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1. Workshop:
‘Innovation Platforms in “Dryland Systems’
15 -17 September 2014
Integrated research for
development
(IRA experience, Tunisia)
Abdelaadhim M. , Fetoui M., Licheheb N., Ouessar M., Sghaier M.
2. Outline
• Integrated research for development, an overview
• Mechanisms to support multi-stakeholder interactions
• Achievement through multi-stakeholder interactions
• Multi-stakeholder interactions in practice
• Constraints & opportunities
• Draw lessons
• Best bet technologies
• Illustrations
3. GENERAL OVERVIEW ON OUM ZESSARWATERSHED
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LACALISATION: Southern Tunisia
3 zones: BH, MN and SM
4. GENERAL OVERVIEW ON OUM ZESSAR WATERSHED
• Oum Zessar key biophysical and socio-economic characteristics
degraded drylands;
low rainfall; water scarce;
rapid population growth and urbanization
communal and private agrarian system;
expansion of irrigated agriculture (olive trees
and cereals)
• Water availability is therefore, a major constraint for
pastoral, and domestic activities.
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High diversity of stakeholders involved in Oum Zessar
Watershed development and livelihood improvement
Relevance for the IP process
5. Organisation of Arid Zone Institute
Un Secrétariat
Général chargé des
affaires
administratives et
financières
05 Laboratoires de
Une Unité de
Valorisation
des Acquis de la
Recherche
Recherche
Une Unité
d’Information
et de
Documentation
Un Service
de Formation
6. منهجية التطوير التكنولوجي لأفكار المشاريع
مخابر البحث
القيام بالبحوث العلمية
نتائج البحوث القابلة للتثمين
فضاء تثمين نتائج البحوث
إنتقاء أفكار المشاريع
إحتضان و إيواء المشاريع
فضاء التطوير التكنولوجي
التطوير التكنولوجي للأفكار
التأطيرالخاص
الدعم اللوجستي
مراقبة الجودة
تحاليل النتائج
باعثون جدد
أفكار مشاريع
لجنة التسيير
إختيار المشاريع
محضنة المؤسسات
إعداد مخطط الأعمال
إعداد دراسة السوق
إعداد الدراسة المالية
تأطير الباعثين
إجراء علاقات مع المؤسسات المالية
الفضاء الإقتصادي
تركيز المؤسسة
الإنطلاق بالإنتاج
Laboratories
Research
results and
scientific
findings
Selected
Projects
Technologies
adaptation
and
development
Implementation of
the project in the
economic area
New
promoters
(private,
external
initiative
Evaluation &
selection
Incubators
8. Integration issues
Water
resource
Water and
soil
conservatio
n
Agriculture
production
Thematic dimensions
Forest &
rangeland
• Inter-thematic
• Inter-territories
• inter-scale
– Temporal and spatial
Economic
tools and
incentive
measures
• Inter-actors, stakeholders and partners
• Inter-economic sectors
• .....
Spatial dimensions
national
regional
local
9. Synergies among past and ongoing
projects
DESIRE
- Study site
- Participatory approaches
- Survey and databases
- Scenario building
- Biophysical modelling
- Socio-economic
modeling
CC/GIZ
DNSE
WLI
CRP11
LUPIS PGRN
AFROMAISON
ACCCA
LADA
DESURVEY
10. Needs for synergies
• Donors (EU, WB, BAD, etc.) requests and encourages
synergies between projects and teams
• Synergies are an obligation and finality at the same
time in Tunisian case :
– Integration of approaches
– Complementarities between activities
– Save time
– Save money
– Reduce overlap
– Avoid stakeholders fatigue (multi stakeholders
workshops)
– Efficiency and value added
11. Mechanisms to support multi-stakeholder
interactions
• Consolidation of the partnership with local stakeholders
(CRDA, GDA and NGOs)
• The renovation of the partnership convention
• Synergy within European projects
• Enhance capacity and skills of the Tunisia team (many
training courses, workshops have been established
concerning a variety of subjects)
• Call for external interventions ( facilitators, organization etc.)
