Innovation Marketplace 2004

In 2004 the Innovation Marketplace acknowledged and promoted innovative Civil Society Organization (CSO) partnerships with CGIAR Centers in Latin America and the Caribbean. In this second year of the program the Innovation Marketplace was coordinated by RIMISP who used their extensive networks to reach out to over 10,000 CSOs across Latin America.

Nine examples of innovative partnerships were exhibited throughout the AGM week. An expert panel composed by Sebastiao Barbosa (EMBRAPA, Brazil) Usha Barwale-Zher (the Mahyco Foundation, India), Franklin Moore ( USAID, US), Jonathan Wadsworth ( DfID, UK) selected two winners from among the nine examples of innovative partnerships which were exhibited. A third People’s Choice Award was voted for by AGM participants. All exhibitors received a cash prize of $1,000, the three winners received $10,000.

Entries were judged on

• significance of the program for developing the research capacity of the CSO partner
• influence of the CSO partnership in the CGIAR and NAR research,
• relevance of the CSO partnership in the adoption and/or adaptation of research results,
• innovation within the existing program in terms of originality of the approach
• replicability to other contexts and scaling potential.

CGIAR Innovation Marketplace Award for Outstanding Innovative Partnership Program went to FEDEPLATANO that works in association with CIAT and CORPOICA (Corporacion Colombiana de Investigacion Agropecuaria). FEDEPLATANO develops measures to control de Moko disease that affects bananas through joint research with farmers in Colombia. The representative attending AGM 04 was Silverio Gonzalez.
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The CGIAR Innovation Marketplace Award for Outstanding Potential Innovative Partnership Program went to ACICAFOC ( Coordinadora Indigena Campesina de Agroforesteria Comunitaria de Centroamerica) that works in partnership with CIFOR, the Association of Forest Communities of Peten ( ACOFOP) in northern Guatemala and the Campesino a Campesino movement ( PCaC) in Siuna, Northern Nicaragua. These community-based organizations identify, analyze and disseminate methods and mechanisms to strengthen technical and managerial capabilities of community forestry grassroots organizations. The representative attending AGM04 was Ruben Paso Cedeño and Marcedonio Cortave, from the Association of Communities of Peten also came.
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The CGIAR Innovation Marketplace People’s Choice Award went to CIRNMA ( Centro de investigacion de recursos naturales y medio ambiente, Puno, Peru) that works in partnership with CIP and INIA, Peru ( Instituto Nacional de Investigacion Agraria, Estacion Experimental Illpa). The representative attending AGM 04 was Roberto Validivia.
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Final Exhibitors at Innovation Marketplace 2004