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Presented by Alan Duncan, Beth Cullen, Aster Gebrekristos and Stefan Shultz at the Africa RISING Ethiopia Project Implementation Meeting, Addis Ababa, 13-14 February 2013
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Proposals for Africa RISING Ethiopian Highlands Research
Component 1 - Characterization
Alan Duncan, Beth Cullen, Aster Gebrekristos, Stefan Shultz
Africa RISING Ethiopia project implementation meeting, Addis Ababa, 13-14 February 2013
ILRI (lead): Expertise in the development and application of a wide range of participatory methods (e.g. for characterisation of resource availability and utilisation and stratification of households within communities); Gender analysis (identification of gender-disaggregated constraints and opportunities and identification of gender-equitable solutions).
CIP: Past experience of community situation analysis and action research planning.
ICRAF: Resource mapping and formalisation of indigenous knowledge and practises.
National Partners: Community engagement; past experience in the use of diagnostic approaches and tools.
Partners
Endogenous Driver of Innovation Exogenous
Opportunities for scaling innovation (endogenous and
exogenous)
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
Community characterisation
and stratification
Inventory of current technologies /
practices and their sources
Participatory problem
identification and gap analysis
Research component 1
System characterisation and analysis
Community institutions and knowledge
exchange
Markets and wider stakeholders
Outputs to outcomes
“Action research”
Community characterisation
and stratification
Inventory of current technologies /
practices and their sources
Participatory problem
identification and gap analysis
Research component 1
System characterisation and analysis
Socio-economic community characterization. Characterisation of bio-physical environment. Household stratification (against socio-economic and biophysical
factors) Gender analysis. Inventory of current practices / technologies and their sources. Participatory problem identification and gap analysis.
Key deliverables
Household typologies
Some issues
Each household is different For intensification strategies – one size does not fit all Can we find ways of characterizing households that will lead to
better tailored interventions? What is the minimum dataset needed to do this?
Household typologies
Women and men play different roles in the household economy and reap different benefits
How do we take account of this in designing sustainable intensification strategies?
Gender
What is the minimum dataset (biophysical and socio-economic, quantitative and qualitative) required for effective household characterisation and stratification and to meet the needs of monitoring progress towards AR-EH / FtF development outcomes?
What is the best approach to mainstreaming household gender considerations so that they inform the selection of technologies and practices for sustainable intensification?
What is the best way of conducting gap analysis and problem identification for a household based programme of action research for SI?
Research Questions
Different approaches to designing intervention strategies
Gap analysis/problem identification
Participatory household characterisations. Basic socio-economic survey of quantitative indicators. SLATE AKT5 baselines for future M&E
Approach – socioeconomic characterization
Identification of a suite of biophysical indicators for M&E Household-level sampling frame across the AR-EH sites. GIS-based approaches for strengthening these data. Baselines for future M&E
Approach – biophysical envt characterization
Livelihoods asset for household typologies Participatory approaches to interpreting and strengthening asset-
based strata. Needs assessment for more detailed, household survey based
stratifications.
Approach – Household stratification
Study of gender differentiation Identification of potential entry points based on strengthening
household management teams.
Approach – Gender analysis
Participatory study of current practices and technologies including mapping of uptake pathways
Approach – inventory of current technologies and their source
Livestock production and management practises including the feed resource base (FEAST / Techfit).
Future visions, challenges and solutions. Trade-offs analysis. Criteria that might influence applicability, performance and
adoption of technologies and management practices. Feed into ex ante impact assessments conducted under RC5.
Approach – Participatory problem identification and gap analysis
Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation
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