PARTNERSHIPS

PELUM has and continues to engage in productive partnership with other organisations to learn from them well as mutual strengthening. In the area of HIV/AIDS and development, for example, PELUM partnered with ETC of The Netherlands to gain their international perspective and experience. In the documentation of good practice, it took part in the GRAIN global process where it contributed a slightly different method of documenting and shared this with people from other continents. PELUM contributed to the development of a new international programme called Promotion of Local Innovations (PROLINNOVA), which involved tremendous input from mostly European based organisations, especially ETC.

Regionally, PELUM partnered with VECO-Zimbabwe and Crop Post Harvest Programme, Southern Africa to write a field guide on the wise use of participatory tools. PELUM also entered into partnership with CIAT, an international research institute in order to help farmers access the good science that may be there as well as for farmers to influence the research agenda of the institute. Towards the end of 2003, PELUM went into partnership with GRET of France that has experience in working with small farmer groups and organisations in Africa and beyond. At present, PELUM is working with the Crop Post-Harvest Programme (CPHP) Southern Africa to implement a project aimed at strengthening partnerships between small scale farmers, researchers and intermediary organisations in socialising good post harvest science and innovations.

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