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Local knowledge reflects the wisdom and know-how accumulated by the experience of many generations and continuous adaptation of external knowledge to solve problems. Knowledge is a key component in the social capital of rural communities as they seek control over their own development. Local educational services such as farmerto-farmer training and technical assistance are effective strategies for reducing intermediation costs, increasing grassroots access to services opportunities, and strengthening the institutional capacities that provide sustainability towards investments. We believe Knowledge is power.
PROCASUR Corporation is a global organization specialized in harvesting and scaling-up homegrown innovations. The organization’s mission is to foster local knowledge exchange to fight rural poverty. By sharing innovations through customized local knowledge-management tools and methodologies, PROCASUR connects global institutions with local talents, providing the structured learning platforms necessary to spread innovation. Since 1999 we facilitated learning opportunities in over 50 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean, making a difference in lives and livelihoods of thousands of rural people across the globe.
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Rural Youth Nutrition & Food Security Natural Resources Management Climate Change Adaptation Indigenous and Afrodescendant Rights Sustainable Artesanal Fishing Land Access and Rights Cooperatives, and Sector Association Rural-Urban Interactions Rural Microfinance & entrepreneurship Territorial Development Biocultural Heritage Valorisation Gender Equality Regional Development Policy Dialogue & Advocacy Networks and Participation Public-Private Alliances South to South Cooperation
We are determined to advocate and lobby for the inclusion of Local Champions in decision-making processes and to access the extension service market, as providers. Our team of 35 professionals consists of 4 Regional Coordinators (East and Southern Africa, West And Central Africa, Asia and Latin America), a Liason-Officer with UN agencies (based in Rome), 15 country partners officers (in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Kenya, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Thailand, Uganda and Vietnam), 4 Program Managers (Rural Youth, Local Champions, Learning Territories, Nutrition), the Monitoring and Evaluation and the Communication Central and Regional Units.
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Dirección: Heriberto Covarrubias Oficina 705 Ñuñoa, Santiago de Chile Casilla: 599 Chile Teléfono: +56 2223416367 Email: procasur@procasur.org
Dirección: 3rd White Gate on the Right, General Mathenge Lane, Off General Mathenge Drive, Nairobi P.O. Box 25965 - 00100 Kenia. Teléfono: +254 (0) 706 046742 Email: africa@procasur.org
Dirección: 209/34 Moo 10, Chiang Mai Hang Dong Road. T. Padad, A. Muang Chiang Mai 50100, Tailandia Teléfono: +66 53 272362, +66 832083728 Email: ahalpern@procasur.org
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PROCASUR Operations Scheme from Local Knowledge to Global South Impact
LOCAL KNOWLEDGE ASSETS INPUTS • Mapping, identification Mapping, identification and and catalogation of: catalogation of: 1. Innovations 1. Innovations 2. Good Practices 2. Good Practices 3. (Young) Local Local Champions 3. (Young) Champions
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LEARNING INITIATIVES ACTIONS • P2P P2P On Onfield fieldExperiential Experiential Learning Learning • Learning LearningRoutes Routes • Learning LearningTerritories Territories • Community Learning Centers
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Sharing tools that place people back in the center PROCASUR´s learning tools are tailor made for each partnership and promote experiential learning. Through these tools local knowledge is capitalized upon and local people develop into peer trainers. The partners have direct access to field-tested, innovative solutions. In time the empowerment of local institutions over their know-how sustains learning and innovation. The concepts of learning by visiting and learning by doing inspired the design of Learning Routes (LR) and Learning Territories (LT) as alternatives to the traditional extension services model. The core concept is that local organizations and territories are tacit knowledge holders which can be applied by others and hold a large value in the knowledge market. Distinguishing these tools not only as applied trainings, but as systems for knowledge management, capacity building, and advocacy.
