Prototype Organization Chart | Innovation Platform Research University: 1Ed Morrison
In the future, organizational charts will be different. We are exploring circular organization charts that allow for flexibility around a tight core of hierarchically organized, stable functions.
Learn@UW Executive Committee Roadmap Presentation, July 2014Tanya Joosten
I chaired a strategic visioning process as a member of the Learn@UW Executive Committee for UW System in 2013-2014. See https://www.wisconsin.edu/systemwide-it/projects/academic-roadmap/ for more information.
CGIAR Capacity Development Framework : Engaging with PartnersCGIAR
Presented by Dr. Iddo Dror, Head of Capacity Development, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Chair, CGIAR Capacity Development Community of Practice at Celebrate FARA – Johannesburg, 27 Nov 2014
Guidance Note on CGIAR Research Programs (CRPS) Commissioned Evaluations . Presentation by Sirkka Immonen to Evaluation Community of Practice participants, 2nd annual ECOP workshop, 2014
Prototype Organization Chart | Innovation Platform Research University: 1Ed Morrison
In the future, organizational charts will be different. We are exploring circular organization charts that allow for flexibility around a tight core of hierarchically organized, stable functions.
Learn@UW Executive Committee Roadmap Presentation, July 2014Tanya Joosten
I chaired a strategic visioning process as a member of the Learn@UW Executive Committee for UW System in 2013-2014. See https://www.wisconsin.edu/systemwide-it/projects/academic-roadmap/ for more information.
CGIAR Capacity Development Framework : Engaging with PartnersCGIAR
Presented by Dr. Iddo Dror, Head of Capacity Development, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Chair, CGIAR Capacity Development Community of Practice at Celebrate FARA – Johannesburg, 27 Nov 2014
Guidance Note on CGIAR Research Programs (CRPS) Commissioned Evaluations . Presentation by Sirkka Immonen to Evaluation Community of Practice participants, 2nd annual ECOP workshop, 2014
Independent evaluation of CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM): Brief summary of findings, conclusions and recommendations
"Assessing Outcomes in CGIAR: Practical Approaches and Methods" training by Burt Perrin for CGIAR Evaluation Community of Practice (ECOP), 2nd annual workshop 2014
This presentation was provided by Rachel Lewellen of Harvard University during the NISO event, Assessment Practices and Metrics in the 21st Century Training Session Four held on Friday, November 9th.
This presentation was provided by Elliot Felix of Brightspot, during the NISO training series "Assessment Practices and Metrics for the 21st Century (Session One)," held on October 25, 2019.
This Data for Impact webinar took place October 29, 2020. Learn more at https://www.data4impactproject.org/resources/webinars/use-of-routine-data-for-economic-evaluations/
Macquarie University is introducing a new approach to the continuous professional development of HDR Supervisors. It is based on professional recognition, a new approach to criteria for promotion, and a Fellowship Scheme. This presentation provides an overview of the changes being made to shift to a 'new normal' of HDR supervisor development.
Independent evaluation of CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM): Brief summary of findings, conclusions and recommendations
"Assessing Outcomes in CGIAR: Practical Approaches and Methods" training by Burt Perrin for CGIAR Evaluation Community of Practice (ECOP), 2nd annual workshop 2014
This presentation was provided by Rachel Lewellen of Harvard University during the NISO event, Assessment Practices and Metrics in the 21st Century Training Session Four held on Friday, November 9th.
This presentation was provided by Elliot Felix of Brightspot, during the NISO training series "Assessment Practices and Metrics for the 21st Century (Session One)," held on October 25, 2019.
This Data for Impact webinar took place October 29, 2020. Learn more at https://www.data4impactproject.org/resources/webinars/use-of-routine-data-for-economic-evaluations/
Macquarie University is introducing a new approach to the continuous professional development of HDR Supervisors. It is based on professional recognition, a new approach to criteria for promotion, and a Fellowship Scheme. This presentation provides an overview of the changes being made to shift to a 'new normal' of HDR supervisor development.
