1. Viv Anthony Mauritius, 1-2 February 2018
Demand-Led Plant Breeding Pan Africa Educators Leadership Meeting DLB current status and phase 2
Viv Anthony
Mauritius, 1-2 February 2018

2. DLB current programme status
Phase 1 extension March-end June USD 170k
Phase 2 to commence on completion of phase 1: July 2018 – July 2012 (3 years)
Target scale: USD 1.2m
Build on achievements in phase 1
Positioned as a phase 2 programme not a new project
SFSA/ACIAR/Crawford have ‘budget allocation’ for phase 2
BUT full formal proposal review and authorization required by all 3 donors
Independent external review of phase 1 performance
Proposal submission deadline 14 February

3. Phase 2 – Overall goal
To accelerate the uptake and use of new improved crop varieties across Sub-Sahara Africa
By……
Equipping breeders to design, breed and release varieties to meet needs of farmers, consumers and their value chains
To connect breeders with seed and food chain organisations to catalyse enterprise and stimulate emergence of markets

4. Phase 2 programme objectives
Continuing professional development and engagement of DLB alumni
Objective 2
Accelerating variety development and adoption using policy and advocacy approaches
Objective 3
Implementation of demand-led breeding in two flag- ship crop breeding programmes

5. Phase 2 – guiding principles for our discussions
DLB community of practitioners
Extend partnerships for reach and expertise
Responsiveness to gender drivers
Connectivity with seed organisations, release committees, food business chains
Inter-African country trade – regional regulatory harmonization
Market research
Performance and impact driven

6. Performance and creating impact
Donors are driven by interventions that improve the livelihoods and nutrition of smallholder farmers
Enterprize, jobs and youth are also key drivers
Performance measurement and impact pathways
Theory of change
Selection of key performance indicators is important
How will we measure our performance?

7. Education of plant breeders How can we measure impact?
Inputs
Outputs
Outcomes
Impact/smallholders
Information
Products
Behaviour changes
People/environment
Training
Knowledge
Know-how
Training module
DLB alumni database
DLB varieties
Smallholders

8. Key performance indicators – ideas?
Numbers of breeders trained (number and as a % of active breeders in SSA)
Numbers and percentage of women breeders in the DLB training workshops
Numbers of trainers (out of total needed for implementation of DLB across SSA)
Number of African R&D institutions with active breeding programmes implementing (out of total)
Positive feedback from DLB workshops
Numbers of breeders connected with seed organisations
Number of breeders producing breeder seed for SMEs to evaluate
Amount of early generation seed produced
Number of licenced public varieties to SME’s
Amount of royalties flowing back to public programmes
Number of national programmes advocating the use of DLB
Number of MSc/PhD programmes with DLB included in the syllabus
Variety release committees change their guidelines to include DLB traits
Number of alumni publishing or promoting information on DLB best practices

9. Education of plant breeders How can we measure impact?
Inputs
Outputs
Outcomes
Impact/smallholders
Information
Products
Behaviour changes
People/environment
Phase 1
Phase 2

10. What was our target for training African breeders in DLB?
DLB alumni
What was our target for training African breeders in DLB?
Total 100

11. How many plant breeders trained?
DLB alumni
How many plant breeders trained?
African breeders  250
African professionals 285  320
Total participants  350
 Includes WACCI 2018 cohort /Kenya IGSS platform participants

12. How many workshops held?
DLB alumni
How many workshops held?
Leading Institution
2015
2016
2017
2018
2018 (TBA)
Total
WACCI 2 6
ACCI 1
BecA/Uni. Nairobi
PABRA 3
Uni. Nairobi
Uni. Queensland 5 19

13. DLB alumni database Name Gender Crop Country Institution
Public or private organisation
Job of job: breeder, supporting scientist, regulatory or government official
address

14. Session 1 Output
Common understanding of the content, scope, and deadlines for phase 2, so you can fully participate in the consultation process to shape the final proposal.

15. Session 2 Outputs
Summary of lessons/learning from phase 1 from your group
Check list of recommendations/criteria to ensure success in phase 2
Principles
Behaviours
Processes
Performance measures
3. Identification of aspects that should be improved based on experience from phase 1

16. Sessions 3 and 4 Outputs
Ideas for activities in phase 2
Assign a relative priority to each
Recommendation for inclusion or exclusion in the programme