The following three parallel sessions were held:
Parallel session 1: Smart technologies for effective partnerships in RAS
Guiding questions:
- What role can technologies play to strengthen partnerships? What tools are around and how can they be used effectively?
- How can learning tools be used as technologies to strengthen partnerships?
- How does the measurement of standardized key indicators lead to RAS that are more targeted and demand-based?
Presentations:
Learning tools for farmers organisational development to strengthen partnerships in advisory services, Elliot Zwane, South Africa
Smart technologies for enhanced partnerships in RAS: an overview, Saravanan Raj, India
Parallel session 2: Innovative financing towards effective partnerships in RAS
Guiding questions:
- How can innovative finance models contribute to development, strengthening and maintaining of effective partnerships in RAS?
- What are the opportunities and challenges identified in innovative financing models for RAS?
- How can those opportunities be seized and scaled, and how can challenges be overcome?
- What capacities are needed on different levels to do so, and how can those capacities be built?
Presentations:
Innovative financing of RAS, Magdalena Blum, Germany
Seizing and scaling Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for improving public extension services, Mahesh Chander, India
New ways of financing of RAS: reporting back from the RICKI meeting, Xiangping Jia, China
Parallel session 3: Convergence through collaboration and coordination in RAS
Guiding questions:
- Who are the different actors in RAS, what are their interest, and where are synergies and overlaps?
- What are practical examples of the key opportunities and challenges identified in the collaboration and coordination between different actors in RAS?
- How can those opportunities be seized and scaled, and how can challenges be overcome?
- What capacities are needed on different levels to do so, and how can those capacities be built?
Presentations:
Pluralistic service systems - putting lessons learned into practice - Egyptian Model, Amira Mahmoud, Egypt
Collaborating with government agencies to reach a common goal, Brian Tairea, Cook Islands
Agriculture-nutrition interface: addressing the challenges of inter-disciplinary and institutional coordination for improved rural household nutrition in Uganda, Margaret Mangheni, Uganda
Collaborating on multi-agency projects - strategies and lessons learned from two community garden projects in South Carolina and Florida, Norma Samuel, USA