Francisco Pérez-Trejo Senior Adviser, FAO

The ENoLL – FAO Collaboration

Rome 25 January 2011

Innovating 4 Development

•  The ENoLL – FAO Collaboration: the international dimension of Living Labs

•  Existing mechanisms and platforms

•  FAO contributions

Medium Term Plan and Annual Work Plan 2010-2011

The ENoLL – FAO Memorandum of Understanding • The ENoLL- FAO Task Force • Link to the work of FAO’s “Rural Development” Working

Group

• Proposed areas of work: 1. Sustainable rural development and social inclusion

2. Integrated approaches for improved effectiveness of innovation-driven rural development

3. Eco-innovation initiatives aimed at enhancing the sustainability of development initiatives and reducing the vulnerability of rural communities to environmental degradation (including climate changes and biodiversity)

The link to existing international mechanisms and platforms

The Paris Declaration (endorsed in 2005)

Paris Declaration Website: http://www.oecd.org/document/19/0,3746,en_2649_3236398_43554003_1_1_1_1,00.html

The Accra Agenda for Action (2008) Builds on the commitments agreed in the Paris Declaration

•  Predictability – donors will provide 3-5 year forward information on their planned aid to partner countries.

•  Country systems – partner country systems will be used to deliver

aid as the first option, rather than donor systems.

•  Conditionality – donors will switch from reliance on prescriptive

conditions about how and when aid money is spent to conditions

based on the developing country’s own development objectives.

•  Untying – donors will relax restrictions that prevent developing

countries from buying the goods and services they need from

whomever and wherever they can get the best quality at the lowest

price.

The Global Platform for Rural Development

The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development is a network of 34 bilateral and multilateral donors, intergovernmental organizations and development agencies.

Created in 2003, the Platform is committed to increasing and improving the quality of development assistance in agriculture and rural development.

Addressing aid effectiveness Promoting the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action for sustainable results on the ground.

A neutral convening power A forum for building consensus around critical or emerging issues and formulating joint approaches.

Adding value A platform for facilitating the exchange of development know-how.

FAO contributions to the Living Labs worldwide

•  Using the FAO Rural Development Initiative and the network of decentralized offices to support the international Living Labs initiative

●  Living Labs results (e.g.. C@R) can provide direct links to the international policy process through partnerships with FAO and other UN agencies

●  National and regional projects (e.g. Syria, Haiti reconstruction)

Scaling-up Opportunities for Living Labs

1. European Development Fund (EDF)

The EDF is the main instrument for development cooperation with the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states and overseas countries and territories (OCTs).

At present, the 10th EDF (2008 – 2013) is being implemented. It has been allocated €22.682 billion.

2. FAO Resource Mobilization Service

Mobilization of funds for technical and policy assistance in support of developing countries' efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of reducing hunger and poverty.

Policies that promote mechanisms for the systemic and sustained use of Living-Labs results

Strategic approach: 1. inter-institutionality 2. intersectorialy 3. territoriality 4. involvement and non-exclusiveness

The Policy Dimension of Living Labs

Impact Assessment Methodological Framework

Integrating the dynamics of social agents with future development scenarios to identify policy mechanisms for scaling-up Living Lab results:

1. Livelihoods Impact Assessment Approach based on different needs - assets of wellbeing of communities (human, natural, physical, economic and financial, social)

2. Stakeholder Networks Mapping

3. Future development scenarios for scaling-up the results of Living Labs

Future scenarios development Stakeholder Networks Mapping

Scaling-Up Methodological Framework

Livelihoods-based Impact Assessment

Thank you

Francisco.PerezTrejo@fao.org