OUR WORK APPROACH
The distinctive RAEIN-Africa approach revolves around three main aspects:
- An interactive, collaborative, participatory, and multi-stakeholder approach. Such an approach is expected to foster appropriate innovation processes, thereby increasing returns on investment with respect to sustainable development and poverty reduction;
- An innovation systems approach that acknowledges the need for interactive and complementary roles played by producers, government, civil society, knowledge institutes, service providers, private sector and other key players in innovation systems.
- A cross-linking approach, linking vertically across value chains (from ‘farm to fork’), as well as horizontally throughout the range of public and private actors in the innovation system.
WHAT WE DO AT RAEIN-Africa
RAEIN-Africa delivery approach
RAEIN-Africa uses a three-pronged approach for delivering services to communities and relevant stakeholders as follows:
Operational Teams (OTs) are key entities involving actors such as farmers, scientists, advisers, NGOs, Public Institutions, and/or enterprises, etc. OTs are established to carry out projects aimed at applying and/or testing innovative practices, technologies, processes and products or informing decision making and/or policy processes. OTs are constituted based on the initiative of the interested actors or on identified common challenges defined through ongoing needs identification activities by RAEIN-Africa. In their implementation of solutions, OTs mainly utilize bottom-up approaches. The nature and relations in the OTs are defined by institutional comparative advantages and can assume the form of Innovation Platforms, Taskforce Teams, etc., as appropriate. Building sustainable innovations drives the agenda of all the OTs. Using this approach, RAEIN-Africa has led multi-country projects as the Lead Executing Agency.
These activities are directly implemented by RAEIN-Africa project staff working with communities and relevant stakeholders.
Operational Teams (OTs) are key entities involving actors such as farmers, scientists, advisers, NGOs, Public Institutions, and/or enterprises, etc. OTs are established to carry out projects aimed at applying and/or testing innovative practices, technologies, processes and products or informing decision making and/or policy processes. OTs are constituted based on the initiative of the interested actors or on identified common challenges, based on ongoing needs identification activities by RAEIN-Africa. The Operational Teams mainly rely on a bottom-up approach in their implementation of solutions. The nature and relations in the OTs are defined by institutional comparative advantages and can assume the form of Innovation Platforms, Taskforce Teams, etc., as appropriate. Building sustainable innovations drives the agenda of all the OTs. Using this approach, RAEIN-Africa has led intercountry projects as the Lead Executing Agency.