Value Chain Knowledge Clearinghouse

1. Value Chain Knowledge Clearinghouse July 11th, 2013

2. Objective • It is an initiative led by PIM CGIAR Research Program [IFPRI, CIAT, ILRI, IITA, World Agroforestry Centre, ICRISAT, Bioversity, and CIP]. • The purpose of this portal is to provide a comprehensive, easily accessible repository of research methods and best practices surrounding value chain performance that can be used by all the CRPs and partners.

3. Useful for practitioners and specialists to: • Improve market access (better prices and lower transaction costs); • Upgrade value chain governance and equity; • Optimize and prioritize investment; • Improve equity and reduce poverty through technical innovation, information, and improved efficiency to reduce marketing margins and increase farmgate prices; • Expand labor opportunities for women and the landless and boost the incomes of rural households; • Reduce farmers’ risk through the promotion of risk-coping mechanisms, and • Increase the quality of farmers’ products, thereby improving food security.

5. Core elements It is composed of five core elements: • Tools • Data • Network • Best practices • Resources Additionally, events and about us

6. 1. Tools It includes a methodological toolbox with: • guidelines for specific applications; • and gender-specific analysis to ensure the integration of gender into agricultural value chains;

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8. 2. Data It includes existing datasets assessed and evaluated by participating CGIAR institutions and partners. • The data will be directly linked to the portal’s tools and best practices and will include questionnaires and a detailed description of the sampling strategies;

10. 3. Network This will bring all value chain experts in the CGIAR together in a common platform and will facilitate collaboration among leading value chain scientists, ultimately creating a dynamic research community • Discussion communities groups offer collaborative places to discuss topics and issues

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12. 4. Best practices • Solutions to market failures or missing markets that had been scientifically evaluated. • It will include all documentation on the practice as well as the report on the impact evaluation

14. 5. Resources This will include all learning materials for capacity building: • Manuals, guides, case-studies, websites; • Capacity building: e-courses, presentations, workshop series on the tools included in the clearinghouse.

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16. Capacity building

17. Events • Events, upcoming and past • On-line sign-up for events • Calendar for internal and external events

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19. About us • About: objective, CGIAR centers, and core team

21. Features • Mobile-friendly display : compatible to mobile, tablet, and PCs • Implementing the CGIAR open policy • Multilingual features: provide Spanish, French, Chinese, and Arabic • Improved search: We provide a facet based search powered by Apache Solr for better search results (check boxes) • Implementing Google Snippet to improve the visibility of the Web portal to major search engines (search with images)

22. Website organization Content Function • Each center will have a person dedicated to upload content/add members • Excel template and an online template • Training to the person in charge in each center if necessary.

23. Add content - Tools:Papers, documents, or set of documents (zip file) - Dataset: Created as outputs of tools, or relevant data to share that could be related to a tool or best practice - Network: a. Contacts interested in VC to CGIAR or external to add as members b. Could Jo Cadilhon facilitate contacts from people that currently participate at the Dgroup? c. External partners - Best practices: documents, papers, set of documents - Resources: manuals, guides, relevant papers, websites - Capacity building: relevant powerpoints, videos, training materials, e-learning - Events: relevant upcoming events

24. Thanks!

25. template Template in excel

26. Template in the website