Revista de la cuarta reunión, con candidatos, últimas tabuladas y comentarios de cada competidor de las 11 carreras que se disputarán el domingo 24 de julio en el Nuevo Hipódromo de Las Flores
Approaches to strengthen the capacity to integrate gender in agricultural res...ILRI
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Ethiopia Institute of Agricultural Research,
Ll from over 200 projects presentation fileKMIRC PolyU
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Organizational Capacity-Building Series - Session 6: Program EvaluationINGENAES
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Case Study of Kenya in Assessing Capacities - Zipora Otieno, National Coordinator of the Kenya project for Integrating Agriculture in NAPs
In Kenya, a capacity assessment exercise was conducted by the NAP-Ag Programme to inform a Capacity Development Plan. This included a literature review, interviews and a self-assessment carried out on 6 government institutions. The assessment focused on four functional capacities: policy, knowledge management, implementing, partnering; each of these was assessed in 3 dimensions of individual, organizational and enabling environment. The assessment identified four priority areas of support: strengthening multi-stakeholder engagement, creating an enabling environment for policy implementation, enhancing individual technical capacities for design and implementation of programmes, and gender-responsive budgeting. Some of the assessment recommendations are already being implemented, with financial support from the NAP-Ag project. The country has also embarked on resource mobilization from the Green Climate Fund for a broad-based capacity development initiative. Kenya has good knowledge, plans and policy documents, but implementation remains a challenge. In addition, more efforts need to be channeled towards packaging scientific information to different end-user groups/duty bearers in a manner that is effective.
See Presentation (http://bit.ly/2pZ0Q1r) and Recording (http://bit.ly/2oYpeky)
GIEC (2014): Incidences négatives du changement climatique sur le rendement des cultures
Evénements climatiques extrêmes très récents : vagues de chaleur, sécheresses, inondations, cyclones, feux incontrôlés, etc. grande vulnérabilité et degré élevé d’exposition de certains écosystèmes et de nombreux systèmes humains (degré de confiance très élevé).
Influent directement sur la vie des pauvres ou petites exploitations : perturbation des moyens de subsistance, réduction des rendements des cultures, destruction des habitations…
L’ agriculture pluviale est actuellement extrêmement vulnérable face aux effets des changements climatiques
Or, la production agricole doit augmenter pour nourrir la population qui augmente
Le GIEC prévoit une augmentation de l’insécurité alimentaire de l’ordre de 15 à 40% d’ici 2050
Taro = base alimentaire de nombreuses populations dans le monde
Plante à multiplication végétative: réponse lente aux changements environnementaux
Solution: augmenter la diversité génétique du taro production de plants pouvant surmonter les stress biotiques et abiotiques
Ce poster a été conçu par le Département de Développement Rizicole du FOFIFA et synthétise les aspects essentiels pour une Riziculture Résiliente face au Changement Climatique
I. Contexte et enjeux
II. Impacts du changement climatique sur le secteur Agriculture
III. Lien avec la sécurité alimentaire
IV. Politiques et stratégies favorable à l’intégration du changement climatique dans le développement du secteur
V-Stratégie Nationale face au Changement Climatique du secteur AEP
Le VFTV-FIFATA compte environ 174 OPb accompagnées avec 2000 membres dont 40% femmes répartis dans les 5 Districts (Antsirabe I et II, Faratsiho, Betafo et Mandoto), 56 inter-producteurs, une Union de filière piscicole. Qu'est-ce qu'ils font comme activités d'animation, de vulgarisation et conseil agricole ?
O Fórum Africano dos Serviços de Extensão e Assistência Técnica (AFAAS) tem o mandato de liderar a operacionalização dos aspectos de extensão e assistência técnica no pilar IV do CAADP (Investigação, Disseminação e Adopção de Tecnologias Agrárias);
Nohon’ny toetra samihafa ananan’ny andian-tantely, dia maro ny mpiompy tsy afa-po amin’ny vokatra azony. Eo koa ny VARROA izay mandripaka ny andiantantely. Sarotra ny mampitombo ny andiantantely hamenoana ny tohotra. Na dia ny tantely efa ao anaty tohotra aza, dia mbola miala tao indraindray.
