AICCRA Concept Notes
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Item Étude du fonctionnement et de l’organisation des coopératives d’AICCRA et leurs impacts sur les membres(Other, 2024-07) Mbow, Khalifa; Worou, Nadine; Huyer, Sophia; Wane, Abdrahmane; Thiaw, Moussa; Sarr, Etienne AlouiseCette note conceptuelle examine les coopératives mises en place/redynamisées par le projet AICCRA au Sénégal. En réponse à la vulnérabilité accrue des agriculteurs face au changement climatique, cette étude vise à comprendre le contexte, l'organisation, et les impacts de ces coopératives sur leurs membres, en particulier les femmes et les jeunes. Utilisant des méthodes qualitatives comme des entretiens et des focus groupes, l'enquête se concentre sur les clusters comme Méouane, Thiel, et Daga Birame. Les résultats attendus incluent une meilleure compréhension des pratiques agricoles intelligentes face au climat, une identification des vulnérabilités et des avantages des coopératives pour leurs membres, notamment en termes de productivité, de revenus, et d'autonomisation.Item Évaluation des effets de la Communauté de Pratiques (CoP) AICCRA-Sénégal dans le renforcement des capacités et des réseaux sociaux des acteurs institutionnels membres(Other, 2024-07) Diallo, Abdoulaye Moussa; Houéssionon, Prosper; Worou, Omonlola Nadine; Wane, AbdrahmaneUne communauté de pratique (CoP) est un groupe d’individus ayant des caractéristiques communes basées sur des activités socioprofessionnelles et/ou des thématiques de recherche. En combinant leurs ressources, les parties prenantes forment un « groupe épistémique » capable d’insuffler le changement vers le progrès dans un secteur donné. Suivant cette perspective, le projet AICCRA-Sénégal a mis en place une CoP regroupant des experts en agriculture et en élevage pour coproduire des conseils agro-climatiques destinés aux agro-pasteurs. Ce cadre réunit des institutions publiques et privées dont les styles de management, les principes professionnels, les intérêts individuels... ne sont pas toujours convergents. L’objectif de cette recherche est d’analyser les effets de cette organisation dans le renforcement des capacités et des réseaux des acteurs institutionnels membres. Cette étude a pour but de faire ressortir les jeux de pouvoir, les rapports de travail ainsi que la configuration du processus décisionnel dans la coproduction de conseils agro-climatiques. Les résultats devront permettre de déterminer les impacts (positifs ou négatifs) de la participation à la CoP dans les activités de routine pour chaque institution membre.Item Rapport intermédiaire des rencontres de la Communauté de Pratiques (CoP) AICCRA-Sénégal de l’année 2024(Other, 2024-07-19) Diallo, Abdoulaye Moussa; Sarr, Adama; Thiaw, Moussa; Worou, Omonlola Nadine; Wane, AbdramaneUne Communauté de Pratiques (CoP) est un groupe d’individus ayant des caractéristiques communes basées sur des activités socioprofessionnelles et/ou des thématiques communes de recherche. Depuis 2023, le projet AICCRA-Sénégal a mis en place une CoP, qui regroupe des experts en agriculture et en élevage, afin de coproduire des conseils agro-climatiques destinés aux agro-pasteurs. Ce cadre réunit chaque mois des institutions publiques et privées, des ONG et des associations durant lequel les acteurs conjuguent leurs ressources et leurs savoir-faire pour apporter des réponses adéquates aux problématiques saillantes des agro-pasteurs dans les régions d’intervention du projet : Thiès, Kaolack, Louga et Tambacounda. En 2024, trois rencontres ont été organisées pour discuter de diverses questions allant de la formation à la remobilisation des partenaires, en passant par le bilan quantitatif des bénéficiaires touchés, les stratégies innovantes de lutte contre le vol du bétail, le groupage des services existants avec l’information climatique, le respect des procédures de sauvegarde socio-environnementale ainsi que les perspectives d’études et de recherches sur les gaps de connaissances actuels.Item Processus d’installation des clubs d’écoute : Un outil communautaire de monitoring des informations agro-climatiques(Other, 2024-07-18) Diallo, Abdoulaye Moussa; Worou, Nadine; Diedhiou, Lamine; Wane, AbdrahmaneLe projet AICCRA-Sénégal a mis en place le club d'écoute communautaire (CEC) pour critiquer, discuter et proposer des améliorations du contenu des conseils agro-climatiques fournis par les experts réunis autour de la Communauté de pratique (CoP). Un club d’écoute est composé entre six et dix membres, hommes ou femmes. Ils/elles sont des bénéficiaires des conseils de ces experts à travers divers canaux (émissions radios, messages audio) et partageant un certain nombre de caractéristiques sociodémographiques : âge, sexe, activité socioprofessionnelle... L’objectif assigné aux membres est de suivre la qualité, la pertinence, l'exactitude et la compréhension des contenus des informations agro-climatiques par les bénéficiaires. La capitalisation des résultats issus des CEC autorise une amélioration qualitative du contenu des informations livrées par les experts à travers les radios communautaires. Il s'agit, à cet égard, d'un nouvel outil de monitoring de la qualité des activités réalisées dans le cadre de la communication pour le développement rural.Item Multi-hazard Early Warning for All Action Plan for Africa (2023-2027)(Internal Document, 2023-12) World Meteorological Organization; United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction; African Union; International Telecommunication