Inception+meeting

=**MilkIT inception meeting, Tanga, Tanzania, 24-25 April 2012**=


 * Nyumbani Hotel, Independence Road, Tanga**

Meeting purpose
- To clarify project aims and objectives and introduce the project to the whole team - To bring together the whole project team and get to know each other - To finalize site selection - To work out work plans for the first year - what will each activity involve in practical terms?

Participants

 * Abiliza E. Kimambo (SUA) || kimambo_at_suanet.ac.tz ||  || Germana H. Laswai (SUA) || laswaig1_at_gmail.com ||
 * Alan Duncan (ILRI) || a.duncan_at_cgiar.org ||  || Girish Chandra Pant (INHERE) || inhere.masi_at_rediffmail.com ||
 * Amos Omore (ILRI) || a.omore_at_cgiar.org ||  || Julius Bwire (TLRC) || jmbwire_at_live.com ||
 * Atul Shah (CHIRAG) || atul_at_chirag.org ||  || Lusato Kurwijila (SUA & Irish Aid) || kurwijila_2000_at_yahoo.com ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ben Lukuyu (ILRI) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">b.lukuyu_at_cgiar.org ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nils Teufel (ILRI) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">n.teufel_at_cgiar.org ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bharat Singh Bisht (INHERE) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">inhereindia_at_gmail.com ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Samwel Mngulu (TLRC) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">smngulu_at_yahoo.com ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Brigitte Maass (CI_AT_) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">b.maass_at_cgiar.org ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Thanammal Ravichandran (ILRI) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">thanamvet_bha_at_yahoo.com ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Gaspar Msimbe (R.A.S. Morogoro) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">msimbegasper_at_yahoo.com ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Walter Mangesho (TLRC) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">wemange_at_yahoo.com ||

Tue April 24
Notes || Notes || INHERE, CHIRAG, Sokoine Agricultural University, Tanzania Livestock Research Institute ||
 * ~ ===**Activity**=== ||~ ===**Who?**=== ||~ ===**Time**=== ||~ ===Notes=== ||
 * Arrive and register ||=  ||= 08:45 ||   ||
 * Introductions ||= Alan ||= 09:00 || Ice breaker ||
 * Introducing the MilkIT project ||= Alan ||= 09:30 || [|Alan Duncan - MilkIT introductory presentation.pdf] ||
 * Introducing the Irish Aid Project ||= Amos ||= 10:00 || [|Amos Omore - Irish Aid Project overview - MilkIT Inception 24-25 April 12.pdf]
 * - Tea/coffee ||=  ||= 10:30 ||   ||
 * Progress update from India ||= Nils ||= 11:00 || Update on initial scoping mission, partner engagement, recruitment, site selection notes ||
 * Progress update from Tanzania ||= Brigitte ||= 11:30 || [|Brigitte Maass MilkIT - ProjectInceptionMeeting_Update_TZA.pdf] Update on initial scoping mission, partner engagement, recruitment, site selection, stakeholder meeting ||
 * Innovation platforms - what are they and how do they work? ||= Alan ||= 12:00 || Alan Duncan IP's what are they and how do they work.pdf Introducing innovation systems principles and how they can be realised through innovation platforms.
 * What is a value chain and how do we analyse it? ||= Ben ||= 12:30 || Introducing the value chain concept - what are the key elements of the value chain, how do we go about analysing value chains and identifying constraints? Some examples of how feed interventions have been informed by VCA. Notes ||
 * - Lunch ||=  ||= 13:00 ||   ||
 * Partner perspectives - fish bowl conversation ||= Alan ||= 14:00 || Each partner given a chance to briefly introduce themselves and their core mission. Then some interviewing of partners to help understand where they are coming from and how they see this project. Questions notes
 * - Tea/coffee ||=  ||= 15:00 ||   ||
 * Introducing activities - using the current workplan to guide an informal conversation ||= Nils ||= 15:30 || [|MilkIT year 1 with deliverables.xlsx] to introduce what the project will look like on the ground - chance for discussion as we go. ||
 * Close ||=  ||= 17:00 ||   ||
 * - Dinner at the //Tanga Beach Resort// ||=  ||= 19:00 || Kindly arranged by Julius Bwire (see http://www.tangabeachresort.com/) ||

Wed April 25

 * ~ ===Activity=== ||~ ===Who?=== ||~ ===Time=== ||~ ===Notes=== ||
 * Site selection - story so far ||= Brigitte ||= 08:45 || [|Brigitte Maass_SiteSelectionMaps_Regions.pdf] Using Morogoro presentation ||
 * Site selection - update on ground truthing ||= Amos ||= 09:00 || Ben Lukuyu Tanzania site evaluation scoping study.pdf What was the outcome of the last few days ground-truthing? Did it lead to firmer ideas? ||
 * Finalize sites ||= Alan ||= 09:15 || Plenary discussion led by Alan. Notes on site selection steps ||
 * - Tea/coffee ||=  ||= 10:00 ||   ||
 * Partnerships - how will they work? Discussion ||= Alan ||= 10:20 || @Notes on partnerships ||
 * Gender - how will we address in these projects? Discussion ||= Amos ||= 10:40 || How do we take the spirit of Jemimah's ILRI gender strategy and realise it in this project? [|Amos Omore Gender Questions for MilkIT and MoreMilkiT.pdf] ||
 * M&E - how will we do it? Discussion ||= Nils ||= 11:10 || Can we develop a light M&E plan that allows us to track progress? What indicators? How do we take it forward? ||
 * Links with IFAD projects ||= Nils/Brigitte ||= 11:40 || What are the key IFAD programmes to which we could link in India and Tanzania. What have we done so far to establish links? What is the way forward? notes ||
 * Fleshing out activities - in country groups ||= Nils/Brigitte ||= 12:00 || Going through the workplan and beginning to work out how the activities will be implemented - focus on timetable for Year 1. ||
 * - Lunch ||=  ||= 13:00 ||   ||
 * Fleshing out activities (continued) - in country groups ||= Nils/Brigitte ||= 14:00 || There are 8 activities so by this time groups should have already discussed 4. ||
 * - Tea/coffee ||=  ||= 15:00 ||   ||
 * Reporting back - Tanzania ||= Julius ||= 15:30 || Brigitte Maass Tz MilkIT workplan_1 2012.pdf ||
 * Reporting back - India ||= _ ||= 16:00 || [|Nils Teufel MilkItIncMeetTangaWorkplanIndiaNt1.pdf] ||
 * Next steps ||= Alan ||= 16:30 || Including crucially the timetable for developing partner agreements and getting work going. ||
 * Close ||=  ||= 17:00 ||   ||

Thu April 26
Field trip planned to Amani/Muheza District in Tanga Region. Preparations ongoing with the help of Julius Bwire and his team. A visit is planned to farmers who are well organised to supply milk in Tanga - UWAMA (abbreviation from "Umoja wa Wauza Maziwa"in Swahili, meaning "United union selling milk"). Amani town is located in the East Usambara Mountains, one of the world's hotspots of biodiversity (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usambara).

Fri April 27
Group transfer back from Tanga to //Julius Nyerere International Airport//, Dar es Salaam provided by Nyumbani Hotel. Need to leave the hotel latest at 9 AM.