I am pleased to see the COP has officially started and I am happy to be part of this community. I have also read the report for Ethiopia and took a good lesson from what we have to do in both short and medium term. I just want to make emphasis on the need to work on drought tolerant and short maturing seed varieties as a major solution to climate change related disasters. Selection of proper seed types is one of the choices of climate change adaptation technique.  
Cheers!

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Okidi, Joseph (FAOKE) <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

 

Dear Colleague

 

We are pleased to announce the first e-discussion of the SSA Community of Practice (CoP) - Horn of Africa region:

“A meta analysis of past and current seed security assessments in the region”.

 

More than 30 seed security assessments (SSA) have been conducted since 2006 in emergency and rehabilitation contexts, and yet no evaluation of quality or impact have been undertaken to generate lesson learning. There is a general agreement about the need to conduct a thorough analysis to identify strengths and weaknesses and describe concrete impacts of the assessments.

 

The project has initiated the review of SSA for Ethiopia and South Sudan and compiled a Synthesis of Country reviews that you will find attached. The Synthesis specifically seeks to determine:

·         The quality or impact of the SSA in emergency and rehabilitation contexts

·         The strengths and weaknesses in the past SSA

·         The ownership of the SSA process and results

·         The concrete actions taken as a result of the SSA

 

 

è As member of this Community of Practice, you are warmly invited to provide your comments and critiques on the draft Synthesis attached, for the country you work in. Specific questions you may want to answer are:

-          Which key aspects captured by this report can help improve the way you work?

-          Which are the aspects that are missing?

-          Based on Report findings, can we generate any lesson learning?

 

 

This discussion will run from today, Thursday 22 May, till 31 May, 2014.

 

We highly value your inputs that will help us enhancing the quality of the information included in the Reviews. Final versions of the Country Reviews will be merged into a Meta Analysis Regional Report that will be a key instrument to inform the development of an improved approach to implementing assessments in order to more effectively improve seed security.

 

I wish you a fruitful discussion.

Joseph Okidi

Seed System Security Specialist and the CoP moderator

 

Instructions:

-          To contribute: just press the “Reply” button on this message, compile your contribution, and send.

-          This e-discussion is moderated: all contributions will first be reviewed by the CoP moderator (myself) and, once approved, will be forwarded to all members of the CoP. Please allow one day for the moderator to review your message.

-          Your membership: we highly value your inputs and your presence in this forum. However, should you want to unsubscribe and receive no more messages from us, please send an email to [log in to unmask]  asking to be unsubscribed.

 

See more about the Project objective and expected outputs at http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-security-capacity-building/home/en/.


 

 



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