Integrated soil fertility management affect profitability of soybean in north...africa-rising
Poster prepared by Larbi, A., AddulRahman, N., Kotu, B., Hoeschle-Zeledon, I., Akakpo, D.B. and Mellon S.B. for the AfrIca RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting, Accra, 30 March–1 April 2016
Characterizing adopters of sustainable intensification innovations: Evidence ...africa-rising
Poster prepared by Beliyou Haile (IFPRI) Carlo Azzarri, Cleo Roberts, Zhe Guo and Maria Comanescu for the International Conference on Integrated Systems Research, Ibadan, Nigeria, 3-6 March 2015
Khulisa Management Services- ECD Site Monitoring Instrumentkaleylemottee
This document provides an overview and summary of monitoring conducted of early childhood development conditional grant sites in South Africa between 2003-2004. It finds that:
1) Provincial and district officials were generally satisfied with the training provided and demonstrated relevant learning, though application and impact on organizational performance was only partially achieved.
2) The monitoring and support system was implemented with officials noting it provided structure, but many sites were only visited once and coverage varied significantly between provinces.
3) Provinces generally delivered the conditional grant funds on time, though a minority of sites could not show they received resource kits as intended.
4) Sites that received multiple visits showed progress, with most achieving average or strong performance, though a
Presentation Mrs.Smolka Ursula, Ramboll: costs and benefits when monitoring s...Torben Haagh
Ursula Smolka, Project Engineer at Ramboll in Germany, discusses state of the art load monitoring approaches as well as challenges and benefits of collecting site specific load data for reliability based maintenance as presented at last year’s “Substructures for Offshore UK Wind” conference.
Read the full presentation for free here: http://bit.ly/presentation_Ursulasmolkaramboll
Building and Monitoring Services at LithiumPaul Cichonski
Paul Cichonski's presentation from SF CloudOps Meetup on building and monitoring fault tolerant systems. (http://www.meetup.com/CloudOps/events/159397622/)
The student team tested various aspects of water quality at River Monitoring Site #7, including habitat, macroinvertebrates, total solids, nitrates, phosphates, pH, and dissolved oxygen. The habitat scored poorly due to lack of pools and narrow riparian vegetation. Macroinvertebrate testing found the river's health to be poor. Total solids and phosphates were high, while nitrates and pH were acceptable. Dissolved oxygen was moderate. To improve the river's quality, the team proposes dredging sediment, establishing an "Adopt a River" program, and restricting certain fertilizers. Costs of dredging could be offset through beach fees, equipment rentals, and fertilizer sales
Integrated soil fertility management affect profitability of soybean in north...africa-rising
Poster prepared by Larbi, A., AddulRahman, N., Kotu, B., Hoeschle-Zeledon, I., Akakpo, D.B. and Mellon S.B. for the AfrIca RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting, Accra, 30 March–1 April 2016
Characterizing adopters of sustainable intensification innovations: Evidence ...africa-rising
Poster prepared by Beliyou Haile (IFPRI) Carlo Azzarri, Cleo Roberts, Zhe Guo and Maria Comanescu for the International Conference on Integrated Systems Research, Ibadan, Nigeria, 3-6 March 2015
Khulisa Management Services- ECD Site Monitoring Instrumentkaleylemottee
This document provides an overview and summary of monitoring conducted of early childhood development conditional grant sites in South Africa between 2003-2004. It finds that:
1) Provincial and district officials were generally satisfied with the training provided and demonstrated relevant learning, though application and impact on organizational performance was only partially achieved.
2) The monitoring and support system was implemented with officials noting it provided structure, but many sites were only visited once and coverage varied significantly between provinces.
3) Provinces generally delivered the conditional grant funds on time, though a minority of sites could not show they received resource kits as intended.
4) Sites that received multiple visits showed progress, with most achieving average or strong performance, though a
Presentation Mrs.Smolka Ursula, Ramboll: costs and benefits when monitoring s...Torben Haagh
Ursula Smolka, Project Engineer at Ramboll in Germany, discusses state of the art load monitoring approaches as well as challenges and benefits of collecting site specific load data for reliability based maintenance as presented at last year’s “Substructures for Offshore UK Wind” conference.
