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PROCASURLOCAL KNOWLEDGE FOR GLOBAL SOUTH INNOVATIONS
Over the past 15 years, the International Fund of Agricultural Development(IFAD) has been working very closely with PROCASUR Corporation in the areaof knowledge management and South-South Cooperation, more specificallyimplementing training projects among IFAD’s funded operations and involvingIFAD’s staff and partners in Latin America, Asia and North, East and SouthernAfrica. Since 2011 Procasur Africa has worked in East and Sothern Africa as aknowledge broker for the Global South, linking international institutions andregional organizations with local governments and rural talents to identify,nourish and share innovative ideas. Procasur Africa aims to provide thetechnical services and tools to manage knowledge and build capacity for publicand private actors engaged in the fight against rural poverty.
It is in this context that IFAD promoted, approved and funded a new grant:IFAD – Procasur Large Grant Strengthening Capacities and Tools to Scale Upand Disseminate Innovations (2016-2018). This project will support thedissemination and scaling up of local knowledge-based innovations onagriculture and rural development, to deepening IFAD’s impact on povertyeradication in rural areas.
Context and Background Objectives/description
Lessons learnt
Procasur’s Learning Routes and the Ripple Effect: A journey toUganda bears Fruit for Nepal
Knowledge sharing among peers has the power of the ripple effect. It cantravel far and wide in a linear, single loop learning style but overall itrecognizes the need for non-linear and multiple contact- various actors tointeract on different occasions and on varied platforms whilst drawing fromconstant, in-depth reflections to better approaches to various topical issues.The concept of action learning refers to the drawing of lessons fromexperience and actions, and then applying these back into the nextexperience or action in a way that betters processes for improved outcomes.It is about constant and consistent cycles of improved learning and doing.Action learning contributes to social transformation by challenging us to buildwhat we know into who we are and what we do.
Success of LRs was evident with the replication of a training modeled alongGender Action Learning System (GALS), in Surkhet, Nepal on June 15-17, 2015.The training in Nepal followed a previous Learning Route event organized bythe International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Procasur on‘Innovative Tools and Approaches to enhance gender equality in Value ChainDevelopment’ on September 7-14, 2014 in Uganda.
• GALS cost less if intergrated in an ongoing activity, existing group dynamics and systemsenhances the quick adoption of GALS in a more cost effective and sustainable way.
• GALS enhance communication in the community and provide platforms for sharing and support.
• GALS can address diversity of situations at households and group levels. This includes differncesin composition of household members, addressing issues of people living with physicaldisabilties and issues like polygamy.
• Gender inequality covers different dimensions, for example access to land, dcision making anddivision of labour. GALS can address different levels because it is a wholistic tool..
• Alliances are key: Cooperation is need if you want to build a strong process.
• Change starting from the community can be sustainable. This always the participants to developmodels that suit their situations and which they themselves can sustain with their ownresources.
Useful links and resources
•Boosting the contribution of value chain development to gender justice and pro-poor wealth creation: the Gender Action Learning System (GALS)
•Actions Implemented By Procasur In Gender Equity And Women Empowerment Issues
•Final Report Innovative tools and approaches to enhance gender equality in value chain development
•Boosting the contribution of value chain development to gender justice and pro-poor wealth creation: The Gender Action Learning System (GALS) Rwanda and Uganda, 24th September - 3rd October 2012
Valentina Sauve [email protected] Sacco [email protected]
Outcomes/achievements
Facts and figures:
23 Learning Routes (LRs) implemented: 18 LRs completed within the East and Southern Africa (ESA) region with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and 5 additional LRs with several partners and stakeholders in other regions;14 countries in the East and Southern Africa Region and 3 Countries in West and Middle East and North Africa region, ensuring South-South cooperation and exchanges;
Under the Gender thematic:
7 cases studies on best practices and innovations elaborated and used for LRs40 local champions trained in knowledge building and sharing4 learning routes implemented in the ESA region90 participants from 14 countries, (60% women, 46% youth) implemented, promoting women’s participation and gender equality with youth inclusion20 Innovation Plans (IPs) designed and 5IPs funded12,500 USD of direct co-financing given to rural communities and organizations
The goal of the programme is poverty reduction in the rural areas of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), East and Southern Africa (ESA), West and Central Africa (WCA) and the IFAD’s Policy and Technical Advisory Division (PTA).
Its main objective is to enhance implementation performance and impact of rural development projects in LAC, ESA, PTA and WCA by increasing access to knowledge, capacity building and scaling up of good practices.
