Planning+workshop+July+2012-Amhara

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 * Site Selection-** Justified the processes; who participated; how the selection went; and which districts were selected


 * Actors and Service Linkage:** already identified actors were reviewed- some missing actors and input suppliers were listed down.The regional teams takes the responsibility to update the regional profiles according to the comments provided.
 * Value Chain Development**

Study tours/ Visits- experts from districts, zone and region should involve in the visits. Places to visit include;
 * except honey all commodities have first priority for inputs; for honey production comes first. For the other commodities production comes second and marketing third
 * Women friendly activities- On dairy - pro duction, marketing and processing are women friendly. On honey- management, harvesting, fumigating, plastering, sell of small qualities
 * Capacity Development**
 * For all commodities at regional level capacity is medium because of lack of practical experiences and high staff turnover.
 * To mainstream gender from the region to woredea, capacity is LOW. There are many mainstreaming training, but no one implement the training.
 * Comment**
 * change of attitude is required on community managment of irrigation schemes
 * Breeding schemens again poor understanding and knowledge gaps
 * Zonal AI services- needs to be institutionalized by the zone/ district
 * Fruit and vegetable nurseries- specialize for few people
 * Private group vege, fruits production- would be good to start intervention by involving women in areas like Qoga, initative of the tissue culture could also be supported by the project
 * Private group pullet production- this should work on ranches and multiplication centers
 * Private FTC seedling production- there is some interest on this
 * Private Pump repair- spare parts provision is a gap in the area
 * Comments on Availabilty**
 * Platforms should be created for each commodity
 * Data managment is poor, so project should produce proper formats to come with proper dat
 * Woreda, Zonal Level
 * Nation wide- IPMS sites with good practicies
 * Abroad- should be identified.