Communication – Stories and briefs

DeSIRA projects are complex research and innovation projects and as such they ambition to generate several changes at different levels of the agricultural innovation systems in countries. In some cases, they are focused on innovation niches and experimental research work, but in other cases, they deploy multi-level and multi-dimensional activities to generate systemic changes.

The DeSIRA projects are multi-partner in nature. They experiment and put into practice multiple partnership patterns between researchers and other innovation actors, in highly diverse contexts, and while facing very complex problems.

Stories of change (SoC) are a powerful tool to illustrate and document significant changes that are triggered by DeSIRA projects, in terms of behaviors, attitudes, knowledge, and practices, which often need to be more easily captured using quantitative metrics. SoC aim at identifying not only the changes that have occurred but also the reasons and the processes leading to these changes at various levels where projects intervene.

The SoC will help to capture the diversity of changes that were put in place to make research work for innovation, toward impacts in an era of complexity, emergency, and uncertainties.

DeSIRA-LIFT is calling for stories of change – DeSIRA-LIFT lance un appel aux Histoires du Changement 

We will publish two books featuring DeSIRA projects SoC in 2024. Do you think you have one or more Stories of Change to share? Please download our full call here

Nous publierons deux livres présentant les HdC des projets DeSIRA en 2024. Vous pensez que vous avez une ou plusieurs Histoires du Changement à partager ? Téléchargez notre appel ici

Courses were provided to  DeSIRA projects from October to November 2023 to reinforce their ability to produce communication and knowledge pieces on their achievements and the implementation process taht produced them.

These were followed; early 2024, by coaching sessions for candidates to the production of Stories of Change.

For the recordings and presentations of the sessions on ´Communicating Research´ in English and French please click below.