Local innovation platforms pathways to more productive rainwater management...
ILRI’s Alan Duncan was asked to share a Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) ‘story’ at the recent International Forum on Water and Food. Watch the video: Alan’s story introduces some of the...
View ArticleMulti-stakeholder and innovation platforms – Experiences shared in the CPWF...
One of the ‘learning to innovate’ sessions in the 2011 Third International Forum on Water and Food looked at experiences within the CPWF with multi-stakeholder Platforms (MSP) and Innovation Platforms...
View ArticleSecond National Platform meeting on Land and Water Management in Ethiopia:...
Various national and regional organizations in Ethiopia are engaged in natural resource management, particularly in land and water, but for the last 30 years there has been limited opportunity for them...
View ArticleLocal innovation platforms in the Nile BDC: Audio presentation on progress so...
Local innovation platforms are used in several CGIAR Challenge Program for Water and Food-supported Basin Development Challenges – the Mekong, Volta and Nile as mechanisms to help bring about...
View ArticleInnovation platforms, participatory video, and the Nile Basin Development...
ILRI’s Beth Cullen was recently interviewed by the USAID Feed the Future Agrilinks web site about innovation platforms and participatory video. Read the interview Watch the video:
View ArticleParticipatory video for ‘vertical communication’ between farmers and policy...
The Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC), funded by the CGIAR Challenge Program for Water and Food (CPWF), is currently working with innovation platforms to improve the resilience of rural...
View ArticleCommunal grazing land management in Fogera: Lessons from innovation platform...
As part of the Nile Basin Development Challenge, local Innovation Platforms (IP) have been formed in three sites in the Blue Nile Basin of Ethiopia to improve approaches to rain water management. It...
View ArticleDigital Stories: a creative way of capturing and communicating research
Digital storytelling refers to short films composed of digitized still and moving images, sound and text. This is a highly effective way of presenting compelling stories in an engaging format. Digital...
View ArticleNile BDC shares lessons on innovation platforms at Africa Agricultural...
The NBDC sent five representatives including two local innovation platform (IP) members to a special session on ‘engagement platforms’ at the sixth Africa Agricultural Science Week (AASW) organised by...
View ArticleReal change in food security through innovation platforms, where science...
The change starts from those who are affected by the problem being around the table with those who want to experiment research and deliver options for development, sitting as equal partners. (Dr....
View ArticleCapacity building workshop addresses problems of participation in Nile Basin...
To strengthen the planning and implementation of rainwater management strategies at local level, the NBDC has supported the establishment of Innovation Platforms (IPs) in its three study sites: Jeldu,...
View ArticleFEAST tool helps local innovation platforms identify feed intervention...
The NBDC recently organized a capacity building workshop (8-10 May 2013) to address feed resource needs identified by local NBDC partners and beneficiaries. Innovation platforms (IP) established by the...
View ArticleForage development in Diga: Lessons learned from a local innovation platform...
The Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) program established three local Innovation Platforms (LIPs) in Jeldu, Diga and Fogera Woredas and these have been addressing different specific issues around...
View ArticleFodder interventions by Jeldu Innovation Platform tackle natural resource...
The Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) Program of the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) has been working in three woredas (districts) in Ethiopia – Jeldu, Diga and Fogera. Each of the...
View ArticleLocal innovation funds kick started Nile BDC platform activities
The Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) established local Innovation Platforms (IPs) in each of the three sites where it worked. The platforms aimed to bring stakeholders together (government...
View ArticleFodder development intervention through innovation platforms: NBDC Experience...
Fogera Woreda is one of the three “Research for Development” intervention sites for the Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) project. A local Innovation Platform (IP) was established to bring...
View ArticleInnovation platforms to enhance participation in rainwater management in...
Activities conducted as part of NBDC innovation platform work in Fogera (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). This paper draws lessons from two years of work with ‘innovation platforms’ that were...
View ArticleAnalyzing power dynamics in innovation platforms for natural resource management
Skilful facilitation is needed to overcome difficult power relationships (photo credit: ILRI/Alfred Ombati) Innovation systems thinking is increasingly influencing approaches to sustainable...
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