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Innovation Platforms Explained
Empower & engage actors in RWM strategies
Gov’t Line Depts:We want to make a di�erence for our people but there are no incentives for di�erent departments to work together to achieve our common goals.
NGOs: We want to support development activities but we can’t address the structural factors that underlie rural poverty with our limited resources and time
Development Agents: We spend time working with farmers but we have no budget, transport, incentives and little control over major decisions so can’t facilitate development process e�ectively
So what can we do to improve this situation?
An Innovation Platform is a need-based network bringing together stakeholders from di�erent interest groups, disciplines, sectors and organizations to exchange knowledge, generate innovation and develop joint action. Platforms are more than just places to talk; they create opportunities for stakeholders to test solutions to common problems.
But how do innovation platforms changehow things are done?
Empowersactors
Addresses wide range of issues
Leads to joint action
Involves wider institutions, policies and markets
Encourages local actors to own the process
Improves communication between stakeholders
Achieve sustainable landscapes & improved livelihoods Push RWM interventions & technologies
Achieve short term quotas
But stakeholders are not coordinated
Farmers: We want to improve landscapes and livelihoods but we are not involved in planning process and our concerns are not recognized.
Facilitates learning
Contributes to new knowledge
Builds capacityto innovate
Includes di�erentsources of knowledge
Changes habits and practices
Local Administration: We have good policies for improving local livelihoods and landscapes but we have problems in implementation
Private sector: We see many business opportunities but we can’t realize the bene�ts in the absence of favorable enabling environment
Research Institutes & Universities: We have many useful research results and technologies but we have di�culty ensuring their uptake at local level
Create an Innovation Platform!
NBDC
Local Research
NGO
Private sector
Woreda extension
Woreda water
Woreda admin
Champion farmers
Woreda offices
NBDC research
outputs
Indigenous knowledge
Business ideas
National
research
Community Community
Community
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Coordination
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Coordination
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NileInternational Livestock Research Institute
ILRIBeth Cullen and Kebebe Ergano Licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. Produced by ILRI KMIS, November 2011.
Prepared for the International Forum on Water and Food, South Africa, 14-17 November 2011.