For several years, we at Syecomp have been engaged in implementing projects – funded by national and international donors – and we have found that our key constraints have been documenting the impact of our work and sharing it effectively with the general public. When my colleagues and I heard a...
I participated in one of the training processes on experience capitalization following what CTA describes as a “sandwich model”. This involves two workshops with a support period in between. I would like to draw your attention to the process in between the two workshops – a very important part of...
I was one of the participants who joined the experience capitalization workshops in Maputo in 2017. I was chosen to join because, as the only M&E officer in the ProAQUA project being implemented in Mozambique, I am also responsible for knowledge management. It was good to get an invitation, but b...
Macuiane, Messias A.
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[Experience capitalization: We learn the most from the challenges we face]
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Experience capitalization: We learn the most from the challenges we face
Before I arrived at the first workshop, I'd read through different things on the Internet to try and understand what Experience Capitalization was. I could see its value to my organisation immediately.
Watkins, Susan
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[Experience capitalization: What am I going to do to make this happen?]
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Experience capitalization: What am I going to do to make this happen?
The LASED project has played an important role in supporting the livelihoods of Cambodia’s rural poor. Its interventions have included the installation of rural infrastructure and the provision of funds for farmers. The project has social, economic and environmental objectives, and specific safeg...
CCAFS and CIAT provided technical and policy recommendations on the land productivity component of the Colombian Green Growth Policy, which was launched in July 2018. The current National Development Plan states a focus on financial instruments for sustainable agricultural activities that include...
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[CCAFS science informs the Green Growth Policy in Colombia]
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CCAFS science informs the Green Growth Policy in Colombia
Improved understanding of animal nutrition allowed policy makers and a producer organization to develop low emissions forage options in Colombia. As part of CCAFS Low Emissions Development Flagship, CIAT’s LivestockPlus project adjusted a model for digestion and metabolism for the types of livest...
Based on directives issued by the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the Department of Crop Production, the rice planting calendar in the Mekong River Delta was adjusted to avoid salinity intrusion brought by the 2019 El Niño.
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[600,000 hectares of rice planted earlier in Vietnam to avoid risk of salinity intrusion from the 2019 El Niño]
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600,000 hectares of rice planted earlier in Vietnam to avoid risk of salinity intrusion from the 2019 El Niño
The Ghanaian cocoa sector under the leadership of the Ghanaian Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) made important strides towards climate resilience. Exposure maps developed jointly with CCAFS were combined with exposure gradient specific climate-smart agriculture practices in a national training manual of obl...
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[CCAFS science supports Ghana's steps towards climate-resilient cocoa production for 800,000 farmers]
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CCAFS science supports Ghana's steps towards climate-resilient cocoa production for 800,000 farmers
Kenya’s State Department of Livestock is catalyzing investments of USD 223 million in Kenya’s dairy sector, based on CCAFS research and support, for the development of a Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) in the dairy sector. After a two-year process, the government of Kenya has reac...
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[Kenya’s State Department of Livestock catalyzes investments of USD 223 million in the dairy sector]
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Kenya’s State Department of Livestock catalyzes investments of USD 223 million in the dairy sector