• Continuity and engagement to fellow up
• Paying attention to details (Workshops time and location,
representatively and effectiveness of stakeholders,
12. Achievement through multi-stakeholder
interactions
• Findings from past experiences
– Providing opportunity for stakeholders to participate in an interactive policy
dialogue
– Ex-post and ex-ante policies/strategies impact assessment,
– Sharing lessons learned from experiences and improve approaches and tools;
– Watershed of Oum zessar : Elaboration of an operational integrated
management plan ( OIMP) for Oum Zessar watershed
• Up-scaling of OIMP to regional and national level
– Meet different projects requirements
– Skills and capacities enhancement (share materials & tools)
– Joint learning process
– Increase social awareness
– Enhance involvement and partnership;
– Knowledge sharing
– Up taking of technologies, approaches and tools for development
13. • Ongoing experience
– Identifying key commodities for livelihoods
– Strengthening farm income
– Reviving and renewing our stakeholders networks
– Be an example to fellow by an other national site,
organizations, NGOs etc. for the same or for
another issues
– Skills and capacities enhancement
14. Process and main findings of the
implementation of Partnership
framework in the case study of
Tunisia : Main phases
15. CRDA (regional
commissary of
agricultural
development) :
• D. Agricultural
development &
statistics
• Division of finance
and social
organization
• Division of Water
and soil
conservation,
• D. Water resources,
• D. Forest and
rangeland
Local administration of agricultural
development of Beni Khedache
OEP (Office of livestock and pasture);
ODS (Office of development of the South;
CBOs (Communities basic
organizations):
• SMSA (Mutual agricultural BK services
company)
• GDA (Grouping of agricultural
development Dhahar Rangeland)
• GDA Bhayra
• Collective land Management Consult
UTAP (Tunisian union of agriculture and
fishing);
UNF (Women
union
organization)
UTICA (Industrial
and traders
union)
Key administrations:
Main stakeholders
Banks (Credits, subsidies, BNA, SB, etc.)
National agencies of promoting agricultural
NGOs
• AJZ (Association of young of
Zammour),
• ASPAB (Boughrara),
• Association of Yanabiï (Women ONGs)
• ADESM (Association of development
and strategic studies of Medenine);
• Other Local NGOs
investment (APIA, API)
National administrations (IRESA, General
Directions of Production, etc.)
Farmers (Men, Women, Young)
• Breeders
• Olive trees producers
• Mixed farming system
• Irrigators
Researchers
• IRA (Arid Zones
Institute)(Multidisciplinary team, 15
researchers)
• Laboratory of Eromolgy
• Laboratory of socio economy
• Labo of Rangeland and ecology
• Labo of animal sciences
• Labo of Agronomy
• Olive Institute (IO)
• ICARDA
• …
16. Phase 0 :
design &
agreement
Adaptation and validation of AFM
framework (phases, etc.)
Agreement
Governance of the agreement :
Steering committee
Common commitment to make use
of the AFM framework to produce
IPNRM plan
17. Phase 1:
Situation
assessment
& scenario’s
Preliminary field
investigations, WP2
Organization of a SW
June 2011
Elaboration of the
“Rapid Assessment
report, IRA-OSS-ICRAF,
Identification of main
scénarios (WP 6)
18. 5 thematic working
groups (GTT)
3 territorial working
groups
Identification of actions (INRM,
management & local Development
40 action sheets
Phase 2 : Option
assessment & design
What options have been considered
/how?
19. Phase 3 :
integration of
options & strategies
Elaboration of PAIP BVOZ
Projet AFROMAISON OSS-IRA-CRDA Médenine
(Appuyé par l’Union Européenne, PCRD N°7 de l'UE)
Elaboration du plan intégré participatif d’aménagement du bassin
versant d’Oum Zessar
(Gouvernorat de Médenine)
Draft Septembre 2013
20. Scenarios assessment in
collaboration with PIK (WP6) ;
Financial and economic assessment
(Economic Instruments) in
collaboration with INR (WP4) ;
Ecosystem services assessment (ESS
mapping and vulnerability) in
collaboration with WPs: 1, 3 and 6 ;
Assessment of water balance
(WEAP) in collaboration with IWMI
(WP3) ;
Phase 4 :
Testing strategy
21. Phase 5 :
Implementation
procedure)
Steering commitee for validation of PAIP
BVOZ (3 october)
Communication strategy to support local
actors to uptake the INRM plan decision
for funding & for its integration to the
national WSC and INRM strategies
Extrapolation of the approach to other
watershed in the district and in a similar
contexts
22. Main steps of AFROMAISON framework adaptation and of
elaboration of integrated management plan
First Muti-stakeholders
First Steering
committee
with
Champion
December
16, 2011
workshops14-16
December 2011
Second steering
committee
meeting
January 6, 2011
Scenario
elaboration
and second
stakeholders
workshop
February 16,
2012 (WP6)
AFROMAISON
project
meeting 5-11
March, 2012
Outcome : Validation of the
methodological framework,
approach and action plan
Outcome :
Validation
chronogram
and
responsibility
Outcome
Identification
of scenarios
on INRM
Outcome : Charing
information with
AFRMAISON
partners (WP,
coordination,
African team) &
Validation of
chronogram of
activities
23. Main steps of AFROMAISON framework adaptation and of
elaboration of integrated management plan
Third Muti-stakeholders
workshops
April 17 2012
Third steering
committee
meeting April 4,
2011
Fourth Muti-stakeholders
workshops Mai
9 2012
Fifth Muti-stakeholders
workshops Mai
17 2012
Sixth Muti-stakeholders
workshops
Mai 30, 2012
Outcome : 5 Thematic working
groups between Stakeholders and
researchers started identification
Outcome : Reporting to
Steering committee on the
regional workshop Ethiopia) &
Validation of chronogram of
activities
actions
Outcome : 3
Territorial
working groups
between
Stakeholders and
researchers
started
identification
actions
Outcome :
Integration
holistic vision,
additional
identified
actions,
validation, next
steps
24. Main steps of AFROMAISON framework adaptation and of
elaboration of integrated management plan
Working groups
(action,
summary, etc)
June- August
2012
Fourth steering
committee
meeting and
stakeholders
workshop July
17, 2012
Seventieth
Muti-stakeholders
workshops
September 6
2012
Outcome : application of
WP3 (scoring of ESS), WP4
(Application of DS tools, WP6
(Rescoring of indicators) and
WP7 tools (WAG)
Outcome :
Information,
communication, WPs
interaction, Integration,
Worksheet actions,
validation, next steps ,
adaptation etc.
