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2. Creating a catalogue of baseline data and indicators that countries can use to establish current populations' status and measure how investments affect resilience over time.
3. Developing spatial tools to identify hotspots for drought risk and predicted livestock mortality to better target investments.
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Technical consortium for building resilience in the Horn of Africa
1. AATP – Virtual Information Platform, East
AATP, 9th May 2014, Nairobi
Technical Consortium for
Building Resilience in the Horn
of Africa
Katie Downie, PhD
2. 2
Objective
• To harness CGIAR and other research for application to enhance the
resilience of populations living in the drylands in the Horn of Africa
How do we do this?
• Working with partners (donors, research institutions, academia and
governments) to develop analytical tools to enhance decision analysis
support for rational and equitable implementation of the investment
plans (Country Programme Papers) designed to enhance resilience in the
Horn
• Developing sound M&E systems, including baseline datasets, outcome
indicators and impact indicators to monitor progress of investments
towards impact on standard human development indicators (health,
nutrition, living standards, education etc.) and eventually resilience
Working with IGAD Member States
3. 3What do we need to know?
• How well are current and proposed investments (CAADPs,
NAIPs, CPPs – Horn of Africa) being informed by the best
technical advice available?
• What is the criteria that has been used to select an innovation
and what evidence has been used to design investments and
interventions? Do the innovations from the IARCs reflect the
demand from farmers?
• What is the potential in terms of economic transformation
through technology and innovation in agriculture in Africa? Ie.,
how do we identify opportunities for agricultural technology
and innovation to scale up to 20 million+ people?
4. 4What do we need to know?
• How involved is the private sector; commercial entities – eg.,
agri-business, market traders etc and in which technologies?
Why does the private sector pushing a particular technology?
What rationale did they use to decide it was the best one?
• How can we find appropriate technologies for CPPs and other
investment planning documents? How do we test and trial
these? Can we develop a systematic process?
• What do we know about existing data evidence for different
technology solutions….is it useful? Do we have empirical
evidence for impact?
7. 7
Catalogue for data to measure impact of investments on enhanced
resilience
A baseline data catalogue which contains meta data and links to raw
data which the IGAD member states can use to populate baselines to
establish current status of populations with respect to different
indicators (mainly sustainable development indicators) AND which will
house subsequent data as it becomes available from
projects/activities that have been rolled out in the drylands investment
plans for the IGAD region.
Data Management Plan
– Includes details on what data is available and/or will be
generated throughout project lifecycle, when, by whom, and
whether final datasets are publicly accessible and where
– Explicitly address licensing, ownership, IP, and confidentiality
issues
Data catalogues
8. 8
Process
• Collection, curation and cataloguing of existing datasets ✔
• Systems review and identification of relevant resilience
indicators ✔
• Validation of systems indicators
• Mapping of indicators (project-related)
• Gap analysis wrt. periodicity, target population, spatial scale
– need for harmonization
• Strategy to generate missing data (primary or modeled) –
linking with existing programs, eg. Statistics from Space,
SERVIR, Member States, etc.
Member State Baseline Datasets
9. 9
Points to consider
• Need to ensure that choice of data catalogues etc conforms
to existing efforts by CGIAR, member states’ National
Bureaux of Statistics, donors etc. (Dataverse, CKAN, Socrata
etc)
• Must ensure that member states see value and benefit to
cataloguing data, otherwise they will not maintain the
catalogues, ie, develop and enforce protocols for data
standards, routine surveys, uploading of data
Member State Baseline Datasets
10. 10Livestock-Feed Imbalance
• Sources:
• FAO - Gridded Livestock of the World
• TAMSAT, Reading University - TARCAT
Rainfall estimate
• MODIS - Continuous Fields Dataset
(Treecover)
• WorldClim - Bioclim 1
Rangeland condition is assessed by
comparing an estimate of dynamic carrying
capacity (LSU/km2) at 0.5 km resolution
for that year with the FAO and ERGO
Gridded Livestock of the World data at 5
km2 resolution (2000 / 2005). Livestock
densities will have changed since the GLW
data were collated but it represents the
best spatial data currently available.
11. 11Poverty Headcount Ratio
No measure of sub-national
poverty currently available
for Somalia, Sudan and
Eritrea.
Majority of nationally –
representative surveys
ignore nomadic populations
(survey sample is biased
towards urban areas).
15. 15
Next steps:
• Refine model for resilience - At present this is rudimentary – the
more one is able to reduce risk and reduce the time to recover
from a shock, the more resilient one is
• Weighting of the variables within the composite indicators needs to
be validated
• Develop models which can forecast ie, look at the impact of
investment in a particular sector with respect to the effect in
variables in different systems, within systems, to different impacts
and outcomes
• Ensure that the best datasets are being used
• Ensure that dynamics of the social and ecological systems are well
reflected, taking into account production dynamics in extensive
systems
Composite Indicator Development
17. 17
• We need to monitor impact of technology and innovation on
populations
• How will we reflect impact? Standard development indicators
such as MDG>SDG, HDI – health, education etc
• Do we have the data to put together a baseline?
Demographic data, health, education, nutrition, agricultural
data etc. to do this?
• Do we have panel datasets over long enough time periods to
reflect changes in standard development indicators?
• Do we know which indicators to monitor to look at attribution
over longer temporal scales? Impact pathways etc….
Issues relevant to M&E