strengths_weaknesses

=**Stakeholders’ Consultative Workshop**= =**Addis Ababa**= =**24-25 August 2010**=

=Strengths and Weaknesses of the Proposal=

After the initial presentations, participants were asked to identify perceived strengths and weaknesses:

Strengths of the proposal || Weaknesses of the proposal || || * Enabling environment at national and local levels
 * * Getting out of the box
 * Readiness to change
 * Inclusion of cross-cutting issues in the program
 * The programs cover wide area of specialized and countries - good to start with
 * Focus on small number of value chains
 * The focus on small-holders
 * Willingness to achieve the main objective
 * Meeting demand of major population segment (poor)
 * Focus on partnership
 * Collaboration and partnership
 * The group work
 * Although late in the process, this consultation process is a positive development
 * Partnership
 * Integration of various and divers partners in priority setting
 * Importance and risks of partnerships recognised
 * Partnerships across value chain
 * Market chain approach
 * Focus on value chain
 * Focus on value chain - for sustainable production
 * Moving away from a piece-meal VC interventions and working on value Webs
 * Focus on value chain
 * By focusing on a FFZw... key chains impact can be a...
 * Holistic value chain approach
 * Value chain approach
 * Value chain is being considered in totality and the programme aims at addressing resource poor farmers and specifically farm women
 * The approachs of linking research with development and value chain
 * Value chain concept
 * Attempt to combine productivity drivers' with market/value chain elements (should also look more at processing)
 * The desire to target specific, justifiable interventions in a value chain
 * Focusing on a value chain
 * Address he constrains to specify value chain development
 * CGIAR mp3.7 program is a positive approach to improvement in value chain system involving production of meat, milk, fish and it should bring positive results when it is implemented in right earnest
 * Value chain approach for setting priorities
 * Value chain approach
 * Catalyzing investment
 * The program will be funded from a kind of central source and this will avoid duplication of research work
 * Availability of funds
 * Integrating development process research with technology research
 * The animal source good as food security - areas of intervention selection
 * More focused program. Technology is available to address the issues of productivity enhancement
 * Adress application of new technology to improve productivity
 * Very organized and conducted.
 * Government extension systems may not be strong enough to ensure implementation at grass roots level
 * Need to raise ten times as much money for development to complement the research investment resources
 * Inadequate attention to Trade off producers - consumers long term - short term local- global
 * how to measure resilience of value chain (or risk)
 * What are trade offs
 * M & E
 * Embrapa example research confined to not nec. meet demand
 * Failing to identify key value chain constraints - very likely
 * Better defination of value chain
 * That we can build sustained market chains in countries in globalized world resilent value chain
 * No west African country consider in target country for fish research (geography)
 * Research themes (areas) need to expand to capture policy HRM and product development
 * Consideration of environment was not well covered
 * Getting all essential partners aligned around the value chains
 * Have we picked the right partners?
 * Decision criteria for a value chain to develop
 * Thorough - think through the value chain
 * Not enough reactions on questions
 * Not sure whether there have been enough consultation with other stakeholders in selected countries
 * The e-consultation information and be deferred before meeting lack of consultation
 * Much depends on the market access, linkages and income. The period of 5-10 years appear to be short. This needs to be spelt out explicitly
 * Program period of 10 years in short for the expected impacts
 * Value chains must be developed inclusively to avoid impacts becoming self-restricting
 * Assumption that poor consumers can pay for increasingly available ASF's
 * Defination of productivity
 * Production of food is not going to solve the problem fully unless we are able to develop markets for selling the product
 * 'Causal link' between increased productivity and increased ASF access by disadvantaged
 * No clear idea as to how the MP's are going to be handled by the different CG centers
 * Not clear how this will build on past and curent initiatives
 * Not clear what is new as the innovation system approach has
 * Beyond food security
 * Where are underserved markets of poor consumers in the program?
 * Market opportunities as a driver for productivity improvement have not been adequately discussed
 * The self-sufficiency aspect in terms of addressing the access of the poor to ASFs
 * What will actually be done? Big Hat.....
 * Program concept is too broad
 * Scaling strategy (need refinement)
 * Strategy how to scale out (from the one value chain) is to be better developed
 * Lack of clear strategy for scaling out
 * Concerns about being able to scale up and out. ||