Overview of the Southern Cluster Partnership: The scope, progresses and way forward N 2 Africa Partnership Meeting 14 September,2015 Beshale Hotel Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tulu Degefu, HwU’s N 2 Africa project coordinator Hawassa University

 Partnership objectives  The scope of the partnership  Progresses  The way forward Outline

Partnership objectives A systematic attempt to facilitate change through joint action Problems in a system can be hard to tackle piecemeal –Scale: –Complexity, Information etc….

Formation of partnership: Changing roles of various stakeholders at different phases

Key result by ,000 farmers in Sidama, west Arsi, Shala, Halaba and Wolyta will have access to improved legume technology package and linked to market Average productivity of common bean rotating crops will increase by 30% and 20%, respectively 25% women participation

Pillars/Strategic Objectives of the Partnership  Nurturing long-term sustainability of

LoI signed….ILRI N2Africa The parties have decided to work together, thus had LoI, which defines the framework for the cooperation The partnership is based on mutual recognition of complementarities and synergies to achieve the projects activities through joint implementation

The Scope: Key partners and role mapping Designing and Facilitatio n of partnershi ps Technical support M&E Grants and leverage resources Evidence generation M&E, communica tion Technical support Develop extension materials Liaise with other VC partners Trainin gs on legum e busine ss, Suppo rt techno logy disse minati on campa igns, Technolo gy dissemin ation and scale up, Mobilize and facilitate dissemin ation campaign s Supply inoculan ts Training s on inoculan t applicati ons, handling, storage and distributi on Channel for Input delivery distributio n and product bulking, marketing Mobilizin g farmers Source of grain legumes Grain buyer, Seed supply (ACOS variety, limited amt) Support trainings on grain quality & grading Communication & coordination

The Scope: Beneficiary farmers  Targeting (25000 farm households By 2018 ) Site and SHFs identification (Coop members) Target Woredas Target Farmer Organization (PCs and Clusters) Total Targets Total Beneficiaries (75% success rate) BorichaSidama Elto Union (Kayo PC) 6,2505,000 Damot GaleDamota Wolayita Union 6,2505,000 Sodo Zuria6,2505,000 Halaba Uta Wayu Union 6,2505,000 Shalla6,2505,000 Target Women Farmers (25% of the total beneficiaries) 6,250

 Capacity Development  A total of 4Trainings (2 by HwU & 1 by CRS & 1 by MARC) on legume agronomy, inoculation  BoA mobilized and coordinated the training participants (farmers, etc)  HwU, CRS, MARC & BoA was responsible for training data collection How far we went in terms of the four pillars

Partnership Progresses  Dissemination (Demo and Adaptation trials)  Demonstration Cluster  We have established a total of 26 demonstration trials for haricot bean of which  10 demo trials in Boricha and Halaba (5 in each), 3 were established at Sodo zuria woreda with Nasir Variety

Partnership Progresses…cont’d While 10 demo trials by MARC at Shala and the remaining 3 were established at Boricha involving coops members (ACOS Keyo Haricot Bean seed )  The red bean variety was sourced from ACOS  All gender disaggregated (25% women)

 Adaptation Cluster  A total of 780 farmers were reached  400 farmers by HwU and 130 farmers by partners (CRS and Sidama Elto Union), 250 farmers by MARC  BoA, the Unions mobilized and coordinated farmers for dissemination Partnership Progresses…cont’d

 Input Supply  MBI with biofertilizer (700+ sachet), Nasir variety from Sidama Elto Unions and other sources, and red bean variety (50kg) from ACOS  Inclusion of red bean variety was the interest of buyer (ACOS)  Input distribution was coordinated…fairly all partners were involved  For example red bean variety distribution partners (ILRI, ACOS, SEU, HwU, BOA) all were involved  The inputs were distributed to individual farmers via their organization Partnership Progresses…cont’d

 Market linkages  ACOS provided red bean variety (50kg) for potential market links  3 demo site at Boricha each with 25 farmers/demo site  30 farmers participated on adaptation trial  All farmers coops member  Taken together, t he synergy among partners is not functioning as expected (a reflection that PPP is new). Partnership Progresses…cont’d

Major challenges and opportunities There is lack of understanding among partners involved (roles and responsibilities) Lack of robust communication among the key partners Country-wide flactuation and erratic rain

Way forward Role mapping to let all partners know their roles and responsibilities So that the platform will really function well –i.e we work together as a cluster not as an individual

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