Africa RISING comms

Ewen Le Borgne (ILRI)03 January 2014 - West Africa

Review & Planning meeting

Capture, publish, disseminate Engage with wide audiences Enrich learning, interaction and exchange Translate outputs into outcomes Help improve internal communication

(connecting teams)

What we do…

WA: Agathe Diama (Mali) / Faith Afolabi (Ghana) ESA: Faith Afolabi (Malawi, Tanzania), Catherine

Njuguna (Tanzania & program level) ET : Simret Yasabu, Ewen Le Borgne Program level: Simret Yasabu, Peter Ballantyne &

Ewen Le Borgne, Catherine Njuguna, Faith AfolabiCome to us for advice, stories, templates, photos,

presentations, travel plans, activity updates, outputs!

Who we are

Our website to publish stories and results Our wiki to cooperate internally Our Yammer to converse and share information Our CG Space collection to curate our outputs Slideshare and FlickR for presentations, posters

photos Our Google calendar to display most important

events (wiki list of events for the full overview)

What we use

Our website

Where we share news, updates and announcements for the wider public

Our wiki

Where we collaborate, plan, share documents in their early stage, organize events, report activities etc.

Our Yammer

Where we share information and converse…

Our collection of outputs on CG Space

Where we harvest and curate final outputs / products

Our presentations and posters on Slideshare

Where we share presentations and posters

Our pictures on FlickR

Where we share – and find – photos and images

Our Google calendar

Where you can see upcoming events

Align comms with research (plans and actions) But we have comms plans

Develop strong offline comms activities too Collect content / stories to let USAID and others

know what is going on Follow our branding guidelines (one identity!) Get all of us to share information (Yammer,

phone) to learn from and improve this program together!

Our challenges…

The program framework All events (wiki / calendar) documented All templates (presentations, documents etc.) The history of the project Key contacts (and what they do) Overview of the regions (work in progress) Communication plans Branding guidelines And more to come… with your help?

Some gems you can find…

• List of all the tools: http://africa-rising.wikispaces.com/comms_tools• Our website: http://www.africa-rising.net• Our wiki: http://africa-rising.wikispaces.com/• Our Yammer: https://www.yammer.com/africa-rising • Our outputs on CG Space:

http://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/16498• Our presentations on Slideshare:

http://www.slideshare.net/africa-rising• Our pictures on FlickR: http://www.flickr.com/photos/africa-rising• Our calendar: http://goo.gl/2m56L or

http://africa-rising.wikispaces.com/Calendar• Our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCLZXIdq9v2SQOoOfCr0_w9ZdkovX5zqv

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Useful links

Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation

africa-rising.net