Action+Point+Tracker

=Action Point Tracker=

This list is updated after each monthly team meeting and other important meeting. Action points are tracked from most recent to most ancient.

Humidtropics ILRI: Beth, Zelalem, Alan, Randall, Abeera; CIP: Britta; ICRAF: Kiros; IWMI: Teklu; AVDRC: ??? WLE: Simon || Unclear follow up for Diga with Annet. Working with Teklu's team for Fogera. ||
 * ** No ** || ** Action Point ** || ** Assigned Person ** || ** When Assigned ** || ** Status Update ** ||
 * 135 || Update publication pipeline || ** All ** || Meeting 21 || Alan sent reminder e-mail to many on Mar 7 2014 ||
 * 134 || Prepare mailing to identify all WLE/HT staff on the campus and invite them for next 'Abay Andelay' meeting prior to Africa RISING monthly team meeting 27 March || Alan, Yemisrach || Meeting 21 || Alan will be travelling on Mar 27 so proposes a short roundtable for updates on HT-WLE on April 2 at 1500 in Axum.
 * 133 || Discuss and prepare final mailing list || Alan, Simon, Ewen || Meeting 21 ||  ||
 * 132 || Update list of NBDC meeting participants with email address/phone # (for our records, not for the wiki) || Yemisrach Regassa || Meeting 21 ||  ||
 * 131 || Share docs Emory students with Ewen for inclusion on One NBDC wiki page (and Ewen to finalize that page) || Beth || Meeting 21 ||  ||
 * 130 || Draft a process document for the next IP meeting and share it with Teklu. || Zelalem || Meeting 21 ||  ||
 * 129 || Follow up with Fergus about ICRAF's NBDC publications || Alan, Beth, Katherine || Meeting 20, 21 || To follow up. See point 135. ||
 * 128 || Organise follow up discussion on SLM / National Platform next steps || Kees / Simon || Meeting 20, 21 || To follow up on ||
 * 127 || Plan a meeting around IP evaluation + next steps || Beth, Aberra, Zelalem, Gerba, Elias, Annet || Meeting 20, 21 || Evaluation questions developed and data collected for Jeldu.
 * 126 || Come back to N2 team to collect all outputs (blog posts, pix, digital stories, posters, presentations) || Ewen / Beth || Meeting 20 || In progress. 5 blog posts collected and 3 more to come; Gerba's pictures all handed over with proper description, title, credit; poster files also processed.

In process / virtually ** Completed ** || Tracy Pallant working on this (via contact with Beth) DuckRabbit won't assist as they have not prepared original material and they stay away from those assignments. || Not done... **abandoned** || Site-related digital stories unclear - 1 produced from the sites. (Fogera) ZL/ED looking for additional materials for Diga/Jeldu's M&E materials - abandoned for national/program level - up on the wiki for local sites Annet's work on reviewing the OLM results (via stakeholder interviews) planned for early 2014 Perhaps Kata to help on synthesis... || Will share this with Beth in the next 2 weeks. Beth to feed into it. || IPs - Zelalelm, Tsehay Livelihoods - Beth to talk to Katherine PV & WAT-A-GAME - Beth, Zelalem Policy engagements - Belay, Kees Key Messages in Mahider - Alan, Doug || Meeting 19-20-21 || Ongoing || What specific items can Ewen work on, based on inputs from other team members? || Steering committee supporting integration around existing gov't structures BUT Be careful about being overwhelmed by SLM and forgetting rationale / underlying principles for NP Kees to stress underlying principles with Simon Bring technical support to SLM for this (as SLM member?)? + review existing evaluation of NBDC platforms || Discussed at team meeting 18 || See action point #93 - ideas floating about this || Abandoned or nested under HT/WLE? By early next year (Beth?) as a series of rapid interviews of the people involved. - Series of outputs and tools / approaches - Key research themes to bring forward - Lessons e.g. mismatches in scale, institutional relationships... || THIS SEEMS TO BE OUT OF DATE AGAIN. || Each site has logging equipment. SIM cards allow transmission of data. We have a contract with a consultant to pull data on the wiki... || Katherine, Simon || Meeting 11 || ** Completed ** Simon to chase contract signature || The stakeholder/NP meeting should be a great platform for this seminar. || 1) Michael V to send comments from Doug to Eva and Katherine and the whole team 2) Eva and Katherine to decide how to best incorporate comments 3) (optional) Doug/Larry to review updated version to make sure it is fine 4) Michael V to copy edit, layout and finalize || Josie Tucker, Eva Ludi Katherine Michael Victor || Meeting 11 || Working paper drafted a year ago and tidied up by Eva + submitted to CPWF, then reviewed by Larry Harrington and Doug Merrey. It's in Doug's hands at the moment.
