Allanblackia – Tree Domestication

1. Allanblackia – Tree Domestication Jan Beniest World Agroforestry Centre Training Unit

2. Purpose ‘To share knowledge and experiences on Allanblackia domestication and related activities that will facilitate large-scale deployment of cultivation, in a coordinated and sustainable manner, to smallholder farm producers in Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania’.

3. Objectives – domestication specialists • Through information sharing, comparison and critique, become familiar with the most recent knowledge available for optimal cultivation of Allanblackia, and understand where key gaps in knowledge, requiring further action, lie. • To develop an interdisciplinary understanding of how domestication activities interact with other elements within the wider context of the Allanblackia initiative, and how these interactions impact on the implementation of cultivation plans. • Through familiarity with 1 and 2 above, and through given course materials, to be able to communicate appropriate Allanblackia domestication approaches to other colleagues concerned with practical deployment objectives in individual project countries.

4. Objectives – Allanblackia initiative • To develop an interdisciplinary understanding of how domestication activities interact with other elements within the wider context of the initiative, and to understand how these interactions impact on the implementation of wider plans. • Through familiarity with 1 above, to be able to communicate with domestication colleagues in a way that, through better integration, facilitates the practical deployment objectives of the Allanblackia initiative.

5. Objectives - both • Together develop concrete action plans, which optimise Allanblackia domestication and facilitate wider integration across disciplines.

6. Structure • MODULE 1 – Introduction to integrated thinking on Allanblackia tree domestication • MODULE 2 – Domestication: germplasm collection and propagation • MODULE 3 – Domestication: nursery production to on-farm harvesting • MODULE 4 – Understanding context: cultivation, market and policy issues • MODULE 5 – Investors Forum

7. Resource Persons • You! • Colleagues and facilitators

8. Evaluation • Anytime-anywhere • Final course evaluation

9. Follow-up • Personal action plans • Small Grant Projects

10. P.A.P.A. The Participant/Personal Action Plan Approach Jan Beniest

11. Adult learning • Adults learn best by building on their existing experience or through ‘experiental learning’ • Experiental learning is a process of reviewing, reflecting and applying new skills, behaviour and attitudes • Learners must be enabled to ground their learning in their actual work environment

12. What is PAPA • A method to ‘follow up’ on training at least 6 months after participants return to their work environment • Proven method for monitoring and evaluating training • Based on ‘action planning’ • Participant focused but implicates organizational and institutional development

13. PAPA explains • What happened on the job as a result of the training? • Are changes that occurred the ones intended by those providing the course? • What may have interfered with the participants trying to use on the job what they learned in the training?

14. Steps in PAPA • Planning • In-course activities • Follow-up activities • Analysis and conclusions • Reporting

15. In-course activities: stage 1 • OBJECTIVES: • understand the use of PAPA • identify possible action ideas to be tried on the job • PROCEDURE: • 5 minutes each day to jot down action ideas during the training • use the handout provided • confer with other participants/trainers periodically

16. In-course activities: stage 2 • OBJECTIVE: • to compile a final action plan • PROCEDURE: • prepare preliminary list of action items • confer with others from same team/institute • finalize and prioritize list of action items • report individual action plans • make copy and submit to trainer

17. TRAINERS Formulate and send questionnaire Analyze and interpret data Prepare report Improve course content and approach if necessary PARTICIPANTS Fill out and return questionnaire Receive report and send feedback Follow-up activities

18. PAPA Form

19. Small Grants Projects • The purpose of this scheme is to allow individuals and their employing institution to apply the knowledge, skills and attitudes acquired as a result of training workshops and courses and thus strengthen the national institutions they work for.

20. Small Grants Projects • They must ‘enable’ the application of knowledge, skills and attitudes acquired as a result of a specific training event • They must strengthen the institution in which the individual functions • The national institution is responsible for implementation, management (Letter of Agreement, reporting) and makes a counterpart contribution to show interest and commitment • Projects must have national or regional relevance • The active involvement of women is encouraged (implementing, participating, benefiting) • Projects cannot be allocated to World Agroforestry Centre staff participating in the training, but collaboration between a national institution and the Centre’s scientists is strongly encouraged

21. Small Grants Projects • Title • Background • Justification • Description • Budget • Covering letter