Marketplace

=Market Place Session= //Stands and mini-workshops: Friday 16 April: 14:00 - 17:30 (large auditorium) Poster Session: 12 to 17 April in the InfoCenter//

SESSION ORGANISER(S)

 * Peter Ballantyne
 * Loza Mesfin
 * Meron Mulatu
 * InfoCenter - stands and posters set up
 * others TBC

**AIMS OF THIS SESSION**

 * Showcase ILRI activities and work, related to the APM theme, and more generally
 * Be a forum to interact with external partners and influentials in Ethiopia
 * Be a kind of multi-actor 'innovation platform' or space of the type that ILRI supports in some projects

**PROCESS/FORMAT OF THIS SESSION**

 * Elements of the Market Place**


 * 1. Opening** (tent)


 * 2. Poster Session.**

LIST OF POSTERS

In the InfoCenter (which becomes the 'yammer cafe' from 9 -17 April). Traditional Coffee and Tea available throughout, internet cafe services for participants.

Some 30 posters from across ILRI, set up on 9 or 10 April, running until 17 April.

'Launched' with the P&C cocktails on Wednesday evening (after theme meetings and before theme dinners)

Digital versions published on ILRI slideshare account before the meetings begin. If possible the basis for blog posts/announcements

Poster competition with 3 top places, and a jury of Jim Dargie, Emmy Simmons, and Lindiwe Sibanda


 * 3. livestock matters**

30 minute conversations (max) on an issue.

14:15 -14.45 livestock matters 1 (tent) 15:15 -15:45 livestock matters 2 (tent) 16:15 -16:45 livestock matters 3 (tent) 17:15 -17:45 livestock matters 4 (tent)

Interviewees: - public private pro-poor vaccine delivery (vish nene) - interviewer is gabrielle - one health etc (jeff mariner) - interviewer is Delia - state of the art science (segenet) - interviewer is Bruce - livestock long shadow (Henning) - interviewer is Iain Wright


 * 4. Mini-workshops**

14:15 - 15:15 miniworkshop 1: Using film in your project (Clare Kemp and Susan MacMillan + Andrew Mude and Okeyo Mwai) 15:30 - 16:30 miniworkshop 2: GIS tools and resources for your project (Jane Poole, Titus and Wachira) 16:45 - 17:45 miniworkshop 3: Data management and access for your project (Ian Moore)

Short concurrent sessions on specific learning topics. With a training/learning emphasis? Examples are:


 * 5. Stands/Booths**

LIST OF STANDS

In the large auditorium, perhaps 25-30 max. Depending on demand, stands for:

Theme/Programme/Group/Region - on the science (say 6 or 7)

Major projects and hosted initiatives, IPMS, BecA, SLP; Collective Action, CCAFS ..(say 4)

P&C: CAST; KMIS; PA; IT ( say 3 or 4, perhaps we combine the comms ones?)

Operations: maybe HR, others? (1 or 2?)

hosted Addis institutions (say 4) - eg: IFPRI; IWMI; CIMMYT; CIP; IGAD

External partners in Addis (say 6) - eg: GTZ; VLIR, Save the Children US, AMREF; IIRR, FARMAfrica, Pastoralist Communication Initiative, Oxfam Ethiopia, Care Ethiopia, Africa Adapt, EIAR, send a cow?


 * 6. External visitors**

We invite a range of people and influentials we work with (or should work with) to join. eg: government people; donors; un/au; development partners; etc. Invites by Loza

**LOGISTICS OF THIS SESSION**
Infocenter set up - arranged by KMIS, with IT support for the telecenter aspects

large auditorium set up

Stands set up -

Stand booking and management -

Need continuous coffee/tea/drinks etc - (or the canteen as a 'stand')

Followed by APM dinner inthe evening, with some guests joining (who?)

do visitors need to register and have ID's?