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		<title>El MADR-PAAP y el CIAT, buscan estudiantes de maestría</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Estudiantes de maestría GESTORES DE EVIDENCIA EMPIRICA Área de Investigación &#8220;Vinculando Productores al Mercado&#8221; El Proyecto de Apoyo a Alianzas Productivas (PAAP) es una apuesta del Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural (MADR) que viene implementándose desde 2002 con el fin de incrementar la competitividad y el desarrollo empresarial de las comunidades rurales, de manera<br /><span class="excerpt_more"><a href="http://ciatcapacity.cgiar.org/en/2013/11/el-madr-paap-y-el-ciat-buscan-estudiantes-de-maestria/">[continue reading...]</a></span>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Estudiantes de maestría</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>GESTORES DE EVIDENCIA EMPIRICA</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Área de Investigación &#8220;Vinculando Productores al Mercado&#8221;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">El Proyecto de Apoyo a Alianzas Productivas (PAAP) es una apuesta del Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural (MADR) que viene implementándose desde 2002 con el fin de incrementar la competitividad y el desarrollo empresarial de las comunidades rurales, de manera sostenible a través de alianzas productivas entre grupos organizados de pequeños productores y comercializadores o transformadores de su producto. (<a title="ESTUDIANTES DE MAESTRIA" href="http://ciatcapacity.cgiar.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Convocatoria-Gestores-de-Evidencia-Empírica-CIAT.pdf" target="_blank">ver más información</a>)</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Aplicaciones</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Favor enviar aplicaciones vía e-mail dirigidas a Jhon Jairo Hurtado (<a href="mailto:j.hurtado@cgiar.org">j.hurtado@cgiar.org</a>)</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Términos de contratación</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">El estudiante recibirá un estipendio mensual. Además, los viáticos la alimentación en los viajes y los gastos administrativos para la realización de talleres (materiales, impresiones, alquiler del espacio, entre otros), serán cubiertos aparte por el proyecto.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Fecha de cierre: 11 de diciembre de 2013</strong></p>
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		<title>PIPA workshop for the ASSETS project</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2013 20:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Monitoring and Evaluation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A project-internal Participatory Impact Pathways Workshop (PIPA) for the ASSETS Project was held on 5th and 6th of September, 2013. The goals were to trial the PIPA methodology as a way of working with stakeholders to discuss the key problems being addressed through ASSETS, develop a joint vision of what ASSETS’ work will contribute (theory of change)<br /><span class="excerpt_more"><a href="http://ciatcapacity.cgiar.org/en/2013/11/pipa-workshop-for-the-assets-project/">[continue reading...]</a></span>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://ciatcapacity.cgiar.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/OLM.jpg" rel='prettyPhoto'><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6480" alt="OLM" src="http://ciatcapacity.cgiar.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/OLM-150x150.jpg" width="150" height="150" /></a>A project-internal <a href="http://pipamethodology.pbworks.com/w/page/70283575/Home%20Page">Participatory Impact Pathways Workshop (PIPA)</a> for the <a href="http://espa-assets.org/">ASSETS Project</a> was held on 5th and 6th of September, 2013. The goals were to trial the PIPA methodology as a way of working with stakeholders to discuss the key problems being addressed through ASSETS, develop a joint vision of what ASSETS’ work will contribute (theory of change) and identify strategic pathways and activities for ASSETS to ensure it achieves its desired impact. This was the first workshop I led as (officially) a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer of CIAT. Participants included key members of the ASSETS Team from the University of Southampton, <a href="http://www.conservation.org/">Conservation International</a> and <a href="http://dapa.ciat.cgiar.org/">CIAT-DAPA</a> researchers. The report of the workshop with some of the corresponding materials produced can be seen <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kYDsD6I3Hl_p2EOTnnN3HvNny8aOr1173ab0Rz9QLv0/edit?usp=sharing">here</a>.</p>
