1. Africa RISING comms Ewen Le Borgne (ILRI) 03 January 2014 - West Africa Review & Planning meeting

2.  Capture, publish, disseminate  Engage with wide audiences  Enrich learning, interaction and exchange  Translate outputs into outcomes  Help improve internal communication (connecting teams) What we do…

3.  WA: Agathe Diama (Mali) / Faith Afolabi (Ghana)  ESA: Faith Afolabi (Malawi, Tanzania), Catherine Njuguna (Tanzania & program level)  ET : Simret Yasabu, Ewen Le Borgne  Program level: Simret Yasabu, Peter Ballantyne & Ewen Le Borgne, Catherine Njuguna, Faith Afolabi Come to us for advice, stories, templates, photos, presentations, travel plans, activity updates, outputs! Who we are

4.  Our website to publish stories and results  Our wiki to cooperate internally  Our Yammer to converse and share information  Our CG Space collection to curate our outputs  Slideshare and FlickR for presentations, posters photos  Our Google calendar to display most important events (wiki list of events for the full overview) What we use

5. Our website Where we share news, updates and announcements for the wider public

6. Our wiki Where we collaborate, plan, share documents in their early stage, organize events, report activities etc.

7. Our Yammer Where we share information and converse…

8. Our collection of outputs on CG Space Where we harvest and curate final outputs / products

9. Our presentations and posters on Slideshare Where we share presentations and posters

10. Our pictures on FlickR Where we share – and find – photos and images

11. Our Google calendar Where you can see upcoming events

12.  Align comms with research (plans and actions) But we have comms plans  Develop strong offline comms activities too  Collect content / stories to let USAID and others know what is going on  Follow our branding guidelines (one identity!)  Get all of us to share information (Yammer, phone) to learn from and improve this program together! Our challenges…

13.  The program framework  All events (wiki / calendar) documented  All templates (presentations, documents etc.)  The history of the projecthistory of the project  Key contacts (and what they do)  Overview of the regions (work in progress)  Communication plans  Branding guidelines  And more to come… with your help? Some gems you can find…

14. List of all the tools: http://africa-rising.wikispaces.com/comms_toolshttp://africa-rising.wikispaces.com/comms_tools Our website: http://www.africa-rising.nethttp://www.africa-rising.net Our wiki: http://africa-rising.wikispaces.com/http://africa-rising.wikispaces.com/ Our Yammer: https://www.yammer.com/africa-risinghttps://www.yammer.com/africa-rising Our outputs on CG Space: http://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/16498 http://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/16498 Our presentations on Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/africa- risinghttp://www.slideshare.net/africa- rising Our pictures on FlickR: http://www.flickr.com/photos/africa-risinghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/africa-rising Our calendar: http://goo.gl/2m56L or http://africa- rising.wikispaces.com/Calendarhttp://goo.gl/2m56Lhttp://africa- rising.wikispaces.com/Calendar Our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCLZXIdq9v2SQOoOfCr0_w9ZdkovX5zqv https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCLZXIdq9v2SQOoOfCr0_w9ZdkovX5zqv Sign up for news alerts by email Sign up for publications alerts by email Useful links

15. Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation africa-rising.net