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==Legume CHOICE Technical Meeting== 
==June 15-16, 2015== 
==ICIPE Campus Nairobi== 

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===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 
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|   || '''Day 1 June 15''' ||   
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| 08:30 || [[:File:Legume Choice tool overview 150615.pptx| Reminder of what the tool looks like]] || Alan 
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| 09:00 || Country presentations of results from recent testing of Legume CHOICE Tool<br>3 x 15 minute presentations plus a few minutes for clarification questions<br><br>[[:File:Testing tool Kenya.pptx| Kenya]]<br>[[:File:Testing tool ETHIOPIA.ppt| Ethiopia]]<br>[[:File:Testing tool DRC Data the Legume CHOICE tool correct Alain.ppt| DRC]] || Each country team to nominate 
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| 10:15 || Tea/coffee ||   
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| 10:45 || Country teams identify key challenges in applying the tool - list on flip chart (come to meeting with some ideas) || Country teams 
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| 11:15 || Peer assist on [[:File:Challenges with tool.docx| challenges of applying the tool]] - leads to suggestions for improvement || Alan 
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| 12:30 || Lunch ||   
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| 13:30 || Interventions strategies and niches<br><br>[[:File:Niches and interventions planning.pptx| Presentation]]<br>[[:File:Niches discussion for wiki.docx| Discussion]] || Generose 
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| 15:00 || Tea/coffee ||   
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| 15:30 || Country teams reflect on findings from applying tool and develop candidate interventions<br>with justification - list on flipchart (consolidated summary below for each country) - using [[:File:Process to come up with interventions.docx| this template]] || Country team 
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| 17:00 || Close ||   
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|   || '''Day 2 June 16''' ||   
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| 8:30 || Countries present on candidate interventions, followed by refinement based on comments/discussions || Country team 
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| 11:30 || Countries present progress on identifying interventions:<br><br>[[:File:Intervention logic PresentationKenya.pptx| Kenya]]<br>[[:File:Intervention logic Ethiopia.docx| Ethiopia]]<br>[[:File:Intervention Logic DRC.docx| DRC]] || Country team 
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| 12:30 || Lunch ||   
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| 13:30 || Next steps from discussions so far - see below || Ingrid 
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| 13:45 || Output 1 : baseline and farm characterization reports - discussion on progress (see below for notes) ||   
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| 17:30 || Close ||   
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|}

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

# Generose to update data collection template for crop performance by 19th June
# 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]]
# Generose to finalize general guidelines for testing of interventions - by June 30
# 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 [[:File:paper format-baseline survey.docx| Baseline]] paper. This will mean pushing the process forward.
* Ethiopian team to lead on the [[:File:paper format- farm characterization survey.docx| 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.