Global organization specialized in harvesting and scaling-up homegrown solutions

Gabor Teveli, PROCASUR Communications, gteveli@procasur.org

Mission: Foster local knowledge exchange to end rural poverty

Objective: Facilitate the connection of global institutions with rural organizations and local talents, providing the structured learning platforms necessary to spread innovation

Keywords: Knowledge Exchange, Local Talents, South-South Cooperation, Direct Impact, Capacity Building, Policy Dialogue, P2P networking, PPP

Knowledge Brokers for the Global South since 1996Innovative, efficient and effective services for an increasing number of clients

with diverse needs in a dynamic environment

Partners: IFAD, Ford Foundation, FAO, UN Women, IDRC, ILC, SSCand over 50 governments and 100 rural people´s organizations

LAC

WCA ESA

APR

Training and Dissemination Methodologies in Rural Development

Conventional Approach

Top-down approach

Govt-to-Govt

Courses and workshopsTextbooksExternal expertise

Not participatory

Procasur’s Approach

Bottom-up approach

P2P

Interaction between

theory and practice

PPP

Conviction: local

organizations possess

knowledge

Wide range of Technical Areas

• Climate-smart adaptation techniques• NRM including Land, Water and Forestry• Organic Agriculture• Rural youth• Value chain development and market access• Agricultural cooperatives, financial control• Public-private partnership

Activities

Mapping best practices and innovations, and package them into knowledge products and knowledge services.

Learning Routes, Learning Territories, Technical Assistance, Targeted Actions to vulnerable groups (rural women, youth and indigenous peoples)

Learning Routes

• Tool to disseminate and scale up Innovations• Throughout Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Latin

America and the Caribbean• Intensify peer-to-peer networking through live

and participatory knowledge sharing mechanisms

• On the field training with the participation of multiple stakeholders

Achievements and Impacts of Learning Routes

Learning Routes

Change in internal

management of

organisationsDesign and

implementation of new products

and services

Improved capacities in rural families

Functional and vertical scaling

upSocial learning

Problem Solving

Knowledge sharing

LOCAL CHAMPIONS

Identifying and advocating knowledge owners as service providers

Local Champions

• Capacity building of LCs as extension service providers

• Upgrade, position and connect Local Champions for a people-centered technical development

• Community Learning Centers, Training of Trainers

• Active communities for rural development practitioners

• Providing methodological support to IFAD projects• Integrate grassroots-based knowledge management

in planning and implementation of projects

Sustainability

• High sustainability of innovations developed via Learning Routes

• Innovation processes far beyond local organizations and communities

• Increased involvement helps innovations and LRs reach beyond local communities, to national and international policy making level

• Good replication and upscaling, continuous expansion

Contribution

• Job creation – enhanced capacity (of LR participants) to create employment

• Income generation – enhanced income generating capacity• Social inclusion – increased capacity of women and youth to participate in

decision making and economic activities

• Outreach – communities can document knowledge and share it on global platform

• Networks – connected people within communities, communities across borders, and across continents

• Agriculture and Food Security – organizations adopt and integrate knowledge management systems in their work

How can we work together?• How can SSC be fast, cost effective and efficient in reaching the

rural poor?

• How can we induce a people-centered development in rural areas?

• • How can we build and share technical innovations on the

ground to overcome today’s challenges?

• How can we increase the ownership of local solutions and become sustainable in alleviating poverty?

For more information about Procasur’s activities

Visit Procasur online: www.procasur.orgFollow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/procasur.lac

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Visit our Local Champions’ Directory: talentosrurales.orgWatch our videos: Procasur’s YouTube Channel