Marketplace
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Market Place Session
//Stands and mini-workshops: Friday 16 April: 14:00 - 17:30 (large auditorium) Poster Session: 12 to 17 April in the InfoCenter//
SESSION ORGANISER(S)
- Peter Ballantyne
- Loza Mesfin
- Meron Mulatu
- InfoCenter - stands and posters set up
- others TBC
AIMS OF THIS SESSION
- Showcase ILRI activities and work, related to the APM theme, and more generally
- Be a forum to interact with external partners and influentials in Ethiopia
- Be a kind of multi-actor 'innovation platform' or space of the type that ILRI supports in some projects
PROCESS/FORMAT OF THIS SESSION
Elements of the Market Place
1. Opening (tent)
2. Poster Session.
In the InfoCenter (which becomes the 'yammer cafe' from 9 -17 April). Traditional Coffee and Tea available throughout, internet cafe services for participants.
Some 30 posters from across ILRI, set up on 9 or 10 April, running until 17 April.
'Launched' with the P&C cocktails on Wednesday evening (after theme meetings and before theme dinners)
Digital versions published on ILRI slideshare account before the meetings begin. If possible the basis for blog posts/announcements
Poster competition with 3 top places, and a jury of Jim Dargie, Emmy Simmons, and Lindiwe Sibanda
#livestockmatters3. livestock matters
30 minute conversations (max) on an issue.
14:15 -14.45 livestock matters 1 (tent) 15:15 -15:45 livestock matters 2 (tent) 16:15 -16:45 livestock matters 3 (tent) 17:15 -17:45 livestock matters 4 (tent)
Interviewees: - public private pro-poor vaccine delivery (vish nene) - interviewer is gabrielle - one health etc (jeff mariner) - interviewer is Delia - state of the art science (segenet) - interviewer is Bruce - livestock long shadow (Henning) - interviewer is Iain Wright
#miniworkshops4. Mini-workshops
14:15 - 15:15 miniworkshop 1: Using film in your project (Clare Kemp and Susan MacMillan + Andrew Mude and Okeyo Mwai) 15:30 - 16:30 miniworkshop 2: GIS tools and resources for your project (Jane Poole, Titus and Wachira) 16:45 - 17:45 miniworkshop 3: Data management and access for your project (Ian Moore)
Short concurrent sessions on specific learning topics. With a training/learning emphasis? Examples are:
5. Stands/Booths
In the large auditorium, perhaps 25-30 max. Depending on demand, stands for:
Theme/Programme/Group/Region - on the science (say 6 or 7)
Major projects and hosted initiatives, IPMS, BecA, SLP; Collective Action, CCAFS ..(say 4)
P&C: CAST; KMIS; PA; IT ( say 3 or 4, perhaps we combine the comms ones?)
Operations: maybe HR, others? (1 or 2?)
hosted Addis institutions (say 4) - eg: IFPRI; IWMI; CIMMYT; CIP; IGAD
External partners in Addis (say 6) - eg: GTZ; VLIR, Save the Children US, AMREF; IIRR, FARMAfrica, Pastoralist Communication Initiative, Oxfam Ethiopia, Care Ethiopia, Africa Adapt, EIAR, send a cow?
6. External visitors
We invite a range of people and influentials we work with (or should work with) to join. eg: government people; donors; un/au; development partners; etc. Invites by Loza
LOGISTICS OF THIS SESSION
Infocenter set up - arranged by KMIS, with IT support for the telecenter aspects
large auditorium set up
Stands set up -
Stand booking and management -
Need continuous coffee/tea/drinks etc - (or the canteen as a 'stand')
Followed by APM dinner inthe evening, with some guests joining (who?)
do visitors need to register and have ID's?