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GCAP Training and Outreach Medha Devare m.devare@cgiar GCAP Annual Meeting (March 28, 2011)

GCAP Training and Outreach Medha Devare m.devare@cgiar.org GCAP Annual Meeting (March 28, 2011) El Batan , Mexico. What do we want to achieve?. Increased i nstitutional and farmer c apacity T raining courses and materials : Mexico-based and regional Outreach materials

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GCAP Training and Outreach Medha Devare m.devare@cgiar GCAP Annual Meeting (March 28, 2011)

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  1. GCAP Training and Outreach Medha Devare m.devare@cgiar.org GCAP Annual Meeting (March 28, 2011) El Batan, Mexico

  2. What do we want to achieve? • Increased institutional and farmer capacity • Training courses and materials: Mexico-based and regional • Outreach materials • Improve efficiency, increase impact • Know your audience; materials must acknowledge constraints • ICTs: Current and near future in your region

  3. Knowledge management = creation, collection, storage, transformation, communication, and usability of individual or institutional expertise and information Effective KM = increased impact WHO are our users/beneficiaries? WHAT do they need? HOW can we ensure that they get it?

  4. Addressing training constraints • Scientist time and effort (evaluations/rewards must acknowledge) • Basic CA course template? • Share course materials via wiki or repository (give credit!) • New client types and needs (e.g., input providers, data mgmt) • Identify audience, target training, partner with universities? • Potential for distance/self-learning? • Internet and CD-based

  5. Addressing outreach constraints • Knowledge, technology dissemination • Recognize the “information chain” • What will information landscape look like 5 years from now?

  6. Addressing outreach constraints • Don’t know how to disseminate knowledge, technologies • Identify a few key technologies to roll out • Understand clients or users along information chain • What works best to get location-specific info to clients? • Demos, Leaflets, Radio? TV? Mobile? Web? NGO/Church/CBO?… • Approach will differ by country, province, community, gender • Keep messages simple and accessible – not too technical!!! • Visual rather than textual, local language, women-focused… • Getting information FROM clients • Traditional methods • Mobile: photos; SMS; simple mobile-based forms

  7. Addressing outreach constraints • “Effect of CA…not visible in the 1st year…” “Limited knowledge of farmers and other stakeholders…” “Extensionist knowledge and performance could be better…” • Training of “middlemen” and farmers; farmers as trainers • Material – appropriately target user (e.g. farmer vs extension) • Outreach kit? • Control vs. CA plot photos; “physical evidence” (e.g. 1+ year CA soils); “how to” video via portable DVD player; leaflets; etc. • Delivery in variety of media formats (radio, TV, paper, mobile…) • Integrate info- save time, reduce redundancy, support learning • Partners; website (ours, others); other options…

  8. Thanks!

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