About this service
Objectives
Hybrid training sessions (virtual and in-person workshops) will be offered to individuals in charge of designing, implementing, facilitating and monitoring open and responsible innovation activities or events in their DeSIRA project. The participants will be certificated as “DeSIRA Innovation Facilitators”. The training will be implemented as training pathways for DeSIRA cohorts of trainees.
Target audience and beneficiaries
- Project teams working directly with the projects’ beneficiaries and able to support national/ regional capacity development on MEL for AIS, beyond the DeSIRA initiative duration.
- Target value of beneficiaries: 3 cohorts of 25 trainees
Experts engaged
Chloé Lecomte – Training of Innovation Facilitators/Leader Service 2
Chloé has more than 12 years of experience in the private and…
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Aurélie Toillier – Service Area 1 Leader
Aurélie is a senior scientist at CIRAD. Her research focuses on capacities…
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Nury Furlan
Nury is an experienced facilitator who supervised country teams in Guatemala and…
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Support on ongoing activities involving innovation facilitators
Blended learning to develop skills to facilitate innovation niche partnerships, service ecosystems, and policy dialogues
Facilitated networking between innovation facilitators
In-person and virtual training sessions for a cohort of innovation facilitators;
Delivery of certificates at the end of the course
Expected outcomes at project and at DeSIRA community level
Project level
- Individuals with upgraded skills
- Practical implementation of tools and methodologies
DeSIRA Community Level
- Network of skilled innovation facilitators available for current projects and upcoming ones.
- Reinforced Innovation Support Services “meso” level of Agricultural Innovation Systems, favouring continuity and sustainability of innovation trajectories.