

Forecast

replicability

Validate

replicabilityScaling approaches

Aggregated impactsIm

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Synthesis

Research Process

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RO 1Situation

analysis and programme-

wide synthesis

RO 2Integrated

systems improvement

RO 3Scaling and

delivery

Types of Intervention

Knowledge and capacity strengthening– Tools for targeting and scaling– Tools / documents to support farmer decision-

making

Social cohesion– Community level innovation to support peer-to-

peer learning– Removing constraints on collaboration and

reciprocity

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Types of Intervention

Technical advances– Integrating pulses into cereal-based systems– Capitalising on tree-livestock interactions– Improved feed resource management

Institutional strengthening– Multi-stakeholder approaches for strengthening

market function / service delivery etc.– Community-based Policy Advocacy

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Partnerships

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Research: CGIAR, NARS, Universities, NGOs

Development: AGP initiatives, USAID, ATA

Other donor initiatives: DfID, ACIAR, EU, IFAD

Why Partnerships?

Strengthen research capacity / synergies

Not re-inventing wheels or inventing new wheels with flat tires

Grounding the research in development problems

Opportunities for scaling

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