Read the full presentation for free here: http://bit.ly/presentation_Ursulasmolkaramboll
Building and Monitoring Services at LithiumPaul Cichonski
Paul Cichonski's presentation from SF CloudOps Meetup on building and monitoring fault tolerant systems. (http://www.meetup.com/CloudOps/events/159397622/)
The student team tested various aspects of water quality at River Monitoring Site #7, including habitat, macroinvertebrates, total solids, nitrates, phosphates, pH, and dissolved oxygen. The habitat scored poorly due to lack of pools and narrow riparian vegetation. Macroinvertebrate testing found the river's health to be poor. Total solids and phosphates were high, while nitrates and pH were acceptable. Dissolved oxygen was moderate. To improve the river's quality, the team proposes dredging sediment, establishing an "Adopt a River" program, and restricting certain fertilizers. Costs of dredging could be offset through beach fees, equipment rentals, and fertilizer sales
Nagios Conference 2013 - Thomas Dunbar - Building Technology for Storage Syst...Nagios
Thomas Dunbar's presentation on Building Technology for Storage Systems Monitoring.
The presentation was given during the Nagios World Conference North America held Sept 20-Oct 2nd, 2013 in Saint Paul, MN. For more information on the conference (including photos and videos), visit: http://go.nagios.com/nwcna
Site Operation Manual for a Typical Air Monitoring SiteTAMUK
1. Mount the sensor on a mast at least 10 feet above any obstructions.
2. Wire the sensor leads to the datalogger channels for voltage input.
3. Program the datalogger to record the wind speed and direction at the appropriate intervals.
LabVIEW Based Monitoring the Building in wireless communicationSathish Kumar
The presented wireless system for building monitoring takes advantage of the unique features of
custom-developed MEMS sensors and read-out ASIC combined with an optimized network and module
architecture, to realize a solution which offers long battery lifetime and potentially low cost in
manufacturing, installation and maintenance, while providing high-quality sensor data at the right
time which can be proposed for monitoring building to assess earthquake damage. Low power network
architecture was implemented over an 802.15.4 MAC in the 900-MHz band.A custom patchantenna
was designed in thisfrequency band to obtain robustlinks in real-worldconditions. The modules have
been validatedin a full-scale laboratory setup with simulated earthquakes. This will be illustrated via
LABVIEW software which shows the Temperature level in the time of Earthquake and which helps in
preventing the human life.
The document discusses ways to productize Drupal services by streamlining development processes. It recommends investing in installation profiles for different verticals, using a features server to package reusable functions, leveraging Drush for automation, and adopting a development environment like Acquia Cloud. For launches, it suggests checking over 100 items covering SEO, performance, security, accessibility and more. Productizing aims to reduce costs for clients and vendors while improving quality standards.
How to build a budget transparency site: 5 easy steps Lucy Chambers
My presentation from the Open Government Partnership 2013 summit in London.
Lessons learned from our experience building OpenSpending sites around the world.
Big Data and Social Monitoring: Building Meaningful RelationshipsEmanuela Zaccone
What does "big data" mean? Which is the importance of a data scientist in a company, and how this role can be strategic, in order to identify and to build new marketing and communication strategies?
Social Media Monitoring must be at the core of an effective circular and never ending process: thanks to it, it is possible to know not just what people is saying about our company but also how they interact and how these conversations can be transformed in strategy. So, it is important to give feedback to the operations and business area, as well as to other units which can be interested by the monitoring.
It is fundamental then that the data scientist - who has at least skills both in statistic and in marketing area - be able to apply classic quantitative analytics (engagement, reach, etc.) and qualitative ones: in this sense the social network analysis can play an interesting role in (re)defining the position of the brand and its relationship with its followers online.
KEYNOTE AT DIGITAL MARKETING & MEDIA SUMMIT, Hamburg
October 24th - 26th 2012
How to Efficiently and Effectively Balance Central Monitoring with On-Site Mo...Target Health, Inc.
