Programme+Committee+Feb+25+notes

__ Feedback from MC __ - Delia and Mario to take responsibility for the session at the beginning (late morning/early afternoon on day 1). In favour of Henning. Alan will email Henning and cc to Shirley. - Vegan lobby? Not sure this is needed. - Narayan Hegde for the livestock goods? Iain will follow up and invite him. - Tara Garnett will participate by video conf – in panel discussion after lunch on day 1. Mario to finalise this. - theme position statements early on? Need to think of an interesting format. Leave that decision to who is leading the session. Good to have OPLs not just TDs. But needs to be short and snappy and not 10 powerpoints….and interactive…..- comparative advantage needs to be part of this. Need to make sure that this also addresses the specifics. Science advisors….could be part of interactive panel somewhere in the programme. Alan will send a message to people organising sessions about this opportunity. Couple of visitors from Tanzania. Terry Muindi should be able to find out more. Alan to check with john if we need a brown bag with these and Knut. CG partners session. Be specific…..IWMI, IFPRI, CIMMYT(Olaf) and FAO IGAD. Ranjitha to lead this session? Alan to contact Vivian about getting info on NOVIP from Carlos Alan will send email about instructions on market place, posters, brown bags etc. Will check with Peter first. Information is on ilrinet…..so need to flag for folks. Needs to go out on Monday. Ananda’s remarks…… needs to be short…or be a slot in the market place…. Preference for the latter… Alan will ask Peter to do this. Four BoT members signed up. Responsibilities for sessions: Day 1 i Mohammodu ii Delia Mario iii Delia Mario iv Bruno, Liz and Peter Day 2 i Iain, Ranjitha (Alan to contact Adrian Cullis and cc Iain) ii Ranjitha, Bruno, Katrien iii P and C  iv Market place Day 3 i May need to decide content based on previous two days of discussions etc. Have say 6 people to focus on different aspects (environment, health etc) and then to lead discussions…. Boni, Elaine, Lucy – to lead the overall process – just provide them with a list of topics (climate change (Mario), land degradation (Jan), diseases (Jeff), social/poverty (Nancy), nutrition (Isabelle) ii P and C session,   iii leaders of topics make short pitches and are then quizzed by “dragons (include external stakeholders…..or at least…. BoT, science advisors)”… Tom to organise this. Needs to link to previous session(s)…. “dragon’s den”? But should not be completely reliant on the previous sessions. Ask science advisors to observe from the beginning and then comment. iv Acho, Julius, Loza, Tadelle, Jemimah, Margaret, Joan, Gabreille, Phil, Paulo, Don (Alan to send email)  Alan to arrange for session leaders to feed back so all the sessions are varied.  Staff introductions: Aster Tsige and Jane Wachira, together with eg Tadelle, Azage, Kebede.   Some comments from Delia and Shirley……. Need some rules/basic guidelines about font etc….. Alan will liaise with Peter to finalise and send out instructions.   If there will be a poster competition:  Criteria: visual, relevance, clarity of message,   Judges: BoT members, science advisors, Tanzania group  Flight details – discuss at core meeting next week. Send an email to all registered participants – that they should send details to PMO or to Wubalem. We might need a path to the tent? This is for core meeting next week also.
 * APM programme planning committee. February 25th 2010 **
 * Present: ** Alan, Iain, Bruno, Shirley, Wubalem
 * Poster template **