Jorge Chavez-Tafur
Project Coordinator, KM – Experience Capitalisation
At CTA since July 2016
Biography
Since July 2016, Jorge Chavez-Tafur works as knowledge management officer at CTA, coordinating the Experience Capitalisation project implemented in different parts of the world in collaboration with FAO, IICA and IFAD. He is also a guest lecturer at Universidad Agraria La Molina, where he focuses on "sistematización" as an approach for drawing lessons from rural development initiatives. He worked for many years as consultant with ETC Andes, worked as editor of the "LEISA magazine" and was also editor-in-chief of "Farming Matters"; today he is also member of the editorial team of the KM4D journal.
Articles
Leveraging innovation and actionable knowledge for next-generation ACP agriculture
by Peter Ballantyne and Jorge Chávez-Tafúr
Digital as well as other technical and institutional innovations underpin the success of agriculture in developing-country countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP). Such innovations are encouraging a new generation of young ‘agripreneurs’ to tackle agri-food challenges, explore ways to build resilience to climate change, and improve the incomes and livelihoods of people in agriculture.
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New experience capitalisation publications: We’re half-way there
Three experience capitalisation booklets have just been launched and are now available – each one of them with 12 stories describing and analysing the work of different projects and organisations in East and West Africa.
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The IMARK module
This learning module provides those working in development organizations with the tools and methodologies needed to work more effectively on the basis of their own experience. The different lessons that make the module are designed for the staff of international organizations, donor agencies, multilaterals, NGOs, farmers’ organizations, research institutes, national governments, regional organizations, and civil society organizations.
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Publications
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Facilitating experience capitalization: A guidebook
Since April 2016, CTA implemented the “Capitalising on Experiences for Greater Impact in Rural Development” project – working together with FAO and IICA, and with the financial support of IFAD.
events
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Dec 13
CTA/PAFO - Experience capitalisation and knowledge management workshop
Based upon the collaboration in support of selected farmers' organisations-led businesses supported by CTA and partners, the workshop proposes to:Review the results and lessons learned from the supported cases at national level after the support provided by CTA, PAFO and AgriCord members.Identify further business cases whi… -
Dec 13
Vijabiz - Experience capitalisation workshop
The process of experience capitalisation starts with a first workshop, in Nakuru, Kenya at the Merica Hotel and includes representatives of the organisations participating in the Vijabiz project.
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Dec 13
Experience capitalisation institutionalisation workshop
The main objective of CTA's experience capitalisation project has been to encourage the adoption of the approach - its regular use by projects and organisations. Largely as the result of the work done by many facilitators, it is now possible to see many cases where this institutionalisation process is already taking place, in different parts of the world.
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Dec 13
Capitalisation of Experiences for Greater Impact in Rural Development - Pacific region
CTA is hosting a knowledge management workshop as part of the ‘Capitalisation of Experiences for Greater Impact in Rural Development’ project between 5 and 9 February 2018 in the Fijian capital of Suva. The 3-year project started in April 2016 with the aim to facilitate the wider use of experience capitalisation processes in rural development initiatives, as an approach…
