Group 1

• Amhara• Oromia• Benshangul• Research• University• Donor• CGIAR• No Federal?

Program ideas

Boundary conditions

• 1 mill. USD

• Short time

• BNB

Program Topic

1. Enhancing Community Based Integrated RWM

2. Ensuring Sustainable Adoption of Best Practices of RWM

3. Validation and Scaling out of Best Practices of RWM

Validation and Scaling out of Best Practices of RWM

Beneficiaries

• Direct beneficiaries – Farmers in the basin (poor, women, unemployed)– Community based service providers and self-help

groups

• Indirect beneficiaries – Private enterprises involve in the value chain

system– Input and credit service providers– Extension

Approach

Grass Root Level Capacity

Development and

Empowerment

Local knowledge integration

Need assessment

Establishing baseline

Community play role of facilitation of processes by themselves

• Planning: • community and stakeholder participation (bottom-up)

• Implementation: • FREG, participatory learning /action research, test sites

Strengthening grass root organizations/institutions

Issues to be addressed in the program

• Knowledge gap of implementers• No real participation of the community • Inadequate Research-extension linkage • No strong/well established input delivery system –

technology products and supporting inputs• Poor value-chain for market • Role of credit and extension services

Main activities 1. Community empowerment

Organize and legalize community organizations and user groups (considering social strata or typology)

Equip with communication facility, learning tools Application of learning tools – (WAT-a-GAME,

participatory learning) Train and empower the community for decision

making on resources management, grant management, leadership, facilitation and ownership of processes

2. Capacity development Training main actors – DAs, watershed

committee, etc Empower regulatory functions –enforce rules Experience sharing Strengthening facilities

Boundary conditions

• 1 mill. USD• Short time• BNB

3. Linkage and cooperation – engage in planning, implementation, M&E Strengthen platforms at different levels

4. Value-chain system Organize actors in the value chain – input, product Strength marketing system

5. Research and extension Selection of technologies and best practices – WHAT?

and WHERE? Action research (and validation) Scaling out Process and impact monitoring

• M&E and learning – Quarterly reporting – Participatory M&E • Establish Community based M&E – eg. FREG, • Joint supervision and monitoring by actors/stakeholder

platforms• Application of participatory M&E methods/models

• Communication – Platforms – Learning tools – WAT-a-Game– FREG– Field days– Radio or mobile technology

• Stakeholder coordination– Platforms