Annual Performance Review and South-South Cooperation Event

1-6 November 2010Nanning, China

Learning Routes

A Knowledge Management and Capacity Building Tool

for a Global South

Ariel Halpern

Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity Building Tool

1. Learning Routes: a tool created by PROCASUR in the South, for the South and by the South

2. The Innovation Marketplace as a start

3. The Knowledge Business Tables to close the deal and build together a Learning Highway for Asia and the Pacific.

Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity Building Tool

• WHAT ARE THE LEARNING ROUTES?

• Tool originated and validated by PROCASUR with support of IFAD and other partners that:

- Reduce Learning costs of public and private investment against rural poverty

- Make sustainable Rural Development Investment

- Strength networking within IFAD and influence other partners investing in Rural areas

Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity Building Tool

• WHO IS PROCASUR?

- Non profit NGO based in Chile with representation in Colombia, Bolivia and Uganda

- 15 years in the specialized in KM and CB Market

- Sustains peer 2 peer methodologies by mobilizing grants and selling technical services

- Implements 2nd LAC IFAD-Ford Programme and plans a specific for Eastern and Southern Africa

» WHAT ABOUT ASIA?

Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity Building Tool

WHAT HAVE PROCASUR ACHIEVED THROUGH THE LEARNING ROUTES SINCE 2002

1.Train over 900 rural development practitioners benefiting indirectly more than 7200

2.40 different nationalities and diverse profiles

3.Operate in 25 different countries of LAC, Asia and Africa

Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity Building Tool

WHAT HAVE PROCASUR ACHIEVED THROUGH THE LEARNING ROUTES SINCE 2002

1.Identify and systemize more than 250 local innovative experiences, training over 1500 trainers

2.Pay directly to grassroots organizations and others over USD 250 000 for knowledge services

3.Work as a flexible learning tool for different topics and target groups

Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity Building Tool

Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity Building Tool

WHAT ARE THE LEARNING ROUTES FUNDAMENTS

(a) recognize that in rural areas is possible to find successful solutions to common problems, to be adapted and multiplied in other contexts

(b) enables participants to acquire direct knowledgeand arouse curiosity and interest for continuous learning

Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity Building ToolWHAT ARE THE LEARNING ROUTES FUNDAMENTS

(c) strength local trainers and technical assistance skills, champions become experts

(d) direct dialogue in the field and collective analysis sessions transforms knowledge (innovation plan)

Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity Building Tool

HOW THE LEARNING ROUTES WORKS

Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity Building Tool

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Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity Building Tool

WHAT´S THE SPIRIT OF THE TRAINEES AFTER 12 DAYS OF LEARNING ROUTE

Women access to Land in Africa