Outcome : Woking
groups activities,
continuation of data
collection, integration,
interaction with partners
25. MULTI STAKEHOLDERS WORKSHOP BENI KHEDACHE SITE (MEDENINE GOUVERNORATE)
December 14th, 2013, Beni Khedache, Tunisia
Composition of the participants by Stakeholder type and gender
Stakeholders Man Women Total
NGOs 7 6 13
Researchers (IRA) Medenine 7 1 8
Researchers (Regional centre of agricultural
2 0 2
research) Sidi Bouzid
International researchers (ICARDA) 2 0 2
Regional department of agricultural development
8 1 9
CRDA Medenine
Regional department of agricultural development
CRDA Sidi Bouzid
1 1 2
Development office of the south 0 1 1
CBOs (Agricultural and development grouping) 1 0 1
Regional union of agriculture 3 0 3
Farmers 2 0 2
Total 33 10 43
27. List of participants, 1st learning alliance (Beni Khedeche) June 3-4 2014
15 farmers producing different types of crops (at least 5-7 of these should be women and preferably not wives of the male
farmers);
3 representatives from NGO’s working in the area of the site on social issues, women issues, or agricultural development;
3 representatives from the post-farm gate value chain (processors, input suppliers, etc.);
1 representative from a local department of the Ministry of Agriculture (should be someone who works in the field and not
an administrator or director);
2 representatives from public and private extension services;
1 representative from a microcredit institution (lending officer if possible, and not a director or administrator);
2 representatives – 1 each from the local community who work in the education and health sectors (nurses, teachers, etc.
and not directors or administrators – they can be retired);
5 youth from the community (between the ages of 18 and 25) and from which at least 2 should be female;
3 members from local agricultural cooperatives (if they exist);
1-2 representative from any government agencies or programmes that support social or agricultural development.
29. Planned : Second learning
alliance BK, 29 sept. – 3 October
2014
Expected outcomes:
• Agreement on IP to be implemented
• Action plan 2014-2016
• Planning
30. Best bet technologies
• Water harvesting technologies to enhance
olive productivity
• Supplemental irrigation to stabilize and
increase of productivity of olive trees
• Olive Oil Producers Grouping (value chain,
clustering, etc.)
• Social organization (CBOs, SMSA, GDA)
31. Constraints & opportunities
Different stakeholders have different
information needs because they
make different types of decisions.
The information communicated
to stakeholders must address
their needs and concerns.
Decision makers use research findings to
make decisions regarding policies, resource
allocation, and strategic planning.
32. Researchers provide scientific findings & information to
empower stakeholders in making evidence-based decisions.
Yet, research is frequently not available, accessible, relevant,
or useful, which limits its applicability for improving rural
and agricultural systems.
Developing an information dissemination strategy is likely to
increase stakeholders’ research uptake.
33. Community engagement and collaboration
challenges in terms of
Relationships between stakeholders in terms of trust,
respect, information sharing, and improved negotiation;
Communications, demonstrated commitment, and
information sharing;
Accountability of all community members involved
34. In addition, information disseminated to
stakeholders should emphasize key
findings for action and include
recommendations that are useful.
The need to adapt research findings for
each stakeholder group in a user-friendly
manner,
Decision makers generally prefer key
messages that are concise and actionable.
The need for developing a
communication strategy:
• Objectives
• which stakeholders to target for information
dissemination
• appropriate channels of communication