COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

Being a facilitator of good practices, Brazil Africa Institute is always seeking to promote international cooperation and engagement between Brazil, African continent and third regions. Finding partners to boost international cooperation and innovative rural development solutions is a key. Identifying potential for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing is our goal, contributing to reducing poverty in rural areas.

HOW IT WORKS

Communities of Practice are a type of learning in which organized groups of people with a common interest, problem or technique share knowledge and learn from each other.

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COMMUNITY

IBRAF’s CoPs works by matching demand and supply, selecting solutions owners and identifying their possible replicators in an International Cooperation perspective.

ONGOING COMMUNITIES

RURAL

Youth Empowerment

Empowering young people is one of the urgent measures to be taken to eradicate global poverty. Especially in rural areas, the lack of opportunities for young professionals means that, day after day, they leave their homes in search of work. Youth need to be provided with education and training to be able to be transformative agents in combating social vulnerability.

RURAL

Gender Equality

If in developed urban centers there are already few opportunities for education and work for women and people who do not identify with gender standards, in rural areas the situation is even more worrying. It is urgent to adopt measures that promote gender equality, making room for the inclusion and diversification of roles in agricultural activities.

RURAL

Climate Change

There is no doubt left, if we do not act now the environmental damage caused by the unrestrained exploitation of natural resources will soon become irreversible. Replicating solutions that protect the environment is imperative for protecting rural communities, for ensuring food security and for transforming the scenario of an approaching global catastrophe.

RURAL SOLUTIONS PORTAL

IBRAF partners with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to strengthen the Rural Solutions Portal and IFAD's IT tracking systems to increase the uptake of rural development solutions.

The Rural Solutions Portal is a web-based knowledge-sharing platform that collects rural development solutions. These are innovations, technologies, processes and methodologies for the rural world. It is a platform available for anyone interested to consult.

GO TO RURAL SOLUTIONS PORTAL

Under the partnership, IBRAF is working to identify new solutions for IFAD’s platform coming from Latin America and the Caribbean and also matching them with organizations which can be replicators within the African continent.

ASA - Articulação do Semi-árido

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Brazil

Sustainable and decentralized infrastructure to adapt and resist to climate change

Flor de Tierra

El Salvador – Rural Territorial Competitiveness Programme – 2013

Guatemala

Rural Youth entrepreneurship generating for more sustainable food production

Red Nacional de Jóvenes Rurales

Costa Rica

Community based capacity building to power up rural youth entrepreneurship