EWB team for agriculture sector in Burkina Faso

Entreprenariat Rural Agricole, Burkina Faso

Overseas session for the EWB National Conference 2010

January 7th 2010

Team presentation

ERA team!

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Catherine Charles RomeshNasser Rosanne

Florian Noémie Boris

EWB team for agriculture sector in Burkina Faso

Entreprenariat Rural Agricole, Burkina Faso

Overseas session for the EWB National Conference 2010

January 7th 2010

Expertise and strategy presentation

Goals of the activity

Participating deleguates understand:

The challenges of the agric sectorHow the strategy of our sector team work on those challenges

Plan of presentation

Reminder of our expertises and strategy of our team (6 minutes)

Exchange and discussion period (18 minutes)

EWB’s expertises in Burkina Faso

Strengthening the capacity of field workers

Goal: enable field workers to better serve their member farmers

Focus of the work:

Coaching!Tools to support personnal development: self-evaluation and training tools for improving KSA

EWB’s expertises in Burkina Faso

Support to « Conseil à l’Exploitation Familiale » (CEF) approach

Goal: help farmers organizations to better implement their CEF services for their members

Focus of the work:

Co-facilitate the improvement of CEF aproach: Segmentation

Co-facilitate of multiple innovations CEF-credit links and CEF-selling links, compile and

share best practices of field workers, …

EWB’s strategy

Axis 1. The quality of services given to farmers is improved

Axis 2. CEF approach better answer to famers needs

Axis 3. “ Create a national coherence around the practice of agricultural advising” – … work in progress…

Axis 1. Expected results

1. Field workers have better skills in facilitation and better tools to give services of his farmer union/federation [individual]

Reporting, facilitation technics, …

2. Managers of unions/federations manage more efficiently their human, finacial, and information ressources [individual]

Planning, strategic thinking...

3. Unions/federations partners has more efficient systems [organisationnal]

Efficient meetings, M&E system of responsibilities in district, provincial, national boards, M&E system of impact…

Axis 2. Expected results

1. The CEF approache is integrated [approach]

To programs of Input access, credit and markets

They address women and men equally.

2. The CEF approach is evolutionary [approach]

Resources mobilized for the starting producers are optimized

Rservices for experienced producers are sophisticated

Advisors are supported in their own improvement of KSA to better deliver CEF services

3. The federations are innovative organizations [organisationnal]

which proposed new solution to their constituent groups

Create and test pilots

Scale up their innovations 

Axis 3. « Expected results »

1. Evolve the relation between donors and the FOs towards [sector governance]

A greater autonomy

A greater investment in the innovation and management capacities of the FOs

2. Build on the existing management network so that different players [sector governance]

agree on different action principles

agree on a specification of services, so that the support to farmers become coherent.

3. Donors take into account the need to invest in implementaion capacities of CEF: human resources, M&E systems, etc. [sector governance]

Exchange and discussion period

Your questions of clarification

Your feedback questions

Your critical view of our workplan

Etc.