Despite increasing interest and support for multi-stakeholder partnerships, empirical applications of participatory evaluation approaches to enhance learning from partnerships are either uncommon or undocumented. This paper draws lessons on the use of participatory self-reflective approaches that facilitate structured learning on processes and outcomes of partnerships. Such practice is important to building partnerships, because it helps partners understand how they can develop more collaborative and responsive ways of managing partnerships.
The Community Based Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (CB-PME) tool empowers poor local farming communities to improve their livelihoods. While this process is people centred, it draws on local people’s capacities, while giving the end users of a technology a voice. The experience of the Katamata farmers’ group in Tororo district using PM&E (the participatory approach to monitoring and evaluation) is given in this paper.
Rural advisory services (RAS) can play an important role in addressing gender inequalities. However, RAS programmes have often fallen short of expectations to design and implement relevant services to help rural women and men achieve food security and generate more income. This paper is based on an examination of a broad selection of existing literature on gender-sensitive RAS. It looks at gender-differentiated barriers in access to RAS and challenges of effectively targeting women family farmers when delivering these services.
Recent sessions of FAO Governing Bodies have put a strong focus on science, technology and innovation and Members are increasingly requesting FAO’s support to harness science and innovation. The FAO Science and Innovation Strategy (the Strategy) was adopted by the FAO Council at its 170th Session following an inclusive and transparent consultative process, with the participation of all Members through formal sessions of Governing Bodies (including the Regional Conferences in 2022), as well as two informal consultations and informal meetings with Regional Groups.
Agrifood system transformation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals requires increased attention to developing, adapting and diffusing impactful science, technology and innovation (STI). Current levels and patterns of STI uptake are inadequate to facilitate needed agrifood system transformations, especially in today's low- and middle-income countries.
This manual, for FFS facilitators and coordinators, refers to the previous publication and specifies how the topic and practices on trees outside forests can be implemented using the FFS approach. This is accomplished by introducing an adapted AESA and special topics for a four-month FFS growing season. The agroforestry ecosystem analysis (AFESA) includes TOF, production, environmental services, trees, non-trees – bamboos and palms – and shrubs on different types of rice fields in combination with sketch maps and record making.
Ce document est le résultat d’un processus participatif ayant impliqué l’ensemble des parties prenantes dans la conduite de l’expérience pilote des champs écoles agropastoraux au Burkina Faso. Il constitue la synthèse des points de vue et des perceptions de différents acteurs institutionnels ayant participé activement à la réflexion critique de l’expérience.
Matrices de thèmes pour la formation des facilitateurs CEAP
Le Sénégal à l’instar des autres pays de la zone sahélienne est très vulnérable au changement climatique (CC). Cette vulnérabilité est liée à la dépendance de sa population rurale à une agriculture pluviale fragilisée par de multiples contraintes structurelles, notamment la variabilité interannuelle et inter-saisonnière des précipitations, la baisse de la fertilité des sols et les difficultés d’accès aux intrants et services agricoles (Albert et Springer, 2004).
This training document provides technical facilitators and producers with the tools to develop experimental training in agroecological silvopastoral systems and to sensitize producers in the recognition of the importance of trees and shrub species as integral component of the silvopastoral system. Diagnostic tools are combined with group dynamics, ballot box, fruit salad and plenary discussions, among others, to familiarize participants with the different silvopastoral models and to define main tree and shrub species in the region.