Africa RISING Programme

• West Africa – Ghana and Mali• East and Southern Africa – Tanzania, Malawi

and Zambia• Ethiopian Highlands– Tigray– Amhara– SNNPR– Oromia

Some Key Features of Africa RISING

• Focus on sustainable intensification of whole system

• Research 4 Development• Development outcomes are important• Close alignment with Feed the Future Goals– Food security– Poverty alleviation– Improved livelihoods– Nutrition and Health– Gender equity

Nutrition

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Indicator databases and tools Impacts on gender relationships

Redressing genderimbalances

Outcome m

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Early impact assessmentM & E

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Compendiumof tools and methods

Compendium

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Entry pointsResearch

teams

ModelingParticipatory

evaluation

AdaptationCombination

Farm-level

impacts

Sustainability / resilience

DS tools

Meta analysis

Forecast

replicability

Validate

replicabilityScaling approaches

Aggregated impactsIm

plemntation

support

Synthesis

RO 1Situation

analysis and programme-

wide synthesis

RO 2Integrated

systems improvement

RO 3Scaling and

delivery

Shocks and stresses

Gender

Policy

Endogenous Driver of Innovation Exogenous

Community characterisation

and stratification

Inventory of current technologies /

practices and their sources

Participatory problem

identification and gap analysis

Opportunities for scaling innovation (endogenous and

exogenous)

Research component 1

Biophysical and socio-economic

benchmarks

Research component 2

Identified market opportunities

Characterisation of specific value chains (actors and links)

Research component 4

Functioning multi-stakeholder platforms

Review of best technology /

management options

Validate technologies / management practicesEx ante modelling /

impact assessment

Research component 5

Scaling: to be developed

Adaptation and integration of technologies /

management practices

Community knowledge exchange groups established

Research component 3

System characterisation and analysis

Community institutions and knowledge

exchange

Markets and wider stakeholders

Outputs to outcomes

“Action research”