This document discusses balancing central and on-site monitoring in clinical trials using risk-based monitoring and electronic data capture. It provides examples from a phase 3 study that showed significant cost savings from replacing many on-site monitoring visits with centralized monitoring of electronic data. Metrics from the study demonstrated faster data entry and review when using electronic data capture compared to paper. The document concludes that risk-based monitoring and electronic data capture can improve efficiency and data quality in clinical trials when used to replace unnecessary on-site monitoring activities with centralized review of electronic data.
Low power wireless sensor network for building monitoringecwayerode
A wireless sensor network is proposed to monitor buildings using strain and acceleration sensors to assess earthquake damage. Sensors are mounted at the base and on each floor to measure settlement, structural response, and seismic activity. The sensors communicate wirelessly using a low power 900MHz network and can operate for up to 12 years on batteries. Acceleration data is transmitted during quakes and used by the base station to remotely trigger recording at other sensor locations across the building.
#lspe Building a Monitoring Framework using DTrace and MongoDBdan-p-kimmel
A talk I gave at the Large Scale Production Engineering meetup at Yahoo! about building monitoring tools and how to use DTrace to get more out of your monitoring data.
Action Plan of the Global Strategy for Improving Agricultural and Rural Stati...FAO
http://www.fao.org/economic/ess/ess-events/afcas/afcas25/en/
Action Plan of the Global Strategy for Improving Agricultural and Rural Statistics in Africa (2011-2018)
Africa RISING Monitoring and Evaluation: Work in progress and 2012/2013 achie...africa-rising
Presented by B. Haile and A. Charles (IFPRI) at the Africa RISING East and Southern Africa annual review and planning meeting, Lilongwe, Malawi, 3-5 September 2013
This document provides an update on the Africa RISING program. It discusses several collaborations and projects that Africa RISING is engaged in to scale up agricultural technologies in multiple countries in Africa. These include partnerships in Tanzania, work with various innovation labs, potential partnerships with other programs, an evaluation of the East and Southern Africa projects, lessons learned from a visit to the CSISA program in India, and next steps for the Africa RISING program including preparing for the next phase.
Africa RISING phase 2 monitoring and evaluation frameworkafrica-rising
Presented by Beliyou Haile, Carlo Azzarri and Apurba Shee at the Africa RISING East and Southern Africa Phase II Planning Meeting, Lilongwe, Malawi, 5-8 October 2016
The document summarizes development projects and knowledge management activities in Zambia. It outlines three key projects - a Rural Finance Programme, Smallholder Livestock Development Project, and Smallholder Agro Processing and Value Addition Programme. It then discusses policy dialogue, monitoring and evaluation, and implementation support activities. Several challenges are noted, including limited human resource capacity. Moving forward, focus areas include strengthening learning and knowledge sharing practices, communication strategies, and using monitoring data for documentation.
Africa RISING West Africa Project—The history and where we are todayafrica-rising
The Africa RISING West Africa Project began in 2011 with brainstorming meetings to plan farming systems intensification projects in Ghana and Mali. An inception workshop in 2012 established the research framework and approach. Africa RISING was launched as a 5-year research program with 3 regional projects in West Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, and the Ethiopian Highlands. The goal is to create pathways for smallholders to move out of poverty through sustainable intensification. Field activities began in 2012 in Ghana and Mali, with research focusing on crop-livestock systems. Challenges implementing the first years included delays establishing baselines and integrating partner organizations.
Overview of MEASURE Evaluation Support to OVC M&E in NigeriaMEASURE Evaluation
This document summarizes MEASURE Evaluation's support for monitoring and evaluation of orphan and vulnerable children programs in Nigeria. It provided technical assistance to strengthen Nigeria's national OVC M&E system, including revising indicators and tools, developing an M&E plan and information system, and building capacity through training over 300 people. Key accomplishments included adapting new PEPFAR OVC indicators, reviewing the national priority agenda, and translating tools into local languages. The way forward focuses on continued advocacy, innovative approaches, institutional capacity building, and improving data use.
