Capacity development, knowledge management, research and promotion

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