The SubSaharan Africa Challenge Programme SSA CP:

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The Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Programme (SSA
CP)
Securing the future of Africas Children
Wale Adekunle SSA CP Coordinator
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Sub-Saharan Africa time to reverse trends
The SSA-CP aims to contribute to reversing these
trends through large scale cascading innovation
Source (World Bank, 2005)
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Goal and Mission of SSA-CP

• Goal to bring about improved rural livelihoods,
  increased food security and sustainable natural
  resource management throughout sub-Saharan Africa
  as a result of greater impact from agricultural
  research for development

Mission to add value to and enhance the impact
of ongoing agricultural research for development
in sub-Saharan Africa by transforming the way
that sectors and institutions at all levels
approach agricultural research
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IAR4D

• IAR4D derives from the innovation system concept
  and represents an approach to agricultural
  research for development that is
• Integrative, i.e. where actors across entire
  value chains (the system) engage in research for
  development simultaneously (or in parallel)
  drawing on all relevant disciplines
• Participatory
• Iterative learning
• Embeds up-scaling and out-scaling in the research
  process

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IAR4D in SSA

• There are examples of its use in SSA, but it has
  not been validated under the African context at
  scale

The SSA CPs research aims to answer the
questions

• Does IAR4D work in SSA?
• Does IAR4D deliver more benefits to end users
  than conventional approaches
• How sustainable and usable is IAR4D outside the
  test environment

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SSA-CP Pilot Learning Sites (PLS)

• EastCentral Africa Lake Kivu (DR Congo, Rwanda
  and Uganda)
• West Africa Kano-Katsina-Maradi (KKM) (Niger
  Nigeria)
• Southern Africa transect in northern Zimbabwe
  through central Mozambique and into Southern
  Malawi (ZMM)

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Approach of Scaling SSA CP results
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The 3 levels of research in the SSA CP
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Context for testing Innovation Platforms

• Research on INTERFACES of productivity, NRM,
  markets and policy

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The 9 SSA CP projects(1/2)

• East Africa (L.Kivu) based on Watersheds
• More food products and better nutrition at
  reduced cost and minimal degradation of the
  natural resource base ISAR
• Beneficial conservation and sustainable use of
  natural resources Makerere/ICRISAT
• Wealth creation through agro enterprise
  diversification and improved market access CIAT

• Southern Africa (ZMM) based on Value chain
• Expansion of horticulture value chains in
  irrigated and rainfed systems. IPGRI
• Integration of sustainable soil fertility
  management innovations into staple food value
  chains in high and low potential systems
  SOFECSA/CIMMYT
• Integration of efficient water and nutrient use
  innovations in high and low potential cereal
  grains systems TSBF-CIAT

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The 9 projects in the MTP 2/2

• West Africa (KKM) based on agro-ecology
• Innovation platforms to improve livelihoods in
  the Northern Guinea Savannah IFDC
• Sustainable agricultural intensification in the
  Sudan Savannah zone IITA
• Improving rural livelihoods in the Sahel of Niger
  INRAN

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SSA-CP poised for implementation
Expression of interest
Inception
Pre-impl
Research
Jan 2005
June 2006
2009
Jan 2003
Jan 2007

• Conception of the SSA CP
• Consultations and development of proposal
• Selection of PLS
• Review and approval by CGIAR

Research planning Programme implementation ME
Establishment of governance and management
structures Validation of priorities and
formulation of research plan Identification of
multidisciplinary research teams
External review, post review appro-vals Progra-mm
e revision
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Expected Outcomes from the SSA CP

• Increased capacity of systems of innovation
  (partnerships) to generate, use and promote
  technologies and institutional arrangements for
  sustainably improving agricultural productivity,
  access to markets and returns from agric.
  enterprises
• Increased effectiveness and efficiency of ARD
  organisations in discharging their mandates and
  fostering agricultural innovation
• Increased return on investment in agricultural
  research and reduced research to development lag
  time

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Expected Outputs

• Innovation platforms for use across a wide range
  of conditions in Africa
• Technological, institutional and policy options
  targeted on the interface of processes driving
  productivity gains, efficient use of resources,
  the care of the environment and policies and
  markets
• an evaluation of whether IAR4D works and the
  benefits it delivers compared to those delivered
  by traditional approaches

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Expected outcomes

• increased diffusion and adoption of IAR4D by
  Research and Development organizations
• increased awareness of the impact pathway for
  IAR4D.
• increased innovation capacity in SSA agricultural
  systems and
• increased adoption of sustainable productivity
  and profitability enhancing innovations

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IAR4D Impact Pathway
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Research QuestionHypothesis

• Does the IAR4D concept work and can it generate
  International Public Goods (IPGs) and Regional
  Public Goods (RPGs) to end users?
• H1 If an innovation platform is created and is
  functional with the 5 components characterizing
  IAR4D then it will lead to increased interactions
  among partners in the IP compared to where there
  is no IP and increased interactions among farm
  households in communities and better
  Developmental outcomes where IAR4D is in
  operation compared to communities where IAR4D is
  not in operation.

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Hyphothesis

• Does the IAR4D framework deliver more benefits to
  end users than conventional approaches (assuming
  conventional research, development and extension
  approaches have access to the same resources)?
• H2 IAR4D delivers more benefits to end users and
  communities compared to conventional approaches
  (if the conventional ARD approaches have access
  to the same resources).

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Hyphothesis

• How sustainable and usable is the IAR4D approach
  outside its test environment, that is, concerning
  its scaling out for broader impact?
• H3 If IAR4D works in the different PLS contexts
  then it can be extrapolated outside the test
  environments.

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Evaluation Design

• IAR4D villages
• Counterfactual type 1
• Counterfactual type 2

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