This curriculum vitae outlines the extensive experience and qualifications of Nana Opare-Djan. It summarizes that Nana has over 25 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, development planning, project management, and gender consultancy in both the public and private sectors in Ghana. Nana currently holds the position of Acting Head of the Monitoring and Evaluation Division at Ghana's National Development Planning Commission. The CV lists Nana's educational qualifications, professional affiliations, work experience, consultancy engagements, and conferences attended.
This curriculum vitae is for Nana Opare-Djan, who has extensive experience in monitoring and evaluation, development planning, project management, gender consultancy, and strategic planning. They have worked for both public and private sector organizations in Ghana, holding positions at the National Development Planning Commission and the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare. They also have experience providing consultancy and training services in monitoring and evaluation. Nana Opare-Djan has several academic qualifications including a PhD in Development Studies.
Nagios Conference 2013 - Thomas Dunbar - Building Technology for Storage Syst...Nagios
Thomas Dunbar's presentation on Building Technology for Storage Systems Monitoring.
The presentation was given during the Nagios World Conference North America held Sept 20-Oct 2nd, 2013 in Saint Paul, MN. For more information on the conference (including photos and videos), visit: http://go.nagios.com/nwcna
Site Operation Manual for a Typical Air Monitoring SiteTAMUK
1. Mount the sensor on a mast at least 10 feet above any obstructions.
2. Wire the sensor leads to the datalogger channels for voltage input.
3. Program the datalogger to record the wind speed and direction at the appropriate intervals.
LabVIEW Based Monitoring the Building in wireless communicationSathish Kumar
The presented wireless system for building monitoring takes advantage of the unique features of
custom-developed MEMS sensors and read-out ASIC combined with an optimized network and module
architecture, to realize a solution which offers long battery lifetime and potentially low cost in
manufacturing, installation and maintenance, while providing high-quality sensor data at the right
time which can be proposed for monitoring building to assess earthquake damage. Low power network
architecture was implemented over an 802.15.4 MAC in the 900-MHz band.A custom patchantenna
was designed in thisfrequency band to obtain robustlinks in real-worldconditions. The modules have
been validatedin a full-scale laboratory setup with simulated earthquakes. This will be illustrated via
LABVIEW software which shows the Temperature level in the time of Earthquake and which helps in
preventing the human life.
The document discusses ways to productize Drupal services by streamlining development processes. It recommends investing in installation profiles for different verticals, using a features server to package reusable functions, leveraging Drush for automation, and adopting a development environment like Acquia Cloud. For launches, it suggests checking over 100 items covering SEO, performance, security, accessibility and more. Productizing aims to reduce costs for clients and vendors while improving quality standards.
How to build a budget transparency site: 5 easy steps Lucy Chambers
My presentation from the Open Government Partnership 2013 summit in London.
Lessons learned from our experience building OpenSpending sites around the world.
Big Data and Social Monitoring: Building Meaningful RelationshipsEmanuela Zaccone
What does "big data" mean? Which is the importance of a data scientist in a company, and how this role can be strategic, in order to identify and to build new marketing and communication strategies?
Social Media Monitoring must be at the core of an effective circular and never ending process: thanks to it, it is possible to know not just what people is saying about our company but also how they interact and how these conversations can be transformed in strategy. So, it is important to give feedback to the operations and business area, as well as to other units which can be interested by the monitoring.
It is fundamental then that the data scientist - who has at least skills both in statistic and in marketing area - be able to apply classic quantitative analytics (engagement, reach, etc.) and qualitative ones: in this sense the social network analysis can play an interesting role in (re)defining the position of the brand and its relationship with its followers online.
KEYNOTE AT DIGITAL MARKETING & MEDIA SUMMIT, Hamburg
October 24th - 26th 2012
How to Efficiently and Effectively Balance Central Monitoring with On-Site Mo...Target Health, Inc.
This document discusses balancing central and on-site monitoring in clinical trials using risk-based monitoring and electronic data capture. It provides examples from a phase 3 study that showed significant cost savings from replacing many on-site monitoring visits with centralized monitoring of electronic data. Metrics from the study demonstrated faster data entry and review when using electronic data capture compared to paper. The document concludes that risk-based monitoring and electronic data capture can improve efficiency and data quality in clinical trials when used to replace unnecessary on-site monitoring activities with centralized review of electronic data.