Union; International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent SocietiesThe Early Warning for All (EW4All) Action Plan is a comprehensive initiative in Africa aimed at improving early warning systems across the continent to enhance disaster preparedness and response. The initiative outlines the key objectives, strategies, and expected outcomes. The primary objective of the initiative is to strengthen early warning systems in Africa, ensuring that timely and accurate information about natural hazards and impending disasters reaches all segments of society, particularly the most vulnerable populations. This follows the UN Secretary General call that seeks to ensure that every person worldwide is protected by early warning systems by 2027. The Action Plan is anchored on existing continental strategies and initiatives to build resilience that include the Africa Regional Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Programme of Action for the implementation of Sendai Framework 2015-2030 in Africa, the Africa Climate Change and Resilient Development Strategy and Action Plan 2022- 2032, the Revised Integrated Africa Strategy for Meteorology (Weather and Climate Service), Action on Water Adaptation and Resilience (AWARe), among others. It aims to support the implementation of the EW4All initiative in Africa and to also strengthen the operationalization of AMHEWAS to bridge existing gaps and establish continent-wide early warning systems coverage by 2027. EW4All Action Plan is fully aligned with Agenda 2063, ‘The Africa we want’, the Africa Climate Change Strategy, the 2030 global agenda and supports key Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction provisions and the Paris Agreement on climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals on poverty, hunger, health, water, clean energy, climate action and sustainable cities.Item Comments to the African Union Commission on the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Action Plan(Other, 2023-03) Chesterman, Sabrina; Chevallier, Romy; Huyer, Sophia; Zougmoré, Robert B.; Zebiak, Stephen E.; Siebert, Stefan; Barczak, Piotr; Thornton, Philip K.The Africa Union Commission (AUC) drafted an African Fertilizer and Soil Health Action Plan (AFSH) and a Soil Initiative for Africa (SIA) for launching at the Africa Fertilizer summit in June 2023. The AFSH is a ten-year (2023-2033) plan to provide guidance on integrated soil fertility maintenance, including the correct use of fertilizer to ensure soil health in Africa. The SIA is a practical initiative to develop an African system for soil management and to implement actions at the continental, sub-regional, and country levels. This document, submitted by AICCRA to the African Union, gives key recommendations based on a review of the draft AFSH. Key points include: support and promote local organic fertilizers and soil improvers from organic waste, reform subsidies and incentives, include climate-smart agriculture (CSA) innovations, include gender and youth to promote soil health, and manage risks associated with climate variability and climate change. Further, more specific recommendations were given in the draft document.Item Remote training on updating ENACTS datasets with MALI-METEO(Report, 2023-05) Faniriantsoa, Rija; List, GenevaIn many parts of Africa, the primary source of climate data is observation by ground-based weather stations. The main strength of these station observations is that they provide the true measurements of the climate variable of interest. However, in many places, stations are sparse, declining in number, and unevenly distributed. By integrating observations with grided satellite data, ENACTS overcomes issues of data scarcity and poor quality, and introduces quality-assessed, spatially and temporally complete data services into national meteorological agencies. The goal of ENACTS is to provide reliable and readily accessible climate data at high resolution to decision makers. A remote training on updating ENACTS datasets was given to National Meteorological Agency of Mali (L’Agence Nationale de la Météorologie du Mali, MALI-METEO) staff.Item AICCRA-Senegal Gender-Smart Accelerator Grant concept note(Report, 2022-11-29) Derenoncourt, Marie Ena; Jaquet, StéphanieThe goal of the Gender Smart Accelerator Grant is to develop a pipeline of gender responsive CSA business models that can be matched with private investor capital in Senegal. While climate change is an economic reality affecting the agricultural sector, women farmers lack access to inputs, information, and finance to innovate with climate solutions. This creates a gender productivity gap and increases women’s vulnerability to climate change. AICCRA-Senegal will promote gender-smart investments in partnership with national, regional and the private sector actors to address development and business challenges related to the scaling of CSA technology packages.Item Gender and Climate Services Resources(Other, 2022-06-08) Nsengiyumva, Gloriose; Rose, AlisonWomen and men farmers can be differentially vulnerable to climate related risk due in part to the varied roles and responsibilities that they carry out in their communities and households. While climate services can be critical for enhancing farmers’ adaptive capacities, women and men can face varying opportunities and challenges to access climate services and implement climate information in agricultural decision-making. The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) had various activities