Capacity development for agriculture innovation: A practitioners’ guidebook to a systems approach

Capacity development for agriculture innovation: A practitioners’ guidebook to a systems approach

Element 2 Analysis and Refinement

Analysis and Refinement element (graphic)

Analysis and refinement prompts users to iterate, delve into, and reflect on information gathered earlier, either through mapping and engagement or during the actual implementation of a capacity development strategy, project, or activity.

The analysis and refinement process encourages careful consideration of the relationships between and among domains and actors in an innovation system, and the capacity development needs in that system.

Facilitation Toolbox MSU 3 http://facilitation.matrix.msu.edu/
Sell for More tool ACDI VOCA 2 http://www.acdivoca.org/tools/sell-more-for-more/
Incentives and resources for innovative partnerships and business development Innovation Policy Platform 2 https://www.innovationpolicyplatform.org/content/incentives-and-resources-innovative-partnerships-and-business-development
The System Improvement Process (SIP) Thwing.org 4 http://www.thwink.org/sustain/glossary/SystemImprovementProcess.htm
Designing agricultural research systems within an AIS framework Innovation Policy Platform 3 https://www.innovationpolicyplatform.org/content/agricultural-research
Resources for capacity building and training of cooperatives ILO 2 https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/cooperatives/areas-of-work/WCMS_628372/lang--en/index.htm
New Extensionist Learning Kit: Module 15 (Policy Advocacy for Rural Advisory Services) GRFAS 3 http://www.g-fras.org/en/knowledge/new-extensionist-learning-kit-nelk.html
Rethinking agriculture education Innovation Policy Platform 2 https://www.innovationpolicyplatform.org/content/training-learning-rethinking-agricultural-education
From Best Practice to Best Fit: A Framework for Designing and Analyzing Pluralistic Agricultural Advisory Services Worldwide IFPRI 2 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13892240903309595
Capacity Assessment Questionnaire IFPRI 4 https://capacity.ifpri.info/2018/10/01/capacity-needs-assessment/?preview_id=695&preview_nonce=d2725a87ae&_thumbnail_id=-1&preview=true
Public-private partnerships for innovation-led growth in agrichains IFPRI 3 https://www.ifpri.org/publication/public-private-partnerships-innovation-led-growth-agrichains
New Extensionist Learning Kit: Module 5 (Adult Learning for Behavioral Change) GFRAS 1 http://www.g-fras.org/en/knowledge/new-extensionist-learning-kit-nelk.html

  • Home
    • Why this guidebook now?
    • Who should use this guidebook and why?
    • What’s in this guidebook?
    • Guiding principles and values
  • Rationale
    • Definition: agricultural innovation system
    • Terms and terminology
    • A “new” approach to capacity development
    • An innovation systems approach
  • The process
    • Who participates in the process?
    • Who can facilitate the process?
    • Where is an innovation systems approach to capacity development useful?
    • How does this process work?
    • Elements in the process
  • Element 1 Mapping and engagement
    • Outputs and outcomes from mapping & engagement
    • 1.1 Broadly identify the problem of interest
    • 1.2 Reality check: What kind of problem is it?
    • 1.3 Broadly define system boundaries
    • 1.4 Identify key system domains and attributes
    • 1.5 Define key actors in the system
    • 1.6 Identify relationships across the system
    • 1.7 Describe the enabling environment
    • 1.8 Reality check: Is the system basically understood?
    • 1.9 Engage with stakeholders
    • 1.10 Reflect on mapping and engagement
  • Element 2 Analysis and refinement
    • Outputs and outcomes from analysis and refinement
    • 2.1 Identify root causes of the problem
    • 2.2 Create and refine the problem statement
    • 2.3 Reality check: Is capacity development the answer?
    • 2.4 Design an analysis of current capacities
    • 2.5 Select a focus for capacity analysis
    • 2.6 Prioritize capacity development
    • 2.7 Reflect on analysis and refinement
    • 2.8 Reflect on process and progress
  • Element 3 Co-creation and monitoring
    • Outputs and outcomes from co-creation and monitoring
    • 3.1 Identify entry points into design
    • 3.2 Build a theory of change
    • 3.3 Identify innovative capacity needs
    • 3.4 Consider the time dimensions of capacity development
    • 3.5 Reality check: Is there support for this process?
    • 3.6 Select appropriate tools
    • 3.7 Build ownership among system actors
    • 3.8 Design a broad M&E strategy
    • 3.9 Select a monitoring system that fits
    • 3.10 Choose an evaluation strategy that fits
    • 3.11 Reflect: Is there potential for success?
  • Case studies and other material
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  • Home
    • Why this guidebook now?
    • Who should use this guidebook and why?
    • What’s in this guidebook?
    • Guiding principles and values
  • Rationale
    • Definition: agricultural innovation system
    • Terms and terminology
    • A “new” approach to capacity development
    • An innovation systems approach
  • The process
    • Who participates in the process?
    • Who can facilitate the process?
    • Where is an innovation systems approach to capacity development useful?
    • How does this process work?
    • Elements in the process
  • Element 1 Mapping and engagement
    • Outputs and outcomes from mapping & engagement
    • 1.1 Broadly identify the problem of interest
    • 1.2 Reality check: What kind of problem is it?
    • 1.3 Broadly define system boundaries
    • 1.4 Identify key system domains and attributes
    • 1.5 Define key actors in the system
    • 1.6 Identify relationships across the system
    • 1.7 Describe the enabling environment
    • 1.8 Reality check: Is the system basically understood?
    • 1.9 Engage with stakeholders
    • 1.10 Reflect on mapping and engagement
  • Element 2 Analysis and refinement
    • Outputs and outcomes from analysis and refinement
    • 2.1 Identify root causes of the problem
    • 2.2 Create and refine the problem statement
    • 2.3 Reality check: Is capacity development the answer?
    • 2.4 Design an analysis of current capacities
    • 2.5 Select a focus for capacity analysis
    • 2.6 Prioritize capacity development
    • 2.7 Reflect on analysis and refinement
    • 2.8 Reflect on process and progress
  • Element 3 Co-creation and monitoring
    • Outputs and outcomes from co-creation and monitoring
    • 3.1 Identify entry points into design
    • 3.2 Build a theory of change
    • 3.3 Identify innovative capacity needs
    • 3.4 Consider the time dimensions of capacity development
    • 3.5 Reality check: Is there support for this process?
    • 3.6 Select appropriate tools
    • 3.7 Build ownership among system actors
    • 3.8 Design a broad M&E strategy
    • 3.9 Select a monitoring system that fits
    • 3.10 Choose an evaluation strategy that fits
    • 3.11 Reflect: Is there potential for success?
  • Case studies and other material

Case studies and other material

Case studies that describe elements of the capacity development process from an innovation systems perspective, highlighting pilot engagements designed to test the systems approach to capacity development with selected Feed the Future Innovation Labs.

  • Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems: Ethiopia (pdf)
  • Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish: Nigeria (pdf)

Additional materials that are useful to sharing the agricultural systems approach to capacity development.

  • At a glance: A systems approach to capacity development for agriculture innovation (pptx)
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