CCAFS Vision of intended impact

1. CCAFS Vision of intended impact • By 2020, contribute to cross-sectoral efforts to reduce poverty by 10%, increasing the incomes of hundreds of millions of people • By 2020, contribute to a reduction in hunger, whereby the number of rural poor who are undernourished declines by 25% • By 2020, help agriculture contribute to climate change mitigation by enhancing storage or reducing emissions, by 1000 Mt CO2-eq (considering all gases) below the “business-as-usual” scenario.

3. Social differentiation • Capacity enhancement • Action research • Scalability & potential size of impact • Probability of success & durability • Communicating uncertainty • CCAFS: • Works through partnerships at site level • Role to provide syntheses/comparisons across sites and regions (of tools & approaches, results & lessons learnt)

4. CCAFS funding primarily through CGIAR • Highly volatile • Requirement to leverage additional funding • Theme 4.2 resources for partners under this activity • To fund: seed activities, innovative high risk ideas, proposal writing workshops, synthesis studies, tool development • Requirement: partnerships!

5. Linking K with A Principles How the research is done matters, a lot! Identify and involve the knowledge users in problem definition Innovation systems approach – putting partners first Boundary Spanning Build capacity to innovate/ support institutional change Manage asymmetries of power

6. Baselines • Same tools, methods used across all CCAFS sites and time • To be revisited in 5 & 10 years to measure impact, i.e. behavioral change (not attribution) • CCAFS Baseline • Household level (140 household per site): basic indicators on welfare, information sources, livelihood/agriculture/natural resource management strategies, needs and uses of information • Village level (1 village per site): focus group discussions, socially differentiated, on resource access, organisational landscapes, sources of information • Organisational level (10-15 organisations per site): provision of services and information to farming communities All tools and data available at http://ccafs.cgiar.org/resources/baseline-surveys

7. Implementing in Hubs, or Gender Sentinel Sites – e.g. Khulna Hub, Bangladesh Improved rice, shrimp vars, mgment Improved land, water mgment Ag credit, Tenure Womens’ empowerment in agric index Climate smart villages Insurance, seed banks Home gardens

8. SW Bangladesh ‘Khulna Hub’ Theory of Change/Outcome logic OUTPUTS CRP2 Sustainable water&landmgment policies Strengthened groups CRP3/CSISA New rice varieties & suitable aqua. species & practices CRP5 Improved water governance & management CCAFS/CRP7 CSA villages, climate services insurance Seed/food banks CRP4 Improved homestead production systems ACTOR EXTENSIONISTS <>FARMER COMMUNITIES<>SEED SECTOR PLAYERS<>NGO<> MICROFINANCE AGENCIES<>WATER MANAGEMENT AUTHORITIES<>LGED<> BWDB<>POLICY MAKER<>CGIAR RESEARCHERS<>NARS<>WOMEN’S GROUPS<>Donor CHANGES IN KNOWLEDGE ATTITUDES AND SKILLS One or more of the actor groups have better understand and/or skills in: the benefits and value of new technologies and crop/fish varieties; implications of different land use plans, the impacts of external drivers of change on water resources; community involvement in water mgment; how to work in partnership across scales and sectors in an adaptive & problem-oriented way OUTCOMES CHANGES IN PRACTICES One or more of the actor groups: use high level scenario planning; use tools and effective water governance strategies; improve planning of water infrastructure; use new farm-level technologies, seeds and adaptation strategies; private sector involvement in the agriculture sector including information, finance, markets and inputs; using a theory-of-change-based approach to NRM to foster rural innovation I MP A C T Reduce poverty, improve food security and strengthen livelihood resilience in coastal areas through improved water infrastructure , governance and management, and more productive and diversified farm system

9. Kisumu/Nyando Basin (western Kenya) • Economics of Biochar (Cornell) • MICCA – East African Dairy Development (FAO, ICRAF, ILRI, KARI, private sector partners) • COMART Community-led assets/value chains CARE – carbon payments to smallholders • ICRAF – GHG measurement in complex landscapes • Vi Agroforestry – SLM, carbon payments • CCAFS Participatory Action Research – with ILRI, Vi, World Neighbours, CBOs, Min of Ag, Min of LS, KARI: training, K sharing, etc in: • Water harvesting • Agroforestry • Small ruminant management • Beekeeping • Seed systems • Post-harvest handling and storage • Fodder development • Participatory crop selection Lake Victoria CCAFS Baseline site CARE, PAR

10. Pro-poor, pro-women strategies • East African Dairy Development (FAO, ICRAF, ILRI, KARI, private sector partners) – hub model; training of women; women leaders; joint signatures; payments directly to women • COMART - Community-led asset and value chain focus; working with women’s groups; women’s trainings • CARE/CCAFS/ICRAF – carbon payments to smallholders – institutional issues including strategies for ensuring benefits to women (e.g. women’s trees, women’s groups, etc); evaluating women’s participation and constraints • CCAFS/ILRI Participatory Action Research – Participatory crop selection with women, support/training to women’s groups, others?

11. Challenges • How do we ensure the ‘learning loops’ happen?? • We want lessons that are more broadly applicable - cross-site/region opportunities • Seasonal forecast use; adoption of climate-resilient practices (e.g. improved water and soil management; new varieties; planting trees on farms, etc.), etc.