that acknowledged these differences in risks, and one of the priorities of the climate services flagship was ensuring that women benefitted from climate services initiatives. The following resources represent information, analysis, and recommendations, drawing from CCAFS’s climate services and gender activities. This bibliography serves as a first step to a broader framework that will be available throughout the AICCRA project.Item Multi-stakeholder Dialogue Space Together Scaling Climate Smart Agriculture and Climate Information Services in Zambia - Concept Note(Brief, 2022-02-20) Mutenje, Munyaradzi; Pele, Winnie; Ngowenani, Nohayi; Jacobs-Mata, Inga; Thai Thi Minh; Dahl, Hauke; Mapedza, Everisto D.; Homann-Kee Tui, Sabine; Ngwira, Amos R.; Mudege, Netsayi N.; Kakwasha, Keagan; Mudzungaire, Lizzy; Gbegbelegbe, SikaAICCRA’s approach to facilitating CSA-CIS MSDs in Zambia is to interact with existing and relevant MSP through AICCRA CSA-CIS MSD Space at the regional, national level and sub national level. The CSA-CIS MSD Space is a physical and institutional space where members come together to exchange ideas and jointly explore opportunities to scale CSA-CIS innovations in specific agro-ecological contexts (Minh et al. 2020). Together, members in the CSA-CIS MSD Space enable the sustainable and inclusive scaling of CSA-CIS innovation bundles in key CSA value chain to benefit particularly lower part of the pyramid. Figure 1 illustrates the CSA-CIS MSD Space, presenting objectives, operational mechanism and thematic focus of collaboration with the intended new and existing groups of MSPs.Item Internship and innovation program under the Accelerating the Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project in Zambia(Brief, 2022-03-31) Thai Thi Minh; Jacobs-Mata, Inga; Mutenje, Munyaradzi; Pele, Winnie; Ngowenani, Nohayi; Muzungaire, LizzyThe Accelerating Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project works to deliver a climate-smart African future driven by science and innovation in agriculture. AICCRA does this by enhancing access to climate information services (CIS) and climate-smart agricultural (CSA) to millions of smallholder farmers in Africa. Under AICCRA-Zambia, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) partners with national universities and private sector entities to implement the internship and innovation grant program with the private sector (I2G program) to generate capabilities of individuals and institutions to deliver on the ‘translational research’ into business and commercialization. The I2G program supports young entrepreneurs and young professionals through the private sector working experience and demand-driven innovation development. The overall objective of I2G program is to build greater trust, knowledge sharing, and collaboration between the private sector, public sector, and research institutions that, in turn, contribute to an enabling environment to scale CSA-CIS bundles in an economically and environmentally sustainable way. Specific objectives of the I2G program include: support young entrepreneurs and young professionals through the private sector working experience and demand-driven innovation development; catalyze contextually relevant technical, social and financial innovations to support CSA-CIS scaling; create scientific evidence to catalyze innovative approaches to CSA agribusiness; create and foster national research – private sector partnerships to catalyze CSA-CIS scaling; and strengthen systemic capacity to be responsive and inclusive to scaling of CSA-CIS bundles. The I2G program has been implemented through five modalities: the internship with private sector entities, CSA-CIS hackathon for innovation development, business incubation for innovation commercialization, CSA-CIS demand-driven research, and CSA-CIS integration into educational curriculums. Centre to these modalities is the co-identification of CSA-CIS-related needs and challenges in relation to CSA-CIS scaling in Zambia which private sector actors, including smallholder farmers, are facing with.Item AICCRA Zambia Accelerator Concept Note(Brief, 2021-10) Dahl, Hauke; Jacobs-Mata, IngaAICCRA Zambia in partnership with national incubators and the private sector will nurture innovations through the provision of incubator/accelerator grants for startups/SME’s working in CIS delivery and CSA technology scaling to de-risk scaling innovations and to enhance climate resilience of value chains, social inclusion, and sustainable use of land and water. It will also work to identify gender and youth vulnerability within the food system and identify potential entry points to build resilience as effected by climate change through user-centred co-design to enhance gender and social inclusion in terms of user preference to the solution as well as increase access to the solution.Item Concept Note: Aquaculture working group for CIS delivery and CSA scaling in Zambia(Report, 2021-12-22) Mudege, Netsayi N.; Kakwasha, Keagan; Siamudaala, VictorThis concept note describes the strategy for setting up a Community of Practice (CoP) for Climate Information Services (CIS) delivery and climate-smart agriculture (CSA) Scaling for Zambia for Integrated agriculture aquaculture systems under the AICCRA project in Zambia. This document gives a background to climate change issues in the aquaculture sector in Zambia. It also explains what the bundle seeks to achieve, the objective of the CoP, its membership, expected results, and how the CoP will be set up.