Year 2 Planning Boundaries and Principles I. Hoeschle-Zeledon Africa RISING East/Southern Africa Coordinator Research Review & Planning Meeting Africa RISING – East & Southern Africa Project 1-5 October 2012, Arusha, Tanzania

Boundaries: Selected sites in the three countries Research Framework with the 4 Research Outputs FtF Indicators Budget and time frame

Research Outputs: 1. Situation Analysis and Program-wide Synthesis: characterizing and stratifying target communities to ensure that interventions are targeted and appropriate 2. Integrated Systems Improvement: participatory identification of demand-driven technologies, adaptation, effective combination 3. Scaling and Delivery of Integrated Innovations: approaches to effective scaling of technology combinations 4. Integrated M&E

Guiding Principles for Research: 1. Farm hh as intervention domain 2. Sustainable intensification: producing more output from the same area of land while reducing negative environmental impacts and increasing contributions to natural capital and environmental services 3. Stepwise approach towards SI 4. Targeting different hh types which have different resources and livelihood objectives

5. Constitution of R4D platform for cooperation and co- learning: including private and public sector needed to deliver on SI at scale 6. Identification of critical entry points: (i) technologies for productivity enhancement, for NRM, for income generation, for knowledge management, (ii) innovations related to social and institutional arrangements, (iii) combination

Ethical principals: relationship with farmers and handling data provided by farmers data ownership (shared by partners) publication rights (shared by partners with acknowledgement of those who originally collected data)

Issues important to USAID: nutrition gender NRM policies for FS => focus not only on bio-physical issues

Key lessons from jumpstart projects: many effective partnerships in place don’t lose livestock integration out of sight issues with availability of improved legume and fodder seeds awareness creation among farmers on technologies need for capacity building at various levels

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