InterRegional Capacity Building South South Exchange Goal Address
Inter-Regional Capacity Building: South- South Exchange Goal: Address knowledge gaps using/sharing regionally situated expertise to improve climate variability resilience How will farmers benefit? Improved access to and utilisation of climate services and advisory to enhance income
Measurement of Success • Numbers of trained, socially and gender disaggregated, is one quantity • Critical mass should be attained • Creation of Trust-worthy data/info/advisory services • Multiple indicators needed; not limited to trainee numbers alone • Income and economic indicators linked to Agro advisory
Which Good Practices? • Existing regional centers- their capacity is enhanced • Farmers’ local knowledge linked across regions • Content development is need-based and demand-driven (special groups and gender fully considered)
How will Farmers’ Voices be Heard? • Two-way communication and info flow • Farmers at the center of info value chain • Active benchmarks for Agro Met services established • Active consideration of social and gender equity matters in content and module development • Equal and increasing participation of women trainees
Links to Ongoing Initiatives • Linkages with existing inter-regional and national Agro Met services and institutions • Exchange programs across regions
How to Start? • • Review existing scoping studies Identify gaps Needs Assessment Strategic Planning document – CN – Feasibility Study – Identify donors and investors
Fin and Human Resources • USD Five Millions per phase for three phases (USD 15 M)- ten years • This is only order of mag estimate; details to come later
Members of the WG • • • Prof S G K Adiku (s_adiku@hotmail. com) Dr R S Rana (ranars 66@rediffmail. com) Dr N C Chattopadhyaya (nabansu. nc@gmail. com) Dr Sarah Mc. Kune (smckune@ufl. edu) Dr Manneva Sivakumar (msivakumar@wmo. int) Dr Dominic Pokperlaar(soamipokperlaar@yahoo. com) Dr Patrick Luganda(patrick_luganda@yahoo. com) Dr Kate Nnamani (katennamani@gmail. com) Dr Seleshi Bekele Dr V Balaji (vbalaji@col. org)
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