CCAFS Vision of intended impact

• By 2020, contribute to cross-sectoral efforts to reduce poverty by 10%, increasing the incomes of hundreds of millions of people

• By 2020, contribute to a reduction in hunger, whereby the number of rural poor who are undernourished declines by 25%

• By 2020, help agriculture contribute to climate change mitigation by enhancing storage or reducing emissions, by 1000 Mt CO2-eq (considering all gases) below the “business-as-usual” scenario.

Output 4.2.2 Socially-differentiated decision aids and information developed and communicated for different stakeholders

Milestone 4.2.2 2012 Partnership and strategy development for targeting decision support tools.

Milestone 4.2.2 2013

Decision aids developed in selected sites in 3 initial target regions that build on the information needs of socially- and gender differentiated target groups.

Milestone 4.2.2 2014

Decision aids tested in selected sites in target regions that build on the information needs of socially- and gender differentiated target groups.

Milestone 4.2.2 2015

Collation of decision aids and tools for prioritizing adaptation and mitigation actions at national/sub-national scales, with pilot testing in IGP region.

Objective 4.2 Assemble data and tools for analysis and planningOutcome 4.2 Improved frameworks, databases and methods for planning responses to climate change used by national agencies in at least 20 countries and by at least

10 key international and regional agencies

• Social differentiation• Capacity enhancement• Action research• Scalability & potential size of impact• Probability of success & durability• Communicating uncertainty

• CCAFS:– Works through partnerships at site level – Role to provide syntheses/comparisons across sites and

regions (of tools & approaches, results & lessons learnt)

• CCAFS funding primarily through CGIAR– Highly volatile

• Requirement to leverage additional funding• Theme 4.2 resources for partners under this

activity – To fund: seed activities, innovative high risk ideas,

proposal writing workshops, synthesis studies, tool development

– Requirement: partnerships!

Linking K with A Principles

How the research is done matters, a lot!

Identify and involve the knowledge users in problem definition

Innovation systems approach – putting partners first

Boundary Spanning

Build capacity to innovate/support institutional change

Manage asymmetries of power

Baselines• Same tools, methods used across all CCAFS sites and time• To be revisited in 5 & 10 years to measure impact, i.e.

behavioral change (not attribution)• CCAFS Baseline

• Household level (140 household per site): basic indicators on welfare, information sources, livelihood/agriculture/natural resource management strategies, needs and uses of information

• Village level (1 village per site): focus group discussions, socially differentiated, on resource access, organisational landscapes, sources of information

• Organisational level (10-15 organisations per site): provision of services and information to farming communities

All tools and data available at http://ccafs.cgiar.org/resources/baseline-surveys

Implementing in Hubs, or Gender Sentinel Sites – e.g. Khulna Hub, Bangladesh

Home gardens

Improved rice,shrimp vars, mgment

Improved land, water mgment

Climate smart villagesInsurance, seed banks

Ag credit,TenureWomens’ empowerment in agric index

SW Bangladesh ‘Khulna Hub’Theory of Change/Outcome logic

CRP2Sustainable water&land

mgment policiesStrengthened

groups

CRP3/CSISANew rice

varieties & suitable aqua.

species & practices

CRP4Improved

homestead production

systems

CCAFS/CRP7CSA villages,

climate services insurance

Seed/food banks

EXTENSIONISTS <>FARMER COMMUNITIES<>SEED SECTOR PLAYERS<>NGO<>MICROFINANCE AGENCIES<>WATER MANAGEMENT AUTHORITIES<>LGED<> BWDB<>POLICY

MAKER<>CGIAR RESEARCHERS<>NARS<>WOMEN’S GROUPS<>Donor

CHANGES IN KNOWLEDGE ATTITUDES AND SKILLSOne or more of the actor groups have better understand and/or skills in: the benefits and value of new technologies and crop/fish varieties; implications of different land use plans, the impacts of external drivers of change on water resources;

community involvement in water mgment; how to work in partnership across scales and sectors in an adaptive & problem-oriented way

CHANGES IN PRACTICESOne or more of the actor groups: use high level scenario planning; use tools and effective water governance strategies;

improve planning of water infrastructure; use new farm-level technologies, seeds and adaptation strategies; private sector involvement in the agriculture sector including information, finance, markets and inputs; using a theory-of-change-based

approach to NRM to foster rural innovation

Reduce poverty, improve food security and strengthen livelihood resilience in coastal areas through improved water infrastructure , governance and

management, and more productive and diversified farm system

OUTPUTS

OUTCOMES

IMPACT

ACTOR

CRP5Improved water governance & management

Kisumu/Nyando Basin (western Kenya)Economics of Biochar (Cornell)MICCA – East African Dairy Development (FAO, ICRAF, ILRI, KARI, private sector partners)COMART Community-led assets/value chains CARE – carbon payments to smallholdersICRAF – GHG measurement in complex landscapesVi Agroforestry – SLM, carbon paymentsCCAFS Participatory Action Research – with ILRI, Vi, World Neighbours, CBOs, Min of Ag, Min of LS, KARI: training, K sharing, etc in:•Water harvesting•Agroforestry•Small ruminant management•Beekeeping•Seed systems•Post-harvest handling and storage•Fodder development•Participatory crop selection

Lake VictoriaCCAFS Baseline siteCARE, PAR

Pro-poor, pro-women strategiesEast African Dairy Development (FAO, ICRAF, ILRI, KARI, private sector partners) – hub model; training of women; women leaders; joint signatures; payments directly to women

COMART - Community-led asset and value chain focus; working with women’s groups; women’s trainings

CARE/CCAFS/ICRAF – carbon payments to smallholders – institutional issues including strategies for ensuring benefits to women (e.g. women’s trees, women’s groups, etc); evaluating women’s participation and constraints

CCAFS/ILRI Participatory Action Research – Participatory crop selection with women, support/training to women’s groups, others?

Challenges

• How do we ensure the ‘learning loops’ happen??

• We want lessons that are more broadly applicable - cross-site/region opportunities

• Seasonal forecast use; adoption of climate-resilient practices (e.g. improved water and soil management; new varieties; planting trees on farms, etc.), etc.