<p>Since we had participants that could only talk in detail about what is going on in two of the three sites (Malawi and Colombia), most of the exercises were based on these two distinct theories of change. Very useful for future work with, for example, <a href="http://www.ccafs.cgiar.org/">CCAFS</a>, where we will focus on some LAM site theories of change, and their aggregation- interactions in support of a broader regional theory of change. So two problem trees were drawn, and two OLMs discussed, but only one vision. In my opinion that seems to work well, as the problems, and of course the partner &amp; stakeholder networks, specific strategies, changes needed are (very!) site specific whereas this “visioning” view of the future tends to be more “summative” and to work well for the general impact of the project.  For example, for all sites, beneficiaries [in the future] “have a better understanding of the impacts of different land use trajectories on food security, and sufficient information on tradeoffs and next users of ASSETS outputs “are applying a more holistic approach, multiple spatial and temporal scales, assessing impacts on different beneficiaries, [and formulating/ designing] policies across sectors”.</p>
<p>A key issue for me and my facilitation skills this time was that participation was mostly virtual – an innovation for the PIPA methodology. It proved a challenge to follow the usual PIPA workshop format of plenary instructions &#8211; break out groups to complete exercises – back to plenary sharing and discussion cycles. I realized how used I am to “wandering” in and out of group conversations, and thereby gauging whether the instructions were well understood, and ensuring we are all working “on the same page”. This is priceless for when we re-group and discuss, I realized also how richly “comparative” these discussions tend to be. The timing was a bit off too- it seems like the group in Southhampton moved a lot quicker than we did here, perhaps due to my tendency to get excited and go off on tangents (which I usually do with ALL groups, but his time could only do with the people working here!). In general though, the experience was very instructive and a happy one.</p>
<p>The ASSETS project will now work on validating the results of the Colombia/Peru workshop with national stakeholders and on developing the methodology for use with the Malawi team and the international project team, to develop both locally-specific and over-arching understanding of how to achieve our desired impacts. More discussion should go into the strategies for getting the models (which are designed for easy use by anyone) and their associated training to be more <a href="http://ictkm.cgiar.org/archives/ICT-KM%20AAA%20Concept%20Paper.pdf">AAA</a> (available, applicable and accessible) by the right people. Many good prospects of expanding synergies with next users and partners are coming soon to ASSETS, and the corresponding plan to harness these opportunities.</p>
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		<title>VX Casa Abierta y el Área de Agrobiodiversidad y Biotecnología y el Programa de Recursos Genéticos</title>
		<link>http://ciatcapacity.cgiar.org/en/2013/10/vx-casa-abierta-y-el-area-de-agrobiodiversidad-y-biotecnologia-y-el-programa-de-recursos-geneticos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2013 20:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[XV Casa Abierta se llevó a cabo el pasado 11 de octubre con satisfacción y gran acogida por los estudiantes de las Universidades del Quindío, Nariño, Pontificia Javeriana de Cali, ICESI y entidades como SENA, CLEM-Tuluá y SENA-Buga. El proyecto &#8221;BIO-APRENDIZ&#8221;, hizo su presencia en esta actividad, bajo la coordinación del Biólogo y Químico Roosevelt Escobar y su<br /><span class="excerpt_more"><a href="http://ciatcapacity.cgiar.org/en/2013/10/vx-casa-abierta-y-el-area-de-agrobiodiversidad-y-biotecnologia-y-el-programa-de-recursos-geneticos/">[continue reading...]</a></span>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>XV Casa Abierta se llevó a cabo el pasado 11 de octubre con satisfacción y gran acogida por los estudiantes de las Universidades del <a title="Universidad del Quindío" href="http://portal.uniquindio.edu.co/uniquindio/" target="_blank">Quindío</a>, <a title="Universidad de Nariño" href="http://www.udenar.edu.co/" target="_blank">Nariño</a>, <a title="Universidad Pontificia Javeriana Cali" href="http://www.javerianacali.edu.co/" target="_blank">Pontificia Javeriana de Cali</a>, <a title="Universidad ICESI" href="http://www.icesi.edu.co/" target="_blank">ICESI</a> y entidades como <a title="SENA CLEM TULUA" href="http://sena-clem.blogspot.com/p/mision-vision.html" target="_blank">SENA, CLEM-Tuluá </a>y <a title="SENA BUGA" href="http://senabuga.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">SENA-Buga</a>.</p>
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<p>El proyecto &#8221;BIO-APRENDIZ&#8221;, hizo su presencia en esta actividad, bajo la coordinación del Biólogo y Químico Roosevelt Escobar y su gran equipo de trabajo. Este nuevo proyecto, cautivó la atención de los estudiantes por la metodología de compartir experimentos fáciles para llevar a cabo en las comunidades y a bajo costo.</p>
<p><em><strong>Testimonios estudiantes &#8211; VX Casa Abierta</strong></em></p>
<p><b>Paola Andrea Cuspián, estudiante de Gestión de Empresas Agropecuarias del Centro Agropecuario de Buga.</b></p>
<p>“Me gustó mucho el área de genética donde clonan las plantas para luego utilizarlas como semillas”.</p>
<p>“He reforzado mi conocimiento sobre genética de las plantas, del ADN, la clonación, la fragmentación que se usa y los snips y todo eso ha sido nuevo para mi”.</p>