Low power wireless sensor network for building monitoringecwayerode
A wireless sensor network is proposed to monitor buildings using strain and acceleration sensors to assess earthquake damage. Sensors are mounted at the base and on each floor to measure settlement, structural response, and seismic activity. The sensors communicate wirelessly using a low power 900MHz network and can operate for up to 12 years on batteries. Acceleration data is transmitted during quakes and used by the base station to remotely trigger recording at other sensor locations across the building.
#lspe Building a Monitoring Framework using DTrace and MongoDBdan-p-kimmel
A talk I gave at the Large Scale Production Engineering meetup at Yahoo! about building monitoring tools and how to use DTrace to get more out of your monitoring data.
Action Plan of the Global Strategy for Improving Agricultural and Rural Stati...FAO
http://www.fao.org/economic/ess/ess-events/afcas/afcas25/en/
Action Plan of the Global Strategy for Improving Agricultural and Rural Statistics in Africa (2011-2018)
Africa RISING Monitoring and Evaluation: Work in progress and 2012/2013 achie...africa-rising
Presented by B. Haile and A. Charles (IFPRI) at the Africa RISING East and Southern Africa annual review and planning meeting, Lilongwe, Malawi, 3-5 September 2013
This document provides an update on the Africa RISING program. It discusses several collaborations and projects that Africa RISING is engaged in to scale up agricultural technologies in multiple countries in Africa. These include partnerships in Tanzania, work with various innovation labs, potential partnerships with other programs, an evaluation of the East and Southern Africa projects, lessons learned from a visit to the CSISA program in India, and next steps for the Africa RISING program including preparing for the next phase.
Africa RISING phase 2 monitoring and evaluation frameworkafrica-rising
Presented by Beliyou Haile, Carlo Azzarri and Apurba Shee at the Africa RISING East and Southern Africa Phase II Planning Meeting, Lilongwe, Malawi, 5-8 October 2016
The document summarizes development projects and knowledge management activities in Zambia. It outlines three key projects - a Rural Finance Programme, Smallholder Livestock Development Project, and Smallholder Agro Processing and Value Addition Programme. It then discusses policy dialogue, monitoring and evaluation, and implementation support activities. Several challenges are noted, including limited human resource capacity. Moving forward, focus areas include strengthening learning and knowledge sharing practices, communication strategies, and using monitoring data for documentation.
Africa RISING West Africa Project—The history and where we are todayafrica-rising
The Africa RISING West Africa Project began in 2011 with brainstorming meetings to plan farming systems intensification projects in Ghana and Mali. An inception workshop in 2012 established the research framework and approach. Africa RISING was launched as a 5-year research program with 3 regional projects in West Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, and the Ethiopian Highlands. The goal is to create pathways for smallholders to move out of poverty through sustainable intensification. Field activities began in 2012 in Ghana and Mali, with research focusing on crop-livestock systems. Challenges implementing the first years included delays establishing baselines and integrating partner organizations.
Overview of MEASURE Evaluation Support to OVC M&E in NigeriaMEASURE Evaluation
This document summarizes MEASURE Evaluation's support for monitoring and evaluation of orphan and vulnerable children programs in Nigeria. It provided technical assistance to strengthen Nigeria's national OVC M&E system, including revising indicators and tools, developing an M&E plan and information system, and building capacity through training over 300 people. Key accomplishments included adapting new PEPFAR OVC indicators, reviewing the national priority agenda, and translating tools into local languages. The way forward focuses on continued advocacy, innovative approaches, institutional capacity building, and improving data use.
This curriculum vitae outlines the extensive experience and qualifications of Nana Opare-Djan. It summarizes that Nana has over 25 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, development planning, project management, and gender consultancy in both the public and private sectors in Ghana. Nana currently holds the position of Acting Head of the Monitoring and Evaluation Division at Ghana's National Development Planning Commission. The CV lists Nana's educational qualifications, professional affiliations, work experience, consultancy engagements, and conferences attended.
