procasur: learning routes
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PROCASURRegional Corporation
www.procasur.org
Ariel HalpernNairobi, April 2009
Corporación Regional PROCASUR
Non profit organization founded by an IFAD grant in 1996.Mainly active in Latinamerica with a few activities in Africa and
Asia.Works in the identification, development and scalling up of pro
rural poor innovations.Main Office in Santiago, representations in la Paz and Bogota.Funded mainly by IFAD and Ford Foundation.
Good friends all over.
Main Pourpose:
Enhance the capacities of the agents involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of public inversment projects.
MAIN SERVICES
Capacity Building:
Learning Routes
E learning
Technical Assistance
Base Line Studies
Human Resources Selection
Managment of Water Resources
Capacity Building
Learning Routes
1.Paths to Learning: Successful Innovations in Rural Microfinance
Africa, Asia, LatinamericaFord Foundation and IFAD
2. South to South ProgrammeLatinamerica and Africa
IFAD and Ford Foundation
Capacity Building
Learning Routes
3. Linking Innovation and Young Rural Talents ProgrammeLatinamerica and Africa
IMI – FIDA
4. Political Participation of Rural WomenLatinamerica and Africa
UN- INSTRAW
5. Access to Land Latinamerica and Africa
International Land Coalition
LRincreasing local capacities for a
global learning
LR is a strategy to
• Manage the local knowledge builded in rural areas by projects operators, families, communities and associations.
• Improve the participation of local knowledge in the rural market for technical assistance.
• Empower local entrepeurners for the systematic documentation of their knowledge and be able to share it among others.
• Strength the action of network teams.
Targeting
• Beneficiaries and Staff of IFAD Projects. • The others, who we work with.
And
• The best, who we learn from.
Thematic Areas and Partners
• Local Goverment• Gender• Acces to Land• Cultural Identity and Assets• Rural Microfinance Products and Services.• Access to Dynamic and Special Markets• Participatory managment or natural resources• Technical Assistance for the rural
microenterprise• Rural ITCs
LR 2009 (an invitation…)
• Cultural Assets for the rural and local developmentColombia / May
• Development Banks: amplifying the access to financial services of the rural poorBrazil and Guatemala / June
• Green MarketsColombia / June
• Access to Land Ecuador and Bolivia/ Africa???/ Second semester
• Young Rural TalentsLatinamerica
GENERAL DIAGRAMM
LR
10% Policy
makers
30% IFAD
beneficiaries
20% IFAD
partners
30% IFAD Staff
- 35 international LR developed
- 550 directly beneficed; 3000 indirectly
- 33 nationalities; 7 of them were African
Participation
Innovation Plan winners
Sergio Lazo, Peru1.Georeference and quality certification of Coffee; Managment of stock trough mobile techology
2.After 12 months, first time that the cooperative put USD 200.000. in french market
Innovation Plan winners
Yvrose Joseph, Haiti1. Use of rural
microleasing as a innovative financial product for the capitalization of assets.
2. 9 months later the public bank where she works is piloting microleasing
Innovation Plan winnersBetty Valenciano, Costa
Rica1. Enhance women
capacities to participate in local gov. trough the exchange of experiences.
2. 2 months later 10 majors took a 3 days Route and than joined the Women Municipalist Association.
IFAD achivieng policy impact
Agrorural, Peru
1. Public and competitive assignment of resources
2. Direct contracting of private technical assistance
3. LR choosed for the cultural and procedural migration
Presidential Ministry, Colombia
1. IFAD Model for saving groups and insurance for Women implemented in 3 different country level programmes
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