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PROLINNOVA Global Partnership Programme www.prolinnova .net

PROLINNOVA INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

CAMBODIA

March 06-12, 2006


Overview

• Country reports• Monitoring & evaluation• Issues & priorities• Local Innovation Support

Fund• Picturing Cambodia


Countries & regions

• Ethiopia, Ghana, Uganda• Cambodia, Nepal, South

Africa• Sudan, Tanzania• Niger, Senegal, Mali,

Burkina Faso (PROFEIS)• Andes region• Pacific region


Country reports

Small group discussion: 4 of 9 countries• Nepal: over 50 innovations and typology • Uganda: innovation scoring sheet, static vs

mobile, experimentation e.g. acaricide research into active ingredients, side effects and packaging

• Ghana: 3 formats for innovations, local innovations and innovators, synthesis of region specific innovations

• Ethiopia: panel for selecting innovative cases by host institution and issue PID grants, farmer-to-farmer extension programme


Country reports (cont.)

Highlights:• Enthusiasm, diversity and range of innovations, unique

to locality• Innovativeness of farmers, and potential of innovations

to improve farmers’ productivity and livelihood• Diverse ways of documenting and sharing• Experiences with innovation support fundsIssues:• Need for conceptual framework and methodology; and• Success stories of documenting, value adding and

disseminating innovation processes resulting in improved livelihoods of farmers

• Protect farmers intellectual property rights


Monitoring & evaluation

Self assessment

Internal review

External review (Julian Gonsalves):• PROLINNOVA stands out as genuine Global Partnership

Programme (governance, focussed outcomes, diversity, advocacy, IPR)

• Need to do more work at community level (PID work)• Establish strategic links with farmer institutions (formal

and informal)• Packaging of information and policy briefs


Issues & priorities

• Partnering: work with committed people, provide incentives, ensure transparency

• M&E: an effective, simple, participatory system used by partners and innovators

• Mainstreaming:- gender balance in all aspects, gender criteria wrt innovations and innovators, gender-disaggregated data in M&E- awareness raising on impact of HIV/AIDS on agricultural development, and identify innovations that reduce vulnerability and enhance resilience of farm households


Issues & priorities (cont.)• PID: documentation as first step in a process, and

continued capacity building in PID• Curriculum devt: review curricula at Universities,

sensitization of staff, resources mobilization, involve students

• PROLINNOVA and ‘regular’ work: relating its principles to mandate/philosophy of the organization, influence decision makers, align activities with available funding, and tap into organizations’ own resources

• Advocacy & lobbying: evidence-based policy advocacy, promoting the message behind PROLINNOVA i.e. bottom-up approaches in building networks, clarity on concepts/principles, organizing farmers as a ‘voice’ to influence policies, training by PELUM


Issues & priorities (cont.)

• Sharing and learning between countries led by farmers, needs-driven, and active resources mobilization

• New countries: define concepts, start small, tie into existing initiatives, buy-in of stakeholders, programme coordinator

• Expansion: PROLINNOVA as Community of practice vs funded programmes

• Funding: proposal to DGIS


Local Innovation Support Fund

• Innovation Support Facility

• Governance modalities• Intervention mix (BASIX India)

Livelihood Promotion services

Microfinanceservices

Institutional Devt services


Picturing CambodiaSavings groups Road and irrigation

Community shop Ecol contract farming


Picturing Cambodia (cont.)


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