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Dryland SystemsIntegrated Production Systems for Improving Food Security and

Livelihoods in Dry Areas

CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013

Title CGIAR System Level Outcomes

• Reduced rural poverty;

• Improved food security;

• Better nutrition and health; and

• Sustainable management of

natural resources.

• Cover 41% of the earth’s surface

• 2.5 billion people – and the majority of the world’s poor.

• About 16% of the population lives in chronic poverty

• Major biophysical and socioeconomic constraints to

production systems

Dry Areas

• The SRF (CGIAR 2011) advocates new areas of core competency to achieve impact in four SLOs

• One is Development of core competency in the area of production systems

• This will test the ability of the system to undertake inter-center research.

• Systems research will integrate commodity, natural resource management and policy research to improve productivity and livelihoods in a sustainable manner at the national and regional level

STRATEGIC AND RESULTS FRAMEWORK

CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013

TitleConceptual Research Framework

SRT2: Reducing

vulnerability and managing

risk

SRT3: Sustainable

intensification for more

productive, profitable and

diversified dryland

agriculture with well-

established linkages to

marketst

Strategic Research Theme Output

1. Approaches and models for

strengthening innovation systems,

building stakeholder innovation

capacity, and linking knowledge to

policy action

Approaches and models for strengthening innovation systems,

building stakeholder innovation capacity, and linking knowledge to policy action

Enhanced capacity for innovation and effective participation incollaborative “IAR4D” processes

Strategies for effectively linking research to policy action in adryland context.

2. Reducing vulnerability and

managing risk through increased

resilience

Combinations of institutional, biophysical and management options for reducing vulnerability designed and developed

Options for reducing vulnerability and mitigating risk scaled-up and -out within regions

Trade-offs amongst options for reducing vulnerability and

mitigating risk analyzed (within regions). Knowledge-based

systems developed for customizing options to sites andcircumstances

3. Sustainable intensification for

more productive, profitable and

diversified dryland agriculture with

well-established linkages to

markets

Sustainable intensification options designed and developed

Sustainable intensification options out-scaled

Trade-offs amongst sustainable intensification and

diversification options analyzed and knowledge-based

systems developed for customizing options to sites and circumstances

4. Measuring impacts and cross-

regional synthesis

Future scenarios and priority setting

Livelihood and ecosystem characterization.Across-region synthesis of lessons learnt from SRTs 2 and 3

Program impacts measured.

CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013

Title Cross-Cutting Themes

• Gender

• Youth

• Biodiversity

• Capacity building

CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013

Title Inception Phase

• Groundwork for baseline characterization

• Workshops to set Research Priorities

Common Ground1) 21 Constraints2) 20 Outputs3) 16 Hypotheses4) 20 Outcomes

TitleIntermediate Development Outcomes

• Part of Theory of Change, Impact Pathway and Consortium’s results-based performance management system.

Results Based Management is a management philosophy and approach that emphasizes development results in planning, implementation, learning and reporting.

It focuses on improved performance that can be described and measured while helping individuals to plan, manage and learn more effectively.

• The CRP Intermediate Development Outcomes (IDOs) will play a pivotal role in the system, expressing the ambition of CRPs and providing the building blocks for Consortium-level achievement through the Strategic Results Framework (SRF).

TitleIntermediate Development Outcomes

CRP IDOs are meant to be:

• Informed by and have buy in from key stakeholders• Integrated across CRPs to the extent possible• Fully aligned with system level IDOs (SLIDOs). • Completed by September 30, 2013 for as many CRPs as

possible. • Composed of three 3-year cycles, i.e. they have ~10 year time

lines

TitleIntermediate Development Outcomes(From 20 Common Outcomes!)

The first 4 target direct impact on wellbeing and sustaining natural resource base:

1. More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas.

2. More stable and higher per capita income for intensifiable households.

3. Women and children in vulnerable households have year round access to greater quantity and diversity of food sources.

4. More sustainable and equitable management of land and water resources in pastoral and agropastoral.

The rest relate to requirements for the first 4 to be realized: 5. Better functioning markets underpinning intensification of rural livelihoods. 6. More integrated, effective and connected service delivery institutions

underpinning resilience and system intensification. 7. Policy reform removing constraints and creating incentives for rural

households to engage in more sustainable practices that improve resilience and intensify production.

TitleTHEORY of CHANGE from Launch Meeting, May 2013

Key elements of the agricultural system interact to improve human welfare and management of natural resources

Impacts from IDOs1. More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas.

2. More stable and higher per capita income for intensifiable households (those above an asset threshold that makes intensification a viable option).

