nationalplatform3_agenda

= **National Platform Meeting on Land and Water Management in Ethiopia** = = 23-24 July 2012 =

Large auditorium, ILRI Campus, Addis Ababa.

Welcome, introduction of participants and introduction of the agenda || Simon Langan IWMI || (Kiros Hagos, Director of Mekelle University) - (Presentation) ||  || (Wubalem Tadesse, Director, Forest Research Center, EIAR) - (Presentation) ||  || 11:10 || Importance of biodiversity for agricultural intensification and climate change adaptation in Ethiopia (Gemedu Dale, Director General, Institute of Biodiversity) - (Presentation) || Tadesse Amsalu, BDU || (Zenebe Asfaw, Hawassa Unversity, Wondo Genet college of Forestry and Natural Resources) - (Presentation) ||  || (Habtemariam Kassa, CIFOR) - (Presentation) ||  || (Kelali Adhana, Director General, Tigray Science and Technology Agency) || Belay Simane, Addis Ababa University (AAU) || (Gebru Jember, Climate Change Forum Ethiopia) ||  || (Tilahun Amede, ILRI/IWMI//)// ||  ||
 * **Timing** || **Monday 23 July** || **Chair person** ||
 * 09.00- 09:30 || Introductory session
 * Welcome (Iain Wright)
 * Introduction of the programme (Tilahun Amede)
 * A national platform for institutional learning and policy action on NRM in Ethiopia (Kees Swaans)
 * 09:30-09:45 || Sustainable tree-crop-livestock intensification in Ethiopia
 * 09:45-10:15 || The status of forestry development in Ethiopia: challenges and opportunities
 * **10:15-**
 * 10:45** || **Coffee break** ||  ||
 * 10:45-
 * 11:10–11:40 || Contribution of traditional agro-forestry to agricultural intensification and climate change adaptation
 * 11:40-12:10 || Forest policies and strategies in Ethiopia
 * 12:10-12:45 || Discussion on the presentations ||  ||
 * **12:45-14:00** || **Lunch break** ||  ||
 * 14:00-14:30 || Genesis of climate resilience highland transformation in Ethiopia
 * 14:30-15:00 || Information needs for adaptation and mitigation of climate variability and change
 * 15:00-15:30 || Sustainable agricultural intensification in the Ethiopian highlands
 * **15:30-16:00** || **Coffee break** ||  ||
 * 16:00-16:30 || Discussions on the presentations ||  ||
 * 16:30-17:30 || Group work on the key discussion points listed below:


 * Group 1:** Seed and seedling system (private, community, public): current status, gaps and suggestions for improvement (Chairperson: Abayneh, FRC)

|| Kiros Meles, Mekelle University || || Habtemariam Kassa CIFOR || (Presentations) || Kees Swaans ILRI || 12:30 || Introduction to NP thematic working groups (TWG leaders) (Presentations) ||  || Policy support (Simon Langan) Ecosystem resilience and climate change ||   || ILRI/IWMI || || Adane Kassa Water Action ||
 * Group 2:** Incentives for integrating trees into crop and livestock systems (policy, market, food security, etc): current status, gaps and suggestion for improvement (Chairperson: Kindu, ILRI)
 * Group 3:** Interventions/post-plantation management/niches: farm, landscape, communal, private: current status, gaps and suggestion for improvement (Chair person: Yitebitu, FRC)
 * Group 4:** Open grazing and collective action/by-laws: current status, gaps and suggestions for improvement (Chairperson: Betru, Bureau of Agriculture)
 * || Comments, questions and feedback on the presentations ||  ||
 * Close ||  ||   ||
 * **Day 2** || **Tuesday 24 July** ||  ||
 * 08:45-09:00 || Recap from day 1 and reflections (Ermias Aynekulu, ICRAF)
 * 08:45-09:00 || Recap from day 1 and reflections (Ermias Aynekulu, ICRAF)
 * 09:00-10:30 || Panel discussion with 5 panelists ||  ||
 * 10:30-11:00 || Coffee break ||  ||
 * 11:00-11:10 || Progress made in the national platform (Kees Swaans, ILRI):
 * 11:20-
 * 12:30-13:30 || Lunch break ||  ||
 * 13:30-15:00 || Group work on thematic working groups 1 ||  ||
 * 15:30-16:30 || Parallel group work:
 * 16:30-17:15 || What next for the national platform? || Tilahun Amede
 * 17:15-17:30 || Vote of thanks and closing remarks