CCSL project: CGIAR and CCAFS Stocktaking Exercise

Julian Gonsalves

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Duration: September 01 – 1 March 2013

Terms of Reference:

• Identify ‘CCSL’ people and initiatives across the CGIAR to help identify exciting approaches at the local levelthat already exist and to help catalyze and connect the currently-scattered community and pockets of innovation.
  • this is likely to include, to some extent, activities that are related, e.g. participatory research approaches (PAR, RRA, PLA,…), community-based adaptation,…
  • focus on the research community, but will go beyond to highlight partner (current CCAFS partners or potential future partners) activities with a specific learning, knowledge and communication focus, and particular focus on participation and engagement at the local level
  • This exercise should be presented with a short narrative for each activity and a table comparing these different experiences according to an agreed list of criteria.

• Do an initial characterization of these initiatives to guide understanding, show gaps and opportunities, and shape further analysis and interventions.
• Help identify key individuals to participate in a stocktaking workshop to be held in Addis Ababa (20-22 November 2012).
• Provide inputs into the design this stocktaking workshop of relevant social learning and communication approaches, expertise and good practices within CCAFS and the CGIAR.
• Work closely with CCAFS and its partners, as well as The Sandbox and the advisory group. Actively test and use the Sandbox as a mechanism to share ideas and lessons and solicit feedback and experiences relevant to the project.
• Work closely with Alison Shaw (who is working on social differentiation approaches and a stocktake of those activities in the CG) to create synergies and avoid overlap

Final outputs:

• Gonsalves, J. (2013) A new relevance and better prospects for wider uptake of social learning within CGIAR - Findings from a stocktaking exercise within CGIAR,
  CCAFS Working paper 37
• Presentation about the insights from stock-taking exercise
• Presentation about the propositions resulting from the stock-taking exercise

Documentation:

List of promising cases from the stock-taking exercise.

This work was partly introduced at the CGIAR Social learning stocktaking workshop in November 2012.

Stock-taking (study findings):

• Version Nov. 2012: Presentation: 12-Social Learning in the CGIAR- a stock taking exercise FINAL VERSION Nov18 updated 2013
• Version Feb. 2013: Updated presentation

Stock-taking (12 presentations for discussion):

• Presentation (version Nov. 2012) and PDF version
• Updated presentation (version Feb. 2013)

(12 propositions for discussion).

• Appendix 1 - Survey respondents
• Appendix 2 - Correspondents
• Appendix 3 - Social learning cases proposed by survey respondents (59 cases)
• Appendix 4 - Survey feedback
• Appendix 5 - Listing of social learning efforts in CGIAR (128 cases)
• Appendix 6 - Potential workshop participants
• Appendix 8 - 14 Promising approaches for CCAFS theme 4 (previous version available here)

Results from the sessions related to this work:

• Presentation by Julian - Part 1 see in the menu: #Day 1-Presentation by Julian - Part 1
• Presentation by Julian - Part 2 see in the menu: #Day 1-Presentation by Julian - Part 2 / The relevance of social learning to deliver on CCAF's theme 4 objectives
• Presentation by Julian - Part 3 see in the menu: #Day 2-Presentation by Julian - Part 3

CGIAR and CCAFS Stocktaking Exercise