N2Africa Data-tools-refinement 08 2015
ILRI-N2Africa: Awareness creation on Data Tools and Data Refinement Workshop 18-21 August 2015 Lalibela Auditorium, ILRI Campus, Addis Ababa
Contents
Introduction
N2Africa is a large scale, science-based “research-in-development” project focused on putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers growing legume crops in Africa. Its vision of success is to build sustainable, long-term partnerships to enable smallholder farmers to benefit from symbiotic N2-fixation by grain legumes through effective production technologies (including improved seeds, inoculants and fertilizers) and market linkage in the legume value chains.
Continuous learning from dissemination and research activities is one of the defining aspects of N2Africa's R4D approach. The need for timely feedback from on-going activities requires an efficient system of data flow and data management. In addition, information and knowledge generated by N2Africa should be accessible to research and development professionals outside the project and to the public at large in a way that allows accountability and learning for the underlying data.
We collect many different types of data, and every type needs to be collected in its own specific way. We have already taken many steps to smoothen the data collection process. Data forms are simpler, there are accompanying guidelines and data collection on tablets will speed up data delivery. However, the variety of different data to be collected remains a challenge to those working in the field. The collected data in 2014 cropping season do not meet the expectation of N2Africa project vision. Most of the M&E data were not either collected or submitted from implementing partners. The agronomic data were organized in excel data entry sheets however the huge portion of the entered data have to be refined.
Objectives of the Workshop
The aims of this workshop are:
- To provide a clear overview of all data tools in integration with digital tablet data collection for smooth data flows; and
- To refine the 2014 data with implementing partners.
Expected Outputs
- Data to be collected with respective data tools and guidelines will be clearly understood.
- Refined M&E and agronomic data will be compiled.
- Tablet data collection methodologies will be introduced & practiced.
Program
| Day 1 – Tuesday, 18 August 2015 | |||
| Time | Topic | Presenter/Facilitator | Rapporteur |
| 08:30-09:00 | Arrival and Registration | Simret | |
| 09:00-09:05 | Welcome speech | ||
| 09:30-09:40 | ILRI-N2Africa: Overview, Workshop Objectives & Expected outputs ( Presentation) |
Endalkachew | |
| 09:10-09:30 | Program & participants introductions, norms and expectations | Tamiru | |
| 09:30-10:00 | Common Errors in Agronomic Data collected in 2014 ( Presentation) |
Birhan | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee | ||
| 10:30-12:30 | Data refinement (Group work) | ||
| 12:30 -01:30 | Lunch | ||
| 01:30-03:30 | Data refinement (Group work) | ||
| 03:30-03:45 | Coffee | ||
| 03:45-05:00 | Data refinement (Group work) | ||
| Day 2 – Wednesday, 19 August 2015 | |||
| 09:00-10:00 | Data refinement (Group work) | ||
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee | ||
| 10:30-12:30 | Data refinement (Group work) | ||
| 12:30 -01:30 | Lunch | ||
| 01:30-03:30 | Data refinement (Group work) | ||
| 03:30-03:45 | Coffee | ||
| 03:45-05:00 | Data refinement (Group work) | ||
| Day 3 – Thursday, 20 August 2015 | |||
| 09:00-09:45 | N2Africa Public-Private Partnership (PPPs) Models: Progresses ( Presentation) |
Tamiru | Birhan |
| 09:45-10:30 | N2Africa Data tools and their contents ( Presentation) | Birhan | Tamiru |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee | ||
| 11:00-12:30 | Hands on Data tools (practices) | Tamiru/ Birhan | |
| 12:30 -01:30 | Lunch | ||
| 01:30-03:30 | Hands on Data tools (practices) | Tamiru/ Birhan | |
| 03:30-03:45 | Coffee | ||
| 03:45-05:00 | Discussions on Data tools | Endalkachew/Joost | Birhan |
| Day 4 – Friday, 21 August 2015 | |||
| 09:00-10:00 | Digital data collection using tablets ( Presentation) | Joost | Birhan |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee | ||
| 10:30-12:30 | Hand on Tablets | Joost | Birhan |
| 12:30 -01:30 | Lunch | ||
| 01:30-03:30 | Hand on Tablets | Joost | Birhan |
| 03:30-03:45 | Coffee | ||
| 03:45-04:30 | General Discussion |
Workshop materials
- 2015 Data Tools Folder Latest: ANNEX5_N2A_2015_Data tools Guideline Reporting Formats 24-08-15
- Program
- Inventory of Data Status and Gaps
- Data tools their purposes Summary Table
- Field book
- Partners level Data Entry Sheet
- Common Error in Field books
- Lat-Long Format Converter
- Presentations
ILRI-N2Africa: Overview, Workshop Objectives & Expected outputs ( Presentation) Common Errors in Agronomic Data collected in 2014 ( Presentation) N2Africa Public-Private Partnership (PPPs) Models: Progresses ( Presentation) Digital data collection using tablets ( Presentation)
Participants
- List of participants
- Participant institutions
ARARI [Amhara Region Agricultural Research Institute] Balegreen CPAR [Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief] EIAR [Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research] FCE [Facilitator for Change] HWU [Hawassa University] IFDC-2SCALE ILRI [International Livestock Research Institute] MBI [Menagesha Biotech] MfM [Menschen fur Menschen OARI [Oromia Agricultural Research Institute] SCS [Sodo Chatolic Secretariate] SNV-C4C World Vision WUR [Wageningen University]
Workshop Pictures
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