N2Africa mid-annual ME review Oct.2016

ILRI-N2Africa Partners’ Mid-annual and Monitoring & Evaluation Review Meeting 12-13 October 2016, InfoCenter, ILRI Campus Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) funded project entitled “Putting nitrogen fixation to work for Smallholder farmers in Africa (N2Africa) aims to build sustainable, long-term partnerships to enable African smallholder farmers to benefit from symbiotic N2-fixation by grain legumes through effective production technologies including inoculants and fertilizers. National level capabilities will be developed to sustain the pipeline and delivery of continuous improvement in legume production technologies tailored to local settings. The project will reach more than 550,000 farmers with a return on investment of US$3.5 for each US$ invested.

The project is implemented by a diversity of public and private sector partners using various methods and approaches. An assessment of status of implementation is required semi-annually to enable the identification of lessons learnt, challenges and rectify such challenges. In this regard a four day workshop is planned from 12-13 October 2016. An internal N2Africa Ethiopia team section will take place on Monday with a field visit on Tuesday. On Wednesday and Thursday the project partners will also participate to discuss the implementation status of the project and review the partnerships on delivering the joint milestones and objectives.

Objectives of the Meeting

The overall objective of the workshop is to have a review of the implementation process and develop strategies for improvement. Specific objectives will include:

• To establish the country and partner level progress in project implementation along approach, activities, their effect, sustainability, learning and relevance;
• Share lessons learnt and challenges from implementation of project activities by the various partners;
• To interact and discuss with the respective partners, issues / challenges in implementation;
• To incorporate lessons learnt in the country project implementation strategies.

Expected outputs

• Interim evaluation of the project established;
• Lessons learnt from implementation shared amongst the project partners;
• Partner specific challenges discussed and solutions sought;
• Lessons learnt incorporated into the country strategy to improve implementation of activities.

Process to meet expected outputs

Overall country target areas and related milestones for 2016 presented and individual partners’ present results of their progress based on their result areas. Levels of achievement and the underlying factors discussed in plenary. Partner specific challenges will be discussed with the coordination team. General plenary discussion will generate consensus for improvements to be made on the overall country implementation strategy.

Program

				Day One, Wednesday 13th October 2016 – Lead Facilitators: Theresa Ampadu-Boakye / Edward Baars
Start	End	Activity	Presenter/facilitator	Rapporteur
8.00	8.30	Registration of participants	All
8.30	8.45	Welcome remarks, programme	Endalkachew/Fred
8.45	9.15	Country progress & targets for 2016	Endalkachew
9.15	10.15	SOUTH CLUSTER: a) HwU, MARC and SCS -Implementation progresses, achievements (planned), challenges, lessons and way forward b) Sidama Elto Union Experiences on seed production and supply, inoculants supply and grain marketing	Tulu D., Amare F. and Takele P. Sisay Y.
10.15	10.35	Discussions	All/Tamiru
10.35	10.50	Coffee Break
10.50	12.50	SOUTH EAST CLUSTER: a) SARC -Implementation progresses, achievements (planned), challenges, lessons and way forward b) Balegreen -Seed production and supply, and experiences of out-growers model towards grain production and marketing	Kisi W. Million B.
12.50	01.50	Lunch Break
01.50	02.10	Discussions	All/Tamiru
02.10	03.10	CHEWAKA CLUSTER: a) BARC -Implementation progresses, achievements (planned), challenges, lessons and way forward b) Anno Agro Industry -Experiences on seeds production and supply, challenges and way forward	Zerihun A. / Kifle D. Benti T.
03.10	03.30	Discussions	All/Tamiru
03.30	03.45	Coffee Break
03.45	04:45	JIMMA CLUSTER: JARC -Implementation progresses, achievements (planned), challenges, lessons and way forward b) FC -Implementation progresses, achievements (planned), challenges, lessons and way forward	Gebresilassie H. /Beza E. Getachew K./Egata S.
04:45	05.05	Discussions	All/Tamiru
05.05		End of day one
				Day Two, Thursday 14th October 2016 – Lead Facilitators: Theresa Ampadu-Boakye/Edward Baars
Start	End	Activity	Presenter/facilitator	Rapporteur
8.30	09.30	CENTRAL CLUSTER: DZARC -Implementation progresses, achievements (planned), challenges, lessons and way forward b) Becho Woliso/Erer Union -Experiences on seed production and supply, inoculants supply and grain marketing	Sofia K. /Abera G. Dejene H./Mekonnen H.
09.30	09.50	Discussion	All
09.50	10.50	PAWE CLUSTER: a) PARC -Implementation progresses, achievements (planned), challenges, lessons and way forward	Getachew Y./Desalegn T.
10.50	11.05	Coffee Break
11.05	11.25	Discussion	All
11.25	12.25	NORTH CLUSTER a) GARC -Implementation progresses, achievements (planned), challenges, lessons and way forward b) Tsehay Union -Experiences on seed production and supply, inoculants supply and grain marketing c) ADARC -Implementation progresses, achievements (planned), challenges, lessons and way forward	Yonas W. /Baye A. Endalkachew A. Yazie C.
12.25	12.45	Discussion	All
12.45	1.45	Lunch Break
1.45	2.15	Presentation Matrix on Partnerships key Milestones findings – updated	Edward
2.15	3.00	Capitalization and progressive insight based strategy adjustments in activities – approaches * Input supply; * Output markets; * Dissemination.	Theresa/Edward
3.00	4.00	General discussions and conclusions (roll-out coffee)
4.00	4.15	Closing	Fred/Endalkachew

Meeting Materials

• Program
• Presentations

N2Africa-Ethiopia Overview Progresses and Plan 2016 Adet Agricultural Research Center ARARI-ADARC Bako Agricultural Research Center (OARI-BARC) Debrezeit Agricultural Research Center EIAR-DZARC Facilitator for Change FC Gondar Agricultural Research Center ARARI-GARC Hawassa University HWU Melkassa Agricultural Research Center EIAR-MARC Pawe Agricultural Research Center EIAR-PARC Sidama Elto Farmers Cooperatives Union Sodo Chatolic Secretariate SCS Tsehay Farmers Cooperatives Union

Participants

• List of participants
• Participant Institutions

ARARI [Amhara Region Agricultural Research Institute] * ADARC (Adet Agricultural Research Center) * GARC (Gondar Agricultural Research Center) Balegreen [Balegreen Spice and Grain Development Plc] EIAR [Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research] * DZARC (Debrezeit Agricultural Research Center) * HARC (Holeta Agricultural Research Center) * MARC (Melkassa Agricultural Research Center) * PARC (Pawe Agricultural Research Center) FC [Facilitator for Change] HWU [Hawassa University] IITA [International Institute of Tropical Agriculture] ILRI [International Livestock Research Institute] Mama Farmers Cooperatives Union OARI [Oromia Agricultural Research Institute] * BARC (Bako Agricultural Research Center) SCS [Sodo Chatolic Secretariate] Sidama Elto Farmers Cooperatives Union Tsehay Farmers Cooperatives Union Wageningen University [WUR]

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