Stories of change: Building competence and confidence in agricultural innovation
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This book tells stories. Stories from very many
people. Stories of change – triggered by this
complex project, Capacity Development for
Agricultural Innovation Systems (CDAIS). The
stories relate to changes. Personal change. Organizational
change. Changes in attitudes. Changes in practice. They
tell of improvements in livelihoods. But more importantly,
they tell of positive and appreciated changes in individual
and organizational approaches – in how people see
things and do things. They give some examples of the
rich learning experiences stimulated by the CDAIS project,
but of course don’t show them all. Also, each is only a
‘snapshot’ – having been written and published on www.
cdais.net at different times over the past 12 months,
though some have been updated, others show where
people were at that point in time.
But they all show how competence – but perhaps more
importantly – confidence – amongst those involved has
changed. Though the main aim of the CDAIS project was
to test how and in what ways the approach used worked
(or didn’t work), how it could be improved, and in what
ways the results could help donors when deciding on the
design of future projects. But this is not the purpose of
this book. Other publications will explain that in detail.
This book just tells stories, with images and testimonies
from the field. The ‘end users’, ‘beneficiaries’ or whatever
other impersonal terms some in ‘development’ want
to call them – the people – here, they air their views. In
context. Honestly. Frankly. And, as it seems, positively.
But this would not have been possible without the great
efforts of very many people. First and foremost are the
40 contributors we have supported – almost all ‘national
innovation facilitators’ trained by CDAIS to implement
innovation in agricultural systems, to collect these stories.
And we are so very proud of their achievements, and
the help provided by many others within Agrinatura,
national partner organisations, and others in the
partnerships concerned. And even after working in rural
development for 30 years, some of these experiences
have moved us deeply. We are seeing real change.
Of that there is no doubt.
“Other projects bring us machines, but CDAIS brings
us knowledge and a new way of working together”
was a common thread to many of the conversations.
“And thanks to that it has helped us so much. Thank
you.” I visited six of the eight pilot countries during the
preparation of this work, so can vouch personally, for
many of the testimonies. And as for seeing the faces
of those as they spoke the words that are included
in the book, the photographs can’t do them justice.
I saw the impacts. And now you can seen them
too. Enjoy!
Nick Pasiecznik, editor