Pilot Project Highlights

• Discussions on Pilot Projects, their activities and results on the KS blog

• ICARDA Pilot holds its Farmers' Conference
• IWMI WASPA sets up two Learning Alliances and a process for monitoring and evaluating this approach
  
• WorldFish Pilot presents paper - "Monitoring for change, assessing for impact: the WorldFish Center experience" by Natasja Sheriff and Tonya Schuetz at 'Re-thinking Impact' Conference 
• IRRI Pilot holds first Rice Knowledge Bank workshop for Laos- read Workshop report 
• CIFOR get book agreement with CABI
• IWMI Wastewater Pilot holds contimination pathway 'roadshows in three cities in Ghana: Accra, Kumasi and Tamale
  

Pilot Project Resources and Outputs 

For outputs from Pilot Projects see Outputs from Pilot Projects page

Additional Project outputs which feature the Pilot Projects can be found on the Documentation and Outputs page

Pilot Projects- Overview 

Pilot projects were included in the project with a view to contribute to increase understanding of the application and integration of KS concepts and approaches into research projects and activities. 

The following 6 projects were selected through the call for proposals of the KS in Research Project (of the ICT-KM Knowledge Sharing Project).

Click on individual projects to find out more information about each of these projects and what they are doing, and also to access documents.

• Application of KS tools to impact monitoring and project M&E to a community-based fish culture project in Vietnam.
  Centre: WorldFish Center
  Project Leader: Dr. Natasja Sheriff  ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ).
• Learning Alliances for Wastewater Agriculture and Sanitation for Poverty Alleviation (LA WASPA)                                                                                                                                        Centre: IWMI
  Project Leader: Alexandra Clemett ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ).
• Knowledge Management Harmonizing Research Output in the Northern Uplands of Laos PDR.
  Centre: IRRI
  Project Leader: Benjamin Samson ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )
• Safe food despite wastewater irrigation: A Knowledge Sharing Approach.
  Centre: IWMI
  Project Leader: Tonya Schuetz ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )/ Phillip Amoah ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )
  
• International Farmers Conference.
  Centre: ICARDA
  Project Leader: Dr. Stefania Grando ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )
• Shared Learning to Enhance Research Priority Assessment Practices.
  Centre: CIFOR (on behalf of a CGIAR system wide consortium on priority assessment)
  Project Leader: David Raitzer ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Activities with Pilot Projects

• Inception workshop to plan projects and M&E using Impact Pathway methodology
• Regular Monitoring and Evaluation of Pilot Project Activities
  
• Supporting and mentoring Pilot Project Leaders
  
• Capacity building
• Capturing knowledge, lessons, experiences etc
• Documentation and Communication of activities, outputs and results
  
• Final Synthesis workshop