introduction (central asia and the caucasus/dr. bill payne)
DESCRIPTION
An introduction to the work done during the Inception Phase in Central Asia and the Caucasus Mountains was presented at the beginning of the TRIP workshop by Dr. William Payne. CGIAR system level outcomes being addressed by the research program on Dryland Systems include the reduction of rural poverty, improved food security, better nutrition and health and the sustainable management of natural resources. Dry areas cover 41% of the earth’s surface and encompass the majority of the world’s poor. Major biophysical and socioeconomic constraints to production systems exist. The strategic results framework advocates new areas of core competency to achieve impact in the four CGIAR system level outcomes. One of these areas is the development of core competency in the areas of production systems, another is the ability of the system to undertake inter-center research and another is that that research will integrate commodity, natural resource management and policy research to improve productivity and livelihoods in a sustainable way at the national and regional level. Cross cutting themes for the dryland systems program include gender, youth, biodiversity and capacity building. It was found during the inception phase that the 5 target regions inception phase meetings produced a significant number of shared constraints, outputs, hypothesis and outcomes. Clear impacts from the desired intermediate development outcomes were also established as well as outputs that are tied to clear indicators of success. Expected outputs of the TRIP meeting being held at the time of the presentation were the production of prioritized work plans to achieve the seven system wide IDOs through the use of the standard logframe template with specificity on sites, outcomes, outputs, deliverables, activity leaders, partnerships and timelines. Better impact targets and budget principles were also to be produced.TRANSCRIPT
The global research partnership to improve agricultural productivity and income in the world's dry areas
Dryland SystemsIntegrated Production Systems for Improving Food Security and
Livelihoods in Dry Areas
CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013
Title CGIAR System Level Outcomes
• Reduced rural poverty;
• Improved food security;
• Better nutrition and health; and
• Sustainable management of natural resources.
• Cover 41% of the earth’s surface• 2.5 billion people – and the majority of the world’s
poor. • About 16% of the population lives in chronic poverty• Major biophysical and socioeconomic constraints to
production systems
Dry Areas
• The SRF (CGIAR 2011) advocates new areas of core competency to achieve impact in four SLOs
• One is Development of core competency in the area of production systems
• This will test the ability of the system to undertake inter-center research.
• Systems research will integrate commodity, natural resource management and policy research to improve productivity and livelihoods in a sustainable manner at the national and regional level
STRATEGIC AND RESULTS FRAMEWORK
CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013
TitleConceptual Research Framework
SRT2: Reducing vulnerability and managing risk
SRT3: Sustainable intensification for more productive, profitable and diversified dryland agriculture with well-established linkages to marketst
Strategic Research Theme Output
1. Approaches and models for strengthening innovation systems, building stakeholder innovation capacity, and linking knowledge to policy action
Approaches and models for strengthening innovation systems, building stakeholder innovation capacity, and linking knowledge to policy action
Enhanced capacity for innovation and effective participation in collaborative “IAR4D” processesStrategies for effectively linking research to policy action in a dryland context.
2. Reducing vulnerability and managing risk through increased resilience
Combinations of institutional, biophysical and management options for reducing vulnerability designed and developedOptions for reducing vulnerability and mitigating risk scaled-up and -out within regionsTrade-offs amongst options for reducing vulnerability and mitigating risk analyzed (within regions). Knowledge-based systems developed for customizing options to sites and circumstances
3. Sustainable intensification for more productive, profitable and diversified dryland agriculture with well-established linkages to markets
Sustainable intensification options designed and developedSustainable intensification options out-scaledTrade-offs amongst sustainable intensification and diversification options analyzed and knowledge-based systems developed for customizing options to sites and circumstances
4. Measuring impacts and cross-regional synthesis
Future scenarios and priority settingLivelihood and ecosystem characterization. Across-region synthesis of lessons learnt from SRTs 2 and 3Program impacts measured.
CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013
Title Cross-Cutting Themes
• Gender• Youth• Biodiversity• Capacity building
CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013
Title Inception Phase• Groundwork for baseline
characterization• Workshops to set
Research Priorities
Common Ground1) 21 Constraints2) 20 Outputs3) 16 Hypotheses4) 20 Outcomes
TitleIntermediate Development Outcomes
• Part of Theory of Change, Impact Pathway and Consortium’s results-based performance management system.
Results Based Management is a management philosophy and approach that emphasizes development results in planning, implementation, learning and reporting.
It focuses on improved performance that can be described and measured while helping individuals to plan, manage and learn more effectively.
• The CRP Intermediate Development Outcomes (IDOs) will play a pivotal role in the system, expressing the ambition of CRPs and providing the building blocks for Consortium-level achievement through the Strategic Results Framework (SRF).
TitleIntermediate Development Outcomes
CRP IDOs are meant to be:
• Informed by and have buy in from key stakeholders• Integrated across CRPs to the extent possible• Fully aligned with system level IDOs (SLIDOs). • Completed by September 30, 2013 for as many CRPs as
possible. • Composed of three 3-year cycles, i.e. they have ~10 year time
lines
TitleIntermediate Development Outcomes(From 20 Common Outcomes!)
