Thanks Duncan,  I totally agree and will pass this on to the authors.  Indeed we are dealing with a similar challenge right now within FAO to try to demonstrate that strengthening rural orgs is The Key entry point amongst so many.
Always an uphill battle.
Jeff

From: Duncan MacQueen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 12:13 PM
To: Campbell, Jeffrey (FOA) <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: Antwort: Paper on Rural Organizations and Collective Action for FAO

Hi Jeff,

This is a very useful presentation – and some very interesting thoughts on youth. My main grump with it – and indeed with many presentations that aspire to be academically rigorous when drawing from practical field experience, is that they lose in the necessary complexity of their diagrams, and endless lists, what the real priority is. Fortunately, this one, having listed a huge range of possible entry points for combatting rural poverty and food insecurity then focuses-in correctly in my opinion on empowering rural organisations – which is the starting point for making income generation work, building stability, establishing workable PPPs, information services, access to finance, improving gender equality and especially cost effectiveness (through scale efficiencies). I do hope that in their proposed briefing paper – they manage to explain clearly just why the entry point of empowering rural FFPOs is the KEY entry point – as this point seems to be lost on many of our FFF donors. I would be very happy for you to pass this comment on to the authors if your see fit – as I think their work needs broader attention.

Best wishes

Duncan

From: FFF Partners List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Campbell, Jeffrey (FOA)
Sent: 28 August 2017 18:23
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Subject: FW: Antwort: Paper on Rural Organizations and Collective Action for FAO

Dear all,  A very useful presentation from the AgriCord General Assembly meeting that Sophie and I attended.
Best,
Jeff

From: Michael Bruentrup [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2017 4:46 PM
To: Guarascio, Francesca (ESP) <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Cc: Ashwin Bhouraskar <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>; Campbell, Jeffrey (FOA) <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>; Eli Wortmann-Kolundzija ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Antwort: Paper on Rural Organizations and Collective Action for FAO

Dear Francesca,
thanks for contacting me again, and for establishing the new contact to Mr. Ashwin. The presentation that I gave during the AgriCord workshop (and which seems to have pleased Mr. Campbell) I attach in copie. It is based on many years of practical experiences in dev. cooperation with GOs and NGOs, and particularly on my previous work as a consultant (early 2000s) on national microfinance associations (which are also constantly fighting with their various roles as bottom-up member-based organsiation and the attentions of these members for services, as corporations with economic and financial needs, and as public good producers).

Unfortunately, I have not really published on these things, since I have never done explicit research on it. I am preparing now a policy brief based on my presentation, together with a colleague, Eli Wortmann-Kolundzija from Centre for Development Research (the person who I was intending to join forces with to respond to your call, which didn't work out for various reasons) who has worked on farmer organisations in the last two years in conjunction with AgriCord-member Andreas-Hermes-Akademie (who was organising the workshop). She is in cc, and she might have more things to contribute although - as far as I understand - her main research outputs are still in the loops of internal review. I myself are handicapped at present to devote substantial working time to these issues, but I have a strong interest in it and put it as a mantra into papers to develop more cooperations with and for farmer organisations, though with strings attached and the necessary reservations as to their role in the larger sector and policy landscape.

So, let us start to see what we can do together.

best




Michael Brüntrup

Dr. Michael Brüntrup
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
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Von:        "Guarascio, Francesca (ESP)" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
An:        Michael Bruentrup <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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Datum:        25.08.2017 16:15
Betreff:        Paper on Rural Organizations and Collective Action for FAO
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Dear Michael,
Hope you are doing well.

I am writing to you to introduce Mr. Ashwin Bhouraskar, who is developing a paper that will provide strategic and operational recommendations for FAO’s work in supporting collective action for empowerment of rural poor, with particular focus on the role of producer organizations, participatory institutions, and inclusive governance approaches.

As part of the paper will review efforts of other stakeholders in this domain and it will be interesting for him to get more familiar with your work, in particular with the producers organizations. Jeff Campbell mentioned an excellent presentation delivered at the AgriCord event earlier this year and we were wondering if it was possible to have a copy among other relevant document that you might want to consider sharing with him.


Thanks.

Best Regards,
Francesca Guarascio
Social Policies and Rural Institutions Division (ESP)
Office C 333
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Tel: +39 06 570 54212
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[Anhang "ToRs_Paper Collective Action_final.docx" gelöscht von Michael Bruentrup/DIE]

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