This curriculum vitae is for Nana Opare-Djan, who has extensive experience in monitoring and evaluation, development planning, project management, gender consultancy, and strategic planning. They have worked for both public and private sector organizations in Ghana, holding positions at the National Development Planning Commission and the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare. They also have experience providing consultancy and training services in monitoring and evaluation. Nana Opare-Djan has several academic qualifications including a PhD in Development Studies.
The document summarizes the objectives, structure, achievements and planned research activities of PAPA, a Feed the Future project in Senegal. PAPA aims to strengthen Senegal's agricultural policy through capacity building, evidence-based policymaking, and establishing a Local Analysis Network (LAN) of research centers. Achievements include developing an M&E system, collecting survey data on value chains, and initial analyses. Planned research includes scaling up analysis within the LAN and continuing inclusive policy dialogue.
The Technical Analytical Network (TAN) in Mozambique was established in 2017 to provide technical and analytical support for Mozambique's agriculture sector plans and goals. From 2017-2019, the TAN conducted several studies on topics like the impacts of climate change, seed systems, mechanization programs, and fertilizer value chains. The TAN also helped strengthen capacities for Mozambique's agriculture sector monitoring and evaluation. Moving forward, the TAN aims to establish regional branches, conduct more studies aligned with sector goals, and improve coordination to avoid duplication of efforts. Key challenges include building partnerships, resource mobilization, and setting up analytical networks in each development corridor.
October 2007- The use of ICT in Ghana-e-access, (Research ICT, Africa)
organized and coordinated by Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-
STEPRI) and Research ICT, Africa.
13. Research Assistant: September 2007- Ghana Living Standard Survey Round 5
(GLSS 5) organized by Ghana Statistical Service and the World Bank.
14. Research Assistant: August 2007- Ghana Demographic and Health Survey
(GDHS) organized by Ghana Statistical Service and ICF Macro International.
15. Research Assistant: July 2007- Ghana Maternal Health Survey (GMHS)
organized by Ghana Health Service and MEASURE DHS.
16. Research Assistant
Facilitating partnerships and institutional engagements for effective impleme...ILRI
Presented by Ed Rege and Denis Mujibi (Institute of People Innovation and Change in Organizations - Eastern Africa (PICO-EA)), at the Second ACGG Program Management Team Meeting, Arusha, 27-28 January 2016
Regional Engagement:Towards the Establishment of a Data-Science Platform for ...Fatima Parker-Allie
Presentation conducted at the GBIF Governing Board 19 Meeting in Norway. Presentation focused on the GBIF Africa Network and the establishment of a Data-Science Platform for Africa
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Africa RISING project implementation and contribution in Ethiopia. Presented at Africa RISING close-out event.
24-25 January 2023
ILRI campus- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The document summarizes a field visit by Africa RISING CGIAR partners to sites in Ethiopia where they are implementing their new SI-MFS initiative. It describes some innovative farmers in the Lemo and Doyogena districts who have adopted integrated crop-livestock-NRM practices promoted by Africa RISING, including using protein-rich legume fodder trees, energy-rich grasses, and soil and water conservation practices. It also highlights the challenges of water shortage and disease, and the potential for the new SI-MFS initiative to build on the success stories and learning from Africa RISING farmers.
This document summarizes planned and ongoing agricultural research activities and studies in the Ethiopian highlands for 2022. It discusses field activities related to livestock feed and forage development as well as crop varietal selection. It also outlines planned, ongoing, and completed studies on topics like gender and scaling assessments. The document notes legacy products to be developed and capacity building efforts. It describes plans to broadcast livestock innovations through local radio and concludes with noting the planned closure of the Africa Research project in Ethiopia in early 2023.
