innovationplatforms

=Innovation platforms= //Innovation platforms (IPs) have been identified in NBDC phase 2 as major mechanisms to develop and scale up innovations in a spirit of co-creation and with respect to participatory approaches and empowerment of people that usually are not included in the decision-making process. The use of innovation platforms was directly under the supervision of NBDC project 5 on '// Catalyzing platforms for learning, communication and coordination across the projects' //with much emphasis on the national level platform,// //and NBDC project 2 on// 'Developing integrated rainwater management strategies' // with much emphasis on woreda (district) level platforms. This page keeps track of major activities involving these platforms, including the meeting minutes. //

//Find also some information on NBDC's work around policy engagement, in relation with the National Platform//.

Key outputs on innovation platforms
toc In other contexts and programs, innovation platforms may also be referred to as 'research for development' (R4D) platforms. In NBDC they were called innovation platforms. Local (woreda) innovation platforms were conceptualized in this project brief: 'What is a local innovation platform' and blogged about in this post: Local innovation platforms for the Nile BDC (June 2011).

**Important presentations on the topic of IPs**
 * [|Innovation platforms, participatory video and WAT-A-GAME for participatory NRM: Experiences from Ethiopia] (Presentation - December 2013)
 * [|Innovation platforms, power, representation and participation: Lessons from Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia] (Presentation - July 2013)
 * [|NBDC action research and innovation platforms] (Presentation - March 2013)

See some pictures about innovation platforms in the NBDC collection of pictures.


 * Innovation Funds for IPs**

[|Oiling the wheels of innovation: Seed funds for local innovation platforms] (CPWF innovation funds completion report)

**Blog posts about innovation platforms** (from most to least recent)
//The following posts are either dealing with the concept of innovation platforms, experiences with them across the Challenge Program for Water and Food (particularly in relation with events where NBDC staff gave presentations about their experiences) or updates on activities effectively taking place with the innovation platforms in NBDC, either locally or nationally. Find all these NBDC blog posts on innovation systems: @http://nilebdc.org/category/innovation-systems/ //


 * Updates on local IPs**:
 * Fodder interventions by Jeldu Innovation Platform tackle natural resource management and income generation (February 2014)
 * Forage development in Diga: Lessons learned from a local innovation platform in Ethiopia (November 2013)
 * FEAST tool helps local innovation platforms identify feed intervention options in Ethiopia (May 2013)
 * NBDC innovation platform members learn to use SLATE (sustainable livelihoods asset evaluation) tool (April 2013)
 * Capacity building workshop addresses problems of participation in Nile Basin innovation platforms (April 2013)
 * Communal grazing land management in Fogera: Lessons from innovation platform action research (January 2013)
 * Innovation platforms, participatory video, and the Nile Basin Development Challenge (August 2012)
 * Local innovation platforms in the Nile BDC: Audio presentation on progress so far (June 2012)


 * Updates on national level IP**:
 * Third meeting of the national platform on land and water management – where agroforestry opens up new horizons and questions (August 2012)
 * Four thematic working groups get their act together to inform national platform discussions (July 2012)
 * Second National Platform meeting on Land and Water Management in Ethiopia: Time for action! (December 2011)


 * Experiences with IPs across CPWF**:
 * Real change in food security through innovation platforms, where science marries local know-how (August 2013)
 * Nile BDC shares lessons on innovation platforms at Africa Agricultural Science Week (August 2013)
 * Multi-stakeholder and innovation platforms – Experiences shared in the CPWF forum (December 2011)
 * Innovation platforms and the rugged process of learning to change (November 2011)
 * Local innovation platforms pathways to more productive rainwater management in Ethiopia (November 2011)


 * Conceptualizing IPs**:
 * Catalyzing platforms for learning, communication and coordination (July 2011)
 * Local innovation platforms for the Nile BDC (June 2011)
 * What is an innovation platform? - one pager (May 2011)
 * [[file:Concept note on platform building NBDC (draft)-30 March11.doc|Concept note on platform building]] (March 2011)

Keeping track of local IP activities and meetings
//For a while, the NBDC teams (from project N2) kept an Innovation Platform Log to track all meetings, their objectives etc. although over time this was abandoned. However, all meeting minutes etc. are documented below.//

**General activities for all local IPs**

 * Training course "Innovation Platform Facilitation and Participatory Research Approaches" (18-20 March 2013): [[file:Draft Training Idea and Schedule for IP's local facilitators_L.docx|Schedule]] and [[file:Objective of the training and ideas behind each presentation.docx|objectives]].

Diga

 * [[file:Note on the visit to Diga Pilot Intervention site.doc|Note on the visit to Diga pilot intervention site]] (18 July 2013)
 * [[file:20121005-10_Diga Woreda Site Visit Report.docx|Diga Woreda site visit]] (October 2012)
 * [[file:Diga 5th IP meeting 13th July 2012.doc|Diga 5th IP meeting]] (13 July 2012)
 * [[file:20120525Fourth Innovation platform meeting-Diga.docx|Diga 4th IP meeting]] (25 May 2012)
 * [[file:20120321 Diga IP Meeting.doc|Diga 3rd IP meeting]] (21 March 2012)
 * [[file:20111130 Diga innovation platform meeting 30th Nov 2011.doc|Diga 2nd IP meeting]] (30 November 2011)
 * [[file:20110721 Diga innovation platform meeting 21st July 2011.docx|Diga 1st IP meeting]] (21 July 2011)

