1. Annual Performance Review
and South-South Cooperation Event
1-6 November 2010
Nanning, China

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IS POSSIBLE TO BRING THE
LEARNING ROUTE
METHODOLOGY TO ASIA AND
THE PACIFIC?

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EXAMPLES OF KNOWN AND VALIDATED
INNOVATIONS ORIGINATED IN ASIA AND THE
PACIFIC:
- Self Help Groups and Village Banking
- Intensive and sustainable natural resource
management: land and water
- Use of Information and Communication Technologies
for Microfinance, Market Information and e-learning

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WHAT ELSE CAN WE LEARN AND
UPSCALE BASED ON IFAD
OPERATIONS AND PARTNERS?

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THIS YEAR AT THE INNOVATION MARKETPLACE
- Asia and the Pacific
- East and West Africa
- South and Central America

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HOW TO PROFIT THE MOST OF THE IMP?
Meet the Innovators in their stands
One recommendation:
PLAN your 45 minutes KNOWLEDGE SHOPPING by
using THE LEAFLET IN YOUR FOLDER

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LET´S WELCOME THE INNOVATION
CHAMPIONS WITH A BIG RAIN
CLAPPING BROUGHT FROM
TANZANIA
CLAPPING CLUB PLEASE TEACH US…

8. Md. KhalilurRahman
Project Director
MIDPCR, LGED Bangladesh
Khalilpd_midpcr@yahoo.com
Innovation Marketplace 2010
Road Map to Reduce Poverty of Ultra Poor Women applied by MIDPCR/
LGED
We are involved in Labour Contracting Society (LCS), as an alternative to
private contractor. Targeting 17000 destitute women the approach provides
secured employment and wage. Savings and profit are invested Income
Generating Activities (IGA) that are improving their livelihood, self esteem
and social capital.

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Local Resource Person: Filling the technical Gap in the Rural
WUPAP works in extreme remote ultra poor areas, promoting livelihood
improvement. Due to this, a regular and reliable technical service has been
a critical issue. With the promotion of Local Resource Persons, the Project
sustain in time technological support and inputs supplies to farmers. LRP are
today a role model

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Concrete Block Road: a better option to build environment and climate
friendly road infrastructures
Concrete block-based rural road pavement has been designed and
introduced for the first time in rural Bangladesh. It is Labor intensive, cost
effective, environment and climate friendly. It also involves community over the
whole cycle of its construction. The design has been endorsed to other rural
areas in the country.

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Rural poor towards prosperity through the management of Revolving
Funds
Poor build confidence by using Revolving Fund for activities of their livelihood
improvement managed by their own community organization (CO) and
developing institution of poor in managing finances, production and marketing.

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Women’s Cooperative Livestock Farming
Women’s Cooperative Livestock Farming was developed through an
embedding scientific technique in goat rearing targeting women in poor rural
areas aimed at profit maximization in livestock trading. The product was
designed as an integrated group lending cooperative farming facility with an
aim to yield increased monthly income for the beneficiaries.

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Traditional Skills to Global Deals
A poverty alleviation strategy harnessing the indigenous skills and
resources of the beneficiaries and relates with other relevant development
themes to make the undertakings sustainable.

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Improved terrace system for the rural poor
Terrace system is a simple rectangular system which retain surface runoff
water. Mostly, sorghum is planted and land is treated by chisel and ridgers, or
traditional hoes. The embankments are usually constructed manually or by
oxen drawn tools, but recently raised by tractors and earth moving
machines.

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Make visible women empowerment through marketplace and policy
dialogue
Extend achievements of poor women to the outside through the event
Results Recommendation indoor and Products Marketplace in commercial
area strengths impact of pro poor investment and to elevate the economic and
social status of women by improving market access and mainstreaming gender
in government policies making.

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Commercial insects: part of a sustainable solution for biodiversity
loss and climate change
Biodiversity is the basis of our livelihood and economy at household and
national levels, gives us resilience to overcome droughts, famine and natural
shocks. Biodiversity is not only just species and genes, is livelihood for all
stakeholders.

