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 Ueli Scheuermeier
Agridea
Assistant facilitator during July 05 workshop in Switzerland
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My working situation:
Since 15 years I work as a freelancer on
rural development and organizational matters, mainly focussing on
innovation processes. Most of my work in and for developing countries I
undertake within the framework of the LBL-team.
In the last several years I have been increasingly engaged in
enterpreneurial ventures in partnership with rural enterpreneurs in
Third World countries.
My challenge for the workshop:
I have three functions in the workshop,
that I need to clearly hold apart in order to maybe combine them in
useful ways:
a) I am the assistant facilitator to Ernst Bolliger. So I have to help
keep the process of the workshop under way.
b) I am the online-facilitator of the platform and synthesizer of the
theses. So I have to be a resource person about the process of the
debate up to the workshop.
c) I am also engaged in various concrete SDRA-type efforts like many
other
participants too.
My contribution:
My contribution of course will be the facilitation and resource person.
With regard to content, I will not be able to provide my own cases
because of my other duties during the workshop. But in informal
discussions or in emerging situations I might contribute on the
sidelines. For the other participants to know what the two situations
are that I will be thinking about, I refer to them here:
a) I am in close partnership with Mark Farahani on the ventures he is
operating in Kilosa in Tanzania. I leave it to him to take care of the
learning that can be achieved with that venture in the workshop.
b) I'm working with a small Lao solar
company on making rural craftsmen/women capable of installing and
servicing reliable equipment in their areas, and run a small enterprise
doing that. These SE are serviced by the company with which they have a
franchise agreement. It will be interesting to see how this entirely
commercial effort will fit with donor-designed efforts in SDRA.
My topical interests:
Due to my facilitator role, I have no
topical priorities.
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