ILAC: Homepage

The Institutional Learning and Change Initiative is an evolving community of individuals committed to increasing the contributions of agricultural research to sustainable poverty reduction. The group uses innovation systems thinking and tools to understand agricultural change processes and guide interventions to stimulate pro-poor innovation. Since 2003, researchers and development professionals affiliated with the Initiative have developed and tested several new approaches for fostering learning and improvement in agricultural research, including the following:

Facilitating participatory decision-making
Preparing innovation histories
Participatory evaluation
Establishing and managing learning alliances
Developing collaborative agreements
Outcome mapping

These and other tools for ILAC are introduced in a series of ILAC Briefs. These are available on this website, together with an ILAC newsletter, additional references and reports, information on upcoming events and links to other useful websites.