Integrating Participatory Innovation Ddevelopment (PID) into research, extension and education

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1 Integrating Participatory Innovation Ddevelopment (PID) into research, extension and education Summary progress report to the GFAR Project Committee Meeting 2007

2 Planning and organising the new phase Early 2007, conduction of electronic evaluation and reflection on the programme s performance in 2006 Preparation of the 4-year strategic action plan at the secretariat, IST and CP level Sharing and finalisation of the 2007 action plan at all levels through discussions in the international partners meeting held in March 2007 in Senegal.

3 Systematisation of processes and procedures Developed several tools participatory M&E guide, backstopping guide, guide to establish new CPs, policy dialogue guide CP cross-visit guide, and Gender mainstreaming concept none Consideration was given to encouraging effective balance between centralisation and flexible local processes in programme management. All these guidelines are available on the PROLINNOVA website.

4 Headway to establish new PROLINNOVA Country Programmes Kenya Mozambique Bolivia Peru Bolivia and Peru received a small grant in 2007 to make the first steps in building a country programme

5 Extension of stakeholders engagement In 2007 another approximately 30 organisations joined PROLINNOVA, This brings the total of organisations actively involved to around 130. Stakeholders in Prolinnova Country Partnerships Farmer O 9% Research 13% Uni 16% Other 4% MoA/Ext 22% NGO 36% NGO MoA/Ext Research Farmer O Uni Other

6 About 15 additional joint experimentations of technological innovations Natrum extraction by women farmers Cereal glumes utilisation in cassava production Cattle fattening using cassava peels Fish smoking using an innovative local banda Charcoal ball briquettes from charcoal dust, grass and cattle manure Dealing with predatory ants Tephrosia-based acaricide Traditional refrigerator ( zeer ) Fish fingerlings segregation Feeding experiment of fish-natural nutrients Segregated chicken-rearing New ways of watermelon cultivation Continuous planting-harvesting-planting technique for water cabbage Water management and household energy water drainage and harvesting and trypanosomiasis control.

7 Emphasis on social innovation Niger, men and women farmers have formed a group to combat desertification Ethiopia, Farmer Innovators Association has emerged and is managing an LISF to support their experimentation activities. Cambodia is applying the LISF as a revolving loan for innovators that have formed farmer groups. Ghana, farmer innovators and their neighbours has formed a learning group to exchange experiences and to work jointly on innovation development.

8 Farmer-led documentation South Africa: The use of still camera by farmers and photo documentation of innovations Cambodia: Innovation story listeningsharing and documentation in the promotion of local Innovation Ghana : Participatory Video.

9 Learning-based mutual capacity development Backstopping: 9 on-the-spot backstopping missions, several input through e-communication Training of facilitators on PID: 18 PID facilitators took part in the IIRR-organised PID Training of Facilitators (ToF) course, hosted by Prolinnova Ethiopia. Country-level training workshops/seminars: PROLINNOVA CPs have conducted a total of 20 events related to training, workshops and study visits, which have involved about 200 additional research, extension and NGO staff and 50 farmers.

10 Institutionalisation of PID in mainstream ARD: Multi-stakeholder participation process generating policy effects New legislation Bolivia PID in research institutions Ethiopia South Africa Tanzania Evidence based multistakeholder dialogue & action PID in education institution Cambodia Ghana Nepal Sudan PID in government agencies Cambodia Ethiopia Niger Senegal Tanzania

11 Looking forward: the next year 2008 Concerns to increased attention. LISFs, Gender and HIV/AIDS issues Farmer-led documentation, Policy dialogue, and Curriculum development Intensification of capacity development effort Development of systematic participatory monitoring and evaluation at all levels Policy-dialogue capacity development at country and regional level Integration of gender and HIV/AIDS Coping with the demands of growth of the GPP.

12 Thank you all for encouraging and supporting this journey of mutual learning