Course content
Week 1: Innovation as a change process and a multi-stakeholder approach to rural innovation.
Main topics: systems thinking and complexity, linking research to development, facilitating multi-stakeholder processes, interactive learning techniques.
Week 2: Case studies.
Use of field trips to help to unpack complex multi-stakeholder processes, by engaging with different stakeholders involved in competing claims on rural space.
Week 3: Developing the capacity to innovate in rural development, using action research and development projects that benefit farmers and small and medium sized agribusinesses.
Main topics: facilitation skills, personal effectiveness, business approach to development, incorporating new knowledge in your own work (action plan).