This document gives an overview of the results of the evaluation of the 6th GFRAS Annual Meeting.
The results shown are taken from the evaluation form provided to the participants. They were asked to evaluate the agenda and inputs, the opportunities for participation and the facilitation of the event, the organisation and preparation of the event, as well as topics for future meetings. In total, 90 of 130 participants provided their feedback to the event.
The 6th GFRAS Annual Meeting took place from 14 to 17 September 2015, with side events on 14 and 18 September. Organised around the topic of Global Good Practices, this year’s annual meeting challenged participants to reflect on the process of generating, documenting, sharing, testing, and adapting knowledge and good practices.
130 participants of 54 countries and 12 regional networks argued that sharing, discussing, using, and adapting good practices are part of a wider and complex learning process in RAS. They discussed that learning happens at different moments, can be implicit or explicit, and is a complex and continuous cycle, involving many actors at different stages within agricultural innovation systems and beyond. Thinking about the potential benefits of sharing good practices, participants agreed that a good practice must be end-user oriented, demand-driven, and include best-fit considerations. While it is important to note that there is no ‘bad practice’ as long as we learn from it, for good practices to be really useful and beneficial for the end-users, we need to strategically decide what, when, and how we share our experiences.