3. Women and children in vulnerable households have year round access to greater quantity and diversity of food sources

4. More sustainable and equitable management of land and water resources in pastoral and agropastoral areas

5. Better functioning markets underpinning intensification of rural livelihoods

6. More integrated, effective and connected service delivery institutions underpinning resilience and system intensification

7. Policy reform removing constraints and incentivising rural households to engage in more sustainable practices that intensify and improve resilience and intensify production

ImpactMore resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas

Outputs

• Improved resilience options (components, interactions and their management; explicit consideration of buffer functions, managing trade-offs between production and risk; nested scale risk mitigation, including incentives to adopt them)

• Tools, methods, processes and capacity of NARES to create and customiseimproved resilience options to local circumstances across scaling domains

OutcomeNARES use tools, methods and processes to generate and customise improved resilience options for targeted groups of vulnerable households

Indicators

Use of outputs: number and size of organisations using them and their areal and population domains; proportion of sector in targeted areas this representsCustomised options: number of options and number of hh targeted

Resilience index: contextualisedmultiscale assessment of resilience building strategies at household and community levels (see Marschke, and Berkes. 2006)

IncomeFood

Security

Consump-

tion

Product-

vity

Control of

Assets

Capacity to

Innovate

Capacity

to Adapt

Greater

ResiliencePolicies

Environ-

ment

Carbon

Sequest-

ration

RESILIENCE

INTENSIFICATION

NUTRITION for

Vulnerable

Sustainable NRM

Management

Markets

Delivery Institutions

Policy

System Level IDO'sCRP IDO Abbreviated

Label

Observations made by IDO Working Group chair:

• We needed to create new credible targets of impact for the new IDOs

• We were cautioned about having too many sites (10 was seen as too many to implement at once)

• Go slower and not try to be everywhere at once • We need more specifics on partnerships including

their roles in impact pathway• Integration with other CRPs is not fleshed out as

much as it could.

Montpellier meeting feedback

GOAL (IMPACT):

PURPOSE (OUTCOMES):

Customised options: number of options and number of

hh targeted

OUTPUTS:

1.Improved resilience options (components,

interactions and their management; explicit

consideration of buffer functions, managing trade-

offs between production and risk; nested scale risk

mitigation, including incentives to adopt them)

2.Tools, methods, processes and capacity of NARES

to create and customise improved resilience options

to local circumstances across scaling domains

Resilience index: contextualised multiscale assessment

of resilience building strategies at household and

community levels.

Use of outputs: number and size of organisations using

them and their areal and population domains; proportion

of sector in targeted areas this represents

More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable

households in marginal areas

NARES use tools, methods and processes to generate

and customise improved resilience options for

targeted groups of vulnerable households

Narrative Summary Objectively Verifiable Indicators

Outputs/activities

Milestones

O.V.I.** Region/locatio

n

Projects/partners*

** Deliverables Years

*

Component 1. Reducing vulnerability and managing risk in NAWA

Output 1.1. Functional innovation platforms established for the design and transfer of improved

R4D options in target sites Activity 1.1.1.

Establish, monitor

and evaluate strategic

innovation platform

for reducing

vulnerability of the

agropastoral system in

the target sites

Fully functional

strategic innovation

platform established

and supported

1,2,3 Operational strategic

innovation platforms

Target satellite

site in Tunisia,

outscaled to

Syria and

Jordan action

site.

- IFAD-PRODESUD

Project (on-going)

- IRA-MESRS (on-

going)

-Aga Khan

Foundation, Syria Mechanisms for cross

site learning

developed and

implemented

1,2 Cross site learning

activities

Guidelines for

planning and

implementing

community-based

innovation platform

communal rangelands

developed and

distributed

3 Best practices

guidelines

Activity 1.1.2.

Establish, monitor

and evaluate an

intervention

innovation cluster (

water harvesting and

use)

Operational

arrangements

including public-

private partnerships

for the

implementation of

mechanized water

harvesting packages

in the pastoral system

1, 2, 3 Signed agreements

among partners for

the operation of the

unit

- Established rules

and responsibilities

of community

institution

- Legalization of the

cooperative/water-

harvesting

association and

declaration

Target satellite

site in Tunisia,

Syria and

Jordan action

site

Arab Fund,

WLI//USAID, Jordan

government, Agha

Khan Foundation

(Syria)

Hashemite Fund for

Badia Development

(Jordan)

Activity 1.1.3.

Establish, monitor

and evaluate

commodity-

innovation clusters

(sheep, cactus,

medicinal and herbal

plants, small scale

dairy processing)

Strategy for scaling

out income generating

micro-enterprises

using (i) available

cactus processing

technologies; (ii)

small scale dairy

processing units

(women association)

in 4 villages; (iii)

income generating

activities/ HMAP

1, 2, 3 Trainings on milk

processing conducted

for 4 women groups

in 2012 and 2013

Changes in quality

and of prices of dairy

products produced by

women trained in the

project.

Protocol for HMAP

cultivation,

processing and

marketing

Protocol for cactus

products

transformation

Target satellite

site in Tunisia

(cactus,

HMAPs), and in

Syria and

Jordan action

site (dairy

processing,

HMAPs).