 * 125 || Send a reminder about publication pipeline update and need to acknowledge inputs (ref. to publication protocol) || Alan || Meeting 20 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 124 || Investigate CD-Rom options with Peter Ballantyne || Ewen || Meeting 20 || ** Completed **Contact taken with consultant. Costs discussed and agreed with Alan/Simon. Works to start on this in March/April (hopefully CD-Rom completed by late April). ||
 * 123 || Contact various companies (DuckRabbit / ELB; Tracy/BC; BBC Media Action/Simon || Ewen, Beth, Simon || Meeting 20-21 || ** Completed **
 * 122 || Review ToR to focus specifically on biophysical aspects of N2 || Kata/Simon || Meeting 20 || ** Completed - ** Kata has left. ||
 * 121 || Discuss with Gareth about progress with their respective NBDC publications || Beth || Meeting 20-21 || See publications pipeline ||
 * 120 || Check with Teklu and other IWMI staff about NBDC publications + get publications pipeline updated || Simon || Meeting 20-21 || See publications pipeline ||
 * 119 || Discuss specific focus of N2 evaluation || Kata / Simon || Meeting 20 || Hopefully focusing on biophysical aspects of N2 work.
 * 118 || Lessons learnt from IP team || Beth, Zelalem, Aberra, Gerba, Elias... || Meeting 20 || Paper underway - see publications pipeline. ||
 * 117 || Proposal for closing meetings at Jeldu, Diga and Fogera || Beth with the rest of IP team || Meeting 19 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 116 || Updating the status of publication pipeline page on the wiki || All lead authors with papers in the pipeline || Meeting 19-20-21 || Ongoing ||
 * 115 || Synthesis of digital stories and M & E materials || Beth and Annet || Meeting 19 || Ongoing - working on some digital stories.
 * 114 || Follow up the development of outcome stories || Alan and Simon to talk to Terry || Meeting 19 || ** Completed - ** Incorporated as part of the Basin story ||
 * 113 || Check with Don the status of the Livestock Water synthesis paper || Alan || Meeting 19-21 || Ongoing - almost ready with 1st completed draft.
 * 112 || Verify interest of national authors of the learning event presentations for publication of their papers || Simon || Meeting 19 || ?? ||
 * 111 || Meet on Oct 21 at 10:30 hrs to discuss closing meeting plans || Beth (lead), Zelalem, Apollo, Elias, Randall, Tracy, Simon, Alan, Eva, Belay, Kees, Ewen || Meeting 19 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 110 || Updates on specific thematic sections of the wiki || Gender - Beth, Annet, Tracy
 * 109 ||  ||   || Meeting 18 || (Never filled this row) ||
 * 108 ||  ||   || Meeting 18 || (Never filled this row) ||
 * 107 ||  ||   || Meeting 18 || (Never filled this row) ||
 * 106 || Prepare thematic discussion on sustainability of local IPs || Beth, Zelalem || Meeting 18 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 105 || Provide inputs for website articles || **ALL** || Meeting 18 || Ongoing.
