Rapid Appraisal of Agricultural Innovation Systems (RAAIS) is a peer-reviewed research for development tool that has been developed, tested and used in 18 countries across 3 continents.
RAAIS supports the identification and analysis of complex agricultural problems in agrifood systems. The joint assessment of problems and identification of innovations to overcome these problems with farmers, policymakers, private sector and other stakeholders provides a starting point for collective action towards achieving development outcomes and impact.
‘RAAIS is an easy way to make people do a dif cult job'
This Nigerian RAAIS workshop participant nicely summarised the objective of RAAIS as a hands-on, participatory, diagnostic tool for integrated systems analysis of constraints and opportunities for agricultural innovation.
This 2nd Edition of the RAAIS Toolkit provides a background on the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of RAAIS, updated methods to support RAAIS, a facilitation guide and materials for conducting RAAIS multi- stakeholder priority setting and Theory of Change workshops, a template for data analysis, and reference materials. The Toolkit can also be downloaded from: www.wageningenur.nl/raais-toolkit.
Readers are encouraged not to use this toolkit as a blueprint, but rather toadapt the RAAIS building blocks to the specific context at hand.
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L’objectif de ce guide est de faciliter la planification et la mise en œuvre des
sessions de formation. Il fait partie du cours de Gestion d’entreprises associatives
rurales en agroalimentaire et a été conçu pour les facilitateurs qui...
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One option for practically applying innovation systems thinking involves the establishment of innovation platforms (IPs). Such platforms are designed to bring together a variety of different stakeholders to exchange knowledge and resources and take action to solve common problems. Yet...
