Nepal Country Platform Identification of national partners Five organisations were selected as partner organisations to implement project activities of the Prolinnova Nepal initiative: Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD); Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG); Sustainable Soil Management Programme (SSMP) implemented by Helvetas in collaboration with Department of Agriculture; CARE Nepal; and Ecological Service …
Six farmer innovators from Ethiopia took part in the recent international workshop on Promoting Local Innovation (PROLINNOVA), which was held in March 2004 at the Furra Institute of Development Studies in Yirgalem, Southern Ethiopia. Over 60 participants from Africa, Asia and Europe took part. They discussed experiences in building multi-stakeholder partnerships to promote participatory research …
Identification of national partners A Core Team is formed comprising the Farmer Support Group (lead agency), MIDNET (secretariat), ARC and PELUM South Africa to implement the project activities of the PROLINNOVA South Africa initiative. On account of the limited resources for the first year, it was agreed to take KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) as first pilot area. Communication …
8–12 March 2004, Yirgalem, Ethiopia Introduction Prolinnova is an international NGO-led initiative to build a global learning and advocacy network on promoting local innovation in ecologically oriented agriculture and natural resource management (NRM). The focus is on the dynamics of indigenous knowledge and learning, and on how research, extension and other actors in development can …
8–12 March 2004, Furra Institute of Development Studies,Yirgalem, Ethiopia In March 2004 the first international workshop of Prolinnova partners was held at the Furra Institute of Development Studies in Yirgalem, Southern Ethiopia. It was hosted by AgriService Ethiopia (ASE), the NGO that serves as Secretariat of the Prolinnova partners in Ethiopia. Financial contributions for the …
Report on the First International Workshop on Promoting Local Innovation (Prolinnova) Read More »
The PRGA Program (www.prgaprogram.org) has contracted a research liberian to produce an annotated bibliography on impact assessment of participatory research and gender analysis in plant breeding and natural resource management research. At this point she is only collecting information about referred journal articles published in English, but we hope to expand the scope of the …
Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) has been formed to ensure effectiveness of the Prolinnova International Programme and transparency and accountability to the country-level partners, their constituencies and the donors. The group consists of seven members: three from the Prolinnova Country Programmes, one from the International Support Team and three external members. ETC Ecoculture serves as …
The Prolinnova Global Partnership Programme (GPP) is being built from the bottom up on the initiative of NGOs involved in agricultural research and development (R&D). With support from IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), NGOs in Ethiopia, Ghana and Uganda are facilitating the participatory design of their own Prolinnova programmes. NGOs in several other countries …
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At the Second Triennial Conference of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) on 22–24 May 2003 in Dakar, Senegal, Prolinnova was presented both as a poster and as a PowerPoint paper by Monica Kapiriri during the session on “Rural Knowledge Systems and Innovation Processes”. Monica was formerly with Environmental Alert (EA) in Uganda and …
Amanuel Assefa from AgriService Ethiopia (ASE), the NGO that is coordinating PROFIEET (PROmoting Farmer Innovation and Experimentation in EThiopia), addressed the GFAR (Global Forum on Agricultural Research) in Nairobi, Kenya, in October 2003. He described the process of reviewing Ethiopian experiences in Farmer Participatory Research and Participatory Technology Development at the national PROFIEET workshop, held …
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