CTA Experience Capitalization Series
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Item Pathways to rural youth agribusiness success: Stories from the Vijabiz project(Report, 2020-06) Lohento, Ken; Mazuri, GeorgeThe different cases or stories presented in this booklet are the results from the experience capitalization exercise and give insights into the specific lessons learnt by the workshop participants, through analysis of their involvement in diverse activities of the Vijabiz project and the influence on their businesses. This booklet is produced by the Youth Economic Empowerment through Agribusiness in Kenya (Vijabiz) project, implemented by CTA and USTADI Foundation from Kenya and supported by IFAD.Item Experience capitalization: Working towards its institutionalization(Report, 2019-07) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationThe cases captured in this booklet show the steps taken in many of these projects and organisations to support and ensure the adoption of an experience capitalization approach. Working together with their colleagues, those who joined the CTA workshops have become active “champions”: organising their own training sessions, they shared information in different ways, and have shown how others can benefit from the capitalization process. They have helped to create the conditions for experience capitalization to be more widely adopted by their organisations. As a result, there are many new capitalization processes going on, and many more will be taking place in the future – effectively underpinning more accountable and efficient projects in the future and greater progress in rural development.Item Faciliter la capitalisation des expériences : Un guide(Training Material, 2019-06) Eggens, Laura; Chavez-Tafur, JorgeVoici notre nouveau guide pour facilitateurs d’un processus de capitalisation. Il s’appuie sur les nombreuses ressources intéressantes qui sont déjà disponibles, mais aussi et plus spécifiquement sur l’expérience accumulée par le projet, ainsi que sur les leçons et les idées tirées par tous ceux qui y ont contribué, que ce soit comme facilitateurs ou comme participants. C’est leur (votre !) travail qui a permis de démontrer quelles pratiques fonctionnent et peuvent être présentées sous la forme de recommandations que d’autres personnes pourront ensuite suivre. Ce guide se concentre spécifiquement sur les méthodes pour aider à organiser et à soutenir un processus de capitalisation des expériences : comment préparer ce processus ; comment y associer différents acteurs ; à quoi faire attention pendant les sessions de formation en personne ou en ligne ; comment encourager l’adoption des idées principales tirées du processus ; comment encourager l’institutionnalisation de la méthodologie de capitalisation des expériences. Il propose des recommandations pratiques pour les facilitateurs, ainsi que des informations sur les méthodes qui ont fonctionné (et celles qui ont échoué) et des suggestions d’exercices. Vous trouverez dans ce guide des outils que nous avons employés au cours de ce processus et que vous êtes libre d’adapter et d’utiliser dans le cadre de votre propre travail de facilitation.Item Innovation et promotion des chaînes de valeurs de produits agricoles locaux en Afrique(Report, 2019-05-06) Centre Technique de Coopération Agricole et RuraleL’innovation est au coeur de ce volume, du point de vue des techniques de production, des plates-formes d’innovation et de l’accès au financement. L’innovation agricole, qui peut se définir comme l’ensemble des processus liés au développement de produits, de services ou de procédés agricoles, nouveaux ou améliorés, du maillon de la production à celle de la consommation, est un facteur déterminant de la modernisation et de la performance du secteur. Il s’agit d’un des domaines stratégiques dans lesquels il est crucial de davantage investir en Afrique. Certains articles traitent des actions réalisées par des plates-formes ’innovation, à l’image de celles mises en place au Bénin dans la filière riz, ou au Burkina Faso dans la filière niébé. L’importance de ces plates-formes n’est plus à démontrer. Il est important de mieux faire connaître leurs actions, de faciliter leur durabilité, de les connecter davantage aux systèmes nationaux d’innovation agricole (lorsqu’elles sont mises en place par des acteurs non gouvernementaux), de renforcer la prise en compte des savoirs locaux, l’implication du secteur privé, des chercheurs ainsi que celle des jeunes.Item Nouvelles approches d’intervention pour la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique subsaharienne(Report, 2019-03) Centre Technique de Coopération Agricole et RuraleCette nouvelle série d’histoires illustre de nombreuses et très intéressantes innovations appliquées en Afrique de l'Ouest, qui aident les producteurs à transformer et vendre leurs produits de manière plus efficace et utile. Vous trouverez des descriptions d’innovations agricoles dans plusieurs filières comme le fonio, niébé ou mil vitales pour la sécurité alimentaire de la région, des services de conseil agricole et divers modes de financement oeuvrant pour une résilience accrue des populations agricoles.Item Experience capitalization from theory to practice: Trying out a new approach(Report, 2019-04-11) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationOne of the project’s last activities was to organise a meeting with those who took an active role as facilitators, and who helped guide the series of capitalization processes which the project supported in different parts of the world. This was planned to complement the online discussions that had been going on between them – and together discuss the conditions, requirements or the factors underpinning an effective facilitation process. The meeting helpedvalidate many of the issues identified during the preparation, implementation and evaluation of the different capitalization processes in which manypersons were involved. It also helped identify what is needed now to support the processes already initiated and to be completed, or to start new initiatives. The narratives included in this publication served as inputs for the discussions at the meeting. Written by those who were actively and directly involved in the different steps of the project, they show the main issues they faced during the training workshops and also in the field, and the main lessons they drew as participants, facilitators or as experience capitalization “champions”. Although based on concrete cases, the fears, observations or ideas included in each one of these articles will be easily recognised by those playing a similar role. They are therefore a good complement to the facilitator’s guidebook recently published by