ROUTASIA: A Knowledge Management and capacity building programme

1. ROUTASIA
A KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND CAPACITY
BUILDING PROGRAMME
IFAD´s APR Workshop, Bali
October 2015
Ariel Halpern
Vice-President PROCASUR
ahalpern@procasur.org

2. PROCASUR CORPORATION
 Private non-profit international
institution
 Established in 1996
 Partner of:
 IFAD
 FORD Foundation
 International Land Coalition
 UN-Women
 FAO
 Sun Movement
 Agreements with over 40 Govts,
OUR MISSION
To provide
public and private investors
-engaged in the fight against
rural poverty-
with technical services of
knowledge management
and
capacity building

3. WHERE WE ARE
Projects are present in:
o Latin America
o Africa
o Asia

4. THE LEARNING ROUTES IN APR:
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR DEVELOPMENT
Objectives of the Programme:
1. Build human and social capital within rural
communities, small farmers' organizations and technical
staff of rural development projects by exposure to best
practices innovations inside and outside the region.
2. Promote the scaling-up of best available solutions and
innovations in the region to improve the performance of
development projects confronting rural poverty.
3. Build the capacity in the region to design and
implement Learning Routes in the future.
4. Support local, talented practitioners and champions to
become training and assistance service providers.

5. • ROUTASIA covers 6 Countries from the South Asia and South
East Asia clusters: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal,
Thailand and Vietnam.
• 6 Partners organizations, private, ngo and farmers
organizations are enabled to support at the country level the
development of KM tools such as the Farmer 2 Farmer
extension services, Learning Routes and others.
• Over 20 IFAD supported projects have incorporated the LR in
their extension tools and AWPB.
• Over 300 rural development practitioners have participated in
Learning Routes and are implementing approximately 70
Innovation Plans, reaching 5000 Households.
MAIN OUTCOMES

6. • More than 100 Local Champions are providing extension services
and are registered in a global talents platform. In the case of
Cambodia, they have scaled up the use of Community Learning
Centers as a Farmer 2 Farmer extension tool and will be training
over 1000 people in the next 8 months.
• ROUTASIA facilitates access to innovation in several critical areas,
including VCD, PPP, Gender equality, Indigenous People inclusion,
CCA, organic agriculture markets, among others.
• Good partnership with the MTCP2 open the way to KS on the
opportunities for Farmers in the ASEAN community.
• The Learning Routes and Community Learning Centers may play a
relevant role in the roll-out of the CCA programs, ASAP.
MAIN OUTCOMES

7. Knowledge Management is about:
• People and how they create , share and use knowledge
• Facilitating the process by which knowledge is created, shared
and used.
• Knowledge Management as a strategy to “collect” information
and “connect” people:
• The collecting dimension involves linking people with
information (documentation, communication technology);
• The connecting dimension involves linking people with people
so enhancing knowledge sharing and dissemination through
human interaction.
WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT?

8. • Knowledge related to practical experiences and know how
• Knowledge embodied in people, which also means valorize
the people that hold this knowledge
• Learning as a dynamic process in which knowledge is shared
and reused and that therefore can lead to the creation of
new knowledge
• Learning build from real situations and embedded into real
contexts
• Learning by the direct exposure to a practice, by researching
and by doing
WHICH KIND OF KNOWLEDGE?
WHAT KIND OF LEARNING PROCESS?

9. • Integration of at distance and face to face
Face to Face
– Extension services provided by local champions, such
as the Community Learning Centers. Which increase
the access to extension services in the rural.
– Learning Routes and Learning Territories. Which deals
with highly innovative practices and increase
networking.
– Local Champion Exhibition. Which supports policy
dialogue between farmers, goverment, academia and
private sector.
WHICH TOOLS CAN BE USED FOR EFFECTIVE KM

10. At distance
• Our and other organizations website, facebook and
blogs.
• Written and video case studies
• Local champions platform
• Mailing list
• Is the right combination the key to success in KM and
scaling up of innovations.
WHICH TOOLS CAN BE USED FOR EFFECTIVE KM

11. • Capacity building tool for rural development
• Learning Route integrates local knowledge and experiences in
development with innovation and best practices from the
field that have scaling up potentials with the final aim of
reducing rural poverty
LEARNING ROUTE

12. A Learning Route is a continuous process of training in the field, carried
out as a journey, that seeks to value the best experiences and knowledge
of institutions, associations, communities and rural families. Each Route is
organized thematically around experiences, case studies and best
practices on innovative rural and local development in which local actors
themselves become trainers. Through workshops, interviews,
conversations and other field activities the Learning Route generates a
space for individual and collective learning for both participants and their
hosts.

13. • Identify the demand and the public: understand the
specificity of the knowledge demand for rural development
• Select the case studies, analyse the experience
(systematization) and enable local people to communicate
their knowledge (capacity building)
• Implement the Learning Route: other people come to visit
and to learn directly from the key players of the experience
• Follow up
KEY STAGES OF A LEARNING ROUTE

14. LEARNING ROUTE
APPROACH, METHOD, PROCESS

16. THANK YOU!
Ariel Halpern
Vice-President PROCASUR
ahalpern@procasur.org