Project Highlights

• World Cafe approach used to discuss research result with stakeholders to develop appropriate messages
  
• Training of extension agents using flip charts and DVD's
• Requests for flip charts and DVDs produced by the project within other countries in West Africa
  
• Roadshows-taking stakeholders along the contamination pathway conducted in Accra first and then requests for the same to be done in Kumasi and Tamale
  

Project Overview

“Knowledge Sharing in Research with the emphasis on the end-users or multi-stakeholders is challenging and highly rewarding since it makes our research more meaningful.” – Tonya Schuetz, Project Leader

Most vegetables, which are typically consumed raw in urban and peri-urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa, are produced with polluted irrigation water. This project will work in collaboration with four projects addressing the related public health concerns: two of the Challenge Program on Water and Food, and two supported by WHO, FAO and IDRC.  These projects are testing a number of interventions from farm to fork to enhance food safety and the institutionalization potential of such interventions.  To achieve this, collaboration with end-users and authorities is crucial.  This project aims to apply knowledge sharing approaches to complement the dissemination approach of the aforementioned projects and thus fill identified gaps.

Objectives
This project will:

• Facilitate open knowledge sharing between researchers, end-users, and policy- and decision-makers to discuss appropriateness, viability, constraints and required incentives regarding the adoption potential of suggested innovations. 
• Support innovative actions for knowledge sharing via local-language radio broadcast, and the development of multi-media training material for catering and Farmer Field Schools.

Lead Administrative Center
International Water management Institute (IWMI)

Project Leader
Tonya Schuetz, Program Support, IWMI-Ghana ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Project Status
Commencement date: August 2007
Planned duration of project:18 months

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Project Outputs

• Posters

1. 'Five keys to safer food' WHO poster
2. Twi and Dagbani translations of 'Five Keys to safer food' poster
3. 'Safe food despite wastewater irrigation: a knowledge sharing approach' poster for the Share Fair, January 2009
   

• Article- 'Knowledge Sharing on "Good Practices" for safer vegetable production ' published in RUAF regional newsletter, March 2008
  

• Project develops and uses training and awareness videos to share messages about good practices in wastewater use
• Questionnaires

1. For farmers
2. For caterers
   

• Project holds 'Training of Agricultural Extension Agents in the accra Metropolitan Area on "low cost options for safer vegetable production" '--read report 
• Report on Catering School interviews
  
• Radio programs broadcasted on good practices of wastewater use
• Roadshow

1. Roadshow presentation
2. Roadshow report
   

• Photos

1. Pilot Project outputs
2. Pilot Project activities
3. Accra Roadshow
4. Kumasi Roadshow