Final+Review+and+Outreach+Meeting+-+Lushoto+and+Dar-es-Salaam+9-11+Dec+2014

=Final Review and Outreach Meeting - Lushoto and Dar-es-Salaam 9-11 Dec 2014=

Participants
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 * **Tanzania**
 * Brigitte Maass, CIAT-Kenya
 * Fred Wassena, CIAT-Tanzania
 * Julius Bwire, TALIRI
 * Walter Mangesho, TALIRI
 * Germana Laswai, SUA (only in Dar es Salaam)
 * A.E. Kimambo, SUA
 * **India**
 * Nils Teufel, ILRI-Kenya
 * Thanammal Ravichandran, ILRI-India
 * Brama Kant Bhatt - Technical head, UGVS-ILSP
 * Shankar Devtalla, INHERE
 * Padma Kumar, ILRI-India
 * Ahmed Iqbal, CDO
 * **Resource people**
 * Alan Duncan, ILRI-Ethiopia
 * Peter Ballantyne, ILRI-Ethiopia
 * Amos Omore, ILRI-Tanzania
 * Ben Lukuyu, ILRI-Kenya - linking with AfricaRISING in Babati
 * Birthe Paul, CIAT-Kenya - continuation of research
 * Aimable Ntukanyagwe, IFAD-Kigali (only in Dar es Salaam)

Meeting objectives

 * To review overall project progress on MilkIT project and some S-S learning
 * To reflect on project outcomes at the level of:
 * Feed interventions
 * Platforms/markets
 * Use of feed assessment tools
 * To share project results and lessons with the wider dairy stakeholder community
 * To think about next steps in building on project results in future activities
 * To assess progress in influencing local partners in taking up various lessons

Venues

 * **Lushoto**: Highland Park Hotel
 * **Dar es Salaam**: [|Giraffe Ocean View Hotel]

Products
Blogposts:
 * @http://clippings.ilri.org/2015/01/26/milkit-scaling/
 * @http://clippings.ilri.org/2014/12/27/tanzania-milk-association-tampa-and-research-institute-tlri-laud-milkit-innovation-platforms/
 * @https://fodderadoption.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/milkit-dar-messages/

Collated rough group notes:



Tue morning (09/12/2014 - Lushoto)
Introductions, reporting of results - review progress against activities and outputs listed in work-plans

08:30 Welcomes and Introductions 09:00 Introducing to the project and what it sought to achieve - Alan - PRESENTATION 09:30 Quick exercise on what project objectives and intended results and outcomes

09:45 Exercise - 'me and milkit' - Participants mapped all sorts of activities that took place along the life of the project



10:30 Break

11:00 Tanzania report - outputs, products, lessons - PRESENTATION

11:45 India report - outputs, products, lessons - PRESENTATION

13:00 Lunch

Tue afternoon (09/12/2014 - Lushoto)
Diving deeper into lessons results, outcome pathways, developing project story and how project evolved differently in the two countries. Identifying spillover
 * Early thoughts: MilkIT project Learning points

14:00 'MilkIT memories' - Identifying and synthesizing key products and outputs and lessons.

For each of 6 milkIT research areas, participants zoomed in on results and achievements
 * What did we achieve?
 * What key insights and lessons
 * What key messages (for an outsider)


 * 1) Diagnostics and VCA and mapping (often with IPs; e.g. FEAST)
 * 2) Multi-stakeholder IP establishment and facilitation/participation (at different levels)
 * 3) Action research4D and demonstration interventions (typically with IPs)
 * 4) Capacity development, knowledge sharing and training interventions (typically with IPs)
 * 5) Engaging and linking and partnering with other actors and initiatives to scale/extend/spillover the IP approach;
 * 6) Engaging and linking and partnering with other actors and initiatives to extend actual interventions













15:30 Break

16:00 Outcomes and impacts - now and projected For each of the countries, participants discussed outcomes realized.
 * What outcomes can we already observe?
 * Which outcomes do we expect in the near future? Through this project or indirectly?
 * Which outcomes were we not able to initiate or stimulate?


 * 1) India
 * 2) Tanzania





A rapid list of ongoing and future initiatives and projects was identified in each country where MilkIT messages and research is likely to continue.


 * India**
 * ILSP/IFAD (designing) [intervention thru IP]
 * NABARD/Anchal [interventions thru IP]
 * L&F gender and institutions project [IP]
 * L&F Bihar dairy VC [intervention thru IP]
 * CSISA 3 Bihar plus (idea)
 * ELKS 3 Vidharba dairy VC [IP]
 * CCAFS climate adaptation [IP]
 * IFAD India [intervention thru IP]


 * Tanzania**
 * WUR [business model/feed/risk/interventions]
 * More MilkiT [interventions, hubs -?- IP]
 * L&F
 * IPs – consultant [IP]
 * Technical interventions: forage marketing, forages [interventions]
 * Ololili/gender (proposed) [interventions thru IP]
 * L&F gender and institutions project (proposed) [IP]
 * GIZ small grant – Lushoto [interventions thru IP]
 * USAID linkage/WSU – Babati/Lushoto [interventions thru IP]
 * CCAFS lushoto climate smart forages [interventions thru IP]
 * IFAD-CIAT climate smart forages (proposed) [interventions thru IP]
 * IFAD-ILRI land coalition (proposed) [interventions thru IP]
 * ILSSI – USAID [interventions]
 * Africa RISING TZ [interventions; R4D platform]
 * More IFAD stuff potentially

17:00 Synthesis of the day Participants discussed and agreed a set of project products to work on

17:45 End

Wed morning (10/12/2014 - Lushoto)

 * Field visit: forage plots, talk to farmers on forage interventions (silage, hay); include IP members on field visit to discuss activities beyond feed interventions.

Meet with IP members in Ubiri village to hear from them and discuss experiences ||  || Meet with IP members in Mbuzii village to hear from them and discuss experiences ||  ||
 * ~ Time ||~ Activity ||~ Comments ||
 * 08:30 || Departure from hotel in Lushoto ||  ||
 * 09:00-10:00 || Visit a demo plot and nearby farmer plot in Ubiri
 * 10:15-11:15 || Visit a demo plot and nearby farmer plot in Mbuzii
 * 11:30 || Departure to Dar es Salaam || Lunch on the way ||

Thu morning (11/12/2014 - Dar es Salaam)
Synthesizing material from Tuesday for stakeholder/outreach meeting in Dar es Salaam

Thu afternoon - 14:00-17:00h (11/12/2014 - Dar es Salaam)
BLOGPOST
 * Stakeholder meeting**

NEWS ITEM

13:00 Lunch with guests 14:00 Welcomes; project Intro; process intro PRESENTATION 14:30 ‘Bus stops’ with participants
 * IPs to identify (and act on) promising solutions to dairy development Thannamal Brigitte Julius Bhatt - see poster
 * Linking technical/market interventions Nils Alan Walter Kimambo Iqbal - see poster
 * Using feed diagnostic and prioritization tools to target interventions Pulling the technology leading to actual feed interventions that worked Ben Fred Shankar Germana - see poster
 * Fishbowl: Partnerships to scale approaches and results

16:30 Closing – Amos

See various photos under: [] towards the bottom