1. Supply and demand: improving the open ag funding data landscape
May 24, 2016

2. Agenda PART ONE (11:00 am – 12:00 pm) 11:00-11:10 am Project overview
Participant introductions
11:15-11:40 am
Supply: Presentation of landscape analysis
11:40 – 12:00 pm
Demand: Findings on data needs
BREAK
PART TWO (12:03 – 12:45 pm)
12:03 – 12:45 pm
Looking ahead: roadmap for standards, tools and support

3. Project Partners

4. What are we trying to accomplish?
Investment data that meets the needs of agriculture and food security practitioners
More effective investments in agriculture and food security
End hunger and reduce food insecurity

5. What kind of data? International Assistance
Bilateral & multilateral donors
Foundations
NGOs
Research institutes

6. Two ways to participate
Community of Practice
IATI Ag Working Group
Purpose
To promote improvements in the availability, quality, and use of ag investment data
Increase awareness of demand for data
Inform development of standards/tools from a user perspective
Advocate for publication of (better) data
Promoting use of data in decision-making
Membership
Open to individuals or organizations
Agriculture and food security practitioners
Purpose
To ensure IATI data meets the needs of agricultural development and food security practitioners
Develop technical proposals for modifications or extensions to the IATI standard
Contribute to the development of tools to improve the quality or use of IATI data
Membership
Open to individuals or organizations
IATI contacts at organizations
Sector data specialists

7. PARTICIPANT INTRODUCTIONS

8. What investment data is currently available?
THE SUPPLY
What investment data is currently available?

9. What investment data do organizations need?
THE DEMAND
What investment data do organizations need?

10. Donor Data Needs 17 interviewees from: USAID, MCC, WB, AfDB, WFP
Most often voiced needs
Value chains
Locations: At least down to the Admin 2 level
Budget and expenditure data
Project dates: Start & end date
Results: outputs, outcomes, impact
Beneficiaries
Local implementers
Demographic, socioeconomic and baseline data
“If everyone else is working in Maize, we’ll focus on another crop to balance nutrition.”
–USAID
“Knowing who local implementers are helps us identify who we should talk to in country during consultations. They have a better picture of what’s going on in country and who we might partner with.”
–MCC

11. Foundation Data Needs
What do donors need to know in order to make investment decisions?
What are others doing and funding?
What are the gaps in current funding?
Where could we make the greatest difference?
When are they using it?
Data at the strategy setting moment vs. data for monitoring and impact measurement
How do they get the answers they need?
Relationships with other funders and affinity groups
In-country partners and staff
Commissioning research (landscape, market, and demographic analyses)
What are some of the current challenges?
Differing definitions of “ag”
Working at the intersections of issues/fields
Data needs associated with partnership and movement-building
initiatives

12. NGO Data Needs What? Why? To avoid duplication or identify gaps
To leverage efforts or expertise of others
To identify partners
To determine does and doesn’t work (and why) to improve project design
To assess the performance of agriculture and food security programs

13. CGIAR Data Needs
Provide CG system and our partners with simple investment indicators:
Locations of R&D focus areas, programs, and actors
Count of activities, allocated budget by activity, with additional allocation across IDOs (CGIAR System Objectives), commodity value-chains, and technologies
Support for investment analysis and targeting with partners (identify gaps and opportunities to foster partnerships at regional, national, and local scale)
Measure of reach: numbers of partner institutions reached, number of farmers trained, socio-economic characteristics of beneficiaries, across key geographic domains (AEZs, wheat/maize mega-environments, drylands, across CRP focus areas, countries, etc.)
Measure of impact: spatial coverage of technology diffusion and adoption (number of technologies available, and/or adopted by farmers, number of farm households with access to and using improved technologies)

14. Facilitated discussion to start in 2 minutes
Break!
Facilitated discussion to start in 2 minutes

15. Roadmap for standards, tools and support
DISCUSSION
Roadmap for standards, tools and support

16. Next Steps Brown bag lunch on June 9th
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