Strengthening functional capacities in agricultural innovation systems.

13th May 2019
by secretary

Paepard

13-14 May 2019, Gembloux, Belgium. Strengthening functional capacities in agricultural innovation systems.

The EU-funded Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems (CDAIS, www.cdais.net) was initiated in 2015. In May, partners will gather to share their experiences and knowledge from this project to a broader audience. And much has been learnt. We also invite those from other initiatives working on similar themes related to capacity strengthening in agricultural innovation, to join with us and communicate your experiences and knowledge. The aim, is to share and shape a path for action on how to strengthen functional capacities, and develop
recommendations on to most effectively drive innovation processes in agriculture.

Objectives

Share documented and scientific anal/ysis of the relevance and applicability of the CDAIS Common Framework
Shape ideas and visions on how to mainstream the strengthening of functional capacities in the development agenda at national and global levels.

The CDAIS team including partners and beneficiaries from the eight pilot countries (Angola, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, Laos and Rwanda) presented their experiences and the knowledge gained through the strengthening of their capacities to innovate during the past 3-4 years. The discussions included:

Improved practices or innovations that have resulted from strengthened capacities, or that have failed because of a lack of adequate functional capacities.
Concepts based on analyses on how agricultural innovations can benefit (or not) from strengthened functional capacities.
Policies or investments that support or block agricultural innovation because of a limited knowledge of the benefits from improved functional capacities.

Resources:
Common Framework onCapacity Development forAgricultural Innovation Systems (87 pp.)
Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems (CD for AIS) enables joint learning and co-creation and new uses of knowledge for social change and enhances the interactions between actors. It is also about creating an enabling environment for such interaction, learning and innovation, based not only on conducive formal law and regulations, but also on informal values, attitudes and behaviours. It aims at changing people’s behaviour and developing of more sustainable practices that bring about societal transformation.

CDAIS Stories of Change – FULL BOOK

Agrinatura and FAO. 2018. Building Competence and Confidence in Agricultural Innovation Systems. Stories of Change. Pasiecznik N, ed. Agrinatura, Paris, and FAO, Rome. 196 pp.

Trainer’s Manual “Facilitating Capacity Assesment

Building on CDAIS training experience, this manual has been developed to support the activities of the CDAIS project.This manual is a resource for the training of National Innovation Facilitators (NIFs) across all 8 countries. The objective of the training is to strengthen the NIFs’ facilitation skills and their ability to carry out Capacity Needs Assessments (CNAs) in agricultural innovation niche partnerships.

Putting concepts into practices

The implementing partners of CDAIS developed a serie of factsheets outlining tools and approaches to promote capacity development projects for agricultural innovation systems (AIS) that has just been released. Each factsheet includes an introduction on each of the five stages of the CDAIS cycle used and implemented by the CDAIS project.

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Strengthening functional capacities in agricultural innovation systems.

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