As part of an experience capitalization process, a simple questionnaire or a set of templates can help collect and organise information, and prepare a short document. But even more important is to ensure that the beneficiaries of a project actively join the process. These have been the two main e...
The planning process of a new capitalization exercise should start by looking in detail at the exercise we just completed. Now, if I am to reconstruct our participation in the experience capitalization workshop in Maputo, I have to start by saying that during the first few days it was very diffic...
Learning from experience. That's what it's all about. My first experience capitalization workshop in Nairobi changed the way I want to work. As a representative of the Uganda National Farmers Federation (UNFFE), I was given the opportunity to participate in a workshop organised by CTA for members...
Tukundane, Nelson
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[Experience capitalization: The end of a project is just the beginning]
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Experience capitalization: The end of a project is just the beginning
Throughout the world, indigenous peoples live on ancestral land and territories, governed by their cultural and traditional norms and values. Their lives and livelihoods are heavily dependent on natural resources and these are managed in a way which is similar to that envisioned by the Sustainabl...
Tharu, Prem Singh
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[Indigenous peoples struggle for communal lands in Sundargarh, India]
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Indigenous peoples struggle for communal lands in Sundargarh, India
Agroforestry, the process of surrounding agricultural land with trees and shrubbery, was implemented in a conservation area in Vanuatu in 2012 with the aim of ending food insecurity in the rural community of Khole. With 50 plots established in the 420 ha area, local farmers gained the ability to ...
Andre, Glarinda
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[Agroforestry, the solution to food insecurity for rural communities in Vanuatu]
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Agroforestry, the solution to food insecurity for rural communities in Vanuatu
In the wake of Cyclone Pam, Live & Learn Vanuatu set about ending food insecurity in some of the country’s worst affected communities. Seedlings, reared in nurseries, replaced the crops that were washed away in the disaster. The implementation of agroforestry plots, plant tissue grafting, and the...
Kampai, Jessie
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[Post-cyclone agroforestry is helping to solve food insecurity in Vanuatu]
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Post-cyclone agroforestry is helping to solve food insecurity in Vanuatu
To encourage the adoption of the experience capitalization approach within the Uganda National Farmers Federation, those who had joined the CTA training workshops opted to share information and explain the main concepts and the steps involved to all team members through tailored one-on-one sessio...
The environmental and agricultural practices of indigenous people in South East Asia are being threatened by aggressive developments, which exploit their natural resources and displace them from their ancestral land and territories. The Asia Indigenous Peoples pact is using experience capitalizat...
In Colombia, the Inter-Institutional Research Group on Regional Competitiveness Models has been running a series of experience capitalization processes for several years, modifying the approach to meet the needs of its members and partner organisations. Working for many years, and focusing on tho...
Within development projects, the monitoring and evaluation and knowledge management systems are interlinked, and must be coordinated effectively to support project implementation. As we have seenin the Integrated Livelihood Support Project (ILSP) in Uttarakhand, India, both systems can be strengt...