Social Network Analysis is a practical and useful tool that looks at the linkages present in an innovation network and monitors their development over time. It maps the relationships between the stakeholders in the network and highlights the changes between them.
Tropical Agriculture Platform
The Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP), a multilateral facilitation mechanism of more than 40 partners, was established by the G20 to boost agricultural innovation in tropical countries. With financial support from the European Union (EU), theTAP Action Plan is jointly implemented by FAO and Agrinatura with activities in Africa, Asia and Central America.
Areas of activity:
Agricultural Innovation Systems
Capacity development
monitoring and evaluation: needs assessment
Focus of Capacity Development:
Individual
Organizational
Institutional
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2017
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This tool was designed to assess innovation capacities, identify strengths and weaknesses and monitor capacity changes over time. The scoring tool makes it clear which functional capacities are going to be needed to promote, lead or successfully participate in innovation processes.
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2017
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The Action Planning is a tool that formalizes commitments and plots the route to their implementation. An action plan is intended for the use of the core actors, who will have been identified beforehand in the visioning phase.
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2017
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This tool is a simple tool to map out the current status of the AIS, and to discover where the actors want to go. The rich picture tool can be used both to describe the current situation and to illustrate future plans.
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2017
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This tool enables participants to become cognisant of the functional capacities discovered through the capacity scoring questionnaire, and test the limits of these capacities through simulations or role-playing (e.g. problem-solving, collaboration, information sharing, and engagement).
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2017
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The capacity-focused problem tree pinpoints a core capacity issue, along with its causes and effects. It helps clarify the precise capacity-development objectives that the intervention aims to achieve.
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2017
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The timeline tool is generally put to use when stakeholders embark upon the self-assessment phase of their innovation partnership.
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2017
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This concept note has been developed within the context of the EU-funded CDAIS project, which is jointly implemented by AGRINATURA-EEIG and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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2017
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The Excel workbook contains some preconfigured spreadsheets that can be used for entering data collected through the capacity scoring questionnaire (Version 1 and
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2017
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The capacity scoring questionnaire is an instrument that can be used when assessing the systems capacities of innovation partnerships or organizations in order to identify strengths and weaknesses and monitor change over time.
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2017
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The capacity scoring questionnaire is an instrument that can be used when assessing the systems capacities of innovation partnerships or organizations in order to identify strengths and weaknesses and monitor change over time.
Publication year
2017
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Rationale Documentation is a vital part of CDAIS project’ objective to test the theory of change in pilot countries because it will enable to record the process of capacity development in agricultural innovation systems.
Publication year
2016
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