1. Cluster, MilestonesProposed list of activities 2015 1.2.1. By contractual deadlines, relevant technical and financial reports forwarded -Writing technical (achievements and challenges mentioned) and financial report (Mid season and final report), provide time line One technical report end of Dec. 2 financial reports per year 1.5.1. By Q4 of year 1, country-specific research and dissemination implementation plans formalized, including an exit strategy. - Alternative dissemination plans - Field days (how many? when)?) -organize farmers in groups, lead farmer & followers ( composition – inclusive of female (this is all how to intensify farmers technology dissemination groups) -Facilitate farmers tech. evaluation event -engage dissemination partners (BoA, NGOs –CRF-2Scale etc) 1250 farmers’ technology dissemination group (1:10) will be organized (50% women) Technology evaluation events (2 field-days/ M&E events per crop per partner) will be organized. Max 150 Demo plots 1.4. Partners trained in N2Africa technologies and approaches (Non degree training) -Conduct training needs assessment based on partnership- (to decide topics of training (about N2Africa project, sensitization on Gender, inoculant technology, ISFM etc), time line? -Identify participants (Who are the participates ? The BoA staff, FCOU, NGOs, The DA ), How many? Time line? - Conduct training, when? - Assess effectiveness of training (in relation to partnership results planned to be achieved) (as part of M & E) Pre-planting training (inoculation, site management…): one per action site Training for DAs, agri. Experts, researchers (on data management & software, N2Africa data tools,…), PPP actors (agribusiness, Technology packages, etc.). Develop Training material (extension materials) -Identify training/extension materials needed ( Manual, Posters, leaflets, radio etc.) (in local language, if applicable?) - Indicate when One production manual/legume crop press (as accessible as possible) TV and/or radio program /crop /center, One poster per crop, Many leaflets per crop (during training, field days), Media TV or Radio programs Capturing events (for ex. Field days) -Organizing TV and Radio Programs for capturing events (eg. Field days) Table 1. Cumulative targets corresponding to milestones under objective 1 activity cluster (OBJECTIVE 1)

2. Cluster, MilestonesProposed list of Activities2015 2.1.1. By Q2 of year 1, N2Africa stakeholder platforms operationalize 2.1.2. By Q4 of years 1-4, stakeholders agree on specific roles and responsibilities across the various N2Africa objectives -Identify Stakeholder platform(s) -Align with existing platforms) -Organize annual regional planning (BoA –main participants, NGOs, private sectors..etc) Note: the main aim is awareness creation about N2Africa project activities and regional partnership development -Evaluate the benefit of the platforms to N2Africa beneficiaries (relate N2Africa objectives with the objectives of the platform) -Undertake Platform actions to include focal areas of N2Africa -Document/assist to document effectiveness of the platforms -Formalize the PPP and embedded other stake holders in the PPP -Identify existing plat forms Engage the partners in dissemination Number of targeted farmers ( directly or indirectly) via IP - Engage the policy makers ( PPP), cooperatives and unions 2.2.2. By Q4 of years 1-4, specific dissemination approach followed -Evaluate the dissemination approach used -Assist farmers to develop evaluation criteria with reference to evaluation forms provided -Evaluate the exiting dissemination approaches by N2A and NARS, BOA -Adapt new dissemination approaches which will be done by PPP,NARS, BOA, and N2A ( Q3) 2.3.1. By Q4 of years 1-4, at least 2 media events (e.g., radio, newspaper articles, field days, etc) per country implemented -Organize field days (when, how many?) -Identify objective for a media event -Identify types of Media events (focusing on the objective of the event-creating wide spread awareness of technologies) -Conduct Media events -Assess effectiveness of the event based on the objective at least one field day/exchage visits will by organized at each implementing areas -Media will be invited during the field day - Assess feedback using assessment tools 2.4.1. By Q4 of years 2-4, household targets (see Returns-on- Investment calculations), for partner-led dissemination activities agreed and implemented, with specific attention to gender -Identify the content of dissemination approach (activities including gender activities). Activities include, demonstrations, adaptations (implemented on farmers plots) how many? -Implement the diagnosis, demo and dissemination activities -Indicate farmers reached and benefits through each dissemination activity (time line: mid or final reports) -Demonstration and adaptation will be addressed through identified partners/IP to address number of targeted farmers 2.5.1. By Q4 of years 1-4, inoculants available through public- private partnerships and/or through local production. -Identify existing sources of inoculants in operational areas -Identify challenges with such sources -Identify specific activities to address for such challenges -Identify other potential sources of inoculants in operational areas -Identify challenges with such potential sources -Identify the need and estimate the demand of inoculants by farmers Identify challenges with the inoculants ( Q2) -Identify partners who make available at local level (BOA, NARS, PPP) Table 1. Cumulative targets per country corresponding to milestones under the dissemination activity cluster (OBJECTIVE 2)

