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Nähere Auskünfte zu den CC-Lizenzen finden Sie For more Information see: hier: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Follow the Innovation: Participatory Testing and Adaptation of Agricultural Innovations in Uzbekistan Guidelines for Researchers and Practitioners Mehmood Ul-Hassan, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Laurens van Veldhuizen, Akmal Akramkhanov, Inna Rudenko and Nodir Djanibekov Follow the Innovation: Participatory Testing and Adaptation of Agricultural Innovations in Uzbekistan Guidelines for Researchers and Practitioners Mehmood Ul-Hassan, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Laurens van Veldhuizen, Akmal Akramkhanov, Inna Rudenko and Nodir Djanibekov September 2011 Follow the Innovation: Participatory Testing and Adaptation of Agricultural Innovations in Uzbekistan Guidelines for Researchers and Practitioners Mehmood Ul-Hassan, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Laurens van Veldhuizen, Akmal Akramkhanov, Inna Rudenko and Nodir Djanibekov October 2011 This publication Follow the Innovation: Participatory Testing and Adaptation of Agricultural Innovations in Uzbekistan – Guidelines for Researchers and Practitioners has been produced with the financial support of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Editing: Ann Waters-Bayer, ETC AgriCulture Layout: Marijke Kreikamp, ETC Foundation Photo credits cover: Elena Kan, Bashorat Ismailova and Akmal Akramkhanov Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. ISBN 978-3-940124-33-3 Copyright © Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung / Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany 2011 Publisher Universität Bonn, Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF) University of Bonn, Center for Development Research Walter-Flex-Strasse 1–3 53113 Bonn Germany Authors’ addresses Mehmood Ul-Hassan & Dr Anna-Katharina Hornidge Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Walter-Flex-Strasse 1–3, 53113 Bonn, Germany E-mail: [email protected] ; [email protected] Laurens van Veldhuizen AgriCulture, ETC Foundation, PO Box 64, 3830 AB Leusden, the Netherlands E-mail: [email protected] Dr Inna Rudenko, Dr Akmal Akramkhanov, Dr Nodir Djanibekov Khorezm Rural Advisory Support Service (KRASS), 220100, Khorezm, Uzbekistan, 14 Khamid Olimjan Street, Urgench State University E-mail: [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] TABLE oF coNTENTS List of acronyms Acknowledgements 1. INTroDUcTIoN 1 Background 1 About these guidelines 1 2. ThE coNTExT 2 Agriculture in Uzbekistan 2 The ZEF–UNESco project and its FTI initiative 2 3. KEy coNcEPTS 5 Inventions and innovations 5 Follow-the-Innovation vs. Follow-the-Technology approach 5 Joint experimentation vs. laissez-faire 5 Disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary innovation development 6 Stakeholders, product champions and partners 6 4 ThE FTI APProAch: ThE mAIN FLow 7 5. ImPLEmENTINg FTI 11 choosing promising innovations 11 Forming and building innovation teams 12 Team planning 17 Stakeholder analysis and initial selection 18 Systematic stakeholder engagement 19 Participatory planning and design 22 Implementing joint experimentation and learning 23 monitoring, evaluation, review and impact assessment 25 Strategic documentation and communication of key findings on innovations and FTI 29 creating favourable conditions for continued use of innovation and FTI 30 6. orgANISINg FTI EFFEcTIvELy 31 Arrange for effective process facilitation 31 Introduce FTI early into the project and research cycle 31 Allow adequate time for getting started 32 Plan for enough resources 32 Exercise caution in promoting multi-tasking 32 Allow for process flexibility 32 7. EPILogUE 33 8. rEADINg AND rESoUrcES 34 TABLE oF coNTENTS LIST oF BoxES Box 1: Stakeholders and product champion: the case of afforestation 6 Box 2: Example of flow of the FTI process: the wUA case 9 Box 3: Project criteria for innovation ranking 11 Box 4: The ranking procedure used by the project 12 Box 5: Innovations chosen for FTI process in ZEF–UNESco project 13 Box 6: Process roles within the project’s FTI teams 14 Box 7: Intervention logic of the AF innovation 17 Box 8: Seven steps in selecting key stakeholders 19 Box 9: Adapting a proposed innovation: the case of wUA 21 Box 10: Framing stakeholder collaboration 22 Box 11: Joint experimentation in the four FTI cases 24 Box 12: main Pm&E design parameters in the wUA process 26 Box 13: Pitfalls in Pm&E as experienced by the FTI teams 27 Box 14: Pm&E/PIA tools used by the FTI teams 28 LIST oF FIgUrES Figure 1: roadmap of the salinity assessment team 18 Figure 2: Analysis of participation over time in wUA assemblies 28 LIST oF TABLES Table 1: Summary of FTI approach 7 Table 2: FTI capacity-development activities 15 Table 3: Joint problem analysis with farmers and wUA members 20 Table 4: Timeline analysis prepared with an AF farmer 27 iv