Date:
February 21, 2022 to February 25, 2022
Location: IITA headquarters at Ibadan, Nigeria
In this workshop, EiB staff meet operational leads and breeders in the West Africa region to discuss progress to improve regional breeding operations, challenges ahead and improvements needed.
The main objective of this workshop is to align ongoing initiatives and identify how to sustain the operations at each station. The goal is to compare these initiatives with demand and develop an action plan by station. Critical components such as station sustainability and gender will also be covered.
Agenda
Day 1 - 21 February
| Start | End | Description | Moderators |
| 8:00 am | 9:00 am | Organization and Welcome Message | Jan Debaene |
| 9:00 am | 10:00 am | Center Assessment Overview (Operations Perspective) | Amer Najm |
| 10:00 am | 10:15 am | Break | |
| 10:15 am | 11:00 am | Components of Breeding Operational Structure (Session 1) |
Gustavo Teixeira, Alick Mulenga, John Derera, Amer Najm |
| 11:00 am | 12:00 pm | Components of Breeding Operational Structure (Session 2) | Gustavo Teixeira, Alick Mulenga, John Derera, Amer Najm |
| 12:00 pm | 1:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:00 pm | 2:00 pm | Introduction to Initiative Design Teams (IDT) | Young Wha Lee |
| 2:00 pm | 4:00 pm | Integrating IDTs from IITA and IRRI perspective; Moving towards Centralized Operations | Alick Mulenga, Sharifah Syed Alwee |
Day 2 - 22 February
| Start | End | Description | Moderators |
| 8:00 am | 9:00 am | Quality Management Systems in Breeding Operations | Steffen Webber |
| 9:00 am | 10:00 am | Health, Safety, Security, & Environment | Alick Mulenga |
| 10:00 am | 10:15 am | Break | |
| 10:15 am | 11:00 am | Health, Safety, Security, & Environment: Where are we today? | Bodo Trognitz |
| 11:00 am | 12:00 pm | Technical aspects - Plotmanship - Field Management Overview (Session 1) | Alick Mulenga, Baboucarr Manneh |
| 12:00 pm | 1:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:00 pm | 2:00 pm | Technical aspects - Plotmanship - Field Management Overview (Session 2) | Vinicius Da Rocha |
| 2:00 pm | 3:00 pm | Gender Inclusion | Sharifah Syed Alwee, Martina Cavicchioli, Christabelle Nachilima, Princess Lilia De La Cruz |
| 3:00 pm | 4:30 pm | Field Tour | |
| 4:30 pm | 5:30 pm | Plotmanship (How can we improve?) | Amer Najm |
Day 3 - 23 February
| Start | End | Description | Moderators |
| 8:00 am | 9:00 am | Irrigation (what would be an ideal scenario?) | Vinicius Da Rocha |
| 9:00 am | 10:00 am | Irrigation current scenario and next steps? | Vinicius Da Rocha |
| 10:00 am | 10:15 am | Break | |
| 10:15 am | 11:00 am | Maintenance and Machine Management | Amer Najm, Gustavo Teixeira |
| 11:00 am | 12:00 pm | Maintenance and Machine Management (How Can we Move Forward?) | Amer Najm |
| 12:00 pm | 1:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:00 pm | 2:00 pm | Seed Processing | Bruce Peters |
| 2:00 pm | 3:00 pm | Seed Processing; Challenges and Opportunities | Amer Najm |
| 3:00 pm | 4:30 pm | Visit Seed Processing facilities | |
| 4:30 pm | 5:30 pm | Seed Processing/Irrigation BOND | Amer Najm, Vinicius Da Rocha |
Day 4 - 24 February
| Start | End | Description | Moderators |
| 8:00 am | 9:00 am | GH Structure and Controlled Environments | Amer Najm, Gustavo Teixieira |
| 9:00 am | 10:00 am | Group discussion / current scenario (GHs/ CE) | Vinicius Da Rocha |
| 10:00 am | 10:15 am | Break | |
| 10:15 am | 11:00 am | Capacity Development / BOND | Gustavo Teixeira |
| 11:00 am | 12:00 pm | Operational Excellence: Benefits and Building CI Teams | Theresa Heitman |
| 12:00 pm | 1:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:00 pm | 2:00 pm | Continuous Improvement team IITA / Next step sustainability | IITA CI Teams |
| 2:00 pm | 3:00 pm | Group discussion / What is missing ? What need to be improved? | Vinicius Da Rocha, Amer Najm |
| 3:00 pm | 4:30 pm | Field Tour GH structure and controlled environment | |
| 4:30 pm | 5:30 pm | How can we Expand? NARES Involvement | Lennin Musundire, Biswanath Das |
Day 5 - 25 February
| Start | End | Description | Moderators |
| 8:00 am | 9:00 am | Focus Groups: After all what we covered Centralization Change Management What is missing? | Gustavo Teixeira, Amer Najm, Vinicius Da Rocha |
| 9:00 am | 10:00 am | Evaluation Session | Amer, Vinicius, Gustavo |
| 10:00 am | 11:00 am | Wrap up with Breeding team | Workshop Session Moderators: |
Support: We thank Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other EiB partners for their support in delivering this work.
Short description:
Workshop with operational leads and breeders in the West Africa region to discuss challenges and identify improvements.