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SASI - Systems Analysis for Sustainable Innovation

An Notenbaert

Presentation to IEE evaluators

Nairobi, February 6

th

2015

SASI’s research agenda

Merger of components of several “themes“:

Targeting Sustainable Innovations (TSI)

Value Chain Development (VCD)

M&E and Gender

 Implementation is starting in 2015 only

OBJECTIVE =

to design and guide pro-poor VC transformation and learn from the process (in an iterative way)

ASF VCs as socio-ecological systems

Consolidation

of learning from VCs with

an

aim of creating regional and global knowledge

Working at

the interface between VCTS and Technology

Flagships

Key points

VC components and actors

Production system (technologies and integrating them)VC system components (e.g. inputs, processing technologies and logistics, markets, enterprises and business development

)

Farmers, traders, processors, men, women, …

Context:

Now and in the future

e.g. sector policies and regulations, macro-economic climate & “enabling environment “, i.e. institutions and servicesIntegrationLinkages, interactions, feedbacks, …ASF Value Chains

Inputs &Services

SASI rationale

ASF VCs as socio-ecological systems:

Component research (complementing productivity flagships):

Gender

"

Value chain upgrading

Nutrition

"

Value chain transformation

Environment and NR useHolistic diagnosis and integrated intervention designInteractions with VCT and Technology Flagships: VC assessments: constraints and opportunities

research priorities in technology platforms  identification of initial best-bet solutions

Multi-scale

and multi-dimensional ex-ante assessments



prioritized

integrated intervention strategies

for testing in VCT

tested

, monitored and adapted by the

VCTS team

refined

ex-ante assessments and priority

setting

M&E

SASI at the interface between

technology generation and value chain transformation

Assessment of constraints and opportunities in the VC and wider context

Guidance on formation of integrated best-bet/best-fit interventions

Guide

transformative, gender-sensitive,sustainable, pro-poor change!+ learn from the process

Objective and outcomes

To

design and guide pro-poor VC transformation and learn from the process (in an iterative way

)

System-based

approaches

for assessing the needs and appropriateness of Value Chain interventions and their uptake are being used by the other L&F flagships (technology and VCT), CRPs and development actors

;Intelligence on which integrated innovations (technological and social) to target where, to who and how is used in Value Chain Transformation and Technology flagships;Lessons and insights drawn from transformative processes are used by other CRPs, donors and development actors.

Three clusters of activities

Conduct system component research and identify promising innovations :

Gender; (b) Nutrition; (c) Natural resources and the environment; (d) VC upgrading; (e) VC transformation

Conduct systems analysis guiding the design and development of integrated intervention packages for the VCs

Diagnosis

(now and future); (b) Design

Learn lessons and adapt VC and CRP operations and activities ToC; (b) Impact assessments; (c) documentation of learning

ILRI, CIAT & WorldFish

+ WUR, KIT (x2), SEI, TI, Heifer, SNV, CIFOR, ICRAF, IFPRI, SPIA,

Makerere

, SUA, …

So far - Targeting

Targeting and priority setting:VC selectionStandardised

site selection in all VCs (with VCD)

Impact assessment

of VC

interventions:

EXTRAPOLATE, optimisation modeling, FarmDesign (with WUR)Tools and methods:“TOSA” tool database (HT/L&F)Livestock (and soon: fish) module for IMPACT modelExploration and networking for further modeling at different scalesNew livestock density maps (& geowiki)

So far - Environment

State-of-the-art lab facilities (ILRI/CCAFS/L&F/CIFOR)GHGs measurements in the fieldGHGs chambers for live animalsAdvanced measuring equipment

Impact assessments:

F

ish LCAs (Bangladesh, Egypt)

CLEANED framework

So far - Gender

Kindly hold on for Alessandra’s presentation

So far – VCD

VC assessment toolkitSituational analyses VC assessmentsEx-ante impact assessment:

SDM modeling (Tanzania)

Protocol for best-bet selection

So far – M&E

CRP Commissioned Evaluation on our Value Chain approachMEL Framework IDO Indicator Manual and projectionsImpact Pathways for all VCs

Project support (e.g. CGP,

MilkIT

,

IrishAid

in Uganda, etc.)

Some final remarksMandate and structure finally clarified

Linked into the technology flagships as well as grounded in the VC’s reality.



T

ime investment and appropriate mechanisms needed!

SASI

Systems

analysis of animal sourced food

VCs; inclusive

but not

limited to

agricultural production systemsComponent research – complementing technology researchSystems analysis and integrationLearning Analysis and assessments supporting evidence-based decision-making about integrated VC interventions

Site selection in all the value chains

A standardized approach in all countries

GIS analysis on hard criteria (poor livestock keeper)

Stakeholders’ soft criteria ranking

Groundtruthing

Rural – rural

Rural – urban

urban– urban Final site selection

A tool database : data.ilri.org/tools

Joint effort with Humidtropics Portal compiling with CGIAR open access policy

Metadata allows for flexible queries, including

gender dimension

Spatially explicitly tools

Allows for community of practice

Mazingira Lab: Measuring environmental impact of livestock and investigating mitigation options

Mazingira Lab: Measuring environmental impact of livestock and investigating mitigation options

Discovery & Delivery

Discovery is “the development of innovations that are new or applied in a different

context”

Delivery

is interpreted as “enabling innovations for (value chain) transformation and scaling.”

ITERATIVE PROCESS

* Innovations: technologies, business models, institutional arrangements, …