Annual Planning Meeting May 2013

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Date: May 6 to May 8, 2013 in Kampala, Uganda Venue: Nob View Hotel, Kampala/Ntinda: [[1]]

Participants:

  1. Iddo Dror, Head of Capacity Development, ILRI-Nairobi
  2. Francis Ejobi, Makerere University (MUK), country coordinator Uganda
  3. Aklilu Feleke, Addis Ababa University (AAU), country coordinator Ethiopia
  4. Alexandra Fetsch, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Germany (BfR) - country support Tanzania
  5. Reinhard Fries, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (FUB) - country support Ethiopia
  6. Delia Grace, ILRI-Nairobi, Principal investigator
  7. Saskia Hendrickx, ILRI-Mozambique, regional coordinator Southern Africa
  8. George Msalya, Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), proxy country coordinator Tanzania
  9. Kristina Roesel, ILRI/FUB-Uganda, project coordinator and country support Uganda
  10. Francesca Stomeo, ILRI-BecA, Nairobi
  11. Sylvain Gnamien Traoré, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Cote d’Ivoire (CSRS), proxy country coordinator Senegal and regional coordinator West Africa

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  1. Joseph Kungu (DAAD PhD candidate, Uganda)
  2. Washington Ochola (RUFORUM)
  3. Natalie Carter (PhD candidate, Uganda)

Monday, May 6th 2013 – Progress 2012/2013: Risk assessment

Facilitator: Dr Francis Ejobi, Makerere University & country coordinator Uganda 8:45 AM registration 9:00 AM opening 9:10 AM objectives and expected outputs of the workshop (Delia/ Kristina) 9:20 AM recap of major project components as per project proposal (Kristina):

  • risk and economic assessment in five value chains
  • risk-based package of food safety and market access interventions for each value chain
  • enabling environment: pro-poor policy influence and evaluation of effectiveness of policy research
  • enhancing pro-poor and risk-based approaches to food safety through curricula development at different levels

9:40 AM presentation on progress CGIAR research program on Agriculture for Nutrition & Health (Delia) 10:00 AM Coffee/tea break 10:15 AM presentations on first year’s activities and outputs by country: achievements/constraints/results of assessment, new research questions and proposed interventions

> 1:00 PM Lunch break 2:00 PM presentations on first year’s activities and outputs cont’d

3:00 PM Coffee/ tea break 3:15 PM brief progress reports on regional activities in Southern Africa (Saskia), West Africa (Sylvain) and East Africa (Delia on behalf of Erastus) 4:00 PM revisit log frame as a group and discuss successful completion of activities for the overall project 4:30 PM end of Day 1

Tuesday, May 7th 2013 – Planning 2013/2013: Action research (interventions)

Facilitator: Dr Delia Grace, ILRI, Team Leader Food Safety and Zoonoses 9:00 AM prioritization of zoonotic diseases (Delia) 10:00 AM coffee/tea break 10:15 AM group work to discuss criteria for selection of interventions 11:00 AM break out sessions into country teams to discuss next steps 1:00 PM Lunch break 2:00 PM break out sessions continued 3:00 PM reporting back (panel) 4:30 PM end of Day 2

Wednesday, May 8th 2013 – enabling environments/ curricula development

Faciliator: Dr Iddo Dror, ILRI, Head of Capacity Development 9:00 AM introduction Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) by Washington Ochola 9:45 AM introduction on undergraduate training in VPH at Freie Universitaet Berlin by Professor Reinhard Fries 10:30 AM Coffee/tea break and discussion 12:30 PM closing and lunch break