With the objective of gaining a deeper understanding of the current activities and future directions of organizations working in the Nicanorte Action Site within the Central America and the Caribbean Flagship Project, Humidtropics has finalized its Nicanorte Organizational Analysis. The analysis was conducted with 20 organizations including national civil society organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), farmer organizations, universities and university research institutes, and the public and private sectors. Aside from assisting in the Program's regional strategic and … [Read more...]
Capacity to Innovate: the Essence of Sustainability and Resilience
Integrated systems are complex wholes in which a range of social and biophysical processes interact across various levels and scales. Reorienting the dynamics of systems in favor of realizing desirable outcomes—for example, intermediate development outcomes—is essentially about changing the way people interact with each other and respond to their changing environment. This requires capabilities at the level of individuals, communities, organizations and networks, and those that have a mandate to catalyse and support innovation processes in society; e.g. international nongovernmental … [Read more...]
Effective Organizational Analysis for Humidtropics Action Sites
In 2013, a Situation Analysis (in Spanish) was carried out in the Nicanorte Action Site located in northern Nicaragua. A key component of this analysis was an Organizational Analysis (in Spanish), which involved the collection and analysis of primary data about organizational actors active in the Action Site. The purpose of the Organizational Analysis was twofold: Gain a deeper understanding of the current status of different activities, innovations, and future directions of organizations working in Nicanorte to assist in the process of making strategic and collective decisions about … [Read more...]