Legume CHOICE Technical Meeting 15-16 June 2015

ICIPE Campus Nairobi

Meeting objectives for Day 1 - review of Legume CHOICE tool

• To review experiences in applying prototype Legume CHOICE tool in each country
• To share preliminary findings from application of the tool
• To identify what needs to change to improve the tool
• To brainstorm on intervention strategies for each country based on data collected using the tool

Participants

Kenya: Ingrid, Maurice, Irene, Mary

DRC: Isaac, Prof Walangululu, Generose

Ethiopia: Alan, Tamene, Tadesse

Meeting programme

Time	Topic	Person responsible
	Day 1 June 15
08:30	Reminder of what the tool looks like	Alan
09:00	Country presentations of results from recent testing of Legume CHOICE Tool 3 x 15 minute presentations plus a few minutes for clarification questions Kenya Ethiopia DRC	Each country team to nominate
10:15	Tea/coffee
10:45	Country teams identify key challenges in applying the tool - list on flip chart (come to meeting with some ideas)	Country teams
11:15	Peer assist on challenges of applying the tool - leads to suggestions for improvement	Alan
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Interventions strategies and niches Presentation Discussion	Generose
15:00	Tea/coffee
15:30	Country teams reflect on findings from applying tool and develop candidate interventions with justification - list on flipchart (consolidated summary below for each country) - using this template	Country team
17:00	Close
	Day 2 June 16
8:30	Countries present on candidate interventions, followed by refinement based on comments/discussions	Country team
11:30	Countries present progress on identifying interventions: Kenya Ethiopia DRC	Country team
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Next steps from discussions so far - see below	Ingrid
13:45	Output 1 : baseline and farm characterization reports - discussion on progress (see below for notes)
17:30	Close

Next steps from Day 1 and morning of Day 2 (Output 2 and 3)

1. Generose to update data collection template for crop performance by 19th June
2. Country teams to finalize interventions - need to be checked for agro-ecological fit - for each site we need a one-pager describing the intervention logic - by June 30, Ethiopia intervention logic
3. Generose to finalize general guidelines for testing of interventions - by June 30
4. Country teams to develop 1-page simple management sheet for each intervention to be passed to farmers along with inputs - by 31 July.

Paper structure - group work on Day 2 afternoon (Output 1)

Tentative title - or at least key words Overall aim e.g. role of legumes in smallholder systems Hypotheses - 2-3 per paper Research questions to guide which tables and figures we need e.g. what legumes are grown, area etc. Think about how to use the typologies - sketch out structure of a few tables and figures. What type of statistical analysis do we need for the suggested research questions.

2 groups - one on baseline and one on farm characterization

#Discussion on papers

Discussion

• Need to analyse data withing countries and develop country reports
• May need to rethink definition of typology since, for example, in Ethiopia, input level does not follow other indicators. May need to think about some kind of PCA analysis.
• Need to refine title, hypotheses and research questions for each paper. Need to identify a lead author for each paper.
• Maurice to take lead on Baseline paper. This will mean pushing the process forward.
• Ethiopian team to lead on the Farm Characterization survey paper.
• Need to think about a writeshop linked to next project meeting in Bukavu in early 2016. Between now and then we could think about some skype meetings in Quarter 4 of 2015.
• Need to merge country-level data to create a global file with an additional data field for "country" and possibly "near or far from market". Irene to take responsibility to manage this.