Climate Change Adaption In Africa-Tanzania,Malawi Agriculture Project
The coalition of key project collaborators, participating institutions and other stakeholders involved in this project are as follows.The lead institution, IRA, will manage the project and, like NAREC (University of Malawi), will be responsible for management, facilitation, special studies and coordinating M&E in their respective countries. NRI, will bring institutional analysis, livelihoods analysis, inter- and trans-disciplinary action research and participatory learning and monitoring skills in addition to facilitating and supporting the management processes of IRA and NAREC.
Their action meshes with and supports an iterative process in which trans-disciplinary teams at intermediate and local level visualise, reflect on, generate and test alternative approaches to adapting to CC that offer immediate, short and longer term benefits to various stakeholders, including targeted vulnerable groups. These teams / learning platforms include
Small and medium scale enterprises (Highland Seed Growers, Tanzania, input stockists) and informal groupings of farmers at village level who are active in a variety of learner centred initiatives from enterprise development, through Farmer Field Schools and Farmer led technology development. In Tanzania, many of the coalition of partners have already been working together for at least four years.
A third group the National Consultation Group (NCG), will be formed in each country, and is of crucial relevance to the project's success. The consultation group will be made up of influential figures from public and private spheres, at national and District level, whose perceptions of issues, causes, implications and solutions can play a pivotal role in public service, commercial and policy decision making. Project management will develop ongoing linkages to this influential group as part of its facilitation role. Clear roles and responsibilities of trans-disciplinary teams will be further developed at the inception workshop. At the project planning retreat in Dar es Salaam it was agreed that in the Central Zone, INADES Formation Tanzania will lead and in the S. Highlands Zone, ARI Uyole will lead trans-disciplinary teams facilitating learning platforms at intermediate and local levels. Sub contracts with detailed TORs will be developed in the Inception Meeting. The roles and responsibilities of each partner institutions are described in Section F along with the CVs of the individuals involved.
Back to the Top
