work+structures

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

Presentation by Dirk on the planned work structure

Feedback from audience


 * Why you choose august 2012 to March 2012 as the first year of your planning
 * activities will continue going, its only for planning and reporting year.
 * Activities start mainly in March 2013, and ends in march 2016. so only three years for implementation .would it not be better to start some activities earlier?
 * ITs partly on the experinces of IPMS. In IPMS we started immediately for some of the districts, others started after two ears. This is only a plan. Although the project runs to 2018 it will not be fullblast
 * The duration of the preparation of the time took over a year. Is it not too much? we are ambitious to implement the program but you are taking too much time on preparation
 * on the first year we'll have capacity development. we look upon to the participatory process at all levels. That has not taken place at all levels and we are intending to do this. In traditional research people diagnose for years, but we have to comprise a little bit we are using the action reaserach. We will start some of the activities, eg mass insemination would be done even prior to other activities.


 * Project implementation- the implementer ( presentation summary)**
 * LIVES team will compose of - project manager, research coordinator, value chain expert, irrigation expert, agro-business, communication, Gender, GIS,.....
 * LIVES partners.... Development( Bureuas, NGOs); Rural finance (micro finances); Capacity development ( Agr.Universiteis, EIAR, RARIs, ATVETS, specialized staff, ILRI, IWMI) Knowledge Management ( Agri. office, livestock agency, water office, at all; Radio stations ) Documentation and research( regional and federal universities and research, ILRI, IWMII)
 * Implementation Mode- Joint implementation, research, ownership of results. There will be focal persons; one at zonal, three at regional level (RARI, BoA, BoW) and three at Federal ( EIAR, MoA, MoW)
 * Project budget is CAD 19.5 million. CIDA is making a contribution to a program designed by ILRI. So ILRI contributes CAD 825,000.
 * emphasis is in providing skilled man power trough technical support; which accounts to 50% of the budget.
 * Program operational funds are limited ( 30 districts, 4 zones, 4 regions, federal) - so we need other resources eg. the AGP
 * Some of the many is channeled to development partners, and research partners. Experiences of IPMS on this will be helpful
 * Governing Structure
 * National project steering/ advisory committee
 * National project implementation committee
 * Regional project implementation committee


 * Feedback/question/ comment on project implementation**
 * 1) what communication do you intend to use to communicate with stakeholders, beneficiaries and policy makers
 * 2) From the partner side, there is one thing missed- Marketing and cooperatives as this project is concerned with value chain we should not miss these institutions at all levels starting from Federal
 * 3) The diffrence between the national and regional comimittees and also steering and implemenation?
 * 4) including agricultural univiersiteis in technical committees is advisable
 * 5) There are main offices that are missed which should not. eg. the livestock agency, There should be technical committees at district level as well.
 * 6) There will be more activiities at zonal as from the LIVES, but i see more experts at regional. Should you have more expertise at zonal instead of coordinator
 * 7) there are various value chain programs in the country eg. SNV, EDDD.... how do you plan to partner with such program/ projects
 * 8) In Amhara you have sited BoW, but the mandate of BoW is diffrent- its mainly construction of schemes; irrigation agriculture is handled by the bureau of agriculture. Instead its better to replace BoW with trade and marketing agency.
 * 9) What is the involvement of Women Affairs Office. will they be in the steering committee/ implementation committee
 * 10) Will one gender expert at national level will be able to represent for all the zones and districts? There is doubt that women will be included in the technical committee that will be formed.


 * Responses By Dirk**

in LIVES, more focus is on the use of water for agriculture. The diffrence in the governing structure is that; one is at policy level, the others are technical. Our lowest intervention in LIVES is the zone, Ofcourse there will be discussion where districts come together, which feeds into regional structure. We know that there are some projects are coming. We have to see if there are overlapping places; we also need to see how we create synergies. This must be discussed by each of the partners at each of the regions. Of course Marketing and cooperative agency should be included as well. we have structures at higher level and it is sometmes difficult to get people. Gender is what we call a cross cutting issue, but we should not lose a track that this is not a project on value chain development for women. This project deals with value chain and we try to get more women involvement. True, we need to make sure women get into the technical teams.... To do this, should we discuss with the regional women desks or the women's affair office? Response- in case of steering committee, women affairs office should involve. In case of regional technical committee the regional women desk should be communicated.