Ian MaudlinRIU Director
Director's update
Shujaaz wins International Digital Emmy...
April 2012
In 2011 DFID granted RIU an extension (to June 2012) to allow key activities more time to generate additional knowledge outputs and provide greater and more in depth evidence of impact.
One of the projects we chose to focus on during this extension phase was Shujaaz: we provided a package of additional support to ensure that agricultural extension stories would continue to appear in Shujaaz until June 2012, when RIU comes to and end.
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Shujaaz wins International Digital Emmy...
April 2012
In 2011 DFID granted RIU an extension (to June 2012) to allow key activities more time to generate additional knowledge outputs and provide greater and more in depth evidence of impact.
One of the projects we chose to focus on during this extension phase was Shujaaz: we provided a package of additional support to ensure that agricultural extension stories would continue to appear in Shujaaz until June 2012, when RIU comes to and end.
CONTINUE READING ⇒
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RIU Phase 2 news storiesRIU was granted an extension to June 2012 for a limited number of promising projects to collect further evidence or mainstream their work. We are pleased to report on their progress: April 2012 RIU learning outputs get journal publications Tanzania premier attends RIU presentation on commercialization of indigenous poultry Aqua Shops to feature on BBC Worldwide documentary Shujaaz wins an Emmy RIU-sponsored workshop advocates wider bio-pesticide use in West Africa RIU Phase 1 news stories
News and archive
Impact evaluation is intended to support accountability and learning; encourage strategic engagement by all stakeholders; and help justify continued investment in development by the UK government.
Private sector partnerships and entrepreneurship models
East Africa
- Stamp Out Sleeping Sickness (SOS-Uganda)
- NERICA rice and other farmer produced quality seed
- StopStriga and Gro-Plus
- Armyworm forecasting and control
- FIPS Resources for smallholder farmers
- ShujaazFM Comics, agriculture and entrepreneurs
The RIU programme aims to accumulate and evaluate evidence to shape and share lessons on how best to enable innovation in the agricultural sector so as to achieve social and economic gains in diverse developing country settings.
RIU shares emerging lessons and discussion papers which will form the basis of a series of journal articles.
Resources