Haimanot Seifu provided a communications update on the Africa RISING program in the Ethiopian Highlands. Key activities before the program ends this year include producing extension manuals, policy briefs, a special journal issue, and a photo book. Surveys are also ongoing regarding gender, monitoring impacts, spillover effects, and scaling. Africa RISING is partnering with AICCRA on workshops, surveys, training modules, and broadcasting feed and forage technologies on local radio stations. A new initiative called SI-MFS involving mixed farming systems in 6 countries was also launched in May to run initially for 3 years from 2022-2024. Support is needed from CKM for legacy products, facilitating
Technique de compostage des tiges de cotonnier au Mali-Sudafrica-rising
Poster prepared by Moumini Guindo, Bouba Traoré, Birhanu Zemadim Birhanu, and Alou Coulibaly for the 13th Symposium of the Malian Society of Applied Sciences (MSAS), 01 July – 05 August 2022.
Flux des nutriments (N, P, K) des resources organiques dans les exploitations...africa-rising
Poster prepared by Moumini Guindo, Bouba Traoré, Birhanu Zemadim Birhanu, and Alou Coulibaly for the 13th Symposium of the Malian Society of Applied Sciences (MSAS), 01 July 1 – 05 August 2022.
The Africa RISING project in Ethiopia's highlands had the goals of improving food security, gender equality, nutrition, income, and capacity building through sustainable intensification research from 2012-2022. It worked in four regions, implementing tested interventions like improved crops, fertilizers, and mechanization. Over 360,000 households directly benefited from validated technologies in phase two, while over 30,000 people participated in training. The project supported graduate students, published research, and faced challenges like COVID-19 and funding issues before planning its exit strategies.
Eliciting willingness to pay for quality maize and beans: Evidence from exper...africa-rising
Poster prepared by Julius Manda, Adane Tufa, Christopher Mutungi, Arega Alene, Victor Manyong and Tahirou Abdoulaye for the IITA Social Science Group Virtual Meeting, 7 December 2021.
The woman has no right to sell livestock: The role of gender norms in Norther...africa-rising
Presented by Kipo Jimah and Gundula Fischer (IITA) at the virtual conference on Cultivating Equality: Advancing Gender Research in Agriculture and Food Systems, 12-15 October 2021
This document summarizes two assessments conducted by Africa RISING on sustainable intensification and return on investment from 2011-2020. It finds that:
1) The total value of direct benefits to farmers was $74.6 million, while the total project cost was $15.9 million, resulting in a return on investment of 469%.
2) An assessment of progress towards sustainable intensification analyzed households by total production per hectare and compared indicators across five domains. It found that more intensified households showed improved scores in agricultural production, economics, environment, human welfare, and social indicators.
3) A focus on assessments at the woreda (district) level provided insights into differences between communities and guidance for
The document summarizes the results of a nutrition assessment study and lessons learned from it. The study aimed to identify how Africa RISING interventions contributed to household nutrition. It used a qualitative research approach with key informant interviews and focus group discussions in Ethiopia. The results showed that the interventions helped to produce and consume a more diverse and nutritious diet, generate income, and improve knowledge of food production and preparation. However, diet diversity remained low and certain nutrient-rich foods were still limited. Key lessons were that technical nutrition support needs frequent follow-ups, and engaging community leaders and husbands is important for influencing mothers' nutrition practices.
The document discusses plans for scaling assessment of Africa RISING interventions. It notes that Africa RISING's second phase focused on scaling approaches through recruiting scaling partners, training of trainers, multi-stakeholder meetings, and research backstopping. The assessment aims to document scaling practices, identify areas for increased support, and develop an exit strategy as the program period concludes. It will use ILRI's scaling framework over six months to provide a technical report and scientific paper.
This document summarizes a presentation on conducting on-farm trials at scale using crowdsourcing. It discusses the benefits and challenges of traditional on-farm trials, and proposes a solution using digital platforms and farmer participation. Farmers would receive random combinations of varieties to test on their own farms and provide rankings. Data would be collected and analyzed to provide feedback to farmers. The approach aims to increase representation while reducing costs compared to traditional on-farm trials. It outlines 10 steps for implementation, including defining varieties, designing projects, recruiting farmers, preparing packages, data collection, analysis and discussion.
