AATF pursues its long term objectives following a phased approach as detailed below:
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Phase
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Phase Name
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Step
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Step Description
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Expected output and paper trail
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0
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Intelligence Gathering
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0
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Agricultural Problem/Solution Intelligence Gathering
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Product Idea report
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1
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Business Plan Development
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1
2
3
4
5
6
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Product Concept Identification
Product Concept Note Development Scientific/Technical/Legal Review
Feasibility Assessment
Project Business Plan Development
Board Recommendation
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Product Concept report
Product Concept Note
Reviewed Concept Note
Feasibility Report
Business Plan
BOT endorsed business plan
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2
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Product Development
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7
8
9
10
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Product Development
Risk Management Strategy Communication Strategy Development
Baseline Study for Impact Assessment
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Product ready to deploy
Risk Mitigation Plan
Communication Plan
Baseline data
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3
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Product Deployment
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11
12
13
14
15
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Product Deployment in Pilot Locations
Impact Assessment
Planning for Cross-Border Expansion Wide Scale Product Deployment
Exit strategy
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Product used in pilot locations
Measure of impact
Cross-Border Expansion Plan
Sustained product use
Monitoring reports
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- AATF continuously undertakes intelligence gathering on technological breakthroughs locally and internationally with a view to generating ideas that can be nurtured into projects for addressing constraints to crop productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (Phase 0).
- Promising ideas are then discussed and screened for feasibility through consultations with stakeholders leading to the formulation of Project Business Plans (Phase 1).
- For each project, the Business Plan serves as a key document for guiding project implementation and the interactive mechanisms for collaborating partners during research, testing and adaptation of products as well as technologies in target areas (Phase 2)
- It also guides activities critical for product deployment to reach smallholder farmers and other end users (Phase 3).
This approach encompasses implementation of all planned activities, including triggers for project sign-off, also called ‘exit strategy’.
The process of identification, formulation and implementation of AATF projects does not rigidly follow a top-down, linear approach as outlined in the table but is intended to portray a flexible and iterative scheme involving periodic wide-ranging stakeholder consultations with built-in triggers for ‘go' or 'no-go’ decisions. These steps may even be overlapping for specific projects as in the figure below.
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