On October 9th, DeSIRA LIFT SA1 organised its 4th CoP webinar on ´Managing innovation agendas: how DeSIRA projects balance national and global priorities´.
The webinar consisted of two sessions: one in English, and one in Spanish/French with simultaneous translation. The aim of the webinar was to review how the agricultural innovations promoted by DeSIRA projects simultaneously relate to national and international agendas, and to the needs of those to which those innovations are directed. How this creates tensions between projects implementation and expectations, and how projects themselves and some of the mechanisms they entail can help (re) connect needs and interests, across the various levels of innovation niches, innovation support services, the national and international agricultural innovation system, and generate impact owned and acknowledged by all and help identify trade-off areas in innovation agendas and mechanisms for alignement between local and global initiatives.
They sought to discuss two questions:
When and how do tensions between projects’ innovation agendas and broader innovation agendas occur?
and
Should projects plan and develop strategies to help synchronize agendas, using their activities as drivers for collective action?
Key takeaways are shared and can be commented in our Discussion Group
Presentations were given by, Placide Nshuti Kanyabujinja, CDI-RWANDA (Eastern Africa, Rwanda), Mashoko Grey, RaiZ (Southern Africa, Zimbabwe), Oscar Nuñez, 5 Great Forests (Mesoamerica, Spanish) and Aristide Sempore , AcceSS (Burkina Faso, French).
Presentations of the speakers
English session (Morning):
Keynote presentation: Boru Douthwaite, Selkie.ie
Project presentations
Placide Nshuti Kanyabujinja, CDI-RWANDA (Eastern Africa, Rwanda)
Mashoko Grey, RaiZ (Southern Africa, Zimbabwe)
French and Spanish session (Afternoon):
Project presentations
Webinar recordings
English session – Morning
French and Spanish session – Afternoon