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Cashless Credit Model in Agric value Chains Financing
We came up with a cashless credit system that links famers with input dealers
and service providers and forward to marketing companies. The facilitating
Agency and the project ensure mutual trust, transparency and enforcement of
signed Agreements.

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Local Committee for Resource Allocation (CLAR)
Local Committee for Resource Allocation (CLAR) is a public contest to hand
out resources to organized smallholders groups in the rural. The contests are
organized by local governments, chaired by the mayor and a jury conformed
by social leaders, advanced entrepreneurs and technical advisers, all
chosen and legitimate by the local community.

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Rural Eco Turism in Guatemala
This innovation brings opportunity to a producers group who did not owned
land, but the nature benefited them with a river that crosses their community.
This group sells to the international tourism the rafting service, restaurant
and hostel service, using the web as a commercial platform.

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AND FOR THOSE WHO WANTED AND
DESERVE TO BE HERE NOW BUT
COULDN´T …… A BIG APPLAUSE

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Farmers with checkbook, an innovative strategy to overcome rural
poverty
Empowerment of rural entrepreneurs is achieved when trust is mutual between
governments and civil society, project disbursement are made directly to the
farmer bank accounts, who are responsible for executing, following and
auditing and for the public accountability of the public resources awarded

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Pawan Kumar,
ULIPH, India
Self Help Groups
The Project has established 3500 self help groups and aggregated them as federations
for taking up social and business issues. Knowledge sharing workshops with the
federations has helped the federations to network with each other, establish linkages with
stakeholders and develop business plans and ensuring sustainability of project
interventions.
SMS for good business
Piloted use of SMS based information through mobile phones for providing customised
information on weather, market, crop advisory, government schemes for women in
Uttarakhand. The service is being up-scaled to cover more than 1500 HH in project
area.

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LETS GO AND FIND OUT BY PARTICIPATING IN
THE INNOVATION MARKETPLACE
MAYBE YOU ARE AN INNOVATION CHAMPION AS
WELL
THANKS

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WELCOME BACK!

25. Innovation Marketplace 2010
Please share your insights:
1. What did you find interesting?
2. What innovations do you feel there are
missing this year?
3. Interested in following up with the
exchanges?

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IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN CLOSING THE
DEAL
JOIN OTHER PRACTICIONERS IN THE
KNOWLEDGE BUSINESS TABLES

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WHAT ARE THE KNOWLEDGE BUSINESS TABLES (KBT)?
Is an interactive face to face, PEER TO PEER
METHODOLOGY to:
• Identify our CHALLENGES AND BEST PRACTICES
inside and outside of Asia and the Pacific
• In order to HARVEST THE EFFECTIVE DEMAND and
CONTENTS for a LEARNING HIGHWAY PROGRAMME

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BASIC BUSINESS TABLES YOU CAN SUSCRIBE TO
1. Public, private and mix rural 4. Access and management of Information 7. Natural resources management in times
development projects implementation and Communications Technologies in the of food insecurity and global warming
cycle rural areas
2. Advocacy, policy dialogue and 5. Rural microfinance innovative services 8. Targeting right: experience of success
public policy influence within IFADs and products for the poorest of the poor work with youth, women and traditional
project communities
3. Promotion of grassroots 6. Rural microenterprise access to local, 9. New rural business: diversifying income
organizations and network national, international and especial markets alternatives for the rural poor.

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Where to learn from
Our challenges

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1. One Learning
Route
2. Another Learning
Route

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• HOW TO SUSCRIBE TO THE KBT AND MAKE YOUR
OPINION COUNT:
1. FILL THE SECOND SHEET OF THE LEAFLET
2. HANDLE IT TO THE KNOWLEDGE FACLITATORS
3. WE WILL COMMUNICATE BACK TO YOU
KBT: TUESDAY 17:30 (free beer and juice)

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THANKS
Ariel Halpern
PROCASUR Corporation
ahalpern@procasur.org / www.procasur.org