Transcript Focus on Zambia - Makerere University

Joining Forces to
support Farmer
Entrepreneurship
Agri-ProFocus Uganda
Coordination meeting
24 January 2011
Objectives
Discuss and find joint answers to:
 How we are doing as APF-Uganda
 Neccesary improvements
 Plans for 2011
 How we can support each other
Programme
When
09.00
What
Welcome - Introduction and Overview
09.30
Joint Reflection on Performance APF-Uganda
 Theory of Change
 Joint Assessment Excercise
Break
Conclusions and recommendations
APF-Uganda 2011
 Farmers’ organisations (Hellen – NUCAFE and Esther - SACU)
 Financial Services (Joseph – VECO and Ivan - SNV)
 Farming Services (Allan - BRAC)
Lunch
APF-Uganda 2011
 Food Security (Astrid - ZOA)
 Market information (Robert and Racheal – FIT Uganda)
 Policy (Stella - Pelum)
 Gender (Bernard – SNV and Roel - APF)
Break
Collaboration and Exchange
 Membership and leadership
 Budget
 Coordination and support
 Online exchange
Wrap up – Next steps
Closure
11.00
11.15
12.00
13.00
14.00
15.15
15.30
16.45
17.00
Agri-ProFocus
Agricultural producer organisations
in developing countries are key to economic
development and poverty reduction.
Promoting farmer entrepreneurship
through cooperation, exchange and learning is the goal
of our partnership.
Focus is on seven African countries
and four themes: value chains, financial services,
sustainable food production and gender
How did we start?
 Multi-stakeholder workshop in Entebbe (Nov 2009)
- Dutch and their Ugandan partners
- Definition of areas where the Network can add a
value for farmer entrepreneurship in Uganda
 5 topics (5 working groups)
- Financial services
- Market information and Market access
- Policy
- Farmer services
- Farmer Organisations
 Food security (integration in the different topics)
 Gender in Value Chains
 Online platform: http://apf-uganda.ning.com
“All Topics Are Linked”
Overview 2010
Policy (PELUM):
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Stakeholder and policies mapping
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Information sharing on related issues
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Draft National Standards and Quality policy
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A review and analysis of agriculture related policies that
support sustainable agriculture
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Towards enhancing small- scale farmers livelihoods and food
security through indigenous climate change adaptation
 Conduct policy research; linking with ESFIM research consultant
for policy research on Action Research to Audit the
Effectiveness of NAADS and proposals for Reform: The
NAADS that farmers want
 Financial services group request: a need for advocacy about;
importance of agri-financing, increasing agriculture budget by
government and establishment of more agri-development oriented
banks
Overview 2010
Financial services (VECO):
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Priority setting for the group (inventory?) after new start with
leadership of Veco/Cordaid
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Group merging together with Veco/Cordaid group
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Draft TOR for study demand and supply analysis for
agriculture finance
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Sharing of APF-Zambia approach
• Farming services (BRAC):
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Identify gap in rice VC, topics for improvement of farming
services
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Possible taking up other commodity/VC (staple food)
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Draft TOR finished
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KIT follow up
Overview 2010
Farming as a business (farming organisations) NUCAFE/Send A
Cow/AGRITERRA
 Call for cases; good practices on farming organisations for business
and their support systems ( 18 cases submitted)
 Linking with Makarere University (Business Minds) and WUR, 2
students)
 Assessments end 2010
 Sharing in workshop early 2011
Market access and information (FIT Uganda)
 Working group with “external members”; Grameen, EAGC, AB
Trust, Ssemwanga)
 MI symposium with over 200 participants with outcomes;
- Mandate for broader forum (incl. government)
- Mandate for broader working group broader (MSP?) working on
validation/standards of MI (public/private good), directory (who
and how’s)
- Importance to linking with financial services
- Importance of linking with ICT (final mile to the end-user)
- Plan of working on standardisation of MI (policy/advocacy)
Overview 2010
Gender and Value Chain (SNV/Oxfam-Novib)
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In collaboration with Oxfam-Novib; Gender and VC event (sharing
experiences and how to incorporate it within network)
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Draft agenda for Gender and VC within APF Uganda
Food security (ICCO)
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ZOA, ICCO, Oxfam took initiative to reflect on how to incorporate
Food Securty within the network, which partners? Which themes,
which activities?
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Draft TOR (linked with climate adaptation a.o.)
Country strategy agreement 2010-2012 for Dutch coalition
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Ultimate revision of agreement and budget
Overview 2010
 Important linkage Makarere University through Business
Minds Africa
 Members (over 325 members on-line platform Ning)
exchanging information
 Exchange visit from APF Rwanda
 Theory of Change and PME system applied (progress
report)
Agri-ProFocus Uganda: Online Platform (NING)
Joint Reflection on Performance APF-Uganda
Theory of Change
 Diffferent entry points to farmer entrepreneurship
 Different actions and players
 What is it that we are actually doing and producing as
a network?
 Are we doing the right things in the right way?
 How do we contribute to Change?
 How to measure our results and at what levels?
