Presented by Ewen Le Borgne (ILRI) at the Africa RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting, Bamako, Mali, 3-4 February 2014

1. Africa RISING Communications
Ewen Le Borgne (ILRI)
Africa RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting,
Bamako, Mali, 3-4 February 2014

2. What we do…
 Capture, publish, disseminate
 Engage with wide audiences
 Enrich learning, interaction and exchange
 Translate outputs into outcomes
 Help improve internal communication
(connecting teams)

3. Who we are
 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 Afolabi
Come to us for
advice, stories, templates, photos, presentations, t

4. What we use
 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)

5. Our website
Where we share news, updates and announcements for the wider public

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

7. Our Yammer
Where we share
information and
converse…

8. Our collection of outputs on CG Space
Where we harvest and
curate final outputs /
products

9. Our presentations and posters on Slideshare
Where we share
presentations and posters

10. Our pictures on FlickR
Where we
share – and find
– photos and
images

11. Our Google calendar
Where you can see upcoming events

12. Our challenges…
 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!

13. Some gems you can find…
 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?

14. What you can do
 Share stories – for us to help write? (website)
 Document your work (wiki)
 Share your information (Yammer / f2f)
 Inform us about events, travel plans etc.
(calendar)
 Pass on presentations, posters, articles etc.
 Seek engagement
 Bring us along on missions and trips!
 Ask us for information, support, templates, joint work!

15. Useful links
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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/africarising
Our pictures on FlickR: http://www.flickr.com/photos/africa-rising
Our calendar: http://goo.gl/2m56L or http://africarising.wikispaces.com/Calendar
Our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCLZXIdq9v2SQOoOfCr0_w9ZdkovX5zqv
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