Transcript Ecorat Workpackage 1 Coordination and Management

Southern African Pesticidal Plants Project
Workpackage 1:
Management & Communication
UZ
UoG Financial
Administrator
ICRAF
SAFIRE
EC
UoG Technical
Coordinator
RGBKEW
MUM
DARS
External Advisory Group
To be appointed
Management Committee
Dr Brighton Mvumi
UZIM
Dr Gudeta Sileshi
ICRAF
Stephen Nyirenda
DARS
Prof Monique Simmonds
RBGKEW
Lead Applicant NRI-UOG
Dr Phil Stevenson
WP1 lead NRI-UOG
WP2 lead RBGKEW
WP3 lead NRI-UOG
WP4 lead UZ
WP5 lead SAFIRE
WP6 lead ICRAF
Dr Phosiso Sola
SAFIRE
Prof David Hall
NRI-UOG
WP7 lead DARS
WP8 lead NRI-UOG
WP 1
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Inception workshop
Follow-up coordination meetings
Activity reporting
Annual progress reports
Project communication strategy
Inception workshop
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Establish the SAPP team
Short- and long-term project plans
Coordinating our activities
Define protocols
Follow-up coordination meetings
November/December 2007 – Zimbabwe?
November/December 2008 – Zambia?
1st week of November 2009 – Malawi?
Linkage with other meetings, e.g.
international conferences, project
training events
Follow-up coordination meetings
Part I: Formal presentations by each
partner to summarise their activities and
analysis of data collected over the last
year.
Part II: WP managers to lead forward
planning discussions related to their WP.
Activity reporting
A mid-term progress report to be
delivered on the 15th June of each year.
Each SAPP project partner to send Phil a
brief summary of activities undertaken in
the previous six months (two pages
maximum).
Annual progress reports
Partner reports to be delivered to Phil on
the 1st of December each year.
Reports should include a summary of all
activities taking place by each partner
institution. There is no page limit and
should be in standard scientific format, i.e.
Abstract, Introduction, Materials &
Methods, Results, Discussion.
Annual progress reports
Also for 1st December
Separate summary of WP you are leading
that covers all partner activities – 1 page
maximum
Project communication strategy
Project communication strategy
Objective: Promote the findings of the
project to as many individuals and
communities in our target groups as
possible.
The principal target groups are small
scale farmers and extension services
such as NGOs and community groups.
Project communication strategy
National level
Policy reports
Press releases to media
Public press radio, newspapers
International level
Peer-reviewed journals
Conferences
SAPP workshops
http://www.nri.org/sapp
http://www.nri.org/sapp
Links to pdf reports, data, journal articles
Links to relevant websites & partners
Pages for four different target audiences
[scientific, extension, policy, end users]
Educational pages
Field guides & manuals
e.g. <…./ratzooman or <…./ecorat
Management requires
reliable email
connections.
Email Phil frequently
just to say hi and let
him know how things
are going.
Copy Phil into
discussions with
other partners.