Project+progress+workshop+-+Nov+2012

=MilkIT Progress Meeting 1=

Date: 28-29/11/2012 Place: Almora, India Venue: Kasaar Jungle Resort (@http://www.kasaarjungleresort.com/) lat 29.643533°, lon 79.661506°, alt 1930m

**Day 1**

 * ===#=== || ===Name=== || ===Organization=== || ===Location=== || ===Country focus=== ||
 * 1 || Alan Duncan || ILRI || Addis Ababa, Ethiopia || Tanzania and India ||
 * 2 || Brigitte Maass || CIAT || Nairobi, Kenya || Tanzania ||
 * 3 || Ben Lukuyu || ILRI || Nairobi, Kenya || Tanzania (and some India) ||
 * 4 || Fred Wassena || ILRI || Morogoro || Tanzania ||
 * 5 || Germana Laswai || SAU || Morogoro || Tanzania ||
 * 6 || Julius Bwire || TALIRI || Tanga || Tanzania ||
 * 7 || Walter Mangesho || TALIRI || Tanga || Tanzania ||
 * 8 || Nils Teufel || ILRI || Delhi || India ||
 * 9 || Thanammal Ravichandran || ILRI || Almora || India ||
 * 10 || Sanjay Saxena, district assistant manager || Ajeevika/IFAD || Almora || India ||
 * 11 || Shankar Samant, finance & cap building manager || Ajeevika/IFAD || Almora || India ||
 * 12 || Harinder Sijwali, field facilitator/coordinator || CHIRAG || Bageshwar || India ||
 * 13 || Bhupendra Rana, field coordinator || INHERE || Masi || India ||
 * 14 || Jagwat Rawat, field coordinator || INHERE || Masi || India ||
 * 15 || Shankar Devtalla, field coordinator || INHERE || Masi || India ||
 * 16 || GC Pant, Project officer || INHERE || Almora || India ||

**Day 2**
Standing from left: T. Ravichandran, B.L. Maass, B.S. Rana, J. Rawat, S. Samant, J. B.Singh, L. Tiwari, W. Mangesho, A. Duncan, K. Thapiyal, N. Teufel, B. Pant, G.C. Pant, S.Joshi Sitting from left: G. Laswai, S. Devtalla, J. Bwire, B. Lukuyu, F. Wassena, H. Sijwali
 * ===#=== || ===Name=== || ===Organization=== || ===Location=== || ===Country focus=== ||
 * 1 || Alan Duncan || ILRI || Addis Ababa, Ethiopia || Tanzania and India ||
 * 2 || Brigitte Maass || CIAT || Nairobi, Kenya || Tanzania ||
 * 3 || Ben Lukuyu || ILRI || Nairobi, Kenya || Tanzania (and some India) ||
 * 4 || Fred Wassena || ILRI || Morogoro || Tanzania ||
 * 5 || Germana Laswai || SAU || Morogoro || Tanzania ||
 * 6 || Julius Bwire || TALIRI || Tanga || Tanzania ||
 * 7 || Walter Mangesho || TALIRI || Tanga || Tanzania ||
 * 8 || Nils Teufel || ILRI || Delhi || India ||
 * 9 || Thanammal Ravichandran || ILRI || Almora || India ||
 * 10 || Sanjay Saxena, district assistant manager || Ajeevika/IFAD || Almora || India ||
 * 11 || Harinder Sijwali, field facilitator/coordinator || CHIRAG || Bageshwar || India ||
 * 12 || Bhuwan Pant, field coordinator || CHIRAG || Bageshwar || India ||
 * 13 || Kuldeep Thapiyal, team leader || CHIRAG || Simial || India ||
 * 14 || Lalit Tiwari, field facilitator || CHIRAG || Bageshwar || India ||
 * 15 || Bhupendra Rana, field coordinator || INHERE || Masi || India ||
 * 16 || Jagwat Rawat, field coordinator || INHERE || Masi || India ||
 * 17 || Shankar Devtalla, field coordinator || INHERE || Masi || India ||
 * 18 || GC Pant, Project officer || INHERE || Almora || India ||

Meeting purpose
- To review project progress - To plan activities for year 2 (2013) - To think about opportunities for cross-country synergies - To think about engagement with IFAD country teams

=Programme=

Tue 27 Nov 2012
Report against each sub-activity and review extent to which deliverables have been met || ||  ||
 * ~ Activity ||~ Who? ||~ Time ||~ Notes ||~ ===Presentations=== ||~ ===DiscussionNotes=== ||
 * = **Preliminaries** ||  ||   ||
 * Arrive and register ||=  ||= 12:00 ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Lunch ||  || 13:00 ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Introductions ||= Alan ||= 14:00 || Ice breaker ||  ||   ||
 * Welcome || Indian hosts (INHERE, CHIRAG, IFAD) || 14:15 || Brief words of welcome from local hosts. ||  ||   ||
 * Introducing the MilkIT project ||= Alan ||= 14:30 || Alan || [[file:Alan Duncan - MilkIT introductory presentation.pptx]] ||  ||
 * = **Progress Review** ||  ||   ||
 * Component 1. Institutional strengthening - India || Nils & Thanammal || 14:45 || Presentation from India with discussion.
 * Tea ||  || 16:30 ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Component 1. Institutional strengthening - Tanzania || Brigitte & Julius || 16:45 || Presentation from Tanzania with discussion. Report against each sub-activity and review extent to which deliverables have been met || [[file:PROGRESS OF THE MILKIT PROJECT IN TANZANIA_blm1.pptx]] || [[file:CoordMeetDiscNotesDay1_121127_v2_Tanzania_Comp1.pptx]] ||
 * Close ||  || 18:30 ||   ||   ||   ||

