Tagline: how to measure 'sustainability'
Champion: Isabelle Baltenweck
Team: Jane Poole, Nils Teufel, Mark van Wijk, everyone interested really... half of ILRI I suppose
ILRI developed in the past the ‘Gender, livestock and livelihoods indicators’ document' that has been instrumental in systematically collecting and analyzing such data on these topics. BMGF refers to it for example in their performance indicators document. On the other hand, we are many at ILRI working on ‘sustainability’, at farm, community, watershed levels, yet we are not exploiting sufficiently our efforts and resources. The result is that we are collecting non comparable data. The objective would be to 1. Agree on indicators for the various dimensions (economic, social, env, other?), for the various value chains and systems; 2. Design templates for data collection and sampling strategies and 3. Analyse data in a similar way.
This initiative would 1. List existing and emerging initiatives at ILRI and elsewhere, e.g. CocaCola foundation that requested our inputs on such topic and 2. Agree on sustainability indicators through consultative process and 3. Write a document similar to the gender one to be used by all at ILRI and beyond. This would be an important IPG.
Some people currently work more at farm level; other at other nodes of the VC (e.g producers groups). These will be captured in this document
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