Procasur is a global organization dedicated to connecting rural organizations with local talents to combat rural poverty through knowledge exchange and capacity building. Utilizing bottom-up, participatory approaches, it implements learning routes that foster peer-to-peer networking and share innovations across various regions. The organization partners with multiple stakeholders to enhance agricultural practices, social inclusion, and sustainable development outcomes.

1. Global organization specialized in harvesting
and scaling-up homegrown solutions
Gabor Teveli, PROCASUR Communications, gteveli@procasur.org

2. Mission:
Foster local knowledge exchange to end rural poverty
Objective:
Facilitate the connection of global institutions with
rural organizations and local talents, providing the
structured learning platforms necessary to spread
innovation
Keywords: Knowledge Exchange, Local Talents, South-South Cooperation,
Direct Impact, Capacity Building, Policy Dialogue, P2P networking, PPP

3. Knowledge Brokers for the Global South since 1996
Innovative, efficient and effective services for an increasing number of clients
with diverse needs in a dynamic environment
Partners: IFAD, Ford Foundation, FAO, UN Women, IDRC, ILC, SSC
and over 50 governments and 100 rural people´s organizations
LAC
WCA ESA
APR

4. Training and Dissemination Methodologies in
Rural Development
Conventional
Approach
Top-down
approach
Govt-to-Govt
Courses and
workshops
Textbooks
External
expertise
Not
participatory
Procasur’s
Approach
Bottom-up
approach
P2P
Interaction
between
theory and
practice
PPP
Conviction:
local
organizations
possess
knowledge

5. Wide range of Technical Areas
• Climate-smart adaptation techniques
• NRM including Land, Water and Forestry
• Organic Agriculture
• Rural youth
• Value chain development and market access
• Agricultural cooperatives, financial control
• Public-private partnership

8. Activities
Mapping best practices and innovations, and
package them into knowledge products and
knowledge services.
Learning Routes, Learning Territories, Technical Assistance, Targeted Actions
to vulnerable groups (rural women, youth and indigenous peoples)

9. Learning Routes
• Tool to disseminate and scale up Innovations
• Throughout Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Latin
America and the Caribbean
• Intensify peer-to-peer networking through live
and participatory knowledge sharing
mechanisms
• On the field training with the participation of
multiple stakeholders

12. Achievements and Impacts of Learning Routes
Learning
Routes
Change in
internal
management
of
organisations
Design and
implementation
of new products
and services
Improved
capacities in
rural families
Functional and
vertical scaling
up
Social learning
Problem
Solving
Knowledge
sharing

13. LOCAL CHAMPIONS
Identifying and advocating
knowledge owners as service providers

14. Local Champions
• Capacity building of LCs as extension service
providers
• Upgrade, position and connect Local
Champions for a people-centered technical
development
• Community Learning Centers, Training of
Trainers
• Active communities for rural development
practitioners

16. • Providing methodological support to IFAD projects
• Integrate grassroots-based knowledge management in
planning and implementation of projects

17. Sustainability
• High sustainability of
innovations developed via
Learning Routes
• Innovation processes far
beyond local organizations and
communities
• Increased involvement helps
innovations and LRs reach
beyond local communities, to
national and international
policy making level
• Good replication and
upscaling, continuous
expansion

18. Contribution
• Job creation – enhanced capacity (of LR participants) to create
employment
• Income generation – enhanced income generating capacity
• Social inclusion – increased capacity of women and youth to
participate in decision making and economic activities
• Outreach – communities can document knowledge and share it on
global platform
• Networks – connected people within communities, communities
across borders, and across continents
• Agriculture and Food Security – organizations adopt and integrate
knowledge management systems in their work

19. How can we work together?
• How can SSC be fast, cost effective and efficient in
reaching the rural poor?
• How can we induce a people-centered development in
rural areas?
•
• How can we build and share technical innovations on
the ground to overcome today’s challenges?
• How can we increase the ownership of local solutions
and become sustainable in alleviating poverty?

20. For more information about Procasur’s activities
Visit Procasur online: www.procasur.org
Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/procasur.lac
www.facebook.com/procasurafrica
www.facebook.com/procasur.asia
Visit our Local Champions’ Directory: talentosrurales.org
Watch our videos: Procasur’s YouTube Channel