Last 10 years results
OUTREACH & SOLUTIONS SCALING-UP Valuing Local Knowledge
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• Ex-post process to enable ties Development drivers and spaces Innovation Plans for sustainable effective change, innovation dissemination and scaling up (political, financial, institutional and partnership factors) • Local-to-Global best practices sharing networks • Local Champions Certification for knowledge market access
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• Adoption of innovations Local-to-Global best practiadapted to context ces sharing networksad actors forLocal changes in project strategy Champions Certification for Rural Extension and and modalities, improving Technical Assistance serviresults ces providing • Local Champions Capacities Development as Trainers for Rural Extension and Technical Assistance services providers
Adaptation and scaling-up of innovations Local-to-Global best practiSustainable Management of Natural Resources, ces sharing networks
Climate Change Adaptation, Local Communities’ Champions Certifica- Resilience Empowerment, for Rural Extension and Increased livelihoods,tion Jobs opportunities and Market Access, Technical Assistance serviYouth Women Inclusion cesand providing
R More than 150 Knowledge Management activities implemented in 35 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Asia
What is a LEARNING ROUTE? It’s a methodology that draws upon local knowledge and experiences to disseminate and scale up field-tested innovations and best practices in sustainable rural development. Built up as an innovation journey with specific learning objectives, it encourages active knowledge exchange between learners and their hosts. Learning Routes represent the first step of a capacities empowerment process to promote innovative methodologies and activities for change. Designed to suit each client and structured thematically around specific learning objectives, the Routes foster the exchange
of experiences in a pedagogical space where local talents become trainers of their peers. Learning Routes generate lessons learned, advance knowledge management with concrete results, inspiring the replication and allowing an effective dissemination of the best innovations tested in practice in rural development among different regions of the World. The final objective is to develop the ability of communities, practitioners and decision makers to scale up the solutions that work in favor of the livelihood of the rural people.
70% of the Learning Routes participants implemented an innovation plan and are convinced of the usefulness of the Learning Route 93% of the Learning Routes (LR) participants recommended the LR to others 75% of the LR participants carried out dissemination activities to their community based organizations after their return, which indicates a high level of knowledge transfer to the member of these organizations 70% of the LR participants developed Innovation Plans and applied knowledge gained 75% of the LR participants acknowledged that changes had occurred in the organization or institutions as a result of the LR (better definition of objectives and strategies, improved internal organization, changes in the management of services)
R More than 1000 innovations identified, shared and promoted R People from 50 countries sharing innovations in a South to South Cooperation framework R Over 4000 development practitioners sharing their experiences R 1600 Rural Youth leaders trained R More than 2300 Local Champions trained and involved as peer-to-peer trainers in sharing their innovative practices R These actions have catalyzed positive changes in over 260,000 households in the Global South
Who is a LOCAL CHAMPION? Local Champions are people with valuable practical knowledge, which stand out within their organization or community for their ways of doing things and leading development initiatives that positively affect their territories. Local Champions hold a wide range of technical-empirical knowhow as the result of years of experience. Their skills comprise “niche” areas of expertise that are complementary to the traditional extension services system, delivering culturally appropriate training and technical assistance. Local champions are members of women, youth, afro-descendant and indigenous people’s organizations, local governments, cooperatives,
enterprises, producers and natural resources management groups. In Peru the participation of Local Champions as service providers has been institutionalized in support to Family Farming and Climate Change Resilience. The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MINAGRI), launched in 2015 the Country Strategy for Farmer to Farmer Extension Services in order to reduce the innovation gap between small holders and medium to large enterprises. In June 2016 the initiative concluded with the certification of 506 Local Champions as service providers in the Coffee, Cocoa and Livestock Value Chains.
What is a LEARNING TERRITORY and a COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER? Learning Territories (LT) is an initiative that enhances development of local capacities through peer-to-peer learning, a mutual exchange and the practice of experiences and solutions performed by individuals, families, communities and associations protagonists of sustainable and inclusive rural development with an evident socioeconomic impact in their territories of belonging. LT and their activities are promoted by PROCASUR Corporation with support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Ford Foundation. From the identification of rural territories really reach and diverse in knowledge assets, the program invests in promoting and pedagogically organizing lessons learned by Local Champions, to build training proposals and innovative learning settled on the field by effective solutions adaptable by other operators of public and private investment in rural development. This innovative local knowledge management model provides continuous training, provided by its own Local Champions,
under peer learning methodologies, focusing on knowledge transfer, experiences exchange and theoretical and practical learning with strong emphasis on practical applicability.
What is a Community Learning Center? A Community Learning Center (CLC) is a local knowledge enterprise privately managed by Local Champions that Procasur promoted in Asia. They offer peer to peer training and technical assistance inside the district and elsewhere. CLCs may be part of a rural enterprise, cooperative, or group. A CLC can also bring together several organization of same territory. The extension services provided by the CLC have demonstrated to be cost effective as they reduce intermediation between client and supplier and improve access to already existing extension services in the territories. This has shown to result in higher rates of adoption over traditional extension services systems.
LEARNING TERRITORIES IMPACT - More than 1000 local actors among farmers, rural entrepreneurs, development professionals, technicians, local and national authorities from several countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Africa have participated in the Learning Territories program, meeting and sharing innovative solutions with 70 Local Champions protagonists of good practices in their own interest areas, which generated more than 3000 jobs and more than 2 Million USD of direct and indirect revenues from sustainable businesses in agricultural production, craftwork, fishing and food transformation, tourism and services.