Date post: | 11-Apr-2017 |
Category: |
Government & Nonprofit |
Upload: | procasur-corporation |
View: | 196 times |
Download: | 0 times |
Global organization specialized in harvesting and scaling-up homegrown solutions
Gabor Teveli, PROCASUR Communications, [email protected]
Mission: Foster local knowledge exchange to end rural poverty
Objective: Facilitate the connection of global institutions with rural organizations and local talents, providing the structured learning platforms necessary to spread innovation
Keywords: Knowledge Exchange, Local Talents, South-South Cooperation, Direct Impact, Capacity Building, Policy Dialogue, P2P networking, PPP
Knowledge Brokers for the Global South since 1996Innovative, efficient and effective services for an increasing number of clients
with diverse needs in a dynamic environment
Partners: IFAD, Ford Foundation, FAO, UN Women, IDRC, ILC, SSCand over 50 governments and 100 rural people´s organizations
LAC
WCA ESA
APR
Training and Dissemination Methodologies in Rural Development
Conventional Approach
Top-down approach
Govt-to-Govt
Courses and workshopsTextbooksExternal expertise
Not participatory
Procasur’s Approach
Bottom-up approach
P2P
Interaction between
theory and practice
PPP
Conviction: local
organizations possess
knowledge
Wide range of Technical Areas
• Climate-smart adaptation techniques• NRM including Land, Water and Forestry• Organic Agriculture• Rural youth• Value chain development and market access• Agricultural cooperatives, financial control• Public-private partnership
Activities
Mapping best practices and innovations, and package them into knowledge products and knowledge services.
Learning Routes, Learning Territories, Technical Assistance, Targeted Actions to vulnerable groups (rural women, youth and indigenous peoples)
Learning Routes
• Tool to disseminate and scale up Innovations• Throughout Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Latin
America and the Caribbean• Intensify peer-to-peer networking through live
and participatory knowledge sharing mechanisms
• On the field training with the participation of multiple stakeholders
Achievements and Impacts of Learning Routes
Learning Routes
Change in internal
management of
organisationsDesign and
implementation of new products
and services
Improved capacities in rural families
Functional and vertical scaling
upSocial learning
Problem Solving
Knowledge sharing
LOCAL CHAMPIONS
Identifying and advocating knowledge owners as service providers
Local Champions
• Capacity building of LCs as extension service providers
• Upgrade, position and connect Local Champions for a people-centered technical development
• Community Learning Centers, Training of Trainers
• Active communities for rural development practitioners
• Providing methodological support to IFAD projects• Integrate grassroots-based knowledge management
in planning and implementation of projects
Sustainability
• High sustainability of innovations developed via Learning Routes
• Innovation processes far beyond local organizations and communities
• Increased involvement helps innovations and LRs reach beyond local communities, to national and international policy making level
• Good replication and upscaling, continuous expansion
Contribution
• Job creation – enhanced capacity (of LR participants) to create employment
• Income generation – enhanced income generating capacity• Social inclusion – increased capacity of women and youth to participate in
decision making and economic activities
• Outreach – communities can document knowledge and share it on global platform
• Networks – connected people within communities, communities across borders, and across continents
• Agriculture and Food Security – organizations adopt and integrate knowledge management systems in their work
How can we work together?• How can SSC be fast, cost effective and efficient in reaching the
rural poor?
• How can we induce a people-centered development in rural areas?
• • How can we build and share technical innovations on the
ground to overcome today’s challenges?
• How can we increase the ownership of local solutions and become sustainable in alleviating poverty?
For more information about Procasur’s activities
Visit Procasur online: www.procasur.orgFollow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/procasur.lac
www.facebook.com/procasurafricawww.facebook.com/procasur.asia
Visit our Local Champions’ Directory: talentosrurales.orgWatch our videos: Procasur’s YouTube Channel