Miteraka voka-dratsy lehibe amin’ny fambolena, tontolo iainana, ary ny toe-karena izany.
Misy video nomanina ho anao manazava ny torohay ara-teknika momba ny famokarana mpanjakan-tantely avy amin’ny andian-tantely tsara karazana. Natao hanampy ny mpiompy hamaha ireo olana saro-bahana momba ny fiompiana Tantely izy io, ary hozaraina maimaim-poana ka isan’ny hahazo ianao raha tia izany.
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A brief information about the SCOP protein database used in bioinformatics.
The Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database is a comprehensive and authoritative resource for the structural and evolutionary relationships of proteins. It provides a detailed and curated classification of protein structures, grouping them into families, superfamilies, and folds based on their structural and sequence similarities.
Deep Behavioral Phenotyping in Systems Neuroscience for Functional Atlasing a...Ana Luísa Pinho
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What is greenhouse gasses and how many gasses are there to affect the Earth.moosaasad1975
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Multi-source connectivity as the driver of solar wind variability in the heli...Sérgio Sacani
The ambient solar wind that flls the heliosphere originates from multiple
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holes and slow-speed, highly variable, streams whose source regions are
under debate. A key goal of ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter mission is to identify
solar wind sources and understand what drives the complexity seen in the
heliosphere. By combining magnetic feld modelling and spectroscopic
techniques with high-resolution observations and measurements, we show
that the solar wind variability detected in situ by Solar Orbiter in March
2022 is driven by spatio-temporal changes in the magnetic connectivity to
multiple sources in the solar atmosphere. The magnetic feld footpoints
connected to the spacecraft moved from the boundaries of a coronal hole
to one active region (12961) and then across to another region (12957). This
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(May 29th, 2024) Advancements in Intravital Microscopy- Insights for Preclini...Scintica Instrumentation
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Lateral Ventricles.pdf very easy good diagrams comprehensive
Overview of GFRAS extension evaluation initiative - Dr P. Djamen
1. 1
Evaluation of RAS program
initiative
Overview and recent
developments
Patrice Djamen (>Rescar)
wth materials from Sanne et al, Kristin
2. Key points
• What is agricultural extension ?
• Evaluating RAS systems and methods
• The Evaluation imitative ?
• Outcomes and prospects of the Wageningen meeting
3. 3
Defining Extension
GFRAS
”All the activities that provide the information and services needed
and demanded by farmers and other actors to assist them in
developing their skills and practises so as to improve their livelihood
and well-being”
Three Areas
Technology and information
sharing
Advice related to farm,
organisational and business
management
Facilitation and brokerage in
rural development and
value chains
Technology and
information
sharing
Advice
/ support to farm
management
Capacity
development
Facilitation
Extension
Paradigms
4. Evaluating RAS Systems
• Evaluation = a structured process of collecting,
analysing, and making judgments on a given system
or intervention (Gfras, 2012)
4
Importance of Evaluation
Increasing interest and demand for more efficient
and performant RAS with increasing contribution to
sustainable development
Accountability to donors and clientele
Need for systematic evidence to support advocacy
and decision making / policy formulation
Learning to improve Extension systems/methods
(internally and externally)
5. 5
Guidance in ways to assess the value of
extension with focus on the values that
are meaningful to users of the services
Challenges
• Viewing extension as part of
the innovation system
• Attribution of impacts of
extension within complex
systems
• Evaluating extension while
keeping systemic issues in
mind
• Evaluating extension in a
volatile world, Etc.
Evaluating RAS Systems
Guide to Evaluating
Rural Extension
Gfras, 2012
Key points to consider
• What is the purpose ?
