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=**LIVES planning Workshop July 11- 12, 2012**=

Regional feedbacks for each region is put on the respective regional pages on the left corner of this page ( eg. LIVES planning workshop- Oromia).

General feedback for the all four regions include
 * 1) Researches and universities in each region should be considered at the regional capacity of staff
 * 2) Areas to visit; East Asian countries like Thailand should be considered
 * 3) In what areas do you want to work with universities in LIVES? Eg. MSc trainings at the universities; students can also use the ILRI laboratory. So how do you plan to work with universities?

Discussion points/questions are:
 * Buzzz Group discussions- Monitoring and Evaluation**
 * 1) One question
 * 2) One most promising development outlet
 * 3) One Urgent diagnostic research issue
 * 4) One Improvement to the approach

Feedback from buzz Groups!

1- Is the project too much research focused? 1- The process of research- how many years does this take to scale out to farmers 2- we need package documents for farmers 3- why adoption of technolgies are not made by farmers 4- we need more detail on the appraoch 1- What is the contribution of thoses thesis in improving development activities 2- reearch outputs need to be organized and packaged to dissimnate to users 3- identifying of limiting factors inorder to increase production and productivity of identified commodities 4- to clearly capture the modalities on how to link research and dvelopment activities 1- how are you plannign to use the technolgoies developed by RARIS? 2- working manuals 3- technolgy transfer system/ service deliver issue 4- LIVES has to follow Farmer participatory group 1- what is the basic relationship between monitoring and resesarch 2- major indicators to impact assessment 3- what diagnostic is planned to check to the attitude of the community 4- participatory monitoring approach- what is it?? 1- AGP plans to adress the highly potential area, PSNP the food insecure- what does LIVES plan 2- Using Mass media 3- Diagnostic research that adress problem of post harvest practices 4- the approch should start practically from grassroot level 2- Results desimnation adresses only limited actors, other outlets like local languge packages, demonstration, field days, reports, thesis should be shared 3- know why similar interventions did not bring impact 4- What is the actual added value of breaking the outpts, outcomes,....? 1- how can we take a lesson of KM in mainstreaming it to extension system and what will the new project do? 2- training directly to the benificiaries, use radio 3- have farmer group research diagnostic approach 4- not discussed 1- from which country is this project approach is drivien. how many countires have benefited, what are the major constraints faced? 2- Irrigation development is promissing outlet. 3- whiy technolgy adoption in the country is slow 4- project planning, implemenation.... should be participatory from grassroot level 1- do you think wokring papers and other may reach other targets groups such as farmers, policy makers? 2- radios 3- if vertical and horiziontal linkage of public and private service providers are diagnosed 4- we would like you to add to check whether the method of monitoring and learning method involve the private, extension and farmers and helps you to reach them. 1- what are the major contents and ways of dissimination of working papers 2- better water useage efficeincy 3- gender mainstreaming framework 1- what are the pecular features of action research 2- working documents of good practices 3- why gender mainstreaming is not effficent in ethiopia 4- the need to establish strong commodity value chain based approach 1- how do you assess the target group farmers benefited from the LIVES 2- the local radios on local languges 3- public and private linkages on input supply 4- participatory approach which integrates all stakeholders 1- what type of participatory communication strategy will you emply? 2- what other rather than printed materials? 3- what intervention will you design if you face a change in the intervention strategies than you planned? 4- clearly indicate how participatory monitoring mechansims are designed 1- Why is diagnostic ? 2- guidelines for DAs for admins especially for irrigations 3- market problem - how is it entertained 4- simmilar with the other groups 1- briefly elaborate on logic model and performance chain 2- promotion of best achivements on the local radio to farmers 3- dairy fruits and vegetables analysis in targeted zones 4- scaling out of practices and achievements from LIVES to the more than 550 woredas 1- in Which area do you want to focus on the M& E training 2- poster, booklet, brouchers in local lnaguges extracted from working papers 3- capacity at all levels 4- use participatory appraoches at all levels 1- how is the logic model applied in monitionring 2- demonstration and publication 3- improved use of water use efficiency 4- participation of partners at state/district level

Feedback from Dr Berhanu on the buzz group questions/ comments
 * LIVES is not all about research.The research is meant to support the development. When interventions are implemented we super impose action resarch and finally we do assessment. Research is meant to facilitate the development
 * All our monitoring and documentation are going to be based on participatory approaches. Research will combine qualitative and quantitative approaches
 * the logic model is important to plan the implementation and management of the project. It shows the linkages between activities, output.... it also helps in pointing out our gaps in between.
 * LIVES, AGP, PSNP- we try to collaborate with AGP in terms of capacity building. We avoided overlap of AGP sites and LIVES site, but then share results and interact, involve in capacity building...
 * How we reach policy makers is involving them in learning and advisory groups. Reach people through briefs, one to one communication
 * Most of the reasearch we do is diagnostic. If we are development oriented, what we need is action reseach. We then come out with lessons.

Comments by Simon Langan
 * Interest of the Ministry to work on irrigation is huge.
 * Case studies on agricultural water solutions in Ethiopia and experiences from them shows that there are various bottlenecks on the uptake, issues of pump and associated costs (eg. Tax), maintenance and spare parts provision
 * IFAD sponsored learning alliance experience, which we can learn from
 * Experiences from somewhere in Mekelle, the dam damage, and the wasted potential
 * The CRPs interst in water and ecosystem and their component in irrigation ( smallholder) good research outputs are expected from these
 * There are a lot of information and knowledge from different sources, FAO funded projects,
 * the use of mobile phones... as a way to send and collect information... are powerful instruments to use to transfer information


 * Buzz Group Discussions- Promotion/ Scaling Out- Discussion points**

1. What are teh two best tools to promote LIVES results and learning 2. What are the two best ways to link LIVES to government and other R&D actors to scale out and promote results?

Feedback from the Buzz groups

1- To use electronic media such as EAP, to use experince sharing- farmer to farmer, expert to expert, region to region 2- To plan implement and monitor and give feedback of all activities to regional committees that evaluate activities are there in each region; to sterngthen the learning and advisory committees at all levels as it was done in IPMS 1- Experience sharing, publications (posters, papmphets...) 2- sign memorandum of understanding with actors 1- experince sharing and printed materials 2- jointly plan the activities before starting; through workshop and consultative meetings 1- Printed materials, audio/vidieo; Expeince sharing, 2-strengtheing different platforms at different levels 1- Media, farmer field days, expience sharing 2- joint stakholder meetings 1- radio and video 2- creating advisory committees which involves higher officials. eg that involves the prime minster/ higher decision makers, using the regional advisory committees 1- radio and posters 2- Advisory committee; organizing different learning platforms- workshops, field days, 1- documentary DVDs 2- create platforms, exchange of expeinces 1- mass media - local radio, press, journal, e-media, demonstration, field days 2- stakeholder learning forum, consultative meetings, 1- mass media- local radio, posters, bruchueres, farmer days at all levels so that others involve and farmers promote their activities 2- stakeholder platforms, consultative meetings

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