PROCASURRegional Corporation

www.procasur.org

Ariel HalpernNairobi, April 2009

Corporación Regional PROCASUR

Non profit organization founded by an IFAD grant in 1996.Mainly active in Latinamerica with a few activities in Africa and

Asia.Works in the identification, development and scalling up of pro

rural poor innovations.Main Office in Santiago, representations in la Paz and Bogota.Funded mainly by IFAD and Ford Foundation.

Good friends all over.

Main Pourpose:

Enhance the capacities of the agents involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of public inversment projects.

MAIN SERVICES

Capacity Building:

Learning Routes

E learning

Technical Assistance

Base Line Studies

Human Resources Selection

Managment of Water Resources

Capacity Building

Learning Routes

1.Paths to Learning: Successful Innovations in Rural Microfinance

Africa, Asia, LatinamericaFord Foundation and IFAD

2. South to South ProgrammeLatinamerica and Africa

IFAD and Ford Foundation

Capacity Building

Learning Routes

3. Linking Innovation and Young Rural Talents ProgrammeLatinamerica and Africa

IMI – FIDA

4. Political Participation of Rural WomenLatinamerica and Africa

UN- INSTRAW

5. Access to Land Latinamerica and Africa

International Land Coalition

LRincreasing local capacities for a

global learning

LR is a strategy to

• Manage the local knowledge builded in rural areas by projects operators, families, communities and associations.

• Improve the participation of local knowledge in the rural market for technical assistance.

• Empower local entrepeurners for the systematic documentation of their knowledge and be able to share it among others.

• Strength the action of network teams.

Targeting

• Beneficiaries and Staff of IFAD Projects. • The others, who we work with.

And

• The best, who we learn from.

Thematic Areas and Partners

• Local Goverment• Gender• Acces to Land• Cultural Identity and Assets• Rural Microfinance Products and Services.• Access to Dynamic and Special Markets• Participatory managment or natural resources• Technical Assistance for the rural

microenterprise• Rural ITCs

LR 2009 (an invitation…)

• Cultural Assets for the rural and local developmentColombia / May

• Development Banks: amplifying the access to financial services of the rural poorBrazil and Guatemala / June

• Green MarketsColombia / June

• Access to Land Ecuador and Bolivia/ Africa???/ Second semester

• Young Rural TalentsLatinamerica

GENERAL DIAGRAMM

LR

10% Policy

makers

30% IFAD

beneficiaries

20% IFAD

partners

30% IFAD Staff

- 35 international LR developed

- 550 directly beneficed; 3000 indirectly

- 33 nationalities; 7 of them were African

Participation

Innovation Plan winners

Sergio Lazo, Peru1.Georeference and quality certification of Coffee; Managment of stock trough mobile techology

2.After 12 months, first time that the cooperative put USD 200.000. in french market

Innovation Plan winners

Yvrose Joseph, Haiti1. Use of rural

microleasing as a innovative financial product for the capitalization of assets.

2. 9 months later the public bank where she works is piloting microleasing

Innovation Plan winnersBetty Valenciano, Costa

Rica1. Enhance women

capacities to participate in local gov. trough the exchange of experiences.

2. 2 months later 10 majors took a 3 days Route and than joined the Women Municipalist Association.

IFAD achivieng policy impact

Agrorural, Peru

1. Public and competitive assignment of resources

2. Direct contracting of private technical assistance

3. LR choosed for the cultural and procedural migration

Presidential Ministry, Colombia

1. IFAD Model for saving groups and insurance for Women implemented in 3 different country level programmes