Capacity development, knowledge management, research and promotion

Zonal LIVES workshops

Capacity development

• Capacitating stakeholders to contribute value chain development

– Public sector extension staff– Farmers producing inputs and outputs– Input/service providers (private, public,

cooperatives)– Processing/marketing businesses

Principles of capacity building

•Working with and through partner training organizations

•Focus on the key actors along the value chain

•Integrated with related projects in the same locations,

•Bulk of the training will be aimed at District level

•Make use of relevant training materials

Capacity development Strategy-LIVES

Capacity development – in service TOT training public sector staff

Rapid value chain assessment for potential interventions -teams Participatory market oriented extension – extension staff Gender mainstreaming – extension staff Knowledge management/ICT – extension staff Results based monitoring – specialist staff Irrigation technologies – specialist staff Irrigated crop value chain development – specialist staff Livestock value chain development – specialist staff Environmental impact assessment of livestock and crop

commodities – specialist staff

Training input and service suppliers

• AI service delivery – mass insemination• Para-veterinary skills, • Multiplication of seed/seedlings, animals, bee

colonies• Repair services irrigation equipment• Community management for use of water

schemes and communual grazing land • Food safety

Capacity Development- Key training topics- Farmers

•irrigation crop and livestock technologies and practices •production of inputs such as seedlings and seeds.•marketing of outputs•feed resources development •Post-harvest handling

Capacity Development- Postgraduate training

•100 students fully sponsored for tuition and Theses•100 students supported for theses only•ILRI and IWMI will provide selection criteria to identify suitable students for the MSc program.•will strive to ensure gender balance. •ILRI, IWMI and EIAR staff will co-identify research problems with partners and national universities ILRI, IWMI and EIAR provide co-supervision with national universities

Knowledge Management

Knowledge management is about getting the right knowledge, in the right place at the right time through different mechanisms

Knowledge Management Federal level

Strengthening Ethiopian Agriculture Portal National learning events/conferences, Video production e-extension (Use of ICT: radio, e-reader, mobile phone)

Regional/zonal/District level

Knowledge center development Learning events/conferences/workshops Study tours Exhibitions Field days New IT technologies

Ethiopian Agriculture Portal

EAP contains;• Best practices• Manuals• Research outputs• Packages • Could be accessed

online or offline • Documents in local

language

Agricultural Knowledge Centers (AKC)

AKC will have;• Computers• Internet access• Various publications• Reading and working

area• Book shelves and other

furniture• TV• DVD player• Videos, radio programs,

Posters….

Research in LIVESRapid assessment of value chains and

public support services

Value chain interventions on supply/production of inputs, production/processing/marketing of outputs

Knowledge Mngt and capacity development interventions

Diagnosis Action Impact

RESEARCH/STUDIES

Learning Learning

Promotion for scaling up

• Facilitate project visits by key policy makers and donors

• Participation in government/non- government national, regional learning platforms, conferences and workshops

• Use of mass media

• Publications

• Newsletters• Promotional materials• Leveraging new investment into value chain

development.

Engendering LIVES by

Ensuring Gender Equity Mainly in:– Capacity Development– Knowledge Management– Institutional Dev. & Decision Making– Commodity/Value Chain Development– Adoption of Suitable Technologies

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