Knowledge Management Capacity Development Building capacities to empower
Knowledge Management / Capacity Development Building capacities to empower farmers to manage risks at farm level: lessons from experience K-Sharing & Learning Workshop Wednesday, 12 December 2018 Lusaka, Zambia
Building capacities to empower farmers to manage risks at farm level: lessons from experience | K-Sharing & Learning Workshop | 2018 Knowledge Management / Capacity Development Experience Capitalization Approach (Risk Management) Presenter: Gilbert Tarimo Institution: CTA Position held: Consultant Contact: Arusha, Tanzania.
Building capacities to empower farmers to manage risks at farm level: lessons from experience | K-Sharing & Learning Workshop | 2018 Knowledge Management / Capacity Development Aim of the CD initiative Aims Replicate activities and/or up scale Improve quality and impact Why Prepare for changing conditions Many (recurrent) problems Influence others Many lessons lost / not used Advocate Strengthen linkages Many successful experiences Description, analysis & Documentation Systematization
Building capacities to empower farmers to manage risks at farm level: lessons from experience | K-Sharing & Learning Workshop | 2018 Knowledge Management / Capacity Development Main target groups Beneficiaries Group The rural communities who will either use the products of experience capitalization directly, or benefit from their adaptation and application to the local context Other Groups …… • Team leaders and managers Professionals in development projects, • Project technical staff government and non • M&E officers governmental orgs, • Communications & research institutes, farmer information staff organizations • Knowledge management officers
Building capacities to empower farmers to manage risks at farm level: lessons from experience | K-Sharing & Learning Workshop | 2018 Knowledge Management / Capacity Development Direct and indirect benefits for farmers Direct benefits; Farmers will generate the risk management knowledge from their own initiatives and learn from other farmers solutions in a local environment. Indirect benefits; EC centres around common human interest of looking back at what you have done in the past in order to do better in the future which is eventual adopted as an habit to our rural communities
Building capacities to empower farmers to manage risks at farm level: lessons from experience | K-Sharing & Learning Workshop | 2018 Knowledge Management / Capacity Development Steps of the capacity development process 1. Preparation What to look at? (What for, For who, what, With who, when, how)? 2. Setting of objectives Replication/scale up, prepare for changing conditions, influence others, advocate on risk mgt A set of activity, a project, specific practice , a 3. Selection of an experience method/approach 4. Participants 5. Boundaries 6. Planning Experience owners, process owners, outsiders, supporters etc. Where? , Who? , When? , why? , What? , How? Conditions, feasibility, timing, recourses participants and output
Building capacities to empower farmers to manage risks at farm level: lessons from experience | K-Sharing & Learning Workshop | 2018 Knowledge Management / Capacity Development Implementation approach
Building capacities to empower farmers to manage risks at farm level: lessons from experience | K-Sharing & Learning Workshop | 2018 Knowledge Management / Capacity Development Partners involved and their roles Experience owners Process supporters Outsiders Target group / audience
Building capacities to empower farmers to manage risks at farm level: lessons from experience | K-Sharing & Learning Workshop | 2018 Knowledge Management / Capacity Development Impacts/results • EC makes you take time to critically analyse our own experience and learn from both success and failure • EC helps you to see and understand the knowledge developed from your work and be able to share it with others. • EC as an approach Encourage easily adaption, adoption and institutionalization in a local community context
Building capacities to empower farmers to manage risks at farm level: lessons from experience | K-Sharing & Learning Workshop | 2018 Knowledge Management / Capacity Development Strengths and weakness of the approach Strengths- (CD to all actors in the process) • A participatory approach will give greater validity to the analysis and the shareable knowledge outputs. • Network benefits – trust is built between team members and stakeholders Weakness • Time consuming and more costly to arrange • Common understanding of the purpose & collaborative mindset • Easier to arrange and does not require agreement from all stakeholders and tem members EC website; http: //experience-capitalization. cta. int
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