<p>“Me encantaría hacer una práctica en el CIAT porque sería una gran oportunidad. Este Centro tiene un gran reconocimiento por su nivel internacional”.</p>
<p><b>César Iván Mosquera, estudiante del CLEM Tuluá. Trabaja en agricultura.</b></p>
<p>“Esta experiencia ha sido muy buena porque se enriquecen los conocimientos, se aprenden cosas que uno no conoce. Por ejemplo, la diversidad en cultivos de arroz y cacao. También cuestiones sobre el ADN”.</p>
<p>“Tenía un conocimiento sobre el CIAT pero no muy claro, hoy he conocido toda la diversidad que hay aquí. Muchas cosas del Centro me servirían después como aprender a hacer análisis del tejido foliar o análisis de suelos”.</p>
<p><b>Erika Tatiana Buitrago, estudiante de Gestión de Empresas Agropecuarias del Centro Agropecuario de Buga.</b></p>
<p>“La experiencia en el CIAT ha sido espectacular, conocer tantas cosas en el área científica para uno que apenas está empezando en estos proyectos es una oportunidad magnífica”.</p>
<p>“Las explicaciones han sido muy buenas y seguramente se verán reflejadas en proyectos en un futuro donde les llegaremos a campesinos que puedan utilizar este conocimiento”.</p>
<p>“He reforzado aprendizaje de todo tipo, es muy bueno que podamos experimentar este tipo de acercamiento al saber científico y más para un estudiante de gestión de empresas que no tiene esta rama a pesar de que el vocabulario sea un poco complejo. De todos modos es un aprendizaje que se va procesando y le permite llegar a uno más lejos”.</p>
<p><b>José Luis Moreno, estudiante de biología de la Universidad Javeriana, Cali.</b></p>
<p>“El evento de hoy es muy valioso porque se da a conocer el CIAT, un lugar del que no se escucha cotidianamente. Tener acceso a sus instalaciones y conocer sus procesos de investigación me da una guía para proyectos venideros en mi carrera y mucho entusiasmo por saber que en un futuro uno se pueda vincular al CIAT”.</p>
<p><b>Claudia Escobar, estudiante de biología de la Universidad Javeriana, Cali.</b></p>
<p>“Hemos reforzado muchos conocimientos, especialmente en el área de biotecnología, con los tipos de secuenciación y las diferentes técnicas que utilizan aquí, además de los métodos y los aparatos que no los habíamos visto antes en vivo”.</p>
<p>“Aparte de las técnicas que ya habíamos visto en clase hemos visto otras que se complementan y eso ha sido muy interesante”.</p>
<p><b>Martín Bolaños, estudiante de Ingeniería Ambiental de la Universidad Rafael Landívar de Guatemala.</b></p>
<p>“A mi me gustó mucho la parte de los cultivos, lo de clonación. Es muy interesante saber que aquí en el CIAT toman diferentes estrategias de conservación y producción y luego todo lo juntan, las ponen en práctica y determinan cuál es mejor”.</p>
<p>“Se nota que aquí siempre andan buscando innovación y proyectos nuevos”.</p>
<p>“La gente del CIAT sabe transmitir sus conocimientos a otros. Eso me parece muy importante porque una cosa es tener un conocimiento pero otra es saber darlo a conocer”.</p>
<p><b>Tatiana Velásquez, estudiante biología de de la Universidad del Quindío.</b></p>
<p>“Me parecen muy interesantes todos los proyectos que tienen aquí de investigación, es un Centro con muchas oportunidades para los estudiantes, especialmente para los de biología pues dan la posibilidad que uno pueda venir, conocer y en un futuro hacer pasantías o la tesis de pregrado”.</p>
<p>“Lo que más me llamó la atención es el área de genómica porque tienen la última tecnología, llevan la delantera de la investigación en ese sentido. Conocer esto ha sido muy importante para nuestra carrera”.</p>
<p>“Me gustaría venir al CIAT a trabajar pero no con plantas sino con mamíferos, hacer la secuenciación de algún genoma de un mamífero”.</p>
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		<title>Germany invests in a new generation of climate-smart agricultural scientists</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The German government, through BMZ and GIZ, has funded a number of young CIAT scientists with tremendous potential to change the face of tropical agriculture. I spoke with a few of them to learn about their time at CIAT and the importance of German support in their studies and career development: &#8211; See more at:<br /><span class="excerpt_more"><a href="http://ciatcapacity.cgiar.org/en/2013/10/germany-invests-in-a-new-generation-of-climate-smart-agricultural-scientists/">[continue reading...]</a></span>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>The German government, through BMZ and GIZ, has funded a number of young CIAT scientists with tremendous potential to change the face of tropical agriculture. I spoke with a few of them to learn about their time at CIAT and the importance of German support in their studies and career development: &#8211; See more at:</p>
