APR Workshop 2010-Learning Routes-Innovation marketplace-Ariel Halpern

Annual Performance Review and South-South Cooperation Event 1-6 November 2010 Nanning, China

Innovation Marketplace 2010 IS POSSIBLE TO BRING THE LEARNING ROUTE METHODOLOGY TO ASIA AND THE PACIFIC?

Innovation Marketplace 2010 EXAMPLES OF KNOWN AND VALIDATED INNOVATIONS ORIGINATED IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: - Self Help Groups and Village Banking - Intensive and sustainable natural resource management: land and water - Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Microfinance, Market Information and e-learning

Innovation Marketplace 2010 WHAT ELSE CAN WE LEARN AND UPSCALE BASED ON IFAD OPERATIONS AND PARTNERS?

Innovation Marketplace 2010 THIS YEAR AT THE INNOVATION MARKETPLACE - Asia and the Pacific - East and West Africa - South and Central America

Innovation Marketplace 2010 HOW TO PROFIT THE MOST OF THE IMP? Meet the Innovators in their stands One recommendation: PLAN your 45 minutes KNOWLEDGE SHOPPING by using THE LEAFLET IN YOUR FOLDER

Innovation Marketplace 2010 LET´S WELCOME THE INNOVATION CHAMPIONS WITH A BIG RAIN CLAPPING BROUGHT FROM TANZANIA CLAPPING CLUB PLEASE TEACH US…

Md. KhalilurRahman Project Director MIDPCR, LGED Bangladesh Khalilpd_midpcr@yahoo.com Innovation Marketplace 2010 Road Map to Reduce Poverty of Ultra Poor Women applied by MIDPCR/ LGED We are involved in Labour Contracting Society (LCS), as an alternative to private contractor. Targeting 17000 destitute women the approach provides secured employment and wage. Savings and profit are invested Income Generating Activities (IGA) that are improving their livelihood, self esteem and social capital.

Innovation Marketplace 2010 Local Resource Person: Filling the technical Gap in the Rural WUPAP works in extreme remote ultra poor areas, promoting livelihood improvement. Due to this, a regular and reliable technical service has been a critical issue. With the promotion of Local Resource Persons, the Project sustain in time technological support and inputs supplies to farmers. LRP are today a role model

Innovation Marketplace 2010 Concrete Block Road: a better option to build environment and climate friendly road infrastructures Concrete block-based rural road pavement has been designed and introduced for the first time in rural Bangladesh. It is Labor intensive, cost effective, environment and climate friendly. It also involves community over the whole cycle of its construction. The design has been endorsed to other rural areas in the country.

Innovation Marketplace 2010 Rural poor towards prosperity through the management of Revolving Funds Poor build confidence by using Revolving Fund for activities of their livelihood improvement managed by their own community organization (CO) and developing institution of poor in managing finances, production and marketing.

Innovation Marketplace 2010 Women’s Cooperative Livestock Farming Women’s Cooperative Livestock Farming was developed through an embedding scientific technique in goat rearing targeting women in poor rural areas aimed at profit maximization in livestock trading. The product was designed as an integrated group lending cooperative farming facility with an aim to yield increased monthly income for the beneficiaries.

Innovation Marketplace 2010 Traditional Skills to Global Deals A poverty alleviation strategy harnessing the indigenous skills and resources of the beneficiaries and relates with other relevant development themes to make the undertakings sustainable.

Innovation Marketplace 2010 Improved terrace system for the rural poor Terrace system is a simple rectangular system which retain surface runoff water. Mostly, sorghum is planted and land is treated by chisel and ridgers, or traditional hoes. The embankments are usually constructed manually or by oxen drawn tools, but recently raised by tractors and earth moving machines.

Innovation Marketplace 2010 Make visible women empowerment through marketplace and policy dialogue Extend achievements of poor women to the outside through the event Results Recommendation indoor and Products Marketplace in commercial area strengths impact of pro poor investment and to elevate the economic and social status of women by improving market access and mainstreaming gender in government policies making.

Innovation Marketplace 2010 Commercial insects: part of a sustainable solution for biodiversity loss and climate change Biodiversity is the basis of our livelihood and economy at household and national levels, gives us resilience to overcome droughts, famine and natural shocks. Biodiversity is not only just species and genes, is livelihood for all stakeholders.