3. Cluster, MilestonesProposed list of Activities2015201620172018 2.5.2. By Q4 of years 1-4, legume-specific fertilizer made available to smallholder farmers by fertilizer companies/retailers -Identify existing sources of legume-specific fertilizers to farmers in operational areas -Estimate the volumes stocked -Estimate the volumes needed by smallholder farmers 2.6.1. By Q4 of years 1-4, sufficient legume foundation seed produced by private enterprises and/or government institutions -Identify the need for foundation seed for specific legumes (based on demand for certified seeds) -Identify producers of foundation seeds -Identify other challenges in the production of foundation seeds 2.6.2. By Q4 of years 1-4, sufficient quality legume seed available to farming communities -Identify existing sources of legume seed to farmers -Estimate the volumes stocked -Estimate the volumes needed by smallholder farmers -Identify challenges in the demand and supply of the seed -Develop specific activities to address such challenges 2.7.1. By Q4 of years 1-2, a minimum number of agro- dealers and other delivery network partners trained in the storage, handling, and use of inoculants -Identify potential agro dealers and other last mile delivery networks in operational areas dealing in N2Africa technologies especially inoculants -Conduct training needs assessment for the agro dealers -Train the agro dealers in storage, handling and use of inoculants and other inputs based on the needs assessment report 2.7.2. By Q4 of years 2-5, agro-dealer and other last-mile delivery networks engaged in the commercial supply to farmers of agro-inputs, including inoculants -Identify challenges in the supply of agro-inputs to farmers (can focus on challenges from agro dealer side and that of farmer side) -Develop specific activities (solutions) to address such challenges 2.8.1. By Q4 of years 1-4, opportunities for collective marketing and value addition for smallholder farmer associations identified -Identify marketing mechanisms among farmers -Identify status and opportunities for collective marketing among farmers -Identify other supply chain performance challenges among actors, i.e. inefficiencies in supply chain, marketing -Develop specific activities to address such challenges Table 1. Cumulative targets per country corresponding to milestones under the dissemination activity cluster (OBJECTIVE 2 cont)

4. Cluster, Milestones Proposed list of Activities 2015 3.1. partners and households engaged in N2Africa activities that address gender inequity Identify activities that address gender inequities, e.g. dissemination packages, capacity building of beneficiaries through training session, selection of lead farmers, study tours/field visits  ToT gender focal persons  Sensitization activities to DA, farmers (women and men), experts, researchers, others  Local administrators 3.2.1. Business opportunities for women identified 3.2.2.Women led businesses agro-enterprise established per country Women let businesses ( e.g. input selling stores, seed multiplication, grain legume trading, seed selling, legume grains processing into other products Women lead business enterprises established (seed multiplication, grain legume trading, seed selling, inoculants distribution, grain legume processing, )  Organize women in group  Entrepreneurship training, accounting skills  Link to micro credit enterprises 3.3.1. Identification of themes and models for women- specific dissemination campaigns 3.3.2. Increased female farmers participation in the overall dissemination activities and active engagement in the women- specific dissemination campaigns Use of legumes inoculants, improved varieties, agronomic practices, model to use: demonstration plots, radio/TV spots, written messages, local meetings with lead farmers or cooperative/association members, specific messages addressed to women at nutrition/ health centers, field days 3.4.1. Validation of prototype labor- saving pre- and post- harvest tools by female farmers 3.4.2. Inclusion of labor-saving tools in the various dissemination campaigns Identification of labor saving tools and technologies, validate tools and technologies, conduct campaigns to sensitize women to use the tools and technologies, Promotional campaigns to use the tools  Identification and demonstrate labor saving technologies for legume production, processing  Promote the technology (sensitization of women)  Linking actors in the processing 3.5.1. Confirmation of relationships between grain nutritional quality and management / environmental conditions Laboratory and culinary Tests to measure nutritional quality of produced grain from different management/environmental conditions  Facilitate legume crop processing and value addition training for women  Sensitize smallholder farmers about the nutritious value of the legume crops  Laboratory and culinary test to measure nutritional quality 3.6.1. Scoping food consumption and diversity for at least 2 Core Countries 3.6.2. Validation of legume processing technologies for improved household nutrition utilized by at least 5000 women Inventory of food diversity per action site, and test of the nutritional value of each recipe Suggestion of appropriate basket composition Table 1. Cumulative targets per country corresponding to milestones under the gender activity cluster (OBJECTIVE 3)