<p><a href="http://ciatblogs.cgiar.org/support/germanyinvestsinnewgenerationofciatscientists/">http://ciatblogs.cgiar.org/support/germanyinvestsinnewgenerationofciatscientists/</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>‘Let it flow!’: the importance of updating knowledge sharing systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Cristina Lamb Guevara &#160; One of my first days at CIAT conveniently coincided with the delivery of a Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (PIPA) “training” for DAPA facilitators. PIPA is a project planning and M&#38;E approach in which participants make explicit their theories of change and discuss impact hypotheses. It engages stakeholders in a structured<br /><span class="excerpt_more"><a href="http://ciatcapacity.cgiar.org/en/2013/10/let-it-flow-the-importance-of-updating-knowledge-sharing-systems/">[continue reading...]</a></span>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://ciatcapacity.cgiar.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/photo-for-blog.jpg" rel='prettyPhoto'><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-6456 alignleft" alt="photo for blog" src="http://ciatcapacity.cgiar.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/photo-for-blog-150x150.jpg" width="150" height="150" /></a>by Cristina Lamb Guevara</p>
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<p>One of my first days at CIAT conveniently coincided with the delivery of a <a href="http://ciatcapacity.cgiar.org/en/2013/09/designing-for-impact-a-relevant-read-and-some-obstacles-2/">Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (PIPA) “training” for DAPA facilitators</a>. PIPA is a project planning and M&amp;E approach in which participants make explicit their theories of change and discuss impact hypotheses. It engages stakeholders in a structured participatory process, promotes communication and learning, and encourages them to think beyond the scope of a single project. Being new to the Capacity Strengthening and Knowledge Management team, this workshop was extremely beneficial for me since it not only increased my knowledge and understanding of the methodology itself, but it also helped contextualize and guide the work I would be doing over the following two months. It is important to note that I have arrived at a time when an ‘outcomes-thinking’ culture is being mainstreamed into CIAT. The desired outcome of this is a change and improvement in practice to increase better communication between scientists, donors and other stakeholders, on intended and achieved impact of their work. It has therefore been vital for me to consider the ways in which my work can help facilitate and contribute towards the effective adoption of this change of culture.</p>
<p>Since its development, just under a decade ago, PIPA has been implemented by a wide variety of projects, in a range of different countries. Like all other M&amp;E methodologies, it has evolved over time. Consequently, my work over the past four weeks, has primarily involved organising and building PIPA materials in order to reflect and document these changes. My first priority was updating PIPA’s wiki page, which had not been done since 2008. I have started locating and gathering online materials from the past five years (workshop reports, articles, etc…), and collated them into a timeline so that users could visualise PIPA’s progression over time. Considering the volume of existing documents, I also decided to centralise and chronologically rearrange PIPA references, in order to increase accessibility of online materials and enable faster browsing. In preparation for the upcoming influx of new users I have devised a FAQ section, as well as a PIPA discussion forum. PIPA is a people-orientated and dynamic process, meaning it needs to be adapted, not replicated. With that in mind, the discussion forum will hopefully help generate discussion between participants, so that they can learn and innovate communally through the sharing of knowledge, ideas and experiences. Additionally, in order to facilitate the active participation of users worldwide in the development of the site itself, I have created a survey to help gather their feedback and input on the wiki and the quality of its content. These changes and developments can be seen <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/pipamethodology/home">here</a> on a temporary PIPA Google site. Eventually these changes will be merged with existing materials.</p>
<p>Over the next month I will be finalising the updating of PIPA repositories, gathering more case studies, and exploring the possibility of centralising PIPA photos and videos. I will also develop Outcomes Logic Model (OLM) materials, and translate key documents into Spanish for LAC users. This list however, is non-exhaustive. I have learnt that when it comes to developing an effective knowledge sharing system, updating products and tools is merely the first step. No matter how well developed the platform used may be, it runs the risk of becoming outdated if people fail to engage with it in the long term.</p>
<p>The PIPA wiki has most certainly been used over the years, that being said, feedback from visitors and usage statistics were not gathered, and the transference of knowledge on behalf of the users themselves was non-existent, since they then failed to relay their own experiences with PIPA back to the site. Knowledge sharing is an ongoing process; the tools available should reflect this and facilitate that constant flow of knowledge. Content will need to be continuously gathered and mobilised to ensure that the PIPA wiki does not “gather dust” again.</p>
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