OFID project

(Enhancing dairy

processing skills and

market access of rural

women in Jordan)

Aga Khan

Foundation, Syria

NCARE HMAP

division

PAM program in

Tunisia

Activity 1.1.4.

Establish, monitor

and evaluate an

Strategy defined,

CBO’s formed and

documentation of

lessons learned in

2,3 Strategy defined by

2013 and at least two

CBO’s formed by the

end of 2013 with

Target satellite

site in Syria,

Jordan, Tunisia

Arab Fund,

WLI//USAID, Jordan

government, Agha

Khan Foundation

Led By:

W1&2 W3 Bilateral

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-

-

W1&2 W3 Bilateral

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-

-

W1&2 W3 Bilateral

-

-

-

W1&2 W3 Bilateral

-

-

-

W1&2 W3 Bilateral

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-

-

W1&2 W3 Bilateral

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-

-

W1&2 W3 Bilateral

-

-

-

Funding - specify amount for each 2013 Total

funding

Donor(s)

for W3 &

bilateral

Project

end date

if not

2013

Project

end date

if not

2013

IDO 7. Policy reform removing constraints and creating incentives for rural households to engage in more sustainable practices that improve resilience and intensify production

ID # Activity title Activity description* Target Region(s) Outputs OutcomesSpecific Verifiable Deliverables in

2013Time Frame Anticipated Activity Outcomes Target Countries Action Site(s) Activity Leader(s)

Other partners &

% resources

Linkage to

Other

CRP(s)

Other partners &

% resources

Linkage to

Other

CRP(s)

Funding - specify amount for each 2013 Total

funding

Donor(s)

for W3 &

bilateral

2013 Total

funding

Donor(s)

for W3 &

bilateral

Project

end date

if not

2013

IDO 6. More integrated, effective and connected service delivery institutions underpinning resilience and system intensification

ID # Activity title Activity description* Target Region(s) Outputs OutcomesSpecific Verifiable Deliverables in

2013Time Frame Anticipated Activity Outcomes Target Countries Action Site(s) Activity Leader(s)

IDO 5. Better functioning markets underpinning intensification of rural livelihoods

ID # Activity title Activity description* Target Region(s) Outputs OutcomesSpecific Verifiable Deliverables in

2013Time Frame Anticipated Activity Outcomes Target Countries Action Site(s) Activity Leader(s)

Other partners &

% resources

Linkage to

Other

CRP(s)

Funding - specify amount for each

ID # Activity title

ID # Activity title Specific Verifiable Deliverables in

2013Activity description*

Target Region(s) OutputsSpecific Verifiable Deliverables in

2013Activity description* Outcomes

IDO 1. More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas

IDO 2. More stable and higher per capita income for intensifiable households

ICARDA

2013 Activity Plan - CRP Dryland Systems, Amounts in USD 000'

2013 Total

funding

Linkage to

Other

CRP(s)

Target Countries

Donor(s)

for W3 &

bilateral

Project

end date

if not

2013

Other partners &

% resources

Funding - specify amount for each

Target Region(s) Outputs Outcomes Activity Leader(s)

2013 Total

funding

Anticipated Activity OutcomesTime Frame

Linkage to

Other

CRP(s)

Target Countries

Action Site(s)

Action Site(s)

Funding - specify amount for each Other partners &

% resourcesActivity Leader(s)

Project

end date

if not

2013

Anticipated Activity Outcomes Target Countries Activity Leader(s)

Project

end date

if not

2013

Other partners &

% resources

Action Site(s)

Time Frame Anticipated Activity Outcomes

Activity Leader(s)Target Region(s) Outputs Action Site(s)Outcomes

Linkage to

Other

CRP(s)

Funding - specify amount for each 2013 Total

funding

Donor(s)

for W3 &

bilateral

Outcomes

IDO 3. Women and children in vulnerable households have year round access to greater quantity and diversity of food sources

IDO 4. More sustainable and equitable management of land, water and genetic resources in pastoral and agropastoral systems

Other partners &

% resources

Linkage to

Other

CRP(s)

Funding - specify amount for each 2013 Total

funding

Donor(s)

for W3 &

bilateral

Project

end date

if not

2013

ID #

Donor(s)

for W3 &

bilateral

Time FrameActivity title Activity description* Specific Verifiable Deliverables in

2013Target Region(s) Outputs

ID # Activity title Activity description* Specific Verifiable Deliverables in

2013Time Frame Anticipated Activity Outcomes Target Countries

• “Clustered” Activities in Prioritized Workplans to achieve

Seven IDOs

• Use of Standard Logframe Template

• Specificity on:

Sites

Outputs

Outcomes

Deliverables

Activity Leaders

Partnerships

Timelines

• Better Impact Targets

• Budget Principles

Meeting Expectations