Allanblackia – Tree Domestication
Jan Beniest
World Agroforestry Centre
Training Unit
Purpose
‘To share knowledge and experiences on
Allanblackia domestication and related activities
that will facilitate large-scale deployment of
cultivation, in a coordinated and sustainable
manner, to smallholder farm producers in
Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania’.
Objectives – domestication specialists
• Through information sharing, comparison and critique, become
familiar with the most recent knowledge available for optimal
cultivation of Allanblackia, and understand where key gaps in
knowledge, requiring further action, lie.
• To develop an interdisciplinary understanding of how
domestication activities interact with other elements within the
wider context of the Allanblackia initiative, and how these
interactions impact on the implementation of cultivation plans.
• Through familiarity with 1 and 2 above, and through given course
materials, to be able to communicate appropriate Allanblackia
domestication approaches to other colleagues concerned with
practical deployment objectives in individual project countries.
Objectives – Allanblackia initiative
• To develop an interdisciplinary understanding of how
domestication activities interact with other elements
within the wider context of the initiative, and to
understand how these interactions impact on the
implementation of wider plans.
• Through familiarity with 1 above, to be able to
communicate with domestication colleagues in a way
that, through better integration, facilitates the practical
deployment objectives of the Allanblackia initiative.
Objectives - both
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Together develop concrete action plans, which
optimise Allanblackia domestication and
facilitate wider integration across disciplines.
Structure
• MODULE 1 – Introduction to integrated thinking on Allanblackia
tree domestication
• MODULE 2 – Domestication: germplasm collection and
propagation
• MODULE 3 – Domestication: nursery production to on-farm
harvesting
• MODULE 4 – Understanding context: cultivation, market and
policy issues
• MODULE 5 – Investors Forum
Resource Persons
• You!
• Colleagues and facilitators
Evaluation
• Anytime-anywhere
• Final course evaluation
Follow-up
• Personal action plans
• Small Grant Projects
P.A.P.A.
The Participant/Personal Action
Plan Approach
Jan Beniest
Adult learning
 Adults learn best by building on their
existing experience or through
‘experiental learning’
 Experiental learning is a process of
reviewing, reflecting and applying new
skills, behaviour and attitudes
 Learners must be enabled to ground
their learning in their actual work
environment
What is PAPA
 A method to ‘follow up’ on training at
least 6 months after participants return
to their work environment
 Proven method for monitoring and
evaluating training
 Based on ‘action planning’
 Participant focused but implicates
organizational and institutional
development
PAPA explains
 What happened on the job as a result of
the training?
 Are changes that occurred the ones
intended by those providing the course?
 What may have interfered with the
participants trying to use on the job what
they learned in the training?
Steps in PAPA
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Planning
In-course activities
Follow-up activities
Analysis and conclusions
Reporting
In-course activities: stage
1
 OBJECTIVES:
 understand the use of PAPA
 identify possible action ideas to be tried on
the job
 PROCEDURE:
 5 minutes each day to jot down action
ideas during the training
 use the handout provided
 confer with other participants/trainers
periodically
In-course activities: stage
2
 OBJECTIVE:
 to compile a final action plan
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prepare preliminary list of action items
confer with others from same team/institute
finalize and prioritize list of action items
report individual action plans
make copy and submit to trainer
Follow-up activities
TRAINERS
 Formulate and send
questionnaire
 Analyze and interpret
data
 Prepare report
 Improve course
content and
approach if
necessary
PARTICIPANTS
 Fill out and return
questionnaire
 Receive report and
send feedback
PAPA Form
SII/World Agroforestry Centre Training Project
‘Advancing agroforestry research and development through training and education’
Regional Training of Trainers Course:
Allanblackia – Tree Domestication
23 October – 27 October 2006, Nairobi, Kenya
PERSONAL ACTION PLAN
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Small Grants Projects
• The purpose of this scheme is to allow
individuals and their employing institution
to apply the knowledge, skills and attitudes
acquired as a result of training workshops
and courses and thus strengthen the national
institutions they work for.
Small Grants Projects
• They must ‘enable’ the application of knowledge, skills
and attitudes acquired as a result of a specific training
event
• They must strengthen the institution in which the
individual functions
• The national institution is responsible for implementation,
management (Letter of Agreement, reporting) and makes a
counterpart contribution to show interest and commitment
• Projects must have national or regional relevance
• The active involvement of women is encouraged
(implementing, participating, benefiting)
• Projects cannot be allocated to World Agroforestry Centre
staff participating in the training, but collaboration between
a national institution and the Centre’s scientists is strongly
encouraged
Small Grants Projects
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