Innovation Marketplace 2010 Cashless Credit Model in Agric value Chains Financing We came up with a cashless credit system that links famers with input dealers and service providers and forward to marketing companies. The facilitating Agency and the project ensure mutual trust, transparency and enforcement of signed Agreements.

Innovation Marketplace 2010 Local Committee for Resource Allocation (CLAR) Local Committee for Resource Allocation (CLAR) is a public contest to hand out resources to organized smallholders groups in the rural. The contests are organized by local governments, chaired by the mayor and a jury conformed by social leaders, advanced entrepreneurs and technical advisers, all chosen and legitimate by the local community.

Innovation Marketplace 2010 Rural Eco Turism in Guatemala This innovation brings opportunity to a producers group who did not owned land, but the nature benefited them with a river that crosses their community. This group sells to the international tourism the rafting service, restaurant and hostel service, using the web as a commercial platform.

Innovation Marketplace 2010 AND FOR THOSE WHO WANTED AND DESERVE TO BE HERE NOW BUT COULDN´T …… A BIG APPLAUSE

Innovation Marketplace 2010 Farmers with checkbook, an innovative strategy to overcome rural poverty Empowerment of rural entrepreneurs is achieved when trust is mutual between governments and civil society, project disbursement are made directly to the farmer bank accounts, who are responsible for executing, following and auditing and for the public accountability of the public resources awarded

Innovation Marketplace 2010 Pawan Kumar, ULIPH, India Self Help Groups The Project has established 3500 self help groups and aggregated them as federations for taking up social and business issues. Knowledge sharing workshops with the federations has helped the federations to network with each other, establish linkages with stakeholders and develop business plans and ensuring sustainability of project interventions. SMS for good business Piloted use of SMS based information through mobile phones for providing customised information on weather, market, crop advisory, government schemes for women in Uttarakhand. The service is being up-scaled to cover more than 1500 HH in project area.

Innovation Marketplace 2010 LETS GO AND FIND OUT BY PARTICIPATING IN THE INNOVATION MARKETPLACE MAYBE YOU ARE AN INNOVATION CHAMPION AS WELL THANKS

Innovation Marketplace 2010 WELCOME BACK!

Innovation Marketplace 2010 Please share your insights: 1. What did you find interesting? 2. What innovations do you feel there are missing this year? 3. Interested in following up with the exchanges?

Innovation Marketplace 2010 IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN CLOSING THE DEAL JOIN OTHER PRACTICIONERS IN THE KNOWLEDGE BUSINESS TABLES

Innovation Marketplace 2010 WHAT ARE THE KNOWLEDGE BUSINESS TABLES (KBT)? Is an interactive face to face, PEER TO PEER METHODOLOGY to: • Identify our CHALLENGES AND BEST PRACTICES inside and outside of Asia and the Pacific • In order to HARVEST THE EFFECTIVE DEMAND and CONTENTS for a LEARNING HIGHWAY PROGRAMME

Innovation Marketplace 2010 BASIC BUSINESS TABLES YOU CAN SUSCRIBE TO 1. Public, private and mix rural 4. Access and management of Information 7. Natural resources management in times development projects implementation and Communications Technologies in the of food insecurity and global warming cycle rural areas 2. Advocacy, policy dialogue and 5. Rural microfinance innovative services 8. Targeting right: experience of success public policy influence within IFADs and products for the poorest of the poor work with youth, women and traditional project communities 3. Promotion of grassroots 6. Rural microenterprise access to local, 9. New rural business: diversifying income organizations and network national, international and especial markets alternatives for the rural poor.

Innovation Marketplace 2010 Where to learn from Our challenges

Innovation Marketplace 2010 1. One Learning Route 2. Another Learning Route

Innovation Marketplace 2010 • HOW TO SUSCRIBE TO THE KBT AND MAKE YOUR OPINION COUNT: 1. FILL THE SECOND SHEET OF THE LEAFLET 2. HANDLE IT TO THE KNOWLEDGE FACLITATORS 3. WE WILL COMMUNICATE BACK TO YOU KBT: TUESDAY 17:30 (free beer and juice)

Innovation Marketplace 2010 THANKS Ariel Halpern PROCASUR Corporation ahalpern@procasur.org / www.procasur.org

APR Workshop 2010-Learning Routes-Innovation marketplace-Ariel Halpern

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