capacity developement

1. A member of the CGIAR Consortium
Capacity Development
services for Cowpea
Zoumana Bamba

2. A member of the CGIAR Consortium
Scaling-out and Capacity Development
• Establishment of community based
producers
• Linkages with private sector, NGOs and
support services – research and extension
Triggers
• Concept of quality seed production, processing,
marketing and value addition integrated
• Effective demand of quality seeds among
smallholder farmers
Drivers and
spaces
• Quality seed production and marketing
• Storage, processing and value-addition
• Mainstreaming gender and youth
Knowledge

3. A member of the CGIAR Consortium
PROJECT
OBJECTIVES
CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
ACTIVITIES
OUTPUTS
CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
•Demonstration plots - protocols
•Production and marketing
•Awareness creation
•Business skills and management
•Group enhancing and dynamics
Objective 1:
Cowpea Seed
Systems
•IPM technologies
•Awareness creation
•Chemicals and insecticides
Improved
agricultural
practices and pest
management
• Storage pests
• Storage technologies
• Processing
technologies
• Nutrition awareness
Improved
storage and
increased home
consumption
Knowledge sharing services
• Production of protocols guidelines
•Best agronomic practices manuals
•Seed production and marketing
•Farmer-led seed enterprise model
•Business management
•Communication products
•IPM manuals
•Communication products on pests
identification
•Guidelines on use of chemicals
•Communication products on
storage pests identification
•Guides on storage technologies
•Guides on processing
•Recipes and communication
products on nutrition
•Publication of lessons, best
practices
•Economic studies, particularly on
youth and women
•Adoption rate, household farm
economics and food security

4. A member of the CGIAR Consortium
Implementation
• In-country and between countries Knowledge
sharing services
• Assessment of existing resources in respective
countries: manuals, guides, trainers
• Work sessions between national coordination,
research, extension and communication to:
– Work plan for the provision of services: field visits,
development of manuals, messages, etc.
– Production of guides/manuals
– Dissemination strategy
– Evaluation of impacts.

5. A member of the CGIAR Consortium
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