agrifoodchain_ea2013_Organisers

Organisers' agenda
 * Agrifood chain toolkit conference: Livestock and fish value chains in East Africa **
 * 9-11 September 2013 **
 * Hotel Africana and conventional centre, Kampala, Uganda**

The AgriFood chain toolkit  of the CGIAR Research program on Policies, institutions and markets was launched in January 2013. This online platform on AgriFood value chains is designed to help overcome the information gaps between researchers analyzing value chains and practitioners developing value chains. Both often lack access to the latest information and tools on value chains. There is still need for greater rigour in analysis and better peer feedback. Finally, tool designers need to engage purposefully with tool users. To help crystallize the potential of the online network into real-world activities, the AgriFood chain toolkit will organize regular real-world conferences designed to collate, synthesize and share good practices of value chain tool users, practitioners and researchers.
 * The objective of the conference is to enable a limited number of researchers and practitioners to review and assess value chain approaches together so that they may be improved for a better fit with local field contexts. **

**Organizers' agenda**

 * Monday 9 September**
 * 08.00 Registration opens
 * 08.00 Live coaching for storytellers
 * 10.00 Welcome by Dr. Emily Twinamasiko (NARO) and by Danilo Pezo (ILRI), introduction of the workshop and participants (Ewen Le Borgne)
 * 10.45 Plenary stories: one value chain story, one toolkit story
 * 11.30 Mini Share Fair with posters and (possibly) learning events
 * 12.30 //Lunch//
 * 13.30 Storytelling: value chain story circles to process and synthesize experiences with value chain and toolkit - sharing synthesis. 4 groups of 14 form and hear stories about value chain and then synthesise key aspects that they hear about value chain work and options from toolkit: what seem to be common problems faced? Where/how do you usually find answers to these issues? What could be helpful to add in a toolkit to address these problems?
 * Group 1 (Jo): Stories 1, 2, 6, 9
 * Group 2 (Iddo): 3, 4, 7
 * Group 3 (Diana): 5, 8, 13
 * Group 4 (Ewen): 11, 12, 32, 33
 * 15.00 //Break//
 * 15.30 Learning events: Diving into existing tools and how to improve these...
 * 16.30 Synthesis reflection: How could we develop a toolkit in an appropriate way?
 * 17.00 Close
 * 19.00 Conference Dinner

**Tuesday 10 September**
 * 09.00 Preparing the field trip:
 * Briefing about the field trip sites;
 * Group preparation: What questions may we have for our hosts? What are the main issues around the toolkit and how can we use the field trip to help crack these?
 * Sharing back ideas in plenary and adjusting the preparations
 * 10.30 Departure for the field trip
 * 16.00-19.00 Return from the field trip (tentative timing depending on distance)

**Wednesday 11 September**
 * 09.00 Feedback from the field trip: What did we witness, what are key challenges in the value chains of the site commodities, how did our preparation/questionnaire work, what improvements does this suggest?
 * 10.00 Thorough review of the toolkit as it stands, what it contains and what it could or should contain
 * 10.30 //Break//
 * 11.00 Critical review of possible improvements to the toolkit
 * 11.45 Peer assist cases: how to improve the tools and our approaches around them? Parallel Open Space for remaining issues?
 * 12.30 //Lunch//
 * 13.30 Closing remarks and final statements
 * 15.00 //Workshop close//

Organisers' agenda