How will we proceed?

OK. Very nice. It sounds good, doesn't it?

Now, how do we test the potential of SoC and MSC?

Here below there are some suggestions in order to move ahead:

1. Focus:

Between March and June 2007, the International Markets and Livelihoods Programme (IA2) will go through an intensive period of experimentation and reflection about the use of SoC and MSC to learn from marginalised producers.

2. Create a community of practice around this process:

This blog is part of this idea, but emails and telephone calls and conferences will also be used to maintain communication.

Additional to the IA2 team leaders in the country offices and the staff in the UK, it is important that project managers engage in this learning process as well. In fact, it would be great if they become the protagonists!

IA2 staff will be invited to become co-editors of the blog. Special co-editors from other organisations will also be invited.

3. Support:

Provide timely and high quality support to project managers before, during and after they have collected the SoC and identify the MSCs.

Barnaby Peacocke (our QA Manager and the internal champion of the idea of SoC) will be intensively involved with us providing support to the team leaders and project managers. In fact, he will be visiting the Sri Lanka and Sudan offices soon and will be providing hands-on support to the TLs and PMs.

4. Clear calendar of activities:

You can check the updated calendar here.

5. Production of a document to share with our experiences others:

By June, we hope to produce a short doc with some of the key lessons and insights from the process.