Outcome+mapping+strategy

= **Workshop to develop an outcome mapping strategy for Safe Food, Fair Food 2** = **What is outcome mapping?** Outcome mapping tracks changes in the behaviour, relationships, actions, policies or practices of actors and which can be plausibly linked to the activities and outputs of a project. Conventionally, projects focus on outputs such as the number of people trained or the number of workshops held and so on, assuming that these would automatically lead to long-term and sustainable impacts. One of the main components of the //Safe Food, Fair Food// project is the engagement with regional economic communities in order to facilitate an open dialogue on food safety in informal markets to create a more enabling environment. The existence of a huge food sector that largely escapes regulation and the massive burden of food-borne diseases in sub-Saharan Africa suggest that current food safety policy seems to be neither effective nor efficient. Moreover, there is a tendency to adopt international food quality standards and hazard-based regulations without considering local contexts. But how to deal with informal markets?
 * Why is this dialogue necessary? **
 * Ban or promote them?
 * Adopt a zero-risk/hazard based policy based on perceptions (‘If in doubt, keep it out’)?
 * Is there an acceptable level of risk?
 * Can participation improve food safety?

Objectives of outcome mapping in Safe Food, Fair Food 2:

 * to engage with policy makers in regional economic communities (REC) in order to create a more enabling environment for food safety
 * to engage with universities and training institutions for curricula development and capacity building
 * stakeholders are: decision-makers, informal market actors (including consumers), private sector, academia

Planned activities in Safe Food, Fair Food 2:

 * initial workshop, training on outcome mapping and developing a strategy for each project region (East, West, Southern Africa)
 * pro-poor policy influence and evaluation of the effectiveness of policy research
 * periodical visits of stakeholders

__Initial workshop__ May 28/29, 2012 at ILRI Campus Nairobi, room no. 721

__Participants:__ (and their areas of influence)
 * Dr Dao Daouda, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire (CSRS): Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the École Inter-États de Sciences et Médicine Vétérinaires de Dakar (EISMV)
 * Saskia Hendrickx, ILRI Mozambique: Southern African Development Community (SADC)
 * Professor Erastus Kang'ethe, University of Nairobi: East African Community (EAC)
 * Delia Grace, ILRI Nairobi
 * Amos Omore, ILRI Nairobi
 * Kristina Rösel, ILRI Kampala /Freie Universität Berlin
 * Fredrick Onyango, ILRI Nairobi

The workshop was facilitated by Julius Nyangaga from the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) in Nairobi. T

(as of July 15, 2012)

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