5. Cluster, MilestonesProposed list of activities2015 4.1.1. By Q4 of years 1-4, seasonal research campaigns towards legume intensification and yield gap closure implemented 4.7.1. By Q4 of year 4, environmental and management conditions affecting the competitiveness and survival of introduced rhizobia elucidated 4.1.2. By Q4 of years 2-4, improved legume production recommendations integrated in the dissemination campaigns -Identify the specific research area/issue (researcher managed agronomy trials, diagnostic trial) -Identify location for diagnostic trials (which Kebele, which farmer…) -Conduct the diagnostic trials -Collect information on the diagnostic trials for analysis and recommendations -Obtain the recommendations of the research trials (indicate time lines) -Integrate into further dissemination campaigns and activities -Identify the specific research area/issue (researcher managed agronomy trials, diagnostic trial) - - (at least one longterm researcher managed experiment & one diagnostic trial) -Identify location for diagnostic trials (which Kebele, which farmer…) -Conduct the diagnostic trials -Collect information on the diagnostic trials for analysis and recommendations -Obtain the recommendations of the research trials (indicate time lines) -Integrate into further dissemination campaigns and activities 4.2.1. By Q4 of year 2, major mechanisms leading to non- responsiveness understood 4.2.2. By Q4 of years 3-4, prototype rehabilitation measures for non-responsive soils validated -Identify non-responsive soils (researcher managed agronomy) -Test for non-responsive mechanisms and document the results -Recommend the rehabilitation measures for non-responsiveness -Validate the rehabilitation measures -Identify non-responsive soils (researcher managed agronomy) - (one designed experiment related to P response) -Test for non-responsive mechanisms and document the results -Recommend the rehabilitation measures for non-responsiveness -Validate the rehabilitation measures 4.3.1. By Q4 of year 2, niches for use of legume crop residues within and between farms identified -Identify and document the use of legume crop residues within and between farms (* need data tool development) to be conducted in all implementing centers 4.6.2. By Q4 of year 5, elite strains used for inoculant production for common bean, faba bean, chickpea, soybean -Bio prospecting and screening of rhizobial strains -Obtain new strains (including N2Africa collections) and screen for symbiotic effectiveness -identify proper inoculant formulations (which carrier?) -Produce inoculants using the formulations -Bio prospecting and screening of rhizobial strains -Obtain new strains (including N2Africa collections) and screen for symbiotic effectiveness -Identify proper inoculant formulations (Carrier like Charcoal, Biochar, lignite, organic soil (sod soil), filter press mud, compost) -Effect of fungicides (both spray and seed dressing) on inoculant -Literature review on rhizobia nodulating target legumes 4.8.1. By Q4 of year 2, standard operating procedures of quality control (storage), product registration and application of inoculants used by inoculant producers and retailers -SOPs of inoculants established -Relay SOPs to producers and retailers of inoculants -Train Producers and retailers in the SOPs -Producers and retailers use the SOPs -Set country-relevant procedures for rhizobia -Relay country-relevant procedures to producers and retailers of inoculants -Train Producers and retailers on country-relevant procedures -Setting standard prior to releasing effective rhizobia Table 1. Cumulative targets per country corresponding to milestones under objective 4 (OBJECTIVE 4)

6. Cluster, MilestonesProposed Activities2015 5.1.1. Throughout the project, a strategic M&E framework provides timely feedback to learning and future planning -Identify feedback needed based on data collected and results to be achieved (specific feedback of interest to beneficiaries, implementing partners, etc) -Collect data on all implemented activities and achieved results -Collect data timely, timely feedback to enable learning integrated in future planning (data collected on time and submitted on time for analysis) -Create platform to integrate learning into planning (share results from data collected with farmers, other partners, etc) -Identify feedback needed based on data collected and results to be achieved (specific feedback of interest to beneficiaries, implementing partners, etc) *The performance of technologies (biophysical, agronomic, diseases and pests, Perception of farmers and experts on technologies i.e, profitability, *Feed back on pests and disease * Data on soil properties *Prices of inputs and outputs *Weather data should be added -Collect data on all implemented activities and achieved results -Collect data timely, timely feedback to enable learning integrated in future planning (data collected on time and submitted on time for analysis) -Create platform to integrate learning into planning (share results from data collected with farmers, other partners, etc) on PPP platforms; gender training to be arranged; seed system to be established; on field days -The project website should be updated regularly and serve as a main platform for information sharing among researchers and other stakeholders -Develop very simplified data format and send it timely -Scale up electronic data collection system -Give responsibility for each focal persons at each research centers/universitty and follow/support them -Regular quarterly Reporting of progress to the project coordination group -Establish a steering committee composed of focal persons from implementing organizations which would convene twice a year to evaluate progress reports and give feedback -Field visit and observation of execution of planned activities; compile reports on field evaluation and share among implementers -Baseline 5.5.1. the relative importance of G L, G R, E, and M understood for specific legumes and production environments and integrated in improved recommendations -Document the evaluation results Document the evaluation results (Data analysis, write up and reporting) Table 1. Cumulative targets per country corresponding to milestones under Strategic M&E (OBJECTIVE 5)