The first 4 target direct impact on wellbeing and sustaining natural resource base: 1. More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas. 2. More stable and higher per capita income for intensifiable households. 3. Women and children in vulnerable households have year round access to
greater quantity and diversity of food sources. 4. More sustainable and equitable management of land and water resources in
pastoral and agropastoral. The rest relate to requirements for the first 4 to be realized: 5. Better functioning markets underpinning intensification of rural livelihoods. 6. More integrated, effective and connected service delivery institutions
underpinning resilience and system intensification. 7. Policy reform removing constraints and creating incentives for rural
households to engage in more sustainable practices that improve resilience and intensify production.
TitleTHEORY of CHANGE from Launch Meeting, May 2013Key elements of the agricultural system interact to improve
human welfare and management of natural resources
Impacts from IDOs1. More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas.
2. More stable and higher per capita income for intensifiable households (those above an asset threshold that makes intensification a viable option).
3. Women and children in vulnerable households have year round access to greater quantity and diversity of food sources
4. More sustainable and equitable management of land and water resources in pastoral and agropastoral areas
5. Better functioning markets underpinning intensification of rural livelihoods
6. More integrated, effective and connected service delivery institutions underpinning resilience and system intensification
7. Policy reform removing constraints and incentivising rural households to engage in more sustainable practices that intensify and improve resilience and intensify production
ImpactMore resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas
Outputs• Improved resilience options (components, interactions and their management;
explicit consideration of buffer functions, managing trade-offs between production and risk; nested scale risk mitigation, including incentives to adopt them)
• Tools, methods, processes and capacity of NARES to create and customise improved resilience options to local circumstances across scaling domains
OutcomeNARES use tools, methods and processes to generate and customise improved resilience options for targeted groups of vulnerable households
Indicators
Use of outputs: number and size of organisations using them and their areal and population domains; proportion of sector in targeted areas this representsCustomised options: number of options and number of hh targeted
Resilience index: contextualised multiscale assessment of resilience building strategies at household and community levels (see Marschke, and Berkes. 2006)
IncomeFood
SecurityConsump-
tionProduct-
vityControl of
AssetsCapacity to
InnovateCapacity to Adapt
Greater Resilience
PoliciesEnviron-
ment
Carbon Sequest-
ration
RESILIENCE
INTENSIFICATION
NUTRITION for Vulnerable
Sustainable NRM Management
Markets
Delivery Institutions
Policy
System Level IDO'sCRP IDO Abbreviated
Label
Observations made by IDO Working Group chair:
• We needed to create new credible targets of impact for the new IDOs
• We were cautioned about having too many sites (10 was seen as too many to implement at once)
• Go slower and not try to be everywhere at once • We need more specifics on partnerships including
their roles in impact pathway• Integration with other CRPs is not fleshed out as
much as it could.
Montpellier meeting feedback
GOAL (IMPACT):
PURPOSE (OUTCOMES):
Customised options: number of options and number of hh targeted
OUTPUTS:
1.Improved resilience options (components, interactions and their management; explicit consideration of buffer functions, managing trade-offs between production and risk; nested scale risk mitigation, including incentives to adopt them)
2.Tools, methods, processes and capacity of NARES to create and customise improved resilience options to local circumstances across scaling domains
Resilience index: contextualised multiscale assessment of resilience building strategies at household and community levels.
Use of outputs: number and size of organisations using them and their areal and population domains; proportion of sector in targeted areas this represents
More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas
NARES use tools, methods and processes to generate and customise improved resilience options for targeted groups of vulnerable households
Narrative Summary Objectively Verifiable Indicators
Outputs/activities Milestones
O.V.I.** Region/location
Projects/partners*** Deliverables
Years*
Component 1. Reducing vulnerability and managing risk in NAWA
Output 1.1. Functional innovation platforms established for the design and transfer of improved R4D options in target sites Activity 1.1.1. Establish, monitor and evaluate strategic innovation platform for reducing vulnerability of the agropastoral system in the target sites
Fully functional strategic innovation platform established and supported
1,2,3 Operational strategic innovation platforms
Target satellite site in Tunisia, outscaled to Syria and Jordan action site.
- IFAD-PRODESUD Project (on-going)
- IRA-MESRS (on-going)
-Aga Khan Foundation, Syria
Mechanisms for cross site learning developed and implemented
1,2 Cross site learning activities
Guidelines for planning and implementing community-based innovation platform communal rangelands developed and distributed
3 Best practices guidelines
Activity 1.1.2. Establish, monitor and evaluate an intervention innovation cluster ( water harvesting and use)
Operational arrangements including public-private partnerships for the implementation of mechanized water harvesting packages in the pastoral system
1, 2, 3 Signed agreements among partners for the operation of the unit
- Established rules and responsibilities of community institution
- Legalization of the cooperative/water-harvesting association and declaration
Target satellite site in Tunisia, Syria and Jordan action site
Arab Fund, WLI//USAID, Jordan government, Agha Khan Foundation (Syria)
Hashemite Fund for Badia Development (Jordan)
Activity 1.1.3. Establish, monitor and evaluate commodity-innovation clusters (sheep, cactus, medicinal and herbal plants, small scale dairy processing)
Strategy for scaling out income generating micro-enterprises using (i) available cactus processing technologies; (ii) small scale dairy processing units (women association) in 4 villages; (iii) income generating activities/ HMAP
1, 2, 3 Trainings on milk processing conducted for 4 women groups in 2012 and 2013 Changes in quality and of prices of dairy products produced by women trained in the project. Protocol for HMAP cultivation, processing and marketing Protocol for cactus products transformation
Target satellite site in Tunisia (cactus, HMAPs), and in Syria and Jordan action site (dairy processing, HMAPs).
