Este documento analiza actividades valoradas por actores involucrados en PAIP e indaga sobre la relación con los niveles y tipos de inversiones del proyecto. Ordena y sintetiza los resultados de un taller y de consultas con una muestra de usuarios, actores locales y agentes del proyecto, que aportan a la reflexión más amplia de la iniciativa en curso sobre criterios y procesos de diseño de proyectos de desarrollo rural para mejorar sus impactos a partir de la interacción entre inversiones focalizadas en las personas y en los territorios
The markets and value chains approach has recently become fashionable in agricultural development interventions. So too have innovation platforms. This brief shows how innovation platforms can be a useful vehicle to promote market development. It is available in Chinese, English, Hindi, Thai and Vietnamese.
One of the most important things that innovation platforms do is to build the capacity of their members to innovate. Some key elements of innovation capacity include: self-organization, learning new skills, changing mindsets, valuing others’ roles in innovation, having a holistic view, being able to adapt to changing situations, creating new ideas, recognizing opportunities, being proactive, using indigenous ideas, and looking to the future. This brief uses the analogy of a traditional African cooking pot to explain how innovation capacity is developed within an innovation platform.
Facilitation of innovation is a flexible and adaptive process during which facilitators manage dialogue and stimulate collective problem analysis by multiple stakeholders to overcome challenges or make use of opportunities. The brief describes what facilitation is about, facilitators' functions and roles, skills and attributes, and who facilitates. It is available in Chinese, English, Hindi, Thai and Vietnamese.