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Group 1. Amhara Oromia Benshangul Research University Donor CGIAR No Federal?. Program ideas. Boundary conditions. 1 mill. USD Short time BNB. Program Topic. Validation and Scaling out of Best Practices of RWM. Enhancing Community Based Integrated RWM
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Group 1 Amhara Oromia Benshangul Research University Donor CGIAR No Federal?
Program ideas Boundary conditions • 1 mill. USD • Short time • BNB
Program Topic Validation and Scaling out of Best Practices of RWM • Enhancing Community Based Integrated RWM • Ensuring Sustainable Adoption of Best Practices of RWM • Validation and Scaling out of Best Practices of RWM
Beneficiaries • Direct beneficiaries • Farmers in the basin (poor, women, unemployed) • Community based service providers and self-help groups • Indirect beneficiaries • Private enterprises involve in the value chain system • Input and credit service providers • Extension
Approach Grass Root Level Capacity Development and Empowerment Establishing baseline Need assessment Local knowledge integration Community play role of facilitation of processes by themselves Strengthening grass root organizations/institutions • Planning: • community and stakeholder participation (bottom-up) • Implementation: • FREG, participatory learning /action research, test sites
Issues to be addressed in the program • Knowledge gap of implementers • No real participation of the community • Inadequate Research-extension linkage • No strong/well established input delivery system – technology products and supporting inputs • Poor value-chain for market • Role of credit and extension services
Boundary conditions Main activities • 1 mill. USD • Short time • BNB • Community empowerment • Organize and legalize community organizations and user groups (considering social strata or typology) • Equip with communication facility, learning tools • Application of learning tools – (WAT-a-GAME, participatory learning) • Train and empower the community for decision making on resources management, grant management, leadership, facilitation and ownership of processes • Capacity development • Training main actors – DAs, watershed committee, etc • Empower regulatory functions –enforce rules • Experience sharing • Strengthening facilities
Linkage and cooperation – engage in planning, implementation, M&E • Strengthen platforms at different levels • Value-chainsystem • Organize actors in the value chain – input, product • Strength marketing system • Research and extension • Selection of technologies and best practices – WHAT? and WHERE? • Action research (and validation) • Scaling out • Process and impact monitoring
M&E and learning • Quarterly reporting • Participatory M&E • Establish Community based M&E – eg. FREG, • Joint supervision and monitoring by actors/stakeholder platforms • Application of participatory M&E methods/models • Communication • Platforms • Learning tools – WAT-a-Game • FREG • Field days • Radio or mobile technology • Stakeholder coordination • Platforms