• Who are the users of the
results?
• Translation of the complexity
• What is the most appropriate /
best-fit methodology?
Examples
Exp. Most Significant Change;
cost-benefits analysis; Outcome
Mapping; Appreciative Inquiry,
RAAKS, Impact Evaluation
6. GFRAS Evaluation Initiative
GFRAS Function 2: Supporting the development
and synthesis of evidence-based approaches and
policies for improving the effectiveness of RAS
6
Actors : GFRAS; International Reference Group (IRG),
regional networks RELASER, AFAAS, AESA, APIRAS;
FAO, MEAS, IFPRI, Bioversity, Ministry of Agrarian
Development Brazil, Unicamp (Brazil)
Governance : Country Reference Groups, GFRAS
Regional Networks, International Reference Group,
GFRAS Secretariat, GFRAS Steering Committee
7. Key outcomes of the Wageningen meeting
23rd – 24th April, 2015
Building Regional
Capacity for
Assessments &
Evaluations of
Extension Programmes
7
Build regional capacities to do evaluation and
assessments at regional and country level
Aim : develop learning materials based on recent
works, the GFRAS Guide to Evaluation of Rural
Extension etc.
8. Topical Content of training on RAS Evaluation
Stakeholders mapping, Complexity of
RAS in AIS
Planning and M&E, Documentation,
Theory of change and impact pathways
Creating the demand, Accountability
Knowledge management
RAS evaluation methods, tools, and
techniques
8
> Doing evaluation, Using evaluation results, Knowing
the indicators, roles in the assessment to ensure active
involvement, objectives for extension evaluation, role
of different AIS actors, MEL for accountability or
learning etc.
Core
competencies
(cross-cutting)
Specific depending on Audience
9. Outcomes of the Wageningen meeting
The audience
9
Regional level Country level
• Thematic WG on
assessment and
evaluation
• INGOs
• Donors
• Think tanks
/researchers
• Senior staff of RAS providers
• Individual organisations and their
M&E
• RAS systems (CF, MoA etc.)
• Projects & programs
• Extension providers (e.g POs, NGOs)
• Consulting firms
• Universities
• Think tanks/researchers
10. 10
• Identification of the core
competencies for all
audiences
• Typology of key
stakeholders to be involved
>> : Enablers, Managers,
Doers, Trainers, Users of RAS
• Inventory of existing
learning resources
• Inventory of existing
learning resources
F2F for the introduction,
Training modules with case
studies
Mentoring + On the job
training
Self-directed learning
materials
Training of trainers
Backstopping, e-learning
(after training) etc.
Outcomes of the Wageningen meeting
What kind of training mode?
A process to be linked to the GFRAS evaluation initiative, not just
doing training but sharing experiences and documenting
outcomes
11. Recommendations & prospects
• Increase the tools, metrics, and capitalisation of experiences
• Focus on evaluation as learning and on what is really
important and feasible
• Need case studies of how RAS organisations learn
• Involvement of the diversity of Users
• Needs for tools and guidelines as part of capacity
strengthening
• Strategy to mobilise people to do it
11
Definition of boundaries of and roles for GFRAS to carry out the
work – what is the added value and comparative advantage?
12. Recommendations and prospects
- Phase 1 : Elaboration and validation of Outline of the
synthesis of learning materials (Sanne C. Proposed as
synthesiser)
- Phase 2 :
- selection and editing /packaging of appropriate existing
resources according to the difference audiences
- Identify contributors to the difference competencies
12
Timeline
Suggestions: Report ready by end of May
Outline by end of August
Circulated outline and feedback by September (GFRAS meeting)
Detailed outline prepared (October)
Potential contributors identified and tasks assigned (November)
14. Guiding questions
• What do you see as important to evaluate?
• How are you currently evaluating RAS?
• What kind of support do you need to do that
evaluation ?
• Do you have some particular lessons learnt/good
practices to share about implementation of RAS
evaluation and utilization of its outcomes ?
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