Program Coordination Team (PCT)
decisions 2018/2019
Siboniso Moyo
International Livestock Research Institute
Africa RISING Program Learning Event
5 – 8 February 2019
Lilongwe, Malawi

Program Communication
 March 2018 – Move the role of Communications and Knowledge
Management Coordinator from ILRI to IITA
 ILRI retains the technical backstopping functions for online platforms.
 Africa RISING East and Southern Africa and West Africa to recruit
project communication specialists

Monitoring and Evaluation
March 2018 – recruit embedded M&E specialists for each of the three
regional projects
This team will assist with data collection, upload and M&E within projects
and across the program

Data Management Plan
July 2018 – IFPRI to revise in order to streamline with:
• donor requirements,
• projects needs
• Across the program
All partner contracts/agreements to have a budget line indicating the
costs of data upload

Science Advisory Group (SAG)
October 2018 – revisit the role of SAG and see how best to engage them in
this phase
Current proposal:
• engage some of them in the planned internally commissioned external
review planned for this year
• request to review project/program documents as need arise

Internally Commissioned External Review
October 2018 – ICER of the program to be organised as follows:
• Ethiopia and West Africa – June to October 2019
• East and Southern Africa – January to March 2020
• Final reports planned for July 2020

SI Assessment Framework
October 2018 – need to operationalize the SI Assessment framework
• All partners to collect data across all the SI domains when evaluating a
technology
• Agree on some minimum data sets to be collected for all AR technologies
being evaluated.

Communities of Practice
October 2018 – Communities of Practice set up in 2017 to facilitate
harmonization across the program.
• CoPs have not been effective for achieving the intended goal.
• PCT and Chief Scientists will take up this role through Task Forces which
will be set up on a case by case basis (eg. ICT, methodologies)

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