Author name: IIRR-Annie

FAIR in Kenya: County workshops for local fund management committees

In April–May 2012, Prolinnova–Kenya facilitated two 3-day workshops for the Local Steering Committees of the Local Innovation Support Funds (LISFs) in Eastern Region and Western Region. The workshops allowed the sharing of lessons from other Prolinnova Country Platforms piloting LISFs, discussion of challenges faced in piloting LISFs in Kenya and participatory assessment of how the …

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McKnight Foundation workshop – LISF as social innovation

PowerPoint presentation (PDF file: 813 KB) McKnight Foundation invited Ann Waters-Bayer from the Prolinnova IST to join as a resource person in their Leadership Meeting for the Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP). The meeting (30 July – 1 August 2012 in Minneapolis) was designed to share diverse approaches to social innovation that can support technical …

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About CLIC–SR Combining Local Innovative Capacity with Scientific Research: strengthening resilience to climate change:

  Drawing on its experiences of promoting farmer-led joint innovation that builds on the creativity of local people, the international Prolinnova network is applying this approach in building local adaptive capacities and strengthening community resilience to climate change (CC). This new project (2012–15) aims to: ·     Improve the capacity of smallholder communities, especially the women, to innovate and …

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About (North) India Country Platform – archived because no longer active

At the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) meeting in Bamako, Mali, in mid-March 2012, a new Country Platform (CP) was accepted into the Prolinnova Global Partnership Programme (GPP): Prolinnova-India. We welcome this newest member in our multi-stakeholder community of practice under the umbrella of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research for Development (GFAR). Prolinnova-India is coordinated by Ms Sonali Bisht, Director of INHERE (Institute of …

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Prolinnova International Partners Workshop in Mali

The annual Prolinnova International Partners Workshop (IPW) was held in mid-March 2012 in Bamako, Mali, hosted by ADAF-Gallè, the Malian NGO that coordinates PROFEIS (Promoting Farmer Experimentation and Innovation in the Sahel) in Mali. Before the IPW, there were parallel meetings of the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) and the Prolinnova Country Platforms (CPs) that are …

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