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Overview of DONATA By Ifidon Ohiomoba PSTAD Project Manager , FARA

Overview of DONATA By Ifidon Ohiomoba PSTAD Project Manager , FARA. Background. PSTAD is a project with Overall Objective to build Africa’s agricultural research knowledge management capacity & support dissemination & adoption of improved technologies & good practices. Background cont’d.

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Overview of DONATA By Ifidon Ohiomoba PSTAD Project Manager , FARA

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  1. Overview of DONATA By Ifidon OhiomobaPSTAD Project Manager, FARA

  2. Background PSTADis a project with Overall Objective to build Africa’s agricultural research knowledge management capacity & support dissemination & adoption of improved technologies & good practices.

  3. Background cont’d The dissemination of proven technologies and good practices or DONATA is Component 2 of the PSTADproject

  4. Introduction DONATA: Dissemination of New Agricultural Practices in Africa

  5. Goal of DONATA The Goal is: To Catalyze agricultural innovations in Africa along the value chains

  6. DONATA to achieve its goal by… … and thereby facilitate scale outand upof improved technologies & good practices for increased agricultural production & productivity

  7. DONATA Objectives • To analyse constraints in the agricultural value chains & identify proven technologies to address them and facilitate wide scale adoption to accelerate agricultural development. • To develop toolkits to facilitate targeting of technologies to fit the prevailing conditions & to make profitable investments. • To promote wide adoption of ‘African model crops’ e.g. NERICA rice, improved cassava cultivars, etc for reduction of hunger and food insecurity.

  8. DONATA: Present scope of activities ASARECA Sweet potato • Kenya • Uganda • Ethiopia • DR Congo • Rwanda • Tanzania • Lesotho • Malawi • Mozambique • Zambia • Madagascar Maize CORAF Cassava • Burkina Faso • Cameroon • Congo Brazzaville • Côte d'Ivoire • Ghana • Guinea • Liberia • Mali • Senegal • Sierra Leone SADC-FANR Sorghum

  9. DONATA Activities • Establishing Platforms to promote technology spread and utilisation using the IPTA tool • Providing relevant Inputs & Equipment to facilitate learning & adoption at the platforms • Supporting knowledge & skills acquisition through long - & short-term training • Promoting sharing of lessons & success stories

  10. Knowledge/Skills Acquisition

  11. DONATA Strategy • The innovation platform for technology adoption (IPTA) is the DONATA tool for disseminating improved technologies and innovations to intended beneficiaries • IPTA facilitates out- and up-scaling of innovations

  12. Understanding Terms* Scaling-out: ‘horizontal’ spread of knowledge and uptake of technologies, processes and practices (e.g. to farmers or businesses at a similar level) and cross-site /border learning in a nation, region or continent. (*Adapted From Research Into Use Programme, 2008)

  13. Understanding Terms cont’d Scaling-up: Influencing ‘higher’ level decision makers to develop policies which provide a more enabling environment for scaling-out i.e. various actors that are critical to catalyzing agricultural innovations

  14. Understanding Terms cont’d Innovation:new ideas, technologies or ways of doing things in a place or by people. Doing new things or old things in new ways; do things effectively differently. It enables more goods to be produced or better services rendered with less resources; facilitates efficiency.

  15. Understanding Terms cont’d Value chain- the full range of activities required to bring a product or service from conception, through the different phases of production to delivery of final product to the consumer for use and disposal

  16. What is DONATA Platform? A platform is a network of partners working on a common theme and using agric knowledge in ways it has not been used before to generate goods and services for mutual benefit of stakeholders.

  17. Establishing the DONATA Platform • Follow value chain analysis and mapping of needs to determine entry point • The entry point should be the most critical challenge or need to be addressed • Selection of entry point, a consensus of primary stakeholders • Determine available technology / innovation to meet the identified need.

  18. Value Chain Process for Establishing DONATA Platform

  19. DONATA Strategy - IPTA = Multi-stakeholder platform for access to knowledge & skills to adapt technologies to local settings / needs IPTA - Innovation Platform for Technology Adoption

  20. What is IPTA? IPTA is a mechanism, a tool to support the development and maintenance of a value chain. It is a strategy for improved dissemination of innovations horizontally (to primary stakeholders) and vertically (stakeholders across the various divides) or more effective service delivery to value chain actors; it is not thevalue chain itself.

  21. IPTA Methodology IPTA is a demand-driven participatory approach & can adopt any or combination of the participatory methodologies such as • PLA – participatory learning and action; • PCP – participatory community planning; • FFS – Farmers field school; • Demonstrations; etc

  22. Technical Backstopping 4 IPTA • Should be provided by the relevant NARI for the practice or innovation in focus. • Priority for National Institutions to ensure sustainability & institutional capacity building • An ARI to provide technical backstopping on cross cutting innovations • FARA / SRO to also support

  23. Implementation Progress • About 70 platforms established in the 3 SROs • Several Demonstrations held • Farmer trainings conducted • Field days and Agric shows organized • Inputs procured, distributed and utilized by farmers • 24 students in Universities for MSc Degree • Mid-Term Review of project conducted

  24. Lessons & Success Stories from other sub-regions • Partnering private sector facilitates technology adoption and utilisation in the countries - e.g. • Tanseed Int’l makes QPM seeds readily available for use by farmers promotes increased production • Tanfeed Int’l uses QPM maize in poultry feeds production making market available for grains

  25. Lessons & Success Stories from other sub-regions increased value addition enhances product life, utilisation , consumption & further production

  26. Lessons & Success Stories from other sub-regions QPM maize meals in homes and nutrition centres in DRC ... & improves breast milk flow of nursing mothers ... rescues children from kwashiokor

  27. Challenges • Slow pace of project implementation; by subsidiarity, FARA Sec only coordinates & NARS & SROs implement. • Slow process of procurement of equipment and facilities to enhance knowledge sharing among stakeholders • Understand the project concepts & approaches • Know your scope i.e. No / Size of activities to carry on a platform per year.

  28. Challenges • Limited Networking Skills of partners • Reporting activities based on log frame • Access the available Capacity to implement IPTA • Equipment / facilities for value addition & product development

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