 * 104 || Review specific thematic sections of the wiki || Annet, Beth/Zelalem, Katherine/Liza, Belay/Kees, Alemseged/Mengistu || Meeting 18 || Ongoing ||
 * 103 || Discuss future of national platform and possible merger with SLM || Kees, Belay, Alan, Simon || Meeting 18 || Ongoing - Simon+Belay discussing with H.E. Seleshi.
 * 102 || Review list of updates on the wiki and web || **ALL** || Wiki/web update discussion + meeting 18 || ** Completed **
 * 101 || Add to agenda August team meeting: Next team meeting: schedule going through pubs pipeline + ask about archiving N-project pages + study site pages to update (feed into NBDC database) + update collectively the list of partners at August team meeting || Ewen || Wiki/web update discussion || ** Completed ** ||
 * 100 || Contact Michael about possible video or KMIS track to this final event || Ewen || Final workshop brainstorming meeting || ** Completed ** ||
 * 99 ||  ||   || Final workshop brainstorming meeting || ** Completed **
 * 98 || Check possible events by AU, UN, SLM, CRDA etc. || Belay || Final workshop brainstorming meeting || ** Completed ** ||
 * 97 || Ask KMIS for ideas about companies that could organise a dynamic database to present One NBDC activity set || Ewen || Science meeting AAR || **Abandoned** ||
 * 96 || Ask about Beth & Randall about next steps with One NBDC and possibly inject next steps as proposed e.g. sortable table || Alan / Beth / ewen || Science meeting AAR || ?? - a lot of scope to synthesise materials that were produced.
 * 95 || Look at possible papers and what to propose (book?) and share ideas on the wiki (publication pipeline) || Alan, Don, Doug, Simon || Science meeting AAR || **Ongoing** ||
 * 94 || Organize NBDC event participants into an Excel table with all people (as rows), all events as columns and to see who came to what || Simon / Yemisrach || Science meeting after action review (AAR) || ** Completed by Yemisrach and Elias ** ||
 * 93 || Plan / book tentatively the final NBDC workshop || Ewen || Meeting 17 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 92 || Bring back discussion on WLE and involving regional stakeholders at side meeting Thu. || Doug || Meeting 17 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 91 || Follow up on preparations for Bahir Dar meeting || Kees & Belay || Meeting 17 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 90 || Share CPWF timeline with NBDC team and put it on the wiki || Amanda || Meeting 17 || ** Completed - ** In relation with Lima peer-assist ||
 * 89 || Look at availability of Alan's Lima presentation on Mahider || Ewen || Meeting 17 || ** Completed ** and indeed it is available here ||
 * 88 || Share papers from science meeting over the weekend || Wolde || Meeting 17 || ** Completed **In relation with science meeting ||
 * 87 || Ask IWMI interns to list gaps on wiki / web || Zelalem || Meeting 17 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 86 || Prepare overview of wiki sections and list what's out of date / what needs work || Ewen (+ possible inputs Doug) || Meeting 17 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 85 || Contact Yemisrach to book IWMI meeting room for all meetings || Tracy || Meeting 17 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 84 || Share pitch document to WLE prepared for Montpellier on the wiki/Yammer || Alan || Meeting 17 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 83 || Contact session chairs to be for science meeting || Simon || Meeting 17 || ** Completed **In relation with science meeting ||
 * 82 || Put agenda science meeting on the wiki || Wolde || Meeting 17 || ** Completed - in relation with science meeting ** ||
 * 81 || Coordinate printing of proceedings + uploading on USB key || Wolde + Nigist || Meeting 17 || ** Completed ** In relation with science meeting ||
 * 80 || Set up guidelines for posters || Ewen || Meeting 17 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 79 || Come back to Mengistu on political ecology work || Ewen + Josie || Meeting || ** Completed ** ||