OFID project (Enhancing dairy processing skills and market access of rural women in Jordan)
Aga Khan Foundation, Syria
NCARE HMAP division PAM program in Tunisia
Activity 1.1.4. Establish, monitor and evaluate an
Strategy defined, CBO’s formed and documentation of lessons learned in
2,3 Strategy defined by 2013 and at least two CBO’s formed by the end of 2013 with
Target satellite site in Syria, Jordan, Tunisia
Arab Fund, WLI//USAID, Jordan government, Agha Khan Foundation
Led By:
W1&2 W3 Bilateral
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Funding - specify amount for each 2013 Total
funding
Donor(s) for W3 & bilateral
Project end date
if not 2013
Project end date
if not 2013
IDO 7. Policy reform removing constraints and creating incentives for rural households to engage in more sustainable practices that improve resilience and intensify production
ID # Activity title Activity description* Target Region(s) Outputs OutcomesSpecific Verifiable Deliverables in
2013Time Frame Anticipated Activity Outcomes Target Countries Action Site(s) Activity Leader(s)
Other partners & % resources
Linkage to Other CRP(s)
Other partners & % resources
Linkage to Other CRP(s)
Funding - specify amount for each 2013 Total
funding
Donor(s) for W3 & bilateral
2013 Total funding
Donor(s) for W3 & bilateral
Project end date
if not 2013
IDO 6. More integrated, effective and connected service delivery institutions underpinning resilience and system intensification
ID # Activity title Activity description* Target Region(s) Outputs OutcomesSpecific Verifiable Deliverables in
2013Time Frame Anticipated Activity Outcomes Target Countries Action Site(s) Activity Leader(s)
IDO 5. Better functioning markets underpinning intensification of rural livelihoods
ID # Activity title Activity description* Target Region(s) Outputs OutcomesSpecific Verifiable Deliverables in
2013Time Frame Anticipated Activity Outcomes Target Countries Action Site(s) Activity Leader(s)
Other partners & % resources
Linkage to Other CRP(s)
Funding - specify amount for each
ID # Activity title
ID # Activity title Specific Verifiable Deliverables in
2013Activity description*
Target Region(s) OutputsSpecific Verifiable Deliverables in
2013Activity description* Outcomes
IDO 1. More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas
IDO 2. More stable and higher per capita income for intensifiable households
ICARDA
2013 Activity Plan - CRP Dryland Systems, Amounts in USD 000'
2013 Total funding
Linkage to Other CRP(s)
Target CountriesDonor(s) for W3 & bilateral
Project end date
if not 2013
Other partners & % resources
Funding - specify amount for each
Target Region(s) Outputs Outcomes Activity Leader(s)
2013 Total funding
Anticipated Activity OutcomesTime Frame
Linkage to Other CRP(s)
Target Countries
Action Site(s)
Action Site(s)
Funding - specify amount for each Other partners &
% resourcesActivity Leader(s)
Project end date
if not 2013
Anticipated Activity Outcomes Target Countries Activity Leader(s)
Project end date
if not 2013
Other partners & % resources
Action Site(s)
Time Frame Anticipated Activity Outcomes
Activity Leader(s)Target Region(s) Outputs Action Site(s)OutcomesLinkage to
Other CRP(s)
Funding - specify amount for each 2013 Total
funding
Donor(s) for W3 & bilateral
Outcomes
IDO 3. Women and children in vulnerable households have year round access to greater quantity and diversity of food sources
IDO 4. More sustainable and equitable management of land, water and genetic resources in pastoral and agropastoral systems
Other partners & % resources
Linkage to Other CRP(s)
Funding - specify amount for each 2013 Total
funding
Donor(s) for W3 & bilateral
Project end date
if not 2013
ID #
Donor(s) for W3 & bilateral
Time FrameActivity title Activity description* Specific Verifiable Deliverables in
2013Target Region(s) Outputs
ID # Activity title Activity description* Specific Verifiable Deliverables in
2013Time Frame Anticipated Activity Outcomes Target Countries
• “Clustered” Activities in Prioritized Workplans to achieve Seven IDOs
• Use of Standard Logframe Template• Specificity on:
Sites Outputs Outcomes Deliverables Activity Leaders Partnerships Timelines
• Better Impact Targets• Budget Principles
Meeting Expectations