Day 1, Flagship Review
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Instructions
Welcome to the Flagship Review. Flagships are the way in which we organize our science. They are coherent clusters of focused work, and in L&F are organised around
- Animal Genetics
- Animal Feeds and Forages
- Animal Health
- Systems Analysis for Sustainable Interventions
- Value Chain Transformation and Scaling
For each flagship, there is an audio visual presentation. Click on these and note down comments that you have. In the comment box below, write any comments that you have.
Does the presentation “ring true” or not? Is there anything missing? Is there anything wrong? What do you strongly agree with?
If someone makes a comment that you want to add to, or counter, please comment directly to that comment.
- Day 1 FS review: Animal GeneticsClick to watch the presentation by John Benzie
- Day 1 FS review: Feeds and ForagesBy Michael Blummel
- Day 1 FS review: Animal HealthBy Phil Toye
- Day 1 FS review: Systems Analysis for Sustainable InterventionsBy An Notenbaert
- Day 1 FS review: Enabling Innovation for Value Chain Transformation and ScalingBy Acho Okike
General comment from Anouka and I.... the presentations are interesting, but are light on evidence on evidence as to outputs, outcomes and the overview of research findings that each flagship is working on. Reviewing the flagships from the short presentations is difficult when the bottlenecks, challenges and successes are not concrete. Comments in the discussions flesh out some detail, which is very interesting.
Some presentations, mention research outputs as a number of publications or papers. It would be useful and informative to know the topics of these papers. More detail would allow some analysis as to the knowledge being generated across the flagship and at a higher level across the CRP.
Looking forward to tomorrow's discussions!
Would be good to have links to some of the evidence and detail for those who are interested
Rhiannon, Good points! I agree that we need to articulate better our areas of focus and what we are or are not achieving. I am hoping that the Theory of Change based M&E system under development will help us to describe better what we are working to achieve and why, and then track our progress. This has also been the motivation behind trying to get us to describe our work as 'product lines', whether it relates to a tangible product, like a diagnostic, or something less tangible, such as the business hub model. Using these constructs should help us relate our outputs better to what we are trying to achieve.
There is a perception that the links between technical flagships and value chains are weak. Is this true? In reality many scientists sit within both and the links are therefore through people and hence strong.