1. Africa RISING West Africa Mega Site M&E Activities Summary Africa RISING Project Steering Committee Meeting February 4, 2014; Bamako, Mali Beliyou Haile, IFPRI

2.  Based on CGIAR/DFID/USAID (draft) protocols  Customized to AR and AR Project Monitoring and Mapping Tool (PMT) http://dev.harvestchoice.org/africarising/http://dev.harvestchoice.org/africarising/  To be reviewed by AR team (who should review the draft protocol?)  Will be part of the program framework (PF) (during PF revision?) AR Data Management Protocol

3.  What goes into AR Protocol?  types of data, samples, physical collections, software/tools, curriculum materials, and other relevant materials to be produced during the course of the project  standards to be used for data and metadata format and content (where existing standards are absent or deemed inadequate, this should be documented along with any proposed solutions or remedies) AR Data Management Protocol

4.  What goes into AR Protocol?  policies for access and sharing, including provisions for appropriate protection of privacy, confidentiality, security, intellectual property, or other rights or requirements  policies and provisions for re-use, re-distribution, and the production of derivatives, and  plans for archiving data, samples, and other research products, and for preservation of access to them  Additional topics of interest? AR Data Management Protocol

5.  AR Data Manager (TOR)  Support AR researchers in completing yearly data management plans; help with cleaning, summarizing, and reporting of data products to be posted to the PMT  Support local AR M&E coordinators with timely collection and publication of performance indicators in accordance with AR M&E logframe  In coordination with AR Communications team, assemble, summarize and publish activity summaries (incl. some HTML and multimedia content, photos and/or videos) to Africa RISING "mapping and reporting" platform  Make suggestions for improving the ease-of-use and overall reach of AR web-based platforms  Support AR M&E Team in preparing documents and presentations for key events and training workshops  Participate in the organization of key meetings including documenting events/sessions and preparing reports AR Data Management Protocol