Want to take advantage of various team members being in Patna so proposing a couple sessionworking sessions:
Internal working session and dinner on March 22
Connect with JEEViKA morning of March 23 (there is a chance that JEEViKA our key stakeholders don’t join this meeting; lets plan as if they will be there but be prepared for them to not show)Both will be at the Lemon Tree hotel in Patnaand finalize planning
Still finalizing venue as of March 15, will finalize by March 16
Attendees
DG: Falguni Ganguli (Unlicensed) Akash Asthana (Unlicensed) ashok Amitesh Anand (Unlicensed) Ashu Sikri (Unlicensed) SHAMS TARIQUE (Unlicensed)
Cornell / CSISA: Andrew McDonald (Unlicensed) Sonam sherpz (Unlicensed)
EDF: Kritee (Unlicensed), Ajeet, Amresh
Agenda
March 22 venue: Patliputra Continental Hotel
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4pm to 445pm: Content calendar |
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445 to 515pm: [Emerging] Sequoia Strategy | “First pass at calling out opportunities for delivering climate relevant change in the agriculture and land use sector. “ (As of March 6)
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515 to 530 | Break | ||||||
530 to 7pm | 6 month plan. Review actual progress vs March targets Align on activities and roles/ responsibilities by workstream (similar to exercise we did in December) Set times for our next few checkins (ideally monthly) | ||||||
7/730pm | Dinner |
March 23 venue: Lemon Tree
Attendees
JEEViKA: Manoj joined at 1130am
CSISA:
Falguni Ganguli (Unlicensed) can you please all the attendees here?
DG: Falguni Ganguli (Unlicensed) Akash Asthana (Unlicensed) ashok Amitesh Anand (Unlicensed) Ashu Sikri (Unlicensed) SHAMS TARIQUE (Unlicensed)
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1030 to 1130 | Meeting prep and CSISA intros | ||||||
1130 to 1230pm | Key practices, farmer benefit, high impact geographies |
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1230 to 130pm | GHG emission approach |
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130 onwards | Lunch and wrap for the day |
Context on JEEViKA meeting
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7/730pm
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Dinner
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March 23 venue: Lemon Tree (TBC)
Unknown is whether JEEViKA will attend; they have been invited for 1030am
Should we invite BISA or members from Convergence Platform to explore potential collaborations?
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Time
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Topic and Objective
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Reference Materials
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Facilitator
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1030 to 1130
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Learning session on model and standards inter-comparison
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Ashu Sikri (Unlicensed) and Kritee (Unlicensed)
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1130 to 1pm
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Review content calendar and finalize 6 month plan
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1pm
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We are interfacing with the Livelihoods team whose focus in farmer productivity and income. The objective of the livelihood initiative is to enhance sectoral size and productivity growth in key livelihood sectors for employment generation of the poor. This will be achieved by making investments in technical assistance, service provision and setting up of market support mechanisms
Manoj - State Program Manager (Head of the Livelihood vertical and key person for strategy and implementation of the livelihood interventions)
Anil - Program Manager (Second in command at the Livelihood vertical and leads the implementation of the livelihood interventions in the state in coordination with the district level teams)
While JEEViKA has given us the greenlight to engage VRPs for data collection, Manoj (who is a key decision maker) is not super bought in to this project
Note, we can go higher up the CEO of JEEViKA who is a supporter but are trying to get Manoj and Anil bought in
They feel the project is too research oriented and the farmer benefit is not obvious
On the research front, they are curious what we are doing re: GHG emissions
They further feel that JEEViKA is already promoting many of these practices and its not clear what is additive about this project
Proposed agenda / talking points for session with JEEViKA
Our focus on this project is yield scale emissions; the practices we are promoting (early sowing, optimize nitrogen application, ZT, DSR, etc) do increase productivity (and resilience) and income
We are taking steps to drive up adoption of these high impact practices
Do we have a sense for current adoption rate for these practices? Our anecdotal sense is that there is a still a lot of room for growth
More targeted advisories; expect that things which are more contextually relevant have a higher likelihood of adoption. Andrew McDonald (Unlicensed) and Sonam sherpz (Unlicensed), you mentioned some research in this area; this meeting would be a great opportunity to introduce this
Introduce practices that are not already covered by JEEViKA (eg, Potato ZT, micronutrients)
Better engage farmers and VRPs through tools like the scorecard which contextualizes farmer performance vs. peers
Looking ahead, farmers that are following more sustainable practices and can make verified claims along these lines can realize better market access and maybe even unlock new revenue sources through carbon markets. This is still pretty speculative but the work we are doing supports development of such markets
Provide a high level summary of the standards and model inter comparison
This will give JEEViKA a sense for what are we doing with the data that is being collected
AS will start a slide deck and share a link soon.
Agenda for Working Session
March 22 venue: TBC (Paliputra? DG office?)
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Time
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Topic and Objective
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Reference Materials
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Facilitator
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4pm to 515pm
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Content calendar
Align on what are the practices that will be promoted by JEEViKA through VBE
Andrew McDonald (Unlicensed) and Sonam sherpz (Unlicensed) we understand CIMMYT is doing some work better targeting practices. Can we learn more about figure out if we are testing anything related to this over next months
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___Dissemination calender.xlsx - Google Sheets
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530 to 7pm
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6 month plan
Proposed activity by workstream (similar to exercise we did in December)
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FRAME Action Plan.xlsx - Google Sheets
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