Fogera

 * [[file:nilebdc/Fogera NBDC closing event report.docx|Fogera NBDC closing event report]] (December 2013)
 * [[file:7th IP MEETING Fogera.doc|Fogera 7th IP meeting]]
 * [[file:Fogera trip report 17 - 20 10 2012.docx|Fogera trip report]] (20 October 2012)
 * [[file:Fogera 5th IP meeting 10th July 2012.doc|Fogera 5th IP meeting]] (10 July 2012)
 * [[file:20120515Fourth Innovation Platform meeting- Fogera.docx|Fogera 4th IP meeting]] (15 May 2012)
 * [[file:20120315 Fogera IP meeting.docx|Fogera 3rd IP meeting]] (15 March 2012)
 * [[file:20111121 Fogera innovation platform meeting 21st Nov 2011.docx|Fogera 2nd IP meeting]] (21 November 2011)
 * [[file:20110719 Fogera innovation platform meeting 19th July 2011.docx|Fogera 1st IP meeting]] (19 July 2011)

Jeldu

 * [[file:nilebdc/Notes from 7th IP meeting Jeldu aa.doc|Jeldu 7th IP Meeting]]
 * [[file:Jeldu field day 2013.doc|Jeldu farmers' field day report]]
 * [[file:Jeldu Farmers' training report.docx|Jeldu farmers' training report]]
 * [[file:Jeldu 6th IP Meeting Minutes.docx|Jeldu 6th IP meeting]]
 * [[file:Jeldu 5th IP Meeting Minutes.doc|Jeldu 5th IP meeting]]
 * [[file:Jeldu Trip Report 26-11-12.docx|Jeldu trip report]] (26 November 2012)
 * [[file:20120802 Jeldu IP 4th Round Meeting.doc|Jeldu 4th IP meeting]] (2 August 2012)
 * [[file:2012 0619 Jeldu 3rd IP Meeting Report.docx|Jeldu 3rd IP meeting]] (19 June 2012)
 * [[file:20120424 Jeldu Second IP Meeting Report Final.docx|Jeldu 2nd IP meeting]] (24 April 2012)
 * [[file:20110926 Jeldu Innovation Platform Meeting-26th September 2011.doc|Jeldu 1st IP meeting]] (26 September 2011)

Keeping track of national IP activities and meetings
//Similarly to the local IP meetings, the NBDC people in charge of the national platform work also started keeping track of activities on a specific page (// Documentation of activities around innovation platforms // ) but it was quickly abandoned and has remained out of date ever since. //
 * Third national platform meeting (July 2012): [|Report of the 3rd National Platform on Land and Water Management in collaboration with ICRAF, Addis Ababa, July 2013]
 * Second meeting (December 2011): Report of the 2nd National Platform Meeting on Land and Water Management in Ethiopia, ILRI, Addis Ababa, 19 December 2011
 * First meeting (April 2011) Report of a Planning Workshop on a National Innovation Platform on Land and Water Management in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April 8, 2011

Thematic working groups

 * Institutional innovation - first meeting - [[file:20120626_Institutional-Innovation-TWG_discussion-minutes.doc|Discussion minutes]]
 * Technological innovation - first meeting - [[file:20120629_technological innovation-TWG_discussion-minutes.doc|Discussion minutes]]
 * Policy support - first meeting - [[file:20120716_Policy_Support-TWG_discussion-minutes.doc|Discussion minutes]]
 * Resilient ecosystems and climate change - first meeting - [[file:20120716_Resilient_Ecosystems_Climate_Change-TWG_discussion-minutes.doc|Discussion minutes]]

National Platform on Land and Water Management Steering committee meetings

 * [[file:SCMeeting-minutes-1 Nov 2013.docx|Steering committee meeting 1 November 2013]]
 * [[file:SCMeeting-minutes-26 April 2013.docx|Steering committee meeting 26 April 2013]]
 * [[file:SCMeeting_minutes_25Jan2013.docx|Steering committee meeting 25 January 2013]]
 * [[file:SCMeeting_minutes_ 11May2012.docx|Steering committee meeting 11 May 2012]]
 * [[file:SCMeeting_minutes_26July2011.docx|Steering committee meeting 26 July 2011]]

NBDC 'IP team' meetings
//The team in charge of NBDC work with local and national IP meetings organized several meetings to take stock of progress in the different local IPs as well as to discuss some more specific 'thematic' issues. See the minutes below.//

Progress meetings

 * [[file:Minute of IP team Meeting 30 July 2013.doc|Team meeting 30 July 2013]]
 * [[file:20120425 Update meeting on IP processes and follow up actions.docx|Team meeting 25 April 2012]]
 * [[file:20120603-Meeting on update and planning the next phase of research around IPs ajd.docx|Team meeting 6 March 2012]]
 * [[file:20111207 IP update meeting.docx|Team meeting 07 December 2011]]
 * [[file:IP Progress Meeting Notes 15 09 11.docx|Team meeting 15 September 2011]]
 * Team meeting 11 may 2011

Thematic meetings

 * Discussion about an institutional innovation ThWG 'learning event' (16 Jan 2013)
 * [[file:Concept note on improving NBDC linkages BC July 2012.doc|Concept note on improving NBDC linkages]] (July 2012)
 * [[file:Presentation NBDC-project linkages - 30 Mayl.ppt|Presentation on NBDC project linkages]] (30 May 2012) - about the linkages between national and regional platforms - presented by Kees Swaans
 * [[file:20120110 meeting on IP ME tools.docx|Meeting on IP monitoring and evaluation tools]] (10 January 2012)
 * [[file:Enhancing community participation in local platforms NBDC (Draft) 12 Oct 11.doc|Enhancing community participation in local NBDC platforms]] (12 October 2011)
 * [[file:20110727 Reflection meeting-Final.docx|Reflection meeting]] (27 July 2011)