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Capacity development, knowledge management, research and promotion

Capacity development, knowledge management, research and promotion. Zonal LIVES workshops. Capacity development . Capacitating stakeholders to contribute value chain development Public sector extension staff F armers producing inputs and outputs

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Capacity development, knowledge management, research and promotion

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  1. Capacity development, knowledge management, research and promotion Zonal LIVES workshops

  2. Capacity development • Capacitating stakeholders to contribute value chain development • Public sector extension staff • Farmers producing inputs and outputs • Input/service providers (private, public, cooperatives) • Processing/marketing businesses

  3. Principles of capacity building • Working with and through partner training organizations • Focus on the key actors along the value chain • Integrated with related projects in the same locations, • Bulk of the training will be aimed at District level • Make use of relevant training materials

  4. Capacity development Strategy-LIVES

  5. Capacity development – in service TOT training public sector staff • Rapid value chain assessment for potential interventions -teams • Participatory market oriented extension – extension staff • Gender mainstreaming – extension staff • Knowledge management/ICT – extension staff • Results based monitoring – specialist staff • Irrigation technologies – specialist staff • Irrigated crop value chain development – specialist staff • Livestock value chain development – specialist staff • Environmental impact assessment of livestock and crop commodities – specialist staff

  6. Training input and service suppliers • AI service delivery – mass insemination • Para-veterinary skills, • Multiplication of seed/seedlings, animals, bee colonies • Repair services irrigation equipment • Community management for use of water schemes and communual grazing land • Food safety

  7. Capacity Development- Key training topics- Farmers • irrigation crop and livestock technologies and practices • production of inputs such as seedlings and seeds. • marketing of outputs • feed resources development • Post-harvest handling

  8. Capacity Development- Postgraduate training • 100 students fully sponsored for tuition and Theses • 100 students supported for theses only • ILRI and IWMI will provide selection criteria to identify suitable students for the MSc program. • will strive to ensure gender balance. • ILRI, IWMI and EIAR staff will co-identify research problems with partners and national universities ILRI, IWMI and EIAR provide co-supervision with national universities

  9. Knowledge Management Knowledge management is about getting the rightknowledge, in the right place at the right time through different mechanisms

  10. Knowledge Management Federal level • Strengthening Ethiopian Agriculture Portal • National learning events/conferences, • Video production • e-extension (Use of ICT: radio, e-reader, mobile phone) Regional/zonal/District level • Knowledge center development • Learning events/conferences/workshops • Study tours • Exhibitions • Field days • New IT technologies

  11. Ethiopian Agriculture Portal EAP contains; • Best practices • Manuals • Research outputs • Packages • Could be accessed online or offline • Documents in local language

  12. Agricultural Knowledge Centers (AKC) • AKC will have; • Computers • Internet access • Various publications • Reading and working area • Book shelves and other furniture • TV • DVD player • Videos, radio programs, Posters….

  13. Research in LIVES Rapid assessment of value chains and public support services Learning Learning Diagnosis Action Impact RESEARCH/STUDIES

  14. Promotion for scaling up • Facilitate project visits by key policy makers and donors • Participation in government/non- government national, regional learning platforms, conferences and workshops • Use of mass media • Publications • Newsletters • Promotional materials • Leveraging new investment into value chain development.

  15. Engendering LIVES by Ensuring Gender Equity Mainly in: • Capacity Development • Knowledge Management • Institutional Dev. & Decision Making • Commodity/Value Chain Development • Adoption of Suitable Technologies

  16. www.lives-ethiopia.org

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