Introducing Africa RISING in the Ethiopian

Highlands

Peter Thorne (ILRI)

Africa RISING Ethiopia project implementation meeting, Addis Ababa, 13-14 February 2013

Africa RISING Program

West Africa – Ghana and Mali East and Southern Africa – Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia Ethiopian Highlands

Tigray Amhara SNNPR Oromia

Some Key Features of Africa RISING

Focus on sustainable intensification of whole system Research 4 Development Development outcomes are important Close alignment with Feed the Future Goals

Food security Poverty alleviation Improved livelihoods Nutrition and Health Gender equity

NutritionIm

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sIndicator d

atabases and tools Impacts on gender relationships

Redressing genderimbalances

Outcome m

apping

Early impact assessmentM & E

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tool

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Compendiumof tools and methods

Compendium

of tools and methods

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Options

Entry pointsResearch

teams

ModelingParticipatory

evaluation

AdaptationCombination

Farm-level

impacts

Sustainability / resilience

DS tools

Meta analysis

Forecast

replicability

Validate

replicabilityScaling approaches

Aggregated impactsIm

plemntation

support

Synthesis

RO 1Situation

analysis and program-wide

synthesis

RO 2Integrated

systems improvement

RO 3Scaling and

delivery

Shocks and stresses

Gender

Policy

Endogenous Driver of Innovation Exogenous

Community characterisation

and stratification

Inventory of current technologies /

practices and their sources

Participatory problem

identification and gap analysis

Opportunities for scaling innovation (endogenous and

exogenous)

Research component 1

Biophysical and socio-economic

benchmarks

Research component 2

Identified market opportunities

Characterisation of specific value chains (actors and links)

Research component 4

Functioning multi-stakeholder platforms

Review of best technology /

management options

Validate technologies / management practicesEx ante modelling /

impact assessment

Research component 5

Scaling: to be developed

Adaptation and integration of technologies /

management practices

Community knowledge exchange groups established

Research component 3

System characterisation and analysis

Community institutions and knowledge

exchange

Markets and wider stakeholders

Outputs to outcomes

“Action research”

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