Summary of Participatory Community Analysis approaches and findings in Africa RISING Ethiopia research sites Africa RISING Training Workshop on Innovation Platforms Addis Ababa, 23-24 January 2014 Kindu Mekonnen (ILRI), Solomon Gebreselassie (CIP), Jim Ellis-Jones (Consultant), Steffen Schulz (CIP), Peter Thorne (ILRI), Gebrehiwot Hailemariam (CIP) and Abiyot Aragaw (CIP)
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Summary of Participatory Community Analysis approaches and findings in Africa RISING Ethiopia research sites
Presented by Kindu Mekonnen (ILRI), Solomon Gebreselassie (CIP), Jim Ellis-Jones (Consultant), Steffen Schulz (CIP), Peter Thorne (ILRI), Gebrehiwot Hailemariam (CIP) and Abiyot Aragaw (CIP) at the Africa RISING Training Workshop on Innovation Platforms, Addis Ababa, 23-24 January 2014
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Summary of Participatory Community Analysis approaches and findings in Africa RISING Ethiopia research sites
Africa RISING Training Workshop on Innovation PlatformsAddis Ababa, 23-24 January 2014
Kindu Mekonnen (ILRI), Solomon Gebreselassie (CIP), Jim Ellis-Jones (Consultant), Steffen Schulz (CIP), Peter Thorne (ILRI), Gebrehiwot Hailemariam (CIP) and Abiyot Aragaw (CIP)
What PCA is about and why we did it?
How PCA was implemented in AR sites?
What are the findings from the PCA exercise (present condition/knowledge, site specific and cross cutting challenges and opportunities)?
Suggested interventions based on the PCA findings!
What PCA is about and why we did it?
Participatory Research and Extension Approach (PREA)
Stage 1: Social mobilisation and community analysis (PCA)
Stage 2: Action planningStage 3: Encouraging local interest groups to try
out new ideas Stage 4: Sharing experiences
How PCA was implemented in AR sites?
Organized a training program on PCA toolkits for 2
days – trained more than 32 resource persons
(local and cigar partners)
Conducted field work for 2-3 weeks in 8 AR
kebeles
Involved 30 to over 40 individuals per Kebele for
information collection
Considered 3 separate groups (men, women and young men) for discussion in each Kebele
The discussion with communities in all AR kebeles focused mainly on:
livelihood analysis community based institutional analysis identification and characterization of farmer
profiles/typologies understanding of local farming systems prioritization of food and cash crops/livestock
enterprises for different social groups value chain analysis for priority crops and livestock water harvesting related activities
Produced a report and circulated it for wider utilization: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/33789
Discussed with communities on the possibilities of establishing innovation platforms at the end of the PCA exercises
Livelihoods
Increasing
Buying and selling Remittances, Carpenter Eucalyptus Lentil Labour –working for others
Decreasing
Cow, Goat, Sheep Faba bean, Field pea Sorghum, Barley, Maize Enset, potato
Present condition/ knowledge
Findings from the PCA exercise (present condition/ knowledge, and site specific and cross cutting challenges, and opportunities)
Farmer typologies – link to SLATE
Capital assets Criteria or indicator
Natural Land area cropped
Physical
Livestock ownershipPerennial crops grownAccess to trees (especially eucalyptus)Equipment owned including access to irrigationHouse type
Economic Annual grain production and quantity soldUse of creditLabour hiring
SocialStanding in the kebeleFood security in terms of meals consumed per day