 * 78 || Prepare a short paragraph about discussion for next NBDC team meeting on sustainability of local IPs and 2-3 lead questions || Beth + team || Meeting 16 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 77 || Contact Nicole and Simon about possible NBDC participation at IFAD ShareFair based on information sent by Ewen || Katherine || Meeting 16 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 76 || Organise a process to connect the 'One NBDC meeting' and the Science meeting. || Simon || Meeting 16 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 75 || Put One NBDC input templates on the wiki + send an email to One NBDC group about them || Randall || Meeting 16 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 74 || Prompt other abstracts based on templates from Randall || Doug || Meeting 16 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 73 || Discuss with Katherine about possible production of abstracts for science meeting. || Mengistu || Meeting 16 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 72 || Get back to everyone on possible system to upload One NBDC science output framework || Ewen || Meeting 16 || ** Completed. ** Options are: The Brain, Prezi, Scribblar, Cmap, among others... ||
 * 71 || Plan a meeting to discuss the scientific approach to take our work forward in the next year || Beth, Randall || Meeting 14 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 70 || Upload MSc / PhD theses on the publication pipeline page || Ewen || Meeting 14 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 69 || Make a synthesis to share for peer review || Doug || Meeting 14 || Refers to basin story - in progress ||
 * 68 || Make an outline about the 'story of the Nile Basin' this week or next || Kees || Meeting 14 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 67 || Go review the publication pipeline and update it with details about their planned work || ** ALL ** || Meeting 14 || Ongoing
 * 66 || Discuss who could organize this science meeting (be part of the organizing committee) || Alan & Simon || Meeting 14 || ** Completed - Wolde Bori Mekuria ** ||
 * 65 || Doodle schedule the Science meeting || Ewen || Meeting 14 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 64 || Develop a conversation brief template with KMIS to be used for the messages || Ewen || Meeting 14 || ** Completed and available here ** ||
 * 63 || Summarize 2-pager from NP4 meeting || Kees || Meeting 14 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 62 || Send both NP4 meeting 2-pagers to Kees (Ewen's version and Kees's version) for him to summarise this || Ewen || Meeting 14 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 61 || Circulate link for the page where people can edit the messages || Ewen || Meeting 14 || ** Completed ** ||
 * **60** || Review revised messages by **22 March** || ** ALL ** || Meeting 14 || ** Completed ** ||
 * **59** || Forward gender scan to all || Alan || Meeting 12 || Forwarded to Pamela. Cathy will be following up with individuals. ||
 * **58** || Organize 'One NBDC' meeting with small group || Ewen || Meeting 12 || ** Completed ** . The small group consists of: Ewen, Belay, Simon, Katherine, Beth, Kees, Doug, Randall. ||
 * **57** || Share information about his work || Fergus || Meeting 12 || ** Completed ** . See [[file:polyscape tool description paper.pdf|polyscape tool description]] ||
 * **56** || Develop and share agenda for national platform meeting with all NBDC project staff **by 25 Jan**. || Ewen & Kees || Meeting 12 || ** Completed ** ||
 * **55** || Identify possible showcasing products/ outputs/ approaches/ lessons to showcase those and share with Ewen **by 13 Jan** || All || Meeting 12 || ** Completed ** ||
 * **54** || Review list of possible participants for NP meeting and share it with all || Alan, Belay, Simon || Meeting 12 || ** Completed ** ||
 * **53** || Discuss learning event on institutional innovation in relation with Wat-a-game 2nd workshop || Zelalem, Beth, Kees || Meeting 12 || ** Completed ** ||
 * **52** || Check contract with Don Peden || Simon || Meeting 12 || ** Completed ** ||
 * **51** || Post project reports on the wiki || Project leaders || Meeting 12 || ?? ||
 * **50** || Post draft N2 baseline on the wiki - Kees and Belay to review it (to present at NP meeting) || Alan/Katherine || Meeting 12 || Posted: http://nilebdc.wikispaces.com/file/detail/Rhetoric%20versus%20realities%2026%2011%2012%20for%20wiki.docx ||
 * **49** || Speak to Berhanu about contract related to weather stations (SIM cards to get data daily etc.).