Contribution of Africa RISING validated technologies, nutrition-education interventions to household nutrition and participatory nutrition-education need assessment with seasonal food availability in Amhara, Oromia and SNNP regions of Ethiopia
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin GoedeckeFwdays
How we managed to grow and scale a RAG application from zero to thousands of users in 7 months. Lessons from technical challenges around managing high load for LLMs, RAGs and Vector databases.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
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Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
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Discover top-tier mobile app development services, offering innovative solutions for iOS and Android. Enhance your business with custom, user-friendly mobile applications.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
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The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
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Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
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LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
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-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
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This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
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In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
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Africa RISING West Africa mega site monitoring and evaluation activities: Summary
1. Africa RISING West Africa Mega Site Monitoring
and Evaluation Activities: Summary
Beliyou Haile, IFPRI
Africa RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting,
Bamako, Mali, 3-4 February 2014
2. M&E Activities (Ghana)
Survey design meeting
Household survey tool adaptation
Community survey tool adaptation
Visits to action communities
Re-selection of control communities(next side)
Web-based Project Monitoring and Mapping Tool (PMT)
and protocol (also for Mali)
Compilation of FtF indicators (joint)
Survey firm procurement (Panafields)
Hired a survey manager (Cecilia Tinonin, PhD)
3. M&E Activities (Ghana)
Control sites (Africa RISING)
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Control sites (Africa RISING)
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Action sites (Africa RISING)
Tier 2 sites (Vital Signs)
Tier 4 sites (Vital Signs)
High LGP * High mkt
High LGP * Med mkt
Low LGP * Med mkt
Med-High LGP * Low mkt
Med-High LGP * Med mkt
Med-Low LGP * Med mkt
Selection of new control communities for potential collaboration with Vital Signs in UER and NR
4. M&E Activities (Ghana)
Proposed design for the household survey [# to be
confirmed)
Unit
Action
Control
Total
Community N=25
N=25
50
Household
NC = 250 (25X20)
NT=500
NB = 750 (25X30)
NNB = 250 (25X10)
Equal # beneficiaries per village
List of beneficiaries, intervention type, and their
identifying information will be needed
Census vs. sampling of beneficiaries (logistics, budget,
“statistical” benefit)
5. M&E Activities (Ghana)
Household and Community Surveys - Timeline
Activity
Start date
(2014)
25th Jan
Completion date
(2014)
21th Feb
Household listing
10th Feb
24th Feb
Survey personnel training and piloting (Tamale)
24th Feb
9th Mar
Main field work
10th Mar
7th Apr
Data entry, cleaning and processing
17th Mar
14th Apr
Finalization of work plan/survey
tools/government clearance
6. M&E Activities (Mali)
Draft household survey tool adaption
Community survey tool adaptation
M&E meeting
Visits to action communities
Compilation of FtF indicators (joint)
Survey firm procurement (Marikani)
Hired a French speaking survey manager (Patrice Howard,
PhD)
7. M&E Activities (Mali)
Proposed household survey design [#s to be
confirmed]
Unit
Action
Control
Total
Community
N=10
N=10
20
Household
NB = 300 (10X30)
NNB = 100 (10X10)
NC =200 (10X20)
NT=700
Equal # beneficiaries per villages
List of beneficiaries, intervention type, and
identifying information will be needed
8. M&E Activities (Mali)
Household and Community Surveys - Timeline
Activity
Start date
(2014)
21th Jan
Completion date
(2014)
28th Feb
17th Feb
28th Feb
Survey personnel training and piloting (Bamako)
3rd March
15th Mar
Main field work
17th Mar
11th Apr
Data entry, cleaning and processing
24th Mar
21th Apr
Finalization of work plan/survey tools/government
clearance/ recruitment of survey personnel (Aicha
Consulting & Audit)
Household listing
9. Challenges and (Attempted) Solutions
Delays in submitting application from ISSER…then
withdrawal of its bid (January 17)
Limited options (survey firms) in Mali. CAPI may not work
with Marikani
Limited/ineffective communication with Justice
Office space at IITA and IFPRI-Accra
But Justice nowhere to be found since January 13
M&E team to post a vacancy announcement (potentially
through IWMI).
Encourage competent candidates you may know to apply
10. Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation
africa-rising.net
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