Evening: Workshop Dinner
Feedback around the fire: Discussions on innovation platforms and partner involvement: Strong contrast between India and Tanzania • Indian partners and IPs are very local with wide local involvement with many activities and institutions (including IFAD) • Tanzania has very good links to upstream institutions, less to IFAD • Reflected in site selection • Ben: IFAD has an activity area in the north (Manyari), which is included in AfricaRising (USAID FtF Africa), where MilkIT activities could be replicated. • Presentation of draft developed in the afternoon (see file) • This will be the basis for partner work plans with budgets and time-sheets • Got some additional suggestions • So far only the current issues (site selection) have been discussed • Will carry on with planning on 30th
 * Morning discussion**
 * Workplan 2013 India**
 * Workplan 2013 Tanzania**

Wed 28 Nov 2012

 * ===**Activity**=== || ===**Who?**=== || ===**Time**=== || ===**Notes**=== || ===Presentations=== || ===DiscussionNotes=== ||
 * **Continue with reporting** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Innovation platforms - India || Nils || 09:00 || First experiences with dairy value chain innovation platform meetings || [[file:MilkIT_ProgMeetAlmora_121127_India_v4_IP.pptx]] || [[file:CoordMeetDiscNotesDay2_121128_v2_India_IP.pptx]] ||
 * Components 2 & 3. Knowledge Sharing - India || Nils || 10:00 || Household survey, constraint analysis, advisory council || [[file:MilkIT_ProgMeetAlmora_121127_India_v4_Comp2and3.pptx]] || [[file:CoordMeetDiscNotesDay2_121128_v2_India_Comp2and3.pptx]] ||
 * Tea ||  || 10:30 ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Components 2 & 3. Knowledge Sharing - Tanzania || Brigitte & team || 10:45 || Regional dairy platform (Tanga), selection of activity sites || [[file:PROGRESS OF THE MILKIT PROJECT IN TANZANIA_blm23.pptx]]

|| || by component || India: Tanzania: ||  ||
 * **Looking ahead** ||  ||   ||
 * Review of proposed Year 2 activities || Alan || 12:45 || Looking at the original GANTT chart ||  || [[file:CoordinationMeetingDay2_121128_v2_Workplans_Alan.pptx]] ||
 * Lunch ||  || 13:00 ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Planning Year 2 activities ||  || 14:00 || Country teams begin to flesh out Year 2 activities
 * Tea ||  || 16:00 ||   ||   ||   ||
 * **Synthesis** ||  ||   ||
 * Reporting back on planned Year 2 activities ||  || 20:00 ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Cross regional capitalization || Alan || 21:00 || Discussion on aligning activities between countries ||  ||   ||
 * Close ||  || 21:30 ||   ||   ||   ||

Thu 29 Nov 2012

 * Field visit**: Tana hamlet (N 29.7396° E 79.7649°, 1173m), Kolseer village, Saing mid-cluster, Bageshwar

The village is 65 km from the hotel, it take 2-2.5 hrs to reach village. The field visit will be with following exposures
 * Mixed farming system
 * Livestock management
 * cropping pattern
 * Feeding system (community forest management, grassland, CR, tree fodder etc)
 * Marketing innovation- Federation (SHG-self help group) based marketing

Groups will be formed to test the PRA section (village characterisation) of the FEAST tool. Lunch organised by local self-help group, led by Gita Bisht)

Next steps: Picking up any actions required to move things forward (Alan) Feedback round: • Good field trip, had enough time, FEAST test was useful • Good meeting, despite some of the unstructured discussions there was lots of substance. Moved forward a lot. • Year 2 will now be for action research with farmers and markets. • Year 3 will then focus on how to move the lessons out. • Thinking about impacts all along the project (should we think about impact pathways) • An important partner for out-scaling would be IFAD. • Learnt a lot from the Indian team; some of the things we can apply in Tanzania • For the Indian team it was especially interesting to hear about the existing Tanga platform. • For instance, registration of innovation platform to make it sustainable. • Interesting to see how the same principle can lead to different pathways, but maybe to a similar final outcome. • The cultural exposure was impressive. • First time in India; really interesting, especially in mountain area, with contacts to local women. • Fodder conservation was very impressive (stacking of hay). In Tanzania there is very little storage of animal feed. • Thanammal will get some videos on fodder conservation (from Ajeevika or Chirag). • Establishment of platforms at the field level requires a technical person based at the site to link to the higher-level platform. • Brainstorming on sustainability is needed, even when trying to speed up. • In Tanzania there is very little existing farmer self-organisation. Farmers need to be sensitised to the benefits for grouping themselves for the local innovation platforms. • Was amazed to find no feed troughs for livestock; lots of wastage. • This would be a good entry point for innovation platforms. • Thanks – achieved a lot • Great team
 * In the afternoon** concluding session at KVK Kaflikheer:
 * Alan**
 * Ben**
 * Thanammal**
 * Brigitte**
 * Germana**
 * Julius**
 * Walter**
 * Alan**

African team returns to Almora. FEAST team remains in Kaflikheer.

Fri 30 Nov 2012
FEAST team (Kaflikheer) (see also:Feed assessment) Brief introduction to FEAST (Ben Lukuyu); Discuss experiences of FEAST from day before and test individual hh section of FEAST tool in village (Janotipalari, Dewaldar).

African group leave from Almora at 11:00h - have lunch in Kathgodam (Udupiwala)

Sat 01 Dec 2012
FEAST team assesses the individual hh section and adapts it to the Indian context.

Training and assessments continue until Monday lunch time.