Southern African Pesticidal Plants Project

Workpackage 1:Management & Communication

EC

UoG FinancialAdministrator

UoG TechnicalCoordinator

UZ

ICRAF

SAFIRE

RGBKEW

MUM

DARS

Lead Applicant NRI-UOGDr Phil Stevenson

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Dr Brighton MvumiUZIM

Dr Gudeta SileshiICRAF

Stephen Nyirenda DARS

WP1 lead NRI-UOG

WP2 lead RBGKEW

WP3 lead NRI-UOG

WP4 lead UZ

WP5 lead SAFIRE

WP6 lead ICRAF

WP7 lead DARS

Prof Monique SimmondsRBGKEW

Dr Phosiso SolaSAFIRE

External Advisory GroupTo be appointed

Prof David HallNRI-UOG

WP8 lead NRI-UOG

WP 1

• Inception workshop

• Follow-up coordination meetings

• Activity reporting

• Annual progress reports

• Project communication strategy

Inception workshop

• Establish the SAPP team

• Short- and long-term project plans

• Coordinating our activities

• Define protocols

November/December 2007 – Zimbabwe?

November/December 2008 – Zambia?

1st week of November 2009 – Malawi?

Linkage with other meetings, e.g. international conferences, project training events

Follow-up coordination meetings

Part I: Formal presentations by each partner to summarise their activities and analysis of data collected over the last year.

Part II: WP managers to lead forward planning discussions related to their WP.

Follow-up coordination meetings

A mid-term progress report to be delivered on the 15th June of each year.

Each SAPP project partner to send Phil a

brief summary of activities undertaken in the previous six months (two pages maximum).

Activity reporting

Partner reports to be delivered to Phil on the 1st of December each year.

Reports should include a summary of all activities taking place by each partner institution. There is no page limit and should be in standard scientific format, i.e. Abstract, Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results, Discussion.

Annual progress reports

Also for 1st December

Separate summary of WP you are leading that covers all partner activities – 1 page maximum

Annual progress reports

Project communication strategy

Project communication strategy

Objective: Promote the findings of the project to as many individuals and communities in our target groups as possible.

The principal target groups are small scale farmers and extension services such as NGOs and community groups.

Project communication strategy

National level

Policy reports

Press releases to media

Public press radio, newspapers

International level

Peer-reviewed journals

Conferences

SAPP workshops

http://www.nri.org/sapp

http://www.nri.org/sappLinks to pdf reports, data, journal articles

Links to relevant websites & partners

Pages for four different target audiences

[scientific, extension, policy, end users]

Educational pages

Field guides & manuals

e.g. <…./ratzooman or <…./ecorat

Management requires reliable email connections.

Email Phil frequently just to say hi and let him know how things are going.

Copy Phil into discussions with other partners.