The 3-year “Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate for Food and Nutrition Security” (SULCI-FaNS) ran from 1 October 2019 to 30 November 2022, with funding from Misereor/KZE Germany. The project aimed to strengthen the innovative capacities of rural communities, particularly of women, and to increase local resilience to change. It also contributed to building platforms …
On 10–14 October 2022, the biennial Prolinnova African Partners Workshop (AfPW) was held back-to-back with the final workshops of the Proli-GEAFaSa and SULCI-FaNS projects. Prolinnova–Kenya, coordinated by World Neighbors, hosted the three events. Also representatives from the NaviNut project in Benin were invited to join the AfPW in Kenya; this provided an opportunity for exchange …
African Partners Workshop + SULCI-FaNS/Proli-GEAFaSa workshops Oct 2022 Read More »
Kouété Paul Jimmy is the new Prolinnova Subregional Coordinator (SRC) for West & Central Africa (WCA) as of 1 March 2023. His position is paid out of the new ELI-FaNS (Expanding the promotion of local innovation for food security and healthy nutrition) project funded through Misereor/KZE (Catholic Central Agency for Development Aid), Germany. He will …
Researched & written by Nageb Ibrahim Bakheit “The real classroom is outside. Get out into it!” A. Introduction: A Sudanese proverb goes “He who forgets his past is lost” (Ibn Oaf translation, 2008). Indigenous technical knowledge (ITK) might be old, but need not be outmoded. ITKs were cost-effective, locally available, and mostly organic in nature, …
Prolinnova-Sudan field study leads to catalogue of ITK/local innovations Read More »
In the December 2022 issue of the Appropriate Technology magazine, there are two articles written by people involved in the Prolinnova network in South Africa: Using Mohlopi tree roots to make caffeine-free coffee in Limpopo Province, South Africa, by Ernest Letsoalo, Richard Chuene & Believe Hlahla (pp 18–19) Rural South African women collaborate with engineer for better …
Two Prolinnova–South Africa articles in “Appropriate Technology” Read More »
The Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) has invited Abdel-Karim Ali Mahamane, the former Subregional Coordinator (SRC) of Prolinnova in West & Central Africa (WCA), to join the “Friends of Prolinnova”. This group supports the network in improving multistakeholder partnerships, strategy development, resource mobilisation and public relations. Abdel is the Regional Programme Coordinator in the African Biodiversity …
Abdel Ali named “Friend of Prolinnova” / Abdel Ali nommé “Ami de Prolinnova” Read More »
The November 2022 meeting of the National Steering Committee (NSC) of Prolinnova–Ghana included two days of field visits to the Walewale and Bongo action-learning sites before the actual meeting was held at the office of ACDEP, the host organisation for the Country Platform. The field visits gave NSC members an opportunity to see Prolinnova activities …
After the untimely death of Naaminong Karbo, who had capably and passionately chaired the National Steering Committee (NSC) of Prolinnova–Ghana for several years, a new NSC chair was installed in November 2022. He is George Owusu Essegbey, formerly the director of the Science & Technology Policy Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial …
New chair of Prolinnova–Ghana Steering Committee Read More »
Guidelines in Nepali on how to integrate teaching about local innovation into school curricula: Sthaniya-anweshan_1-merged
At a meeting of Prolinnova–Nepal on 12 December 2022 in Lalitpur, 17 participants came together, including not only existing members of the Country Platform (CP) but also people from new organisations, as representatives of government institutions, NGOs, universities and consulting firms or as individuals. Suman Manandhar, co-chair of the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG), gave an overview …
