Reposted: This document is an agreement on how the Country Platforms (CPs) in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) subregion want to interact and for what purposes. It explains the roles of the current entities – Country Platforms (CPs), Subregional Coordinator (SRC) and Subregional Taskforce – and provides suggestions about how the agreements may be …
Charter guiding the Eastern & Southern Africa Prolinnova platform Read More »
The report from the PID training-of-trainers workshop that took place in Senegal on 7-17 July is now available and can be downloaded here. The participants in the workshop were selected from the Prolinnova Country Platforms (CPs), namely Scholastica Atarah from Prolinnova-Ghana, Jackson Kadiaka (Prolinnova-South Africa), Martha Opondo (Prolinnova-Kenya), Augustin Oudraogo (Prolinnova-Burkina Faso), Oumi Ndiaye (Prolinnova-Senegal), …
PID training-of-trainers workshop in Senegal, July 2025 Read More »
We are happy to announce that Peter Taylor has accepted our invitation to join the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) as an independent member. We warmly welcome Peter and are looking forward to a fruitful collaboration. Peter Taylor is the Director at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). Previously he was Director, Strategic Development, at the …
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The project NaviNut “Enhancing women’s agency in navigating changing food environments to improve child nutrition in African drylands” (Sept 2020–Oct 2023, extended with additional budget to December 2024 and for final reporting to June 2025) took a transdisciplinary research approach: co-creating knowledge across different scientific disciplines and societal stakeholders. The German Institute for Tropical and …
NaviNut: Promoting women’s innovation in child-feeding in Benin & Kenya Read More »
In June 2025, the NaviNut project “Enhancing women’s agency in navigating changing food environments to improve child nutrition in African drylands” finalised its report to the funder: the German Federal Ministry of Food & Agriculture (BMEL). NaviNut took a transdisciplinary approach to research & development: co-creation of innovations by local people and scientists from different …
NaviNut project completed – see the many outputs! Read More »
Two articles from the Prolinnova network were published in the June 2025 issue of the Appropriate Technology magazine: Beating drought in the Sahel by supporting water-conserving farmer innovations – by Kouete Paul Jimmy, Djibril Thiam, Augustin Ouedraogo, Assane Gueye, Hamade Sigue & Chesha Wettasinha Getting farmer-led joint innovation processes mainstreamed: lessons from Kenya and Ghana …
Prolinnova articles in June 2025 issue of Appropriate Technology Read More »
In 2023, Prolinnova held three webinars to provide an opportunity for its Community of Practice to share experiences in linking with university & research actors in promoting the Participatory Innovation Development (PID) approach. Webinar 1 (19 April 2023): “Case studies on PID activities implemented in Prolinnova Country Platforms (CPs) in collaboration with university and research …
Webinar series about institutionalising PID in research institutes & universities Read More »
Prolinnova Working Paper 39: The role of a local government officer in integrating PID into the practice of small-scale farmers in Kenya, authored by Martha Opondo, Vincent Mariadho & Amos Okore, has been uploaded on the Prolinnova website and is available in both English and French (Le rôle d’un fonctionnaire local dans l’intégration du DPI …
New Prolinnova Working Paper on integrating PID into local government Read More »
Prolinnova Nepal is taking a strategic step to expand its network and broadening its horizon at the provincial level. Till now, Prolinnova Nepal has been more or less active around Kathmandu and Chitwan districts. In this regard, the Asia Regional Coordinator (Sharad Rai) visited headquarters of Ilam district (one of the hill districts of Eastern …
An Agroecology & Innovations online course was taught in English by Schola Campesina Aps, in collaboration with the Grassroots Innovations Assembly for Agroecology (GIAA). It is offered by the University of Vermont’s Institute for Agroecology in partnership with Stats4SD, with support from the McKnight Foundation. The course consisted of 7 video-conference sessions that ran from …
