The documentation team of ACDEP, the host NGO of Prolinnova-Ghana, has produced a video film on how a women’s group in Yendi in northern Ghana improved its artisanal soap by using local herbs and other materials to give the soap new colours and shapes. They did this to meet the changing demands of local customers …
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The new coordinator of Prolinnova-Ethiopia, Ms Beza Kifle, started work in May 2018. Her first report on the activities of the Country Platform in the Proli-FaNS (Promoting local innovation in Food and Nutrition Security) project for the period May-July 2018 can be found here.
The coordinator of Prolinnova-South Africa gives a brief report on activities in 2017, including representation of the Prolinnova partners in Eastern & Southern Africa in the AFAAS (African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services) meeting in Durban, South Africa. The one-page report can be found here.
In its 2017 annual report, Prolinnova–Kenya (PK) focuses mainly on its activities in the “Promoting Local Innovation for Food and Nutrition Security” (Proli-FaNS) project, in its second of three years. This builds on experiences of PK over previous years, e.g. in the FAIR and CLIC–SR initiatives under the Prolinnova umbrella, to show the value of …
Prolinnova–Ghana, through the Promoting Local Innovation in Food and Nutrition Security (Proli-FaNS) project with funding from Misereor in Germany, is supporting the Asongtaaba No 1 Women’s Group in Tamoliga community in the Bongo District of Ghana to improve the quality and market for their shea butter through Participatory Innovation Development or PID. Shea-butter extraction is …
Prolinnova–Mozambique implemented considerably more activities in 2017 compared to the previous year. The Country Platform (CP) carried out a refresher course on local innovation and Participatory Innovation Development (PID), renewed and strengthened its National Steering Committee, appointed focal points at provincial and district levels, published a catalogue of local innovations and planned its activities for …
During 2017, Prolinnova–Ghana re-organised its National Steering Committee to strengthen the Country Platform’s governance and supported small-scale farmers in selected communities in participatory innovation development (PID) and local innovation processes under the three-year Proli-FaNS project. The host NGO (ACDEP) also organised learning events for farmers at community level as well as for institutional stakeholders and …
In 2017, the Country Platform in Burkina Faso continued to implement joint projects. It also made progress in reorganising how the platform functions, but efforts are still needed to make the platform more dynamic. See the annual report in French below. La Plateforme Pays du Burkina Faso a continué en 2017 avec la mise en …
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Member organisations of Prolinnova-Mozambique contributed cases of local innovation to this catalogue that covers the period from 2008 to 2017. Most of these are cases that have been encountered during the partners’ day-to-day interactions with smallholder farmers in the villages where the organisations work.
For better sharing of experiences about farmer innovation, facilitating joint experimentation, setting up farmer innovator networks and managing Local Innovation Support Funds, an exchange visit between Burkina Faso and Mali was held on 6–8 October 2017 in the villages of Zeimbougou Mangoni, Nampasso, Kanouala, Nabougou and Nayo (Mali). The delegation from Burkina was made up …
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