routasia: a knowledge management and capacity building programme
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ROUTASIAA KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND CAPACITY
BUILDING PROGRAMME
IFAD´s APR Workshop, BaliOctober 2015
Ariel HalpernVice-President [email protected]
PROCASUR CORPORATION
Private non-profit international institution
Established in 1996 Partner of: IFAD FORD Foundation International Land Coalition UN-Women FAO Sun Movement Agreements with over 40 Govts,
OUR MISSION
To provide public and private investors -engaged in the fight against
rural poverty- with technical services of
knowledge management and
capacity building
WHERE WE ARE
Projects are present in:o Latin Americao Africa o Asia
THE LEARNING ROUTES IN APR:AN OPPORTUNITY FOR DEVELOPMENT
Objectives of the Programme: 1. Build human and social capital within rural communities, small farmers' organizations and technical staff of rural development projects by exposure to best practices innovations inside and outside the region. 2. Promote the scaling-up of best available solutions and innovations in the region to improve the performance of development projects confronting rural poverty. 3. Build the capacity in the region to design and implement Learning Routes in the future.
4. Support local, talented practitioners and champions to become training and assistance service providers.
• ROUTASIA covers 6 Countries from the South Asia and South East Asia clusters: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam.
• 6 Partners organizations, private, ngo and farmers organizations are enabled to support at the country level the development of KM tools such as the Farmer 2 Farmer extension services, Learning Routes and others.
• Over 20 IFAD supported projects have incorporated the LR in their extension tools and AWPB.
• Over 300 rural development practitioners have participated in Learning Routes and are implementing approximately 70 Innovation Plans, reaching 5000 Households.
MAIN OUTCOMES
• More than 100 Local Champions are providing extension services and are registered in a global talents platform. In the case of Cambodia, they have scaled up the use of Community Learning Centers as a Farmer 2 Farmer extension tool and will be training over 1000 people in the next 8 months.
• ROUTASIA facilitates access to innovation in several critical areas, including VCD, PPP, Gender equality, Indigenous People inclusion, CCA, organic agriculture markets, among others.
• Good partnership with the MTCP2 open the way to KS on the opportunities for Farmers in the ASEAN community.
• The Learning Routes and Community Learning Centers may play a relevant role in the roll-out of the CCA programs, ASAP.
MAIN OUTCOMES
Knowledge Management is about:• People and how they create , share and use knowledge
• Facilitating the process by which knowledge is created, shared and used.
• Knowledge Management as a strategy to “collect” information and “connect” people:
• The collecting dimension involves linking people with information (documentation, communication technology);
• The connecting dimension involves linking people with people so enhancing knowledge sharing and dissemination through human interaction.
WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT?
• Knowledge related to practical experiences and know how• Knowledge embodied in people, which also means valorize
the people that hold this knowledge
• Learning as a dynamic process in which knowledge is shared and reused and that therefore can lead to the creation of new knowledge
• Learning build from real situations and embedded into real contexts
• Learning by the direct exposure to a practice, by researching and by doing
WHICH KIND OF KNOWLEDGE?WHAT KIND OF LEARNING PROCESS?
• Integration of at distance and face to faceFace to Face– Extension services provided by local champions, such
as the Community Learning Centers. Which increase the access to extension services in the rural.
– Learning Routes and Learning Territories. Which deals with highly innovative practices and increase networking.
– Local Champion Exhibition. Which supports policy dialogue between farmers, goverment, academia and private sector.
WHICH TOOLS CAN BE USED FOR EFFECTIVE KM
At distance• Our and other organizations website, facebook and
blogs.• Written and video case studies• Local champions platform• Mailing list
• Is the right combination the key to success in KM and scaling up of innovations.
WHICH TOOLS CAN BE USED FOR EFFECTIVE KM
• Capacity building tool for rural development
• Learning Route integrates local knowledge and experiences in development with innovation and best practices from the field that have scaling up potentials with the final aim of reducing rural poverty
LEARNING ROUTE
A Learning Route is a continuous process of training in the field, carried out as a journey, that seeks to value the best experiences and knowledge of institutions, associations, communities and rural families. Each Route is organized thematically around experiences, case studies and best practices on innovative rural and local development in which local actors themselves become trainers. Through workshops, interviews, conversations and other field activities the Learning Route generates a space for individual and collective learning for both participants and their hosts.
• Identify the demand and the public: understand the
specificity of the knowledge demand for rural development• Select the case studies, analyse the experience
(systematization) and enable local people to communicate their knowledge (capacity building)
• Implement the Learning Route: other people come to visit and to learn directly from the key players of the experience
• Follow up
KEY STAGES OF A LEARNING ROUTE
LEARNING ROUTE APPROACH, METHOD, PROCESS
