Procasur Corporation is a global organization that specializes in sharing local innovations to end rural poverty. It connects institutions with local experts across Africa, Asia, and Latin America through learning platforms like Learning Routes and Territories. These structured opportunities facilitate knowledge exchange between over 2000 participants from nearly 50 countries. By documenting, systematizing, and disseminating successful rural development practices, Procasur impacts the lives and livelihoods of thousands globally.

1. Our Learning Territories offer a more in-depth training to impro-
ve practical skills in rural development. The Learning Territories
are defined as hotspots for innovations that have proved to be re-
levant for development.
Within a period of 7 to 15 days, farmers, leaders of rural associa-
tions and microenterprises, technical teams of development pro-
jects, policy-makers, government authorities and other practitio-
ners come together and bring on innovative solutions to real-life
problems.
Rooted in years of local experience, this hands-on training is pe-
dagogically facilitated by men, women, youth, communities and
organizations that have implemented novel and successful solu-
tions in diverse areas of rural development.
Our Technical Assistance offers integrate solutions to manage
knowledge. For those tackling with issues on “how to do knowled-
ge management in development”, Procasur brings in its expertise.
For example, we have worked with development project staff and
grantees in helping them to document, systematize, share and
scale up successful practices and experiences. The trainings and
tools we use for knowledge management are customized to each
client, and are suitable to capture diverse knowledge in the most
remote rural, sometimes illiterate communities, as well as in more
established institutions.
Through Targeted Actions to rural youth, we aim to improve the
situation of young women and men by supporting their aspira-
tions, and by helping them enhancing their livelihoods and impro-
ving their subsistence strategies.
Our Rural Youth Entrepreneurship programme promotes innova-
tions that enable youth to increase their knowledge, access assets
and make their living in rural areas. For development practitioners
working with rural youth, our Programme offers straightforward
guidance on how to get tangible results. During 2012 we trained
some 630 young rural entrepreneurs in Latin America and the Ca-
ribbean, and worked closely with several governments to include
rural youth issues in public policies.
OurPartners
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the
Ford Foundation, the International Land Coalition (ILC), the Inter-
national Development Research Centre (IDRC), and the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are among
our main partners and clients. In addition, we cater to the know-
ledge needs and interests of local and national governments, and
to a wide sector of NGOs and academic institutions.
Procasur’s work touches the lives and livelihoods of thousands of
rural talents across the globe. We believe that for those margina-
lized communities, knowledge truly is power, and that by foste-
ring homegrown information exchange we can contribute to end
worldwide poverty.
Visit us at www.procasur.org.
OurOffices
Latin America and
the Caribbean
Heriberto Covarrubias 21 Of. 705,
Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile.
Phone: +562 3416367
http://americalatina.procasur.org
Africa
Shelter Afrique Building P.O. Box
25965 - 00100 Mamlaka Road,
off Nyerere Road Nairobi, Kenya.
Phone:+254 (0) 20 2716036
http://africa.procasur.org
Asia and the Pacific
209/34 Moo 10, Chia Mai-Hang-
dong Road T.Padad, A.Muang,
Chiang Mai 50000 Thailand.
Phone: +66 53 272 362
http://asia.procasur.org

2. Procasur Corporation is a global organization specialized in
harvesting and scaling-up homegrown innovations. The organi-
zation’s mission is to foster local knowledge exchange to end rural
poverty. By sharing innovations through customized local knowle-
dge-management tools and methodologies, the organization
connects global institutions with local talents, providing the struc-
tured learning platforms necessary to spread innovation. Proca-
sur has facilitated learning opportunities in over 25 countries in
Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean, affecting the
lives and livelihoods of thousands of rural talents across the globe.
OurApproach
Almost 20 years of experience in knowledge brokering in rural de-
velopment have provided us with priceless insight as to unders-
tanding the most successful processes for knowledge sharing,
learning and innovation. Some of the methods and instruments
we use to promote the adoption and adaptation of best practices
are the Learning Routes, the Learning Territories, our Technical As-
sistance offer and targeted actions to rural youth.
Our Learning Routes serve as a capacity building tool, promoting
innovative activities, technologies and approaches that can be
applied in rural poverty eradication. The Learning Routes enable
lesson learning, advance knowledge management with concrete
results, allow the efficient dissemination of information, and inspi-
re the scaling up of the best, field-tested innovations in rural deve-
lopment across regions.
Taylor-made to each client, and thematically structured around
specific learning objectives, the Routes promote experiential ex-
change and interaction, through which local people become tra-
iners to their peers.
Since 2006, Procasur and its partners have implemented over 100
Learning Routes in 30 countries in Latin America and the Carib-
bean, Africa, and Asia, helping more than 2000 “ruteros” of almost
50 nationalities to share and learn. Originated in farmer-to-far-
mer exchanges, Procasur is now more and more catering to po-
licy-makers and contributing to scaling up processes of successful
public policies.
OurPhilosophy
• Knowledge. We believe that knowledge is power, and that by foste-
ring homegrown knowledge exchange, we can end worldwide po-
verty. We are practical in our approach to sharing, storing and disse-
minating information.
• Local talents. We build local capacities and foster local talents to
empower communities, businesses and marginalized groups, and to
contribute to larger scale policy processes. Our current network of
local talents or knowledge champions sums up to over 750, repre-
senting 250 different communities, organizations and policy makers.
By accessing the global knowledge market, the local talents are able
to diversify their incomes and improve their lives.
• South-South Cooperation. We connect the Global South. We serve
as a knowledge warehouse for international institutions, and a brid-
ge for integrated and inclusive communication between women and
men, development practitioners, advocates, and policy-makers.
• Impact. We create customized, targeted solutions. We are not afraid
to take risks, and have tried-and-true practices and methodologies
that ensure innovation and impact. For us, impact means concrete
results on the ground and better development effectiveness.
OurBackground
Since 1996, Procasur has worked as a knowledge broker for the
Global South, linking international institutions and regional orga-
nizations with local governments, rural talents and communities
to identify, nourish and share innovative ideas. We work with di-
verse stakeholders to share the best practices and new trends in
rural development, in themes such as financing, market access,
natural resource management, empowerment, inclusion, innova-
tive technologies and more.