This project aims to build an interdisciplinary research programme to increase the uptake of context-appropriate SAI innovations in East and southern Africa through evidence generation, data analytics and the development of innovative tools for stakeholder engagement with evidence. The SHARED approach, which will incorporate an innovative and interactive SAI dashboard, will be applied as part of the stakeholder engagement and contribute to the national and international learning alliances.

Project activities include:

1. Baseline assessment of biophysical and socio-economic conditions, including use of and
existing evidence on the effectiveness of SAI interventions. This includes a systematic and
cross-country stakeholder and value-chain mapping exercise.
2. Engage stakeholder groups using the SHARED approach to reflect on SAI-relevant policies &
interventions, as well as the existing evidence on their effectiveness.
3. Multi-scale, socio-ecological trade-off analysis conducted on promising SAI interventions and
results communicated and assessed with stakeholders using the SHARED approach.
4. Facilitate piloting of promising, innovative SAI interventions, using mixed methods to assess
their cost-effectiveness & differential effects on different categories of smallholders, including
women, men and young people.
5. Develop an interactive, open access platform—’SAI Dashboard’— for project action sites to
support the engagement of decision makers to interact with data and evidence.
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