reflection2_agenda

=AGENDA= =NBDC Stakeholder Forum= =5-7 October 2011=

Stakeholder Forum || Day 2 NBDC Coordination Meeting || Day 3 NBDC Project Meetings: || aims of the meeting Dr. Fentahun Mengistu (DG, ARARI) Tilahun Amede H.E. Ayalew Gobeze (President of Amhara Regional State) || Opening by Tilahun (5 mins)
 * || Day 1
 * 0900 || Opening and Brief welcomes

Quick sharing exercise - Peter (10 mins)

Most Significant Change stories- presentation ( facilitated by Pamela Pali) || CPWF feedback on progress - Tilahun (10 mins)

Brief Site Updates: Diga, Fogera, Jeldu - presentation

Individual meetings of different project teams Nile 2 - Notes Nile 3 - Notes Nile 5 - Notes || Chair: Simon Langan, IWMI Introductory 'scene setting' session - past, present, future. Each presenter 10 minutes each (5 slides) Chair: Simon Langan, IWMI Brief (5 minute) contributions from different projects presenting different 'solutions, evidence, and gaps/issues/constraints) based on a strict template. End the session (12:00) with a quick feedback from each project Close || Chair: Dr. Birru Yitaferu
 * 0930 || Session 1: Rainwater Management in the Blue Nile Basin: Challenges, Solutions, Evidence
 * Institutional dimension: Policies, governance
 * Drivers of change across scales
 * Rainwater Management and System productivity
 * Land and water management: Pertinent issues
 * Small scale irrigation - benefits and challenges
 * Watershed management experiences || Most Significant Change stories for CPWF - Notes (facilitated by Pamela Pali) || Individual meetings of different project teams ||
 * 1030 Break ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 11:00 || Session 2: Rainwater Management round table: Promising Solutions from Ethiopia
 * SWISHA
 * HA - ARARI
 * Rainwater management/water harvesting in Southern Ethiopia - Ermias Alemu, Arba Minch University
 * SLM
 * IPMS / Lives
 * ARARI || Cross-project and cross-discipline integration via thematic working groups (concept, actions, roles, plans) - Peter on process [60 mins]
 * Innovation platforms L2i - notes
 * Spatial analysis and modeling - notes
 * RMS - notes || Project meetings
 * 1230 Lunch ||  || 13:00 || 12:30 ||
 * 1400 || Session 3: Rainwater Management research: Testing the solutions and the evidence

In parallel groups, review current evidence on each issue, seeking promising results and solutions for the NBDC. Provisional groups include:
 * poverty, gender, livelihoods - Katherine Snyder
 * land and water management - Enyew Adgo
 * scaling up tools and methods - An Notenbaert
 * innovation platforms, alliances etc - Kees Swaans
 * climate change and water - Simon Langan
 * watershed management, soils, land - GIZ Bahar Dar

Session 3 notes || Happy Strategies' game - Catherine, An, Lisa, Peter

Pilot and test/validation of this game that helps associate technical options with landscapes to derive strategies. || Field Trip Fogera Site || Break ||  ||   || Field Trip Fogera Site || 1700 || Session 4: Synthesis and Next Steps Chair: Bharat Sharma BRIEF group feedback - 'Solutions' and 'Evidence' Plenary discussion Closing || Coordination / Capacity building / M&E / Communications [45 mins] Closing - Tilahun [5 mins] ||^  ||
 * 1530
 * 1600
 * 1730 || Cocktails and Social ||  ||   ||

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