session6

=Livestock Exchange= =Session 6: THURSDAY=


 * 16:10 – 17:00 Livestock Impact Pathways ** [Tent]

Quick intro, excerpt from John McD video; 2 slides by Ranjitha


 * Capacity Development
 * Knowledge
 * Gender
 * Communication
 * Partnerships
 * Innovation Platforms
 * Outputs to outcomes and impact

PROCESS: 6-thinking hats Facilitation: Ewen Le Borgne


 * (5 min) Introduction by Ranjitha about this session and how it links with other themes etc. + introducing John McD on video.
 * (5 min) Video of John McD introducing... ?
 * (5 min) Two slides to finish setting the scene for this session
 * (5 min) Explaining the process (Ewen)
 * (30 min) 6-thinking hats about impact pathways: how are we progressing on the livestock impact pathway
 * Participants split in 8-12 groups of 10
 * Each circle of participants has a convener which takes care of explaining the colour codes:
 * Blue: Innovation platforms - think about how impact links with innovation and innovation platforms;
 * Green: Capacity development - where are the capacity gaps and upcoming focus areas for capacity development to reach livestock impact?
 * Red: Communication - how/where/when should we communicate with whom to achieve livestock impact?
 * Yellow: Partnerships - who do we strike partnerships with and why/how for increased impact;
 * Black: Knowledge - what knowledge do we have or need to have (Where are our knowledge gaps?) to achieve more impact - what can we do about it?
 * White: Gender - how do we ensure gender balance and respect in livestock issues to achieve greater impact?
 * The group discusses and every now and then the convener (keeps their hat) asks others to swap hats
 * (5 min) 1 key insight per group - summarised through facilitation (Ewen)


 * TO ORGANISE**:
 * Find volunteers to explain the colour codes and to catpture key insight;
 * (Peter) Find better questions / statements to represent;
 * Organise hat sheets with colours and print them out;
 * Print out the sheets explaining the colour coding and statements;

Collective insights and session outcomes
** Impact pathways link up research and innovation, knowledge and action, outcomes and impact. **

In order to reach impact, we have to integrate all kinds of enabling factors: Innovation, partnership, communication, gender, knowledge management and capacity development all the way along the value chain.  In dealing with our complex issues, we need to harness different skills to solve problems.

For ILRI it is sometimes difficult to reconcile ILRI’s agenda with regional priorities – we need a different approach in different regions. The opportunity is that ILRI is now perceived as global institute as opposed to previous years when it was regarded as an Eastern African institute only.

What do the enabling factors tell us...

Collective insights
** __Innovation platforms (IPs) __ **


 * We have to expand our platforms to the whole spectrum of stakeholders, including (crucially) policy-makers to design innovation systems;
 * If we want to achieve impact we have to work on innovation systems, it involves a lot of people to be engaged and discuss to scale up;
 * Use IPs as mechanism for driving and building partnerships, networks within communities and chains.
 * Build innovation capacity so that it stays behind after projects are over – IPs are a chance to build more sustainable innovation;

**__Capacity building / development __**


 * We need to [e1]
 * Build capacity of researchers and different range of partners.
 * Let’s focus on capacity development of partners in particular, because empowered partners will better implement ILRI outputs;

** __Gender __ **

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 * We have to consider gender equity in all the development process;
 * We should target our interventions to reach all genders if we are to achieve impact.
 * We need to understand gender better (and its contribution to projects) and aggregate and use this information to target ILRI outputs.
 * Special consideration has to go for women __and youth__.

** __<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Communication __ **


 * <span style="0in line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Move localized information or findings more widely to achieve impact using various tools that are sensitive to various audience needs.

** __<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Partnerships __ **


 * <span style="0in line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Identify right partners from the start;
 * <span style="0in line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Involve them right from the start and keep them as part of the process;
 * <span style="0in line-height: 115%; mso-hyphenate: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Give incentives to encourage long-term participation of (in particular dormant) partners

** __<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Knowledge (management) gaps identified: __ **


 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trend analysis from the past until now: What has changed? This would inform us as to what relevant new areas to move to;
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We ** need more examples to know the impact of adopting a certain course of actions ** - evidence in examples is needed e.g. on the cost of labour;
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We still don’t know how come smallholders are still poor while they are supposedly becoming more competitive – and there seem to be no data on current hypotheses and ways of assessing what is available;
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We need experimental and cross-sectional studies to better understand dynamics of value chains/market, even though this may not be possible within CRPs.
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We have to bridge ** technical knowledge gaps in rural areas **
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Put in place learning feedback cycles, so we can always measure and document learning which can then be used to inform future actions/programs

[e1] <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">On what, to do what?

Session outcomes
 [e1] Which ones? To do what? <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;"> ** <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Impact pathways link up research and innovation, knowledge and action, outcomes and impact. ** <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In order to reach impact, we have to integrate all kinds of enabling factors: <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Innovation, partnership, communication, gender, knowledge management and capacity development all the way along the value chain. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> In dealing with our complex issues, we need to harness different skills to solve problems. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">For ILRI it is sometimes difficult to reconcile ILRI’s agenda with regional priorities – we need a different approach in different regions. The opportunity is that ILRI is now perceived as global institute as opposed to previous years when it was regarded as an Eastern African institute only. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">What do the enabling factors tell us...
 * Open innovation platforms to a wider group of stakeholders and crucially policy-makers;
 * Source more evidence formulated as examples;
 * Improve our <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: HI; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">[e1], our understanding of the dynamics of economics and systems thinking;
 * Carry out a trend analysis from the past to understand…
 * Work on technical knowledge gaps in rural areas.