The Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) has recently named two new “Friends of Prolinnova” – although they are both actually “old” friends who have been engaged in the network for many years and hopefully will be for many more years to come: Suman Shekhar Manandhar is Chief Technical Advisor with NAF Seeds Private Limited and is …
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The September 2024 issue of the Appropriate Technology (AT) magazine featured two articles on Prolinnova activities: International Farmer Innovation Fair: a platform for promoting local innovation, by Vincent Mariadho & Brigid Letty, with photos by Janish Wettasinha (AT 51(3): 36-39) “We share knowledge until one becomes an expert” – learning through the eyes of local …
Report available on Webinar 3, focussed on “Networking and resource mobilisation to support the process of integrating PID concepts and practices into universities and research institutions”. In 2023-24, the Prolinnova network held a series of three webinars for network members to share experiences in integrating the Participatory Innovation Development (PID) approach into instititions of research …
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Update on the WCA Subregional Platform In line with the Prolinnova network’s regionalisation agenda, as set out in one of the objectives of the ELI-FaNS project, regionalisation in West and Central Africa (WCA) has made progress. A meeting of Country Platforms (CPs) in the subregion was held on 24 May 2024. A total of 16 …
Prolinnova–Nepal aims at developing and institutionalising partnership and methodologies that promote processes of local innovation in environmentally sound use of natural resources. It is an initiative undertaken in partnership between several Nepal-based organisations. Some activities of Prolinnova–Nepal since it was set up in 2004 have been: reviewing previous studies and documents on local innovation, developing …
A 3-hour Prolinnova webinar “Revisiting Farmer-Centred/Participatory Approaches” was organised by IIRR together with Prolinnova CPs from Asia and Africa on Tuesday 17 Sept 2024. A report will be forthcoming shortly.
The annual report outlines the achievements, challenges, perspectives and lessons learnt in promoting local innovation and PID processes within the Eastern and Southern Africa subregion of the Prolinnova network in the year 2023, at the level of both the Country Platforms and the Subregional Platform.
This report provides an overview of activities that took place at the country (Cambodia, Nepal, South India, Philippines) and regional level in 2023 within the Prolinnova–Asia regional network. A special focus in 2023 was on re-establishing and activating the Nepal Country Platform. You can find the 4-page report here.
The Prolinnova Limpopo Task Team has documented social innovation associated with the Tjiane Drop-In Centre, which can be accessed here.
At its July 2024 quarterly meeting, the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) agreed that the one of the newly elected independent members of the POG, Mutizwa Mukute from Zimbabwe, will become the POG co-chair, working together with the continuing co-chair Lisa van Dijk (based in France). Mutizwa knows Prolinnova for the longest time possible: when he …
