Reflection and Learning Workshop - PowerPoint Presentation

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Reflection and Learning Workshop

27-30 April 2015Imperial Botanical Garden Hotel, EntebbeSlide2

THE BIG FIVESlide3
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OBJECTIVESTell, analyse and document the PAEPARD storyIdentify and analyse the breakthroughs, what the challenges in implementing the projectIntroduce and use knowledge and learning tools and methodologies

Develop a documentation framework for future trackingChart a way forward for PAEPARDSlide5

Reflection and Learning Workshop

AR4DSlide6

Essential elements of AR4DDevelop partnerships (around common themes/issues) and to manage change with other stakeholders in agriculture and wider society;

Incorporate different sources of knowledge and perspectives involving

stakeholders in the process;

Research is put into a systems context

Research integrates contribution of different/ other disciplines and sectors beyond technical and biophysical research;

Research must be accountable for development outcomes;

Recognising

development as

an iterative process

Create conditions to enable contribution and sustain interest of multiple stakeholders

Building individual competencies,

organisational

and institutional capacity to deal with a changing context.

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The Shift in mind-setFrom knowledge generation as a final objective, to a means to achieve change; from research to innovation;

From a focus on technology to a focus on people;From mainly reductionist understanding of the parts to systemic understanding of the relationships between the parts;

From mainly ‘hard systems analysis’ (improving the mechanics of the system) to also ‘soft systems analysis’ (negotiating the meaning of the system and desirable transformations);

From seeing participation as a matter of consulting beneficiaries to one of facilitating engagement for interactive learning between stakeholders, resulting in joint analysis, planning, and collective action

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From working individually to working with others, in ever-changing ad-hoc teams and partnerships;From teaching to learning; from being taught to learning how to learn; from individual learning to social learning;From an exclusive focus on individual merit and competition to one that also favours collaboration and teamwork within and between organisations;From agricultural research systems to agricultural innovation systemsSlide9
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What is an Agricultural Innovation?“Agricultural innovation is the process whereby individuals or organizations bring existing or new products, processes and forms of organization into social and economic use to increase effectiveness, competitiveness, resilience to shocks or environmental sustainability, thereby contributing to food and nutritional security, economic development and sustainable natural resource

management”It must be new and useful in a given context and demonstrate practical application at scale.

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technological, social, economic, organisational and institutional dimensions of change.

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Institutional dimension” refers to the formal and informal rules as well as beliefs, values and frameworks for understanding that create stability and order of the system. This is often referred to as the “enabling environment”. Slide11

Knowledge and LearningSlide12
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The Adult Learning CycleActivist doing and experiencing

Reflector observes and thinks

Theorist understands underlying concepts

Trying out new thingsSlide14
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Theory of Change

A learning frameworkSlide17

Theory of Change – Basic ComponentsBig picture analysis of how change happens in relation to specific thematic area; An articulation of an

organisation or programme pathway in relation to this;

Articulation of underlying assumptions

An impact assessment framework designed to test both the pathway and the assumptions made about how change happens.Slide18
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