Introduction of the Ideas for the Way Forward Follow Up Workshop on The Learning Route “Scaling up Bangladesh rural development best practices: Lessons learned by FEDEC in the development of Value Chains”

IFAD-PROCASUR P ROGRAMME “Strengthening Knowledge Sharing on innovative Solutions using Learning Routes Methodology in Asia and Pacific” Aims: Increasing Knowledge Sharing and Learning Capacities at project and country levels By -Building up Human capital -Facilitate the adaptation of Best Practices -Improve the Results and Impacts of IFAD Operations in the region

INAFI PROCASUR P ARTNERSHIP With the aim to map and scale up the best practices and innovations of the IFAD funded projects in Bangladesh PROCASUR Corporation has been working in partnership with INAFI Bangladesh from June 2013.

INAFI PROCASUR P ARTNERSHIP Within the process INAFI and PROCASUR with the support from IFAD has identified and documented 7 case studies from 4 IFAD-supported projects in Bangladesh based on best practices and good results among rural communities’ livelihoods. Also 1 Learning Route was organised based on 2 of the cases.

C ASE S TUDIES Name of the projectCase Studies NATP- National Agricultural Technology Project, Phase-1 Dairy Cow Farming Safe Vegetable Cultivation SCBRMP- Sunamgonj Community Based Resource Management Project Community Based Fisheries Management Rural Infrastructure Development FEDEC- Finance for Enterprise Development and Employment Creation Crab Culture Value Chain Development Flower Cultivation Value Chain Development MIDPCR – Market Infrastructure Development in Charland Regions Rural Development In Char Areas of Bangladesh through Public- Private Partnership

A 5 day Learning Route (LR) “Scaling up Bangladesh Rural Development Best Practices: Lessons Learned by FEDEC in the Development of Value Chains” was organised based on the two cases of FEDEC from 7 to 11 September 2014 at Satkhira and Jessore. CASE 1: Crab Culture Value Chain Development CASE 2: Flower Cultivation Value Chain Development Learning Route 2014

W AY F ORWARD OF THE P ROGRAMME Way Forward of the Programme: INAFI, PROCASUR, IFAD Projects and IFAD Partnership Three components: Capacity building Expansion of innovations Access to Knowledge

W AY F ORWARD OF THE P ROGRAMME Capacity building: Capacity building of the ongoing projects through training on systematization process for documentation of case studies. Participants would be called from the interested IFAD projects. A resource person from PROCASUR will conduct the training.

W AY F ORWARD OF THE P ROGRAMME Expansion of innovations: Documentation of two case studies by each project. The participants who attended the capacity building training will be responsible for documenting two cases from their project. INAFI and PROCASUR will be responsible to communicate with the PDs and IFAD in identifying the two best cases which will be documented. One representative from INAFI/ PROCASUR will accompany the project participants during one of the systematisation for each project. INAFI- PROCASUR will be responsible for overall guidance in developing the case studies. 2 Learning Routes will be organised by INAFI- PROCASUR focusing on cases from the interested projects.

W AY F ORWARD OF THE P ROGRAMME Access to Knowledge : knowledge sharing culture development and any other suggestion by IFAD and the Projects related to knowledge management.

W AY F ORWARD OF THE P ROGRAMME Three tools: Systematization process Case Study development Learning Route

P ARTNERSHIP : INAFI, PROCASUR, IFAD P ROJECTS AND IFAD Expected goal for 2015 through partnership Knowledge Management activities for 2015

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