Strategy and approaches
The RIU Nigeria country programme strategy is based on capturing, analyzing and communicating and disseminating lessons and evidence from the processes and outcomes of multi-stakeholder innovation platforms, to inform out-scaling of successful experiments, and sharing the information with ARCN, the Government of Nigeria, DFID and other RIU programmes.
This is based on a series of interventions which involve:
The innovation platforms will be creating:
The RIU Nigeria country programme strategy is based on capturing, analyzing and communicating and disseminating lessons and evidence from the processes and outcomes of multi-stakeholder innovation platforms, to inform out-scaling of successful experiments, and sharing the information with ARCN, the Government of Nigeria, DFID and other RIU programmes.
This is based on a series of interventions which involve:
- promoting and facilitating activities toward uptake of research innovations in three targeted agricultural commodity value chains:
- supporting policies that can enhance the development of the targeted value chains - collaborating with policymakers and supporting national policies and institutions
- contributing to, and strengthening of, national processes and priorities emerging from the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (ARCN) toward institutionalization of systems that ensure the optimum utilization of agricultural research outputs from both the NARS and the RNRRS investment
- Networking and developing partnership with other international development programmes working in Nigeria to leverage the positive impact of joint programming. Such programmes include:
- New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD)
- Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)
- Cassava: Adding Value for Africa (CAVA) programme
- Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)
- USAID-MARKETS Programme
- the Promoting Pro-Poor Opportunities Through Commodity and Service Markets (PrOpCom) programme
- Purdue Improved Cowpea Storage (PICS) programme in collaboration with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
The innovation platforms will be creating:
- sustainable public and private sector mechanisms and institutions for effective up-scaling and out-scaling of agricultural innovation and development processes across Nigeria
- significant improvements in enterprise productivity among the target stakeholders
- poverty alleviation among the target rural and urban low-income actors of the target value chains
- evidence of innovative processes or a boost in local livelihoods activities
| RIUtv meets... Jeroen Dijkman, RIU's Central Research Team Coordinator, to share lessons from the Africa Country Programmes. June 2010 (06:20) |  |
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