East & Southern Africa breeding operations workshop

Date: 
March 21, 2022 to March 25, 2022

Location: Kampala, Uganda

Operational leaders from breeding programs in the East Africa region will discuss progress and strategies on improving breeding operations within the regional scope. This is part of EiB’s Breeding Operations Network for Development (BOND) ongoing support for breeding operations teams. In shared sessions with breeders in EiB’s breeding scheme design workshop we will discuss challenges and strategies for improvement.

Agenda

Day 1 - 21 March

Start End Description Presenters
8:00 am 9:30 am Registration Carol/Millie
8:30 am 9:00 am Intro Session/Common Session with Module 2 Jan
9:00 am 10:00 am Center Assessment Overview (Operations Perspective) Vinicius
10:00 am 10:20 am Break  
10:20 am 11:00 am Components of Breeding Operational Structure Vinicius
11:00 am 12:00 pm IITA Integrated Breeding Operations Alick
12:00 pm 1:30 pm Lunch  
1:30 pm 2:30 pm Shared Breeding Services - Introduction to Initiative Design Teams (IDT) Young Wha (Virtual)
2:45 pm 4:00 pm Integrating IDTs from IRRI perspective - Moving towards Centralized Operations Sharifah (Virtual)
4:00 pm 5:30 pm Gender Inclusion Martina (Virtual)

 

Day 2 - 22 March

Start End Description Presenters
8:00 am 9:00 am Health, Safety, Security, & Environment Alick
9:00 am 10:00 am Health, Safety, Security, & Environment - Where are we today? Vijaya
10:00 am 10:20 am Break  
10:20 am 11:20 am SOPs / The importance of having a strong and simple QMS Stephen Weber (Virtual)
11:20 am 12:00 pm Technical aspects - Plotmanship - Field Management Overview (Session1) Dragan
12:00 pm 1:30 pm Lunch  
1:30 pm 2:30 pm Technical aspects - Plotmanship - Field Management Overview (Session2) Vinicius
2:30 pm 3:30 pm Plotmanship - How can we improve? Dragan
3:30 pm 4:30 pm Operational Excellence: Benefits and Building CI Teams Theresa Heitman (Virtual)
4:30 pm 5:30 pm Capacity development/BOND Gustavo (Virtual)

 

Day 3 - 23 March

Start End Description Presenters
8:00 am 9:00 am Seed Processing Bruce (Virtual)
9:00 am 10:00 am Seed Processing - Challenges and Opportunities Vinicius
10:00 am 10:20 am Break  
10:20 am 11:00 am Maintenance and Machine Management Amer (Virtual)
11:00 am 12:00 pm Maintenance and Machine Management - How Can we Move Forward? Vinicius
12:00 pm 1:30 pm Lunch  
1:30 pm 2:30 pm Greenhouse Structure and Controlled Environments Amer (Virtual)
2:30 pm 3:30 pm Group discussion - Current scenario GHs/ CE Lennin
3:30 pm 4:30 pm Irrigation. What would be an ideal scenario? Chakeeb (Virtual)
4:30 pm 5:30 pm Irrigation current scenario and next steps? Vinicius

 

Day 4 - 24 March

Start End Description Presenters
7:00 am 5:00 pm FIELD TOUR - Please check the specific schedule for your group (pdf)  

 

Day 5 - 25 March

Start End Description Presenters
8:00 am 9:00 am How can we Expand? NARES Involvement Godfrey Asea
9:00 am 10:00 am How can we Expand? NARES Involvement Bish/Lennin
10:00 am 11:00 am Focus Groups: After all what we covered Centralization Change Management What is missing? Vinicius/Gustavo/Amer
11:00 am 11:30 am Evaluation Session Vinicius/Gustavo/Amer
11:30 am 12:00 pm Wrap up with Breeding team Workshop Session Moderators: Mod4

 

Workshop objectives: The main objective of this workshop is to align ongoing initiatives and determine how to sustain and improve operations at each station, through:

  • Assessing initiatives (BOND, Crops to End Hunger investment, Operational Excellence, maintenance projects, etc.) based on demand for support
  • Developing action plans by station
  • Considering critical components such as station sustainability and gender

Participants: Participants have been selected via EiB partnerships and include operational leaders at the research stations in East Africa. Selection is now closed. 

Facilitators: EiB’s Operations module team: Gustavo Teixeira, Amer Najm, Vinicius Pereira da Rocha, Dragan Milic

Thank you: We thank Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other EiB partners for their support in delivering this work.

More information: contact Gustavo Teixeira, g.teixiera (a) cgiar.org

Resources:

 

Short description: 
Operational leaders from breeding programs in the East Africa region will discuss progress and strategies on improving breeding operations within the regional scope.