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Higher Education Solutions Network – Mid-Year Report (Fy 2016) HIGHER EDUCATION SOLUTIONS NETWORK – MID-YEAR REPORT (FY 2016) Makerere University ResilientAfrica Network AGREEMENT NO. AID-OAA-A-13-00018 SUBMITTED: MARCH 31, 2016 REPORTING PERIOD: FY 2016 This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. It was prepared by the ResilientAfrica Network. 0 Contents Acronyms............................................................................................................................................................................. 2 1. Executive Summary .................................................................................................................................................. 3 2. Major Milestones and Events Completed ........................................................................................................... 5 3. Key Activities ............................................................................................................................................................. 5 4. Engagement of Partners and Other Actors........................................................................................................ 5 4.1. Interdisciplinary Collaboration ..................................................................................................................... 5 4.1.2. Partner Engagement .......................................................................................................................................... 9 4.2. Summary of Collaboration Across HESN ..................................................................................................... 17 4.2.1. Student Engagement ................................................................................................................................. 18 4.5 Community Engagement ................................................................................................................................... 23 5. USAID Engagement..................................................................................................................................................... 27 5.1. USAID/LB Interactions ....................................................................................................................................... 27 5.2. USAID Mission Interactions.............................................................................................................................. 28 6. Monitoring & Evaluation ........................................................................................................................................... 28 6.1. M&E Updates ........................................................................................................................................................ 28 7. Lessons Learned / Best Practices ........................................................................................................................ 29 8. Future Activities ...................................................................................................................................................... 31 9. Risks and Mitigation Plans ..................................................................................................................................... 32 10. Environmental Monitoring (if applicable) ...................................................................................................... 32 11. Other .................................................................................................................................................................... 32 APPENDIX ........................................................................................................................................................................ 33 A. Summary of Activities……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….34 1 Acronyms RIC Resilience Innovation Challenge RI Labs Resilience Innovation Labs RIC4ACE Resilience Innovation Challenge for Adverse Climate Effects RIC4CONF Resilience Innovation Challenge for Conflict RIC4FAL Resilience Innovation Challenge for Food Security, Diversified Livelihood in the Face of Rapid Urbanisation RIC4RED Resilience Innovation Challenge for Recurrent Effects of Drought RIC4SOM Resilience Innovation Challenge for Somalia RIAP Resilience Innovation Acceleration Program 2 1. Executive Summary In the first two quarters of year 4, RAN continued working towards its 3 objectives. RAN continued to enhance its evidence-based resilience framework through implementation of quantitative resilience surveys in its target communities. With the support from TU/DRLA, all RILabs/Network partners finalized the quantitative survey protocols and design/sampling framework, completed their quantitative data collection, and cleaning of the data. All RILabs were guided through data analysis at the data analysis workshop organized in New Orleans where they discussed, explored and exchanged conceptual information and techniques as they pertained to primary and secondary data from the study sites, and the measurement of dimensions of resilience. RAN in collaboration with Stanford’s CDD began preparations to conduct a Deliberative Poll in Dakar, Senegal. The CDD and WA RILab teams held regular meetings with the DP consultant in Dakar to begin the process for the next Deliberative Poll in Senegal. Towards this effort, RAN held a workshop with stakeholders to determine the topics to be discussed in the poll and begin writing the briefing materials, questionnaire and protocol. The CDD team continued with the various analyses of data gathered from the Uganda and Ghana Deliberative Polls which will feed into policy papers and reports. RAN’s new cohort of innovators at the SA RILab were formally onboarded. The innovation teams were taken through community needfinding activities, development of the projects’ theories of change, and drafting their M&E strategies. In this reporting period three calls for applications were launched: The Youth Spark Innovation Grants (YSIG), Resilience Innovation Challenge for Conflict (RIC4CONF) and Collaborative Resilience Innovation Design for Recurrent Effects of Drought (CRID4RED). YSIG call closed in January 2016 and it has and will continue to contribute to increased student engagement in Network Plus Universities. RIC4CONF and CRID4RED will close in April 2016. Additionally, RAN HoA RILab onboarded one innovation that was identified under the resilience innovation acceleration programme (RIAP) leading to a total of 20 innovations incubated by RAN. The Stanford Innovation team in collaboration with RAN finalized the development of a tool/framework for assessing RILab impact potential. This framework is composed of four categories/pillars of strategic innovation action, the conduct of which would ensure success of innovators and RILabs as support systems for innovators. The tool is being piloted in the EA RILab and will be rolled out to the rest of the RILabs in Q3. The innovators received more capacity building in developing their business models and incorporating scaling of their innovations at an early stage. Country-specific qualitative resilience reports underwent final review by TU/DRLA and professional editing and are now published on the RAN website. RAN had representatives from all RILabs attend and give presentations at the Resilience, Research and Innovation Conference organized in Djibouti in October, 2016 leading to the wide dissemination of RAN’s work. Additionally RAN co-organized and participated in the One Health Central and Eastern Africa (OHCEA) second international conference held in Kampala in November 2015. This event gave RAN increased visibility across Africa. RAN disseminated DP findings of the Tamale, Ghana's DP to various stakeholders in October 2015. RAN is working at producing manuscripts for submission to peer reviewed journals in all RILabs and most of 3 them are in draft form. For example, the manuscript on Ethiopia qualitative survey finding was revised and submitted to the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. The CDD in collaboration with the WA RILab submitted a proposal on cities and climate change to the International Development Research Center (IDRC) of Canada and it was selected among the top 4. The call was advertised at https://www.idrc.ca/en/news/cop21-idrc-announces-cities-and-climate-change-research-initiative. The DP team completed an article on DP findings in Tamale, Ghana which was submitted and accepted to the American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting to be presented in September, 2016. RAN and Stanford co-created a phased production methodology whereby Stanford, using video material from RAN-produced MKITS, embeds it in a mobile-friendly learning management system called “Coursesites”. Using this approach, RAN’s needfinding, rapid prototyping and business model MKITS have been developed into online courses. 4 2. Major Milestones and Events Completed The following milestones were achieved: • 10 qualitative resilience assessment reports representing 12 study sites from 9 countries were compiled and are being reviewed to be shared on the RAN website. • Quantitative data collection was accomplished in 17 study sites/communities: Ethiopia (1 study site) Uganda (4 study sites), South Africa (3 study sites), Malawi (2 site), Zimbabwe (1 study site), Rwanda (3 study sites) and Ghana (3 study sites) • Preliminary analyses were done on the quantitative datasets starting from the workshop held at New Orleans
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