1. CIFSRF Phase 2 (Call 5) SIAC/PSC/Team meeting 13 May 2016, Hawassa
Scaling-up Pulse Innovations for Food and Nutrition Security in Southern Ethiopia (Objectives, Milestones , Action Plan (March 2016-March 2017
CIFSRF Phase 2 (Call 5)
SIAC/PSC/Team meeting
13 May 2016, Hawassa

2. Outline
Objectives
Milestones and Action Plan (March 2016– March, 2017)
Research and Capacity Building
Other Activities

3. Objectives General: Specific objectives
to catalyze large-scale positive change in food and nutrition security in southern Ethiopia by scaling up pulse-crop innovations to reach 70,000 farm households.
Specific objectives
Deploy adapted high yielding chickpea and haricot bean varieties in new sites
To influence a policy shift in favour of pulse innovation that would address key institutional, market, and policy barriers affecting the scaling up of legume innovation

4. Objectives Cont’d Specific objectives Cont’d
3. To expand use of pulses in household-level food preparation and commercial production of pulse-cereal complementary foods;
4. To create capacity and improve women farmers’ access and control over resource to enhance their participation, productivity, income and nutritional status;
5. To develop and facilitate tailored communication strategies and innovation platforms for policy action in scaling-up of pulse innovations; and
6. To develop and expand the capacity of partners in integrating agriculture and nutrition.

5. The Joint Technical Reports
Due to IDRC at 6-month intervals
September 2015
March 2016
September months
March months
September months
March 2018
Responsibilities, deliverables increase with time
Linked to the release of funds
The road map-minimum deliverables committed to be the project
Credibility of both universities & partners with the funders (CIFSRF/IDRC/GAC)
Requires contributions from everyone

6. The Main Body of the Report
Executive summary
Research Problem
Progress towards the Milestones
Synthesis of Research Results
(Graduate student/faculty model; faculty-faculty model; partners/consultants)
Addresses each Objective (1-6)
Tell the project’s story- From Farm-Fork-Fingers
What have we done, target groups, key outcomes, how this builds on past work, teams/persons/institutions responsible
Continuous/progressive
Additional Parts- Quantitative
Outputs
Bean counting –tracking- reach
Stories and pictures for the Project’s website, IDRC Library

7. Progress towards the Milestones (3 pages)
Achievement
(in %)
Evidence/
Indicators
Comments
Project Implementation strategies- impact pathway; project m/e results framework; communications policy and engagement strategy; scaling-up and gender strategies
80%
Communication strategy (Appendix 2) ready for circulation;
impact pathway strategy (Appendix 3) shared among key team members;
gender framework shared at the gender training and workshop, December 2015, HU ( Appendix 4-report
Project m/e and scaling-up strategy in progress, to be completed this Fall, workshop - October 11 and 12 (UofS)

8. Milestones and Achievements (12-24 Months)
12-18 Months (Sept 2016)
18-24 months (March 2017
1. Best performing haricot bean varieties to remaining 7-project districts
2. Best agronomic and soil management practices for bean production
Target- 20, 000 –haricot bean
Sustainable local community haricot bean seed system established in 8 districts
Target 1- union, 10 primary, 500 producers

9. Milestones and Achievements (0-12 Months) Cont’d
Objective 3
Process monitoring/ Measurements for nutrition program intervention completed (100%)
Test markets 15 districts (covering consumers) buy ready-to-eat pulse incorporated complimentary food products and other foods for young children and families completed
Consumers in Rural areas (covering all 15 districts 15,000 households by phytate-reduced pulse flours and prepare phytate reduced pulse incorporated complementary food products and other foods
Women’s cooperatives sell flour products in line with gender strategy
Milestones and Achievements (0-12 Months) Cont’d

10. Milestones and Achievements (0-12 Months) Cont’d
Objective 4- Gender
Specialized training in finance, marketing, & value chain to address the needs of poor rural female farmers least 3-women leaders from each of the 15 districts trained
At least one women’s cooperative in each kebele (total of 60) for joint learning, negotiations and marketing their pulse based products operationalized and functionalized
What support is needed to achieve?
Milestones and Achievements (0-12 Months) Cont’d

11. Milestones and Achievements (0-12 Months) Cont’d
Objective 5- Communication
Publications of success stories and key scaling-up strategies for overall project developed
Published manuscripts, etc
Milestones and Achievements (0-12 Months) Cont’d

12. Ongoing Activities-
Activities, though not included in the currwnt milestones, reports are required for each reporting period
Ongoing research
Graduate students, faculty reports by 30 month
Scaling-up strategies
Business models
Communication-*
Monitoring & evaluation- Team*
Stories from the field

13. Groups What are the key Milestones to be addressed? What action plan?
What resources may be needed?
What Key lessons learned yesterday that may influence current strategies?
New group members, how do they fit?

14. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Reaching 70, 000 farmers, 135,000 households!!
Partnerships for scaling up sustainability
International- linkage
National
Local
Are there missing entry points!

15. Thank you Ameseginalehu

16. Acknowledgement
The aid of grant is provided by the International Development Research Center, Ottawa, Canada and with financial support from the Government of Canada, provided through Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD),