Implementation meeting s asia

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


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.


Title Cross-Cutting Themes

• Gender• Youth• Biodiversity• Capacity building


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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W1&2 W3 Bilateral

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W1&2 W3 Bilateral

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W1&2 W3 Bilateral

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W1&2 W3 Bilateral

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W1&2 W3 Bilateral

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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)




funding


2013 Total funding


Project end date

if not 2013

IDO 6. More integrated, effective and connected service delivery institutions underpinning resilience and system intensification



IDO 5. Better functioning markets underpinning intensification of rural livelihoods





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


Target CountriesDonor(s) for W3 & bilateral

Project end date

if not 2013


Funding - specify amount for each

Target Region(s) Outputs Outcomes Activity Leader(s)

2013 Total funding

Anticipated Activity OutcomesTime Frame


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


Action Site(s)

Time Frame Anticipated Activity Outcomes

Activity Leader(s)Target Region(s) Outputs Action Site(s)OutcomesLinkage to

Other CRP(s)


funding


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




funding


Project end date

if not 2013

ID #


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

Implementation meeting s asia

Technology

systems research

innovation systems

policy research

cgiar research program

management options

area of production systems

production systems dry

knowledgebased systems