 * **48** || Plan publications to feature for upcoming stakeholder meeting || Every Nile team || Meeting 11 || ** Completed ** ||
 * **47** || Organize seminar on N2 baseline study || Ewen, Josie || Meeting 11 || ** Complete **** d **
 * **46** || Discuss the N2 baseline study (commentary on planning and implementation of RWM interventions in Ethiopia) with Belay, share the summary of the report + the full report on the wiki + update the presentation about this

Katherine developed a peer-reviewed article out of it. In negotiation with Journal of Dev Studies - expecting final decision next week.

Third paper between Katherine and Beth to go for peer-review.

Alan/Katherine to post draft on the wiki - Kees and Belay to review it (to present at NP meeting). || works and who is responsible for each project as well || Tilahun Amede || Meeting 3 || I don't remember of this being an agenda; on halt || modeling data for N4 || Charlotte Macalister || Meeting 3 || Several small meetings held || 12/01/11: Amare e-mailed also to Haramaya and Hawassa Universities. 26/01/11: Received about 6 CV's from interested students so far. Will begin selection soon. Two students have now been selected following interviews done by Amare, Don, Kindu and CaST in February. ||.
 * **45** || Discuss ICRAF data and what to make of it || Fergus, Randall, Lisa || Meeting 11 || Reported by Fergus - data set to be ready by end of January. ||
 * **44** || Prepare a discussion document about the Africa rainwater management forum || Simon, Funke, Amy || Meeting 11 || In prep still. Sthg planned to be ready before Pretoria meeting end of this month. ||
 * **43** || Update wiki with all information related to training basin authorities on modeling || Charlotte, Randall || Meeting 11 || Check with Charlotte ||
 * **42** || Establish linkages with basin authorities || Charlotte, Randall & Belay || Meeting 11 || Charlotte back week 14 Jan. and meeting coming up. Belay trying to get their contact details ||
 * **41** || Establish links between N2 & N4 work on decision-making at various scales using modeling || Randall Ritzema (& Beth Cullen) || Meeting 11 || Coming up ||
 * **40** || Circulate overall NBDC report || Simon Langan || Meeting 11 || Report written, sent to Amanda - pending on her check. It will be put on the wiki at a later stage. The report includes MSC stories as is, comments in 'traffic light' system etc. No red. Series of action points identified for NBDC going to management team. Individual project reports should be posted on the wiki too . ||
 * 39 || Draft blog post about Montpellier meeting and publish it upon receiving team comments || Ewen Le Borgne + Tilahun Amede || Discussion 14/02/2012 || ** Completed ** [|and published]. ||
 * 36 || Prepare next 'thematic' team meeting: pick a theme of interest || Tilahun Amede || Discussion 14/02/2012 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 37 || Tilahun to chase Mulugeta and national partners for abstracts || Tilahun Amede || Discussion 14/02/2012 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 38 || Update Nile Basin description text on global CPWF website || Tilahun Amede || Discussion 14/02/2012 || [] ||
 * 23 || Share feedback from CPWF on six months performance to PLs || Tilahun Amede || Meeting 7 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 24 || Decide how to further share the feedback to respective project members and to the general group || Project leaders || Meeting 7 || ?? ||
 * 25 || Follow on vandalism of instruments || Birhaun Zemadim || Meeting 7 || In progress ||
 * 26 || Discuss with Alan and Ian to work on linking crop with livestock || Kindie Getnet || Meeting 7 || In progress ||
 * 27 || Find out common areas between the M & E tools designed for West Africa and designed by N2 || Kees Swaans || Meeting 7 || completed (although M&E of IPs in NBDC went into different direction) ||
 * 28 || Bring expereinces on protocol for Innovation platforms from other basins during the BL & PL Meeting || Tilahun Amede || Meeting 7 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 29 || Discuss land cover data with ICRAF and other data issues with GIZ || Simon Langan || Meeting 7 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 30 || Draft work plan including time allocation for research assistants || Tilahun Amede + Project leaders || Meeting 7 ||  ||
