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

2. Learning Routes
A Knowledge Management
and Capacity Building Tool
for a Global South
Ariel Halpern

3. Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity
Building Tool
1. Learning Routes: a tool created by
PROCASUR in the South, for the South
and by the South
2. The Innovation Marketplace as a start
3. The Knowledge Business Tables to close
the deal and build together a Learning
Highway for Asia and the Pacific.

4. Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity
Building Tool
• WHAT ARE THE LEARNING ROUTES?
• Tool originated and validated by PROCASUR with
support of IFAD and other partners that:
- Reduce Learning costs of public and private
investment against rural poverty
- Make sustainable Rural Development Investment
- Strength networking within IFAD and influence
other partners investing in Rural areas

5. Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity
Building Tool
• WHO IS PROCASUR?
- Non profit NGO based in Chile with representation in
Colombia, Bolivia and Uganda
- 15 years in the specialized in KM and CB Market
- Sustains peer 2 peer methodologies by mobilizing grants
and selling technical services
- Implements 2nd LAC IFAD-Ford Programme and plans a
specific for Eastern and Southern Africa
» WHAT ABOUT ASIA?

6. Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity
Building Tool
WHAT HAVE PROCASUR ACHIEVED THROUGH
THE LEARNING ROUTES SINCE 2002
1.Train over 900 rural development practitioners
benefiting indirectly more than 7200
2.40 different nationalities and diverse profiles
3.Operate in 25 different countries of LAC, Asia and
Africa

7. Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity
Building Tool
WHAT HAVE PROCASUR ACHIEVED THROUGH
THE LEARNING ROUTES SINCE 2002
1.Identify and systemize more than 250 local innovative
experiences, training over 1500 trainers
2.Pay directly to grassroots organizations and others
over USD 250 000 for knowledge services
3.Work as a flexible learning tool for different topics and
target groups

8. Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity
Building Tool

9. Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity
Building Tool
WHAT ARE THE LEARNING ROUTES FUNDAMENTS
(a) recognize that in rural areas is possible to find
successful solutions to common problems, to be
adapted and multiplied in other contexts
(b) enables participants to acquire direct knowledge
and arouse curiosity and interest for continuous learning

10. Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity
Building Tool
WHAT ARE THE LEARNING ROUTES FUNDAMENTS
(c) strength local trainers and technical assistance
skills, champions become experts
(d) direct dialogue in the field and collective analysis
sessions transforms knowledge (innovation plan)

11. Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity
Building Tool
HOW THE LEARNING ROUTES WORKS

12. Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity
Building Tool
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13. Learning Routes: A KM and Capacity
Building Tool
WHAT´S THE SPIRIT OF THE
TRAINEES AFTER 12 DAYS OF
LEARNING ROUTE
Women access to Land in Africa