CTA.Item Facilitating experience capitalization: A guidebook(Training Material, 2019-01-31) Eggens, Laura; Chavez-Tafur, JorgeSince April 2016, CTA implemented the “Capitalizing on Experiences for Greater Impact in Rural Development” project – working together with FAO and IICA, and with the financial support of IFAD. During these three years, this project worked with many organizations in different parts of the world. Its purpose was to empower these organizations with the tools and the skills needed to identify practices which can be brought to scale, to describe and analyze them in detail, and to share the lessons they teach. More specifically, this project aimed to facilitate the adoption of an experience capitalization process in rural development initiatives. This guidebook is meant to help facilitators. It builds on the many interesting resources which are already available, but it builds more specifically on the experience accumulated by the project, and on the lessons and insights drawn by all those who were involved in it – both as facilitators and as participants. It is their work which has shown what works and what can be presented as a recommendation that others can follow and adapt.Item Experience capitalization: Stronger communities in South East Asia(Report, 2018-12) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationThe stories in this booklet come from different teams working in Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, the Philippines, Laos and India, with all of them addressing the main challenges that farmers and the rural communities in this region face. A different context, which provides different challenges to the ones CTA has been working with. These stories, however, show many lessons that are equally applicable in the ACP countries with which we are more familiar. There is an equal need to support indigenous communities, to strengthen local groups, or to recognise the enormous contribution that female farmers make, and to work together with those who are trying innovative and successful approaches. It is equally necessary to carry out a detailed analysis of the context in which these initiatives take place, and to encourage all stakeholders to take part in it.Item Experience capitalization: Resilience and productivity in the Pacific(Report, 2018-12-05) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationCTA is committed to supporting the Pacific Island States to build resilience and improve incomes and nutrition outcomes, especially in rural agricultural communities. Since mid-2016, CTA has been implementing the “Promoting Nutritious Food Systems in the Pacific Islands” project, co-funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, and run in partnership with the Pacific Islands Private Sector Organisation, PIPSO. Its goal is to strengthen the capacity of the Pacific Island governments, farmer and private sector organisations, and sub-regional institutions to develop strategies and programmes, as well as mobilize financing, that can increase poor rural people’s access to nutritious and healthy food.Item Experience capitalization: Fighting rural poverty in India, Nepal and Bhutan(Report, 2018-09) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationThis report comprises 12 case stories produced through the Experience Capitalization project implemented by CTA in different parts of the world. Poor and marginal communities are the primary subject of all other project interventions covered, including strengthening current occupations like goat rearing, experimenting with alternatives like poultry, or using unused or degraded resources to create livelihood opportunities. Almost all stories are dotted with innovations in institutional development, community participation, delivery of services, capacity building, financing, entrepreneurship and much more. Women and their empowerment is the subject of the two stories from Nepal and explore how access to finance and business skills can help them out of poverty.Item Capitalização de experiências: Lições para o desenvolvimento em Moçambique e no Brasil, volume 2(Report, 2018-09) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationEste volume 2 reúne quatro artigos sobre sustentabilidade ambiental e cinco sobre gestão de conhecimento. Por fim, apresentamos três capitalizações a nível de programa, as quais chamamos meta-capitalizações. Tratam estas de planejamento financeiro, educação nutricional e gestão de conhecimento.Item Capitalização de experiências: Lições para o desenvolvimento em Moçambique e no Brasil, volume 1(Report, 2018-09) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationNeste primeiro volume apresentamos os artigos com os seguintes temas centrais: cadeias alimentares, (mandioca, pescado, carne vermelha, e umbu); empoderamento de mulheres e jovens (cinco artigos); e infraestrutura – estrada, rádio e telefonia, além de esquemas de financiamento e poupança.Item Experience capitalization: Insights on rural development in West Africa(Report, 2018-09) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationThis report comprises 11 case stories produced through the Experience Capitalization project implemented by CTA in different parts of the world. The stories come from Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, and they cover different themes – from rural finance to the mainstreaming of youth and gender-friendly policies. They all present lessons and recommendations that can be adopted on a broad scale, and in this way help draft new – and better – projects and initiatives.Item Experience capitalization: Public, private, producer partnerships in East Africa(Report, 2018-08) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationThis report comprises 12 case stories produced through the Experience Capitalization project implemented by CTA in different parts of the world. These cases report on experiences in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania with Public, Private, Producer Partnerships (4Ps) to deliver agricultural value chain projects.Item Experience capitalization: Learning from farmer organisations(Report, 2018-08) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationThis report comprises 13 case stories produced through the Experience Capitalization project implemented by CTA in different parts of the world. These cases are from farmer organisations working in East Africa: the Uganda National Farmers Federation, the Kenya National Farmers Federation, the Kenya Livestock Producers Association, MVIWATA in Tanzania, and the East Africa Farmers Federation. The cases provide an update on development projects aimed at farmer organisations in East Africa, and a first-hand view of their challenges and successes.