 * 31 || Set up a working group and assess interest of members plus costs, funding, potential benefit and organization to participate on World Water Week || Tilahun Amede+ Ewen Le Borgne || Meeting 7 || Done and reported about here. ||
 * 32 || Provide publication plan || All research members || Meeting 7 || ?? ||
 * 33 || Design publication protocol || Ewen Le Borgne || Meeting 7 || In progress ||
 * 34 || Update NBDC group on further ways of promotion of change stories beyond the wiki || Tilahun Amede + Pamela Pali || Meeting 7 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 15 || Share the feedback from the CPWF evaluation and lobby other PLs to do the same || Tilahun Amede || Meeting 6 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 16 || Organize a one day project meeting in Sept to assess on achievement in line with available budget and originally constructed objectives plus start the discussion on-line in the mean time || Shirley Tarawali || Meeting 6 || Abandoned ||
 * 17 || Send all presentations to CPWF for the SA Forum || Tilahun Amede || Meeting 6 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 19 || Create a Master table for the list of participants and respective source of Funding for the SA Forum || Tilahun Amede || Meeting 6 || Abandoned ||
 * 20 || Lead the organization of the RMS Session for the SA Forum || Tilahun Amede || Meeting 6 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 21 || Send list of participants organized from past workshops to PLs and create a page for the Stakeholder meeting || Peter/Tseday || Meeting 6 || ** Completed ** ||
 * 22 || Start the initiative to make students present their findings to the NBDC group and any other interested parties || Tilahun Amede || Meeting 6 || Ongoing ||
 * 10 || Draft a short paper on innovation platforms in the NBDC || Kees Swaans || Meeting 4 || completed ||
 * 11 || Comms straplines/names for proejcts for external audiences || Peter || Meeting 4 || Ideas here ||
 * 12 || Consolidate a response and send to Larry according to the discussion held || Tilahun Amede || Meeting 4 || Shared; this discussion will be finalized during the reflection workshop in May. ||
 * 13 || start communication with District leaders to facilitate community awareness || Tilahun Amede with the support of Abera and Gerba || Meeting 4 || Katherine and team did it ||
 * 14 || Check the list for M &E with the global ones || Jemimah || Meeting 4 ||  ||
 * || debbie rms document ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || amare livestock document ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || catherine similarity document ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || kees IP document ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 1 || Share the overall MoU and its format || Tilahun Amede || Meeting 3 || It is posted, under documents ||
 * 2 || Write and share a paragraph on how the overall structure of NBDC
 * 3 || Lead a team meeting on livelihood || Kathryn Snyder || Meeting 3 ||  ||
 * 4 || Draft and share a template to support integration among projects || Tilahun Amede || Meeting 3 || Done and posted ||
 * 5 || Lead a team meeting to sort the need for livelihood and
 * 6 || Lead a team on modeling || Charlotte Macalister || Meeting 3 || Held a meeting - done Nile 4 meeting - January 21 2011 ||
 * 7 || Lead a team on innovation || Kees Swaans || Meeting 3 || Some initial meetings were held; later N2 and N5 moved ahead; there is still an issue of how best to integrate different levels, but will come back as an issue in AISA and in future plans for the national platform; hence completed. ||
 * 8 || Share inception report and respective feedback plus lead the upcoming report writing || Project Leader || Meeting 3 || Tilahun done for Nile 5 ||
 * 9 || Circulate the concept note on MSc students’ engagement to universities || Alan Duncan || Meeting 3 || E-mailed to Ambo, Wollega and Bahir Dar Universities 28/12/10.