Haimanot Seifu provided a communications update on the Africa RISING program in the Ethiopian Highlands. Key activities before the program ends this year include producing extension manuals, policy briefs, a special journal issue, and a photo book. Surveys are also ongoing regarding gender, monitoring impacts, spillover effects, and scaling. Africa RISING is partnering with AICCRA on workshops, surveys, training modules, and broadcasting feed and forage technologies on local radio stations. A new initiative called SI-MFS involving mixed farming systems in 6 countries was also launched in May to run initially for 3 years from 2022-2024. Support is needed from CKM for legacy products, facilitating

1. Communications update on Africa RISING in
Ethiopian Highlands
Haimanot Seifu
ILRI, Ethiopia
29 June 2022 CKM meeting

2. What's happing in Africa RISING Ethiopian
highlands
As most of you know Africa RISING will be ending towards the end of
this year.
However, we do have lists of tasks that have started to be implemented
until the end of the year.
Some of the key activities includes :
legacy products
 Extension manual
 Policy briefs
 Special issue
 Photo Book
 Africa RISING end-of-program report
Surveys and evidence generation:
• Gender
• RHoMIS
• Spillover
• Scaling
• SIAF

3. Africa RISING is also partnering with the Accelerating Impacts of
CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA)
Under this project some of the comms activities include:
Workshop and survey
• Online questionnaire survey on climate smartness and social inclusiveness
• Workshop on climate smartness and social inclusiveness of the forage technologies
Training module and capacity development
• Training: extension, media, forage seed producers
Broadcasting feed and forage technologies
• Weekly radio programs in three languages stated with Debre Birhan Fana FM,
Shashemene Fana, Bale OBN FM and Hosaena FM local radio stations
Africa RISING and AICCRA

4. Sustainable Intensification of Mixed Farming
Systems (SI-MFS) initiatives
 One of the 30 new initiative
 Launched in May ILRI Addis
campus
 5 regions, 6 countries in different
MFS (Ethiopia, Malawi, Ghana,
Bangladesh, Nepal, Laos)
 7 Mixed Farming Systems
 Duration of the SI-MFS : Initially
for 3 years (2022-2024)

5. 5
IITA HQ, Ibadan, Nigeria
ILRI HQ, Nairobi, Kenya
ABC, Cali, Colombia
ILRI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
CIMMYT, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Mahajabin Nur-Khan
Michael Victor
Paul Karaimu
Kathy Lopez
Jonathan
Odhong
Yinka Fakunle
José Benitez
Apollo Habtamu Tsehay Gashaw Haimanot Seifu
Ghan
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Malawi
Lao
PDR Bangladesh
Nepal

6. • Editing and layout design support for the legacy product.
• Facilitations support for the Ethiopian SI-MFS launch
tentatively scheduled in August.
• Finally, as usual for ongoing activities such as editing
blogs, report, CGSpace approval support needed from
CKM.
CKM support needed

7. Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation
africa-rising.net
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