Presented by Million Gebreyes, ILRI, at the SHARED Workshop for the SAIRLA project Bringing Evidence to Bear on Negotiating Ecosystem Service and Livelihood Trade-offs in Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Zambia, ILRI Addis, 12 February 2019

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An Overview
Sustainable Agricultural Intensification Research and Learning in Africa
(SAIRLA)- National Learning Alliance In Ethiopia
Million Gebreyes, ILRI
The SHARED workshop for the SAIRLA project ‘ Bringing Evidence to Bear on Negotiating Ecosystem
Service and Livelihood Trade-offs in Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in Tanzania, Ethiopia and
Zambia, ILRI Addis, 12 February 2019

2. Ethiopia NLA4SAI: Structure
NLA Vision
Decision makers create enabling environment for development and
implementation of SAI strategies
NLA Mission
Create a learning platform for decision makers, development partners and
smallholder farmers that enables them to access to evidences and engage
with decision support tools

3. Ethiopia NLA4SAI: Structure
NLA Structure
• Vision, mission, outcome challenges
• Steering committee,
• NLA4SAI platform (members from six
boundary partners, meet twice a year)
• Thematic learning groups
• Livestock- environment trade-offs
• ICT for SAI research and extension
• Land management- livelihoods trade-offs
• Smallholder risk management
• Hosted in ILRI and supported with
dedicated facilitation team
NLA Membership
• Boundary & strategic partners, SAIRLA
projects
• Boundary partners are from:
• Public development organizations
• Research institutes (National/International)
• NGOs
• Private sector
• Development partners
• Media

4. NLA: How it Functions?
Functions
• Catalysts: Four research projects working at
community level on “tools for SAI”
• The learning base: Experiences and current
engagement of NLA members
• Facilitation: Dedicated facilitation team
including expertise in social learning, capacity
building, communication, gender and M and E
• Funding: Basic funding for organization of
knowledge sharing events, capacity building
and limited field visits
NLA
for
SAI
Public
Sector
Agencies
National
Research
Institutes
Int.
Research
Institutes
SAIRLA
Research
Projects
(4)
Academic
Institutes
NGOs /
CSOs
Private
Sector
Media
Agencies
Bi & Multi-
lateral
Agencies
Evidence

5. Ethiopia NLA4SAI:
Social Learning Strategies and products
• Outcome mapping exercise
• Development of a social learning strategy
around equitable SAI
• Facilitation of focused learning through
establishing thematic learning groups
(meetings, learning visits, papers)
• Development of joint action plans and
knowledge products
• Dedicated facilitation team with the right
skill mix, institutional affiliation and
• A D-group platform to facilitate
knowledge sharing
Possible products
• Documentation of behavioral changes
• Joint project proposal development
• Networking and partnership documentations
• Capacity building through training
• Joint policy dialogue papers
The NLA strategies
Changes we aspire to see
use tools and evidences in decision making
multi-stakeholder social learning and engagement at
• Individual
• organization
• Systems level
Possible Products of the NLA

6. Ethiopia NLA4SAI:
Who to inform and what is ‘informing’?”
Livestock-Environment Trade-
Offs
Smallholder Farmers Risk
Management
Land management-Livelihoods
Trade-Offs
ICT for SAI Research and
Extension
Livestock Master Plan, CRGE,
Agro-Industrial
Community Seed Production
Strategy
National Sustainable Land
Management Flagship Program
National Extension Strategy
Evidences on
To inform using evidence from
• SAIRL researchers
• NLA members
Informing Decisions on

7. Participation at NLA workshops
1st NLA Workshop
participants
March 2017
2nd NLA
participants
November 2017

8. Participation at NLA workshops
3rd NLA Workshop
participants
June 2018

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