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