Combining models
Use of 5 C model: Capacities of networks
 Coordination and harmonization (are we relevant and
coherent?)
 External linkages (are we connected?)
 Joint action (are we contributing to efficiency?)
 Learning and Innovation (are we making sustainable
improvements?)
 Development results (are the participating organisations
becoming more effective?)
Outcome mapping
What do we expect, what do we like, what do we love
Assessment Matrix
Evaluation Topics
Evaluation Questions
Agri-ProFocus Sphere of Control
1.1
Is there a clear mandate for the network (vision,
ambitions and strategy)?
1.
1.2
Coordination and Harmonisation
Who are the contributing organisations and are their
vision, ambitions and strategy consistent with those of
the APF network?
2.1
2.
Does the APF network establish legitimate and relevant
External Relationships
external relationships?
3.1
Does the APF network take charge efficiently?
3.
3.2
Joint Action
Is the APF network being propelled by inspiring
leadership?
4.1
Does the network create opportunities, incentives, and
confidence to learn?
4.
4.2
Learning and Innovation
Does the APF network foster an adaptive management
and innovation culture?
Agri-ProFocus Sphere of Influence
5.1
5.
Does the APF network contribute to more effective
Development Results
interventions by the different actors?
Joint exercise to assess results
5 Sheets, 5 Groups
Each Sheet Contains one or two questions
Take 10 minutes for each Sheet
Think of the things you have been involved in:
what was achieved / outputs in 2010
 Write down on a card with a marker in Capital
Letters (Legibly)
 Make it as concrete as possible!
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Note: You can use the guideline in your map to
see what type of indicators we have used. These
might inspire you!
Conclusions and recommendations
What did we think of this exercise?
 Was it difficult / easy?
 Does it help in getting an overview of where we
are going with APF-Uganda?
 Are we thinking along similar or different lines?
Per topic
 What are we proud of and do we keep?
 What are our challenges and how do we tackle
them?
Programme
When
09.00
What
Welcome - Introduction and Overview
09.30
Joint Reflection on Performance APF-Uganda
 Theory of Change
 Joint Assessment Excercise
Break
Conclusions and recommendations
APF-Uganda 2011
 Farmers’ organisations (Hellen – NUCAFE and Esther - SACU)
 Financial Services (Joseph – VECO and Ivan - SNV)
 Farming Services (Allan - BRAC)
Lunch
APF-Uganda 2011
 Food Security (Astrid - ZOA)
 Market information (Robert and Racheal – FIT Uganda)
 Policy (Stella - Pelum)
 Gender (Bernard – SNV and Roel - APF)
Break
Collaboration and Exchange
 Membership and leadership
 Budget
 Coordination and support
 Online exchange
Wrap up – Next steps
Closure
11.00
11.15
12.00
13.00
14.00
15.15
15.30
16.45
17.00
APF-Uganda 2011 .......
Plans per group (10 minutes max. per presentation)
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What are the issues to tackle?
Who is involved / should be involved more?
What are the Planned Activities?
What is the Change?
Reactions and suggestions (be constructive!) max
10 minutes
Agri-ProFocus Uganda: Online Platform (NING)
Conclusions
Coordination and harmonization (are we relevant and coherent?)
Proud
 Continuity through an accepted and budgeted joint strategy
 A local structure growing in quality and numbers of stakeholders involved
 Commitment of Dutch APF-members in helping to move things forward
 Well functioning coordination triangle willing to make APF network work
Challenges
 Making sure the APF themes are well embedded in wider developments
 Linking the different themes / groups to work effective and efficiently
 Further deepening of exchange with and linking of existing programmes of Dutch
APF members
 Building relationships beyond individual professionals towards management
External linkages (are we connected?)
Proud
 Getting wider recognition for the network by new stakeholders linking up
 Moving beyond the initial agenda towards brokering ‘deals’ with new actors
Challenges
 Involvement of government and private sector
 Getting a good overview of external stakeholders and pro-actively engage with
them
Conclusions
Joint action (are we efficient?)
Proud
 Various groups getting things done making the network grow and attractive
 Different events that have been (co-) organized by APF, like MIS, Gender and the
PELUM event
Challenges
 jump starting activities in access to finance, food security and gender
 Fostering continued development in already active groups
 Organizing sufficient human and financial resources (and priorities) to keep the
energy
Learning and Innovation (are sustainably improving?)
Proud
 Emerging culture of knowledge and experience sharing both online and in F2F events
 Effective linkages to Ugandan institutes of higher learning
Challenges
 Developing innovative learning products together (both in content and usability)
 Coordinating knowledge agendas and roles of Dutch and Ugandan institutes
 Effective use of good examples from other APF countries
 Move beyond sharing and stimulate peer to peer dialogue (on NING) and reflection
Conclusions
Development results (are we effective?)
This maybe too early to tell?
We are looking for an answer to three questions:
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What has motivated actors to participate in APF Uganda?
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How are the action and learning outputs translated to better services /
interventions for farmer entrepreneurs?
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What are the lessons learned by the actors to use for improving the
functioning of the network?