1. Agribusiness Community of Practice Hyderabad,October 2010 Steve GiddingsRegional Facilitator: Africa infoDev, World Bank [email_address] Heidi Humala Project Manager infoDev, World Bank[email_address]

2.

• The Seed

• Incubation helps to increase business survival and growth

• Business incubation mainly focused on ICT, manufacturing, biotech, services..

• What about agribusiness incubation? How do we help facilitate more agri-incubators especially as the impact could be enormous

3.

• Germination

• Finland/infoDev co-operation agreement

• Finalisation of the agribusiness work plan to focus on innovation, value adding, and sustainability

• Formation of the Agribusiness Community of Practice with 110+ members from 35+ countriesbuilds on learning from gender, ICT and high growth CoPs

• 1 stmeeting of the Community in Hyderabad Oct 10

4.

• Growth?

• Identification of what the Community needs to focus on (3-4 areas with support from infoDev)

• Identification of how it will operate

• Identification of the measures of success

• Identification of champions

5.

• Where to?

6.

has a communication mechanism

creates legitimacy (trust)

enables participation

enhances learning

creates community/identity

A Community of Practice 7.

a common language

a common purpose

evolution

shared background or experience

dynamicism

creation of new knowledge

the fact that the Community facilitates more than simply interaction

[1]Seely Brown J. and Duguid P. 2000. "The Social Life of Information." Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Communities of Practice facilitate this through : 8. Creating legitimacy and trust How do we create legitimacy? How do we grow trust across cultures, languages and distance ? 9.

the internet as a starton-line CoP

workshops

planning mechanisms that facilitate the adding of value.

A failure to facilitate participation can

lead to:

a lack of benefit addition

withdrawal of support

mistrust in the process

Facilitating participation 10.

What do we want to learn about?

Are we prepared to share our experiences?

Will we engage in vigorous debate?

Learning is an active process!

Enhancing learning 11. It is why we are here Participate! Share! Make friends! Learn! Have fun! Follow up and continue to grow the community when you leave.! Creating community!