SUN CSNLondon, February 10, 2016

Giulia Pedone, LR Coordinator, PROCASURgpedone@procasur.org

Harvesting and Scaling Up Solutions

Mission: Foster local knowledge exchange

and the share of successful practices to improve rural

livelihoods

Objective: Facilitate the connection of global institutions with rural

organizations and local stakeholders, providing

structured learning platforms to spread innovation

Our mission

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Who we are

Some Figures

Actions in figures: ∗150 KM activities since 2006∗35 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Asia∗50 nationalities sharing innovations∗3000 development practitioners sharing their practices∗1600 Rural Youth leaders trained∗More than 2300 Local champions trained and involved in the sharing of their practices

Development Areas:∗Rural youth∗Regional Development∗Policy dialogue & Advocacy∗Networks and Participation∗Rural business ∗Rural Microfinance∗Nutrition & food security∗NRM, land, water and forest resources∗Gender∗Public-Private alliances

PROCASUR´s Approach Capacity Building & Training

Conventional Approach

∗Top- down∗Courses, textbooks, external expertise∗Not participatory∗Value of local knowledge often not recognized

∗ Bottom- up∗ Interaction between theory and

practice, 2 way learning∗ Participatory∗ Local people own their

knowledge, they can do!

Conventional Approach PROCASUR´s Approach

What is a Learning Route?

∗ Capacity building approach to promote experimental exchange and interaction

∗ Local actors become trainers to peers (peer-to-peer)

∗ Tailor-made to each client, and thematically structured around specific learning objectives

∗ Enables lesson learning and knowledge management based on concrete results

∗ A field-tested instrument to scaling-up of best practices and innovations across regions

∗ Intensify peer-to-peer networking through live and participatory knowledge sharing mechanisms

Learning Route´s process

To Know To Know How To Do I/We Can Do

Design and preparation

Case studies &KS training for

local champions

Implementation of Learning

RoutesInnovation Plan

Ex post assistance/follow up

Sustainability

○ Good replication and up-scaling allows sustainability of the innovations ○ Innovation process goes beyond the organizations and institutions involved○ Networks established or strengthened during the LRs remain over time○ Local stakeholders (champions) use their capacities to train others beside LRs○ Income generation based on the technical innovations

SCALING UPLocal

Resource Allocation

Committees Peru-

Vietnam- Rwanda

POLICY DIALOGUENorthern Thailand CLC on

Indigenous Knowledge

LOCAL CHAMPIONS

Institutionalisation of the

Learning Route

Programme in Nepal

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More Info

○ Visit PROCASUR on-line: www.procasur.org ○ Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/procasur.lac

www.facebook.com/procasurafrica www.facebook.com/procasur.asia

○ Visit our Local Champions Directory: http://talentosrurales.org ○ Watch our Videos: Procasur YouTube Channel