Our Learning Territories offer a more in-depth training to impro-ve practical skills in rural development. The Learning Territories are defined as hotspots for innovations that have proved to be re-levant for development.

Within a period of 7 to 15 days, farmers, leaders of rural associa-tions and microenterprises, technical teams of development pro-jects, policy-makers, government authorities and other practitio-ners come together and bring on innovative solutions to real-life problems.

Rooted in years of local experience, this hands-on training is pe-dagogically facilitated by men, women, youth, communities and organizations that have implemented novel and successful solu-tions in diverse areas of rural development.

Our Technical Assistance offers integrate solutions to manage knowledge. For those tackling with issues on “how to do knowled-ge management in development”, Procasur brings in its expertise. For example, we have worked with development project staff and grantees in helping them to document, systematize, share and scale up successful practices and experiences. The trainings and tools we use for knowledge management are customized to each client, and are suitable to capture diverse knowledge in the most remote rural, sometimes illiterate communities, as well as in more established institutions.

Through Targeted Actions to rural youth, we aim to improve the situation of young women and men by supporting their aspira-tions, and by helping them enhancing their livelihoods and impro-ving their subsistence strategies.

Our Rural Youth Entrepreneurship programme promotes innova-tions that enable youth to increase their knowledge, access assets and make their living in rural areas. For development practitioners working with rural youth, our Programme offers straightforward guidance on how to get tangible results. During 2012 we trained some 630 young rural entrepreneurs in Latin America and the Ca-ribbean, and worked closely with several governments to include rural youth issues in public policies.

Our PartnersThe International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Ford Foundation, the International Land Coalition (ILC), the Inter-national Development Research Centre (IDRC), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are among our main partners and clients. In addition, we cater to the know- ledge needs and interests of local and national governments, and to a wide sector of NGOs and academic institutions.

Procasur’s work touches the lives and livelihoods of thousands of rural talents across the globe. We believe that for those margina-lized communities, knowledge truly is power, and that by foste-ring homegrown information exchange we can contribute to end worldwide poverty.

Visit us at www.procasur.org.

Our Offices

Latin America and the CaribbeanHeriberto Covarrubias 21 Of. 705, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile.Phone: +562 3416367http://americalatina.procasur.org

AfricaShelter Afrique Building P.O. Box 25965 - 00100 Mamlaka Road, off Nyerere Road Nairobi, Kenya.Phone:+254 (0) 20 2716036http://africa.procasur.org

Asia and the Pacific209/34 Moo 10, Chia Mai-Hang-dong Road T.Padad, A.Muang, Chiang Mai 50000 Thailand.Phone: +66 53 272 362 http://asia.procasur.org

Procasur Corporation is a global organization specialized in harvesting and scaling-up homegrown innovations. The organi-zation’s mission is to foster local knowledge exchange to end rural poverty. By sharing innovations through customized local knowle-dge-management tools and methodologies, the organization connects global institutions with local talents, providing the struc-tured learning platforms necessary to spread innovation. Proca-sur has facilitated learning opportunities in over 25 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean, affecting the lives and livelihoods of thousands of rural talents across the globe.

Our aPPrOachAlmost 20 years of experience in knowledge brokering in rural de-velopment have provided us with priceless insight as to unders-tanding the most successful processes for knowledge sharing, learning and innovation. Some of the methods and instruments we use to promote the adoption and adaptation of best practices are the Learning Routes, the Learning Territories, our Technical As-sistance offer and targeted actions to rural youth.

Our Learning Routes serve as a capacity building tool, promoting innovative activities, technologies and approaches that can be applied in rural poverty eradication. The Learning Routes enable lesson learning, advance knowledge management with concrete results, allow the efficient dissemination of information, and inspi-re the scaling up of the best, field-tested innovations in rural deve-lopment across regions.

Taylor-made to each client, and thematically structured around specific learning objectives, the Routes promote experiential ex-change and interaction, through which local people become tra-iners to their peers.

Since 2006, Procasur and its partners have implemented over 100 Learning Routes in 30 countries in Latin America and the Carib-bean, Africa, and Asia, helping more than 2000 “ruteros” of almost 50 nationalities to share and learn. Originated in farmer-to-far-mer exchanges, Procasur is now more and more catering to po-licy-makers and contributing to scaling up processes of successful public policies.

Our PhilOsOPhy• Knowledge. We believe that knowledge is power, and that by foste-

ring homegrown knowledge exchange, we can end worldwide po-verty. We are practical in our approach to sharing, storing and disse-minating information.

• Local talents. We build local capacities and foster local talents to empower communities, businesses and marginalized groups, and to contribute to larger scale policy processes. Our current network of local talents or knowledge champions sums up to over 750, repre-senting 250 different communities, organizations and policy makers. By accessing the global knowledge market, the local talents are able to diversify their incomes and improve their lives.

• South-South Cooperation. We connect the Global South. We serve as a knowledge warehouse for international institutions, and a brid-ge for integrated and inclusive communication between women and men, development practitioners, advocates, and policy-makers.

• Impact. We create customized, targeted solutions. We are not afraid to take risks, and have tried-and-true practices and methodologies that ensure innovation and impact. For us, impact means concrete results on the ground and better development effectiveness.

Our BackgrOundSince 1996, Procasur has worked as a knowledge broker for the Global South, linking international institutions and regional orga-nizations with local governments, rural talents and communities to identify, nourish and share innovative ideas. We work with di-verse stakeholders to share the best practices and new trends in rural development, in themes such as financing, market access, natural resource management, empowerment, inclusion, innova-tive technologies and more.