addis_stakeholder_crosscutting

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

=**C**ross-Cutting Working Group Nuggets=

Participants joined one of four groups to help extract 'Nuggets' for the proposal:

Gender and equity nuggets
//Clarify who is referred to by gender and equity. Based on what you know about these fish and livestock chains, please identify the specific gender and equity issues/hot spots (various levels?)//

Women Young Old ||  || Rural/urban Indigenous/Ethnic groups Youth Women - FHH Men PLWHA Socially and economically underprivileged ||
 * **Gender** ||  || **Equity** ||
 * Men
 * Different needs
 * Different roles
 * Different benefits

Dairy and dual purpose cattle

 * Ownership of cattle by women (Africa)
 * Disproportionate share of labor but not benefits
 * Limited access to market, financial resources (land)
 * Decision making power
 * Limited access to information, knowledge, capacity
 * FHH - issues are different
 * Friendly technologies e.g. feed blocks, chef cutters
 * Use a family approach
 * Roles culturally determined
 * Need to harness complementarities
 * Men take over when enterprises get commercialized - impact on household evidence???
 * Pigs in Vietnam - labor from women and children (Education)
 * Small ruminants - lower capital requires - facilitates engagement in enterprise
 * Fish mostly owned by men
 * Women's orgns/SHGs - e.g Honduras, India - milk processing
 * Move away from subsistence - capacity building, awareness - equity outcomes - evidence??
 * Poor - non poor links

Capacity development nuggets:
//What are the skill sets needed among key stakeholders that will and ensure capacities and competencies for successful value chain development?//

Private sector

 * Basic business management skills
 * Social entrepreneurship
 * Standards and regulations
 * Market skills

Governments

 * Policy analysis, development and implementation
 * Technical skills
 * M& E and planning
 * Negotiation
 * Conflict management

NARS

 * Appropriate technical skills
 * Soft skills
 * Problem identification
 * Leadership
 * Communication
 * Partnership management
 * Conflict resolution
 * M & E
 * Scientific reporting
 * Research proposal development
 * Networking
 * Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Farmers

 * Record keeping
 * Group dynamics
 * Conflict management
 * Basic business skill
 * Appropriate technical skills
 * Negotiation skills

CGs

 * Resource (financial) management
 * Soft skills
 * Technical skills and knowledge
 * Value chain analysis
 * Macro and micro economic skills
 * Partnership management
 * Brokerage skills
 * Language
 * Corporate governance
 * Business management skills

CBOs

 * Basic management and administration skills
 * Advocacy
 * Basic technical skills including research record keeping
 * Communication
 * M & E
 * Mobilization and organizational skills

Accountability nuggets
//What would you suggest as the key concrete indicators of success and impact for this programme? (How will we know its working?)//

Assume: leveraging partner resources and investment



Animal productivity production efficiency system (sustainability tech. and econ.)

 * VC performance
 * Linkages
 * TC's and margins
 * Distribution of value, equity, income
 * Employment
 * Actor welfare satisfaction
 * Resilience, risk mitigation
 * Innovation capacity

Research process

 * Correct ID of constraints
 * Short term and long term research output balance
 * Integrated tech and VC research
 * Effective partnerships - multiple level
 * Effective CG partnership
 * Uptake of research outputs, interventions
 * Resource efficiency
 * Learning investments
 * Effective communication
 * Gender strategy and performance

Communications and Advocacy Nuggets
//What type of knowledge should be generated by and for whom (farmers, scientists, policy makers, extensionists, etc.) to ensure effective programme impacts (locally and globally). What kind of new technologies might we take advantage of?//

What do we want to generate and share? data, knowledge, information, news, stories, policy advice, 'knowledge of what works and what does not work'

How do we want to generate and share it? interactive, combining push and pull, multi-directional, quick and easy, decentralized, employing incentives to encourage many to create and share,synthesized and packaged for different audiences, practical and affordable. We want to innovate and employ approaches like crowdsourcing, new technologies etc.

Who are we creating and sharing for? Ourselves (the MP, the VC), many other actors and stakeholders including:
 * consumers, farmers, private sector, scientists, extensionists, service providers, policy makers

What pathways and opportunities can we use? radio, sms, mobile phones and devices, web, print media, one-stop web portal or similar, etc. Important is to tap into others' platforms and services (via specialized partners associated with the MP)

An important challenge/objective is to integrate different information and data types and sources, providing easy public (and MP) access to all of this.

There needs to be a range of capacities in different areas spread across the MP and partners

One question was the scope of the comms effort: The whole VC, encompassing all the very many people involved; a subset of the VC, across the VCs (the MP). Who is 'we' in such an approach? Is there a 'them' we want to reach?