Annual+Planning+Meeting+April+2014

Date: 15th – 17th April, 2014 Venue: ILRI campus Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Chair: Delia Grace, project PI Notetaker: Kristina Roesel, project coordinator

Participants:

 * 1) Silvia Alonso, ILRI-Nairobi
 * 2) Max Baumann, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (FUB)
 * 3) Francis Ejobi, Makerere University, Uganda (MUK)
 * 4) Aklilu Feleke, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (AAU)
 * 5) Delia Grace, ILRI-Nairobi
 * 6) Saskia Hendrickx, ILRI-Mozambique
 * 7) Kang’ethe Erastus, University of Nairobi (UoN)
 * 8) George Msalya, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania (SUA)
 * 9) Kristina Roesel, ILRI/FUB-Uganda
 * 10) Barbara Szonyi, ILRI-Ethiopia
 * 11) Sylvain Gnamien Traoré, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques, Cote d’Ivoire (CSRS)
 * 12) Barbara Rischkowsky, ICARDA/ value chain manager small ruminants Ethiopia
 * 13) Peter Ballantyne, ILRI/Knowledge, Head of KMIS

A very few photos



Tuesday, April 15
9:10 opening by Azage Tegegne 9:20-9:30 (Kristina) 9:30-13:00 progress reports by country teams (chair Delia)
 * 1) Senegal (Sylvain Traoré) - Q&A
 * 2) Tanzania (George Msalya)- Q&A
 * 3) Ethiopia (Aklilu Feleke) - Q&A
 * 4) Uganda (Kristina Roesel) - Q&A

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-16:00 (facilitated by Peter Ballantyne)

16:00-17:00 (Erastus Kang'ethe)

17:00 closing of day 1 and group dinner

Wednesday, April 16
8:30-9:00 work on policy brief EAC for presentation to EAC desk (Saskia+Erastus)

9:00-9:10 recap on Day 1 (George+Kristina)

9:10-10:00 work in country teams on draft research briefs

10:00-11:00 plenary discussion on drafts

11:00-13:00 (Delia)
 * why prioritize?
 * science-based prioritization: experiences
 * prioritizing and testing interventions in value chains

14:00-16:00 work in country teams on research briefs (cont'd) and propose a set of interventions
 * draft research brief Ethiopia
 * draft research brief Uganda
 * draft research brief Senegal
 * draft research brief Tanzania
 * draft policy brief East African Community

Next step: finalization in country teams (homework), literature check (whether understandable for non-scientifc audience), formatting

16:00-17:30 plenary discussion of proposed best bet interventions
 * Senegal
 * Tanzania
 * Ethiopia
 * Uganda

17:30 closing of day 2

Thursday, April 17
9:00-9:10 recap day 2 (Saskia+Silvain)

09:10-10:00 (Delia)

10:00-10:30 review country budgets (Kristina)

10:30-12:30 work in country teams to brainstorm on intervention study, timeline and budget (chair Delia)

12:30-13:15 other planning: Tropentag 2014, final synthesis meeting and Tropentag 2015, resource mobilization, brainstorm on joint proposals for SFFF3, joint publications, any other business

13:15 Closing of workshop

Lunch and side meetings