Operational Field Guide for Developing and Managing Local Agricultural Innovation Platforms

This guide is organized into six chapters with a summary of key steps at the end of each chapter which can be considered as main highlights. Chapter one gives an introduction and an overview of the sequence of the main agricultural research and extension approaches and their shortcomings and hence the reason for the new innovation systems approaches. Chapter two deals with an overview of the InP process covering underlying values and principles, design and processes. In chapter three, a description of the four key phases of the InP (innovation platform) formation process is given starting from Initiation (pre-formation), establishment, management and sustainability of the process. Chapter four deals with resourcing the InP process while chapter five is on monitoring and evaluation. The final chapter covers cross-cutting and enabling factors which include gender, policy, scale and communication among others.