Alice Van der Elstraeten
| Organization | FAO |
|---|---|
| Organization type | International Organization |
| Organization role |
Knowledge and Information Management Specialist
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| Country | Panama |
| Area of Expertise |
knowledge management, communication for development, project management, gender
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Alice Van der Elstraeten is Information Management Specialist and part of the e-Agriculture Team at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO). She joined FAO in 2012 as a Knowledge Management Officer in Niger after having worked as a communication for development specialist for several organizations in the Great Lakes Region. She has been working on e-Agriculture for several years and focuses specifically on capitalization of experiences and capacity development activities for the Community of Practice. Based in Panama, she is the e-Agriculture and AGORA focal point for Central America.
This member participated in the following Forums
Forum Communication for Development, community media and ICTs for family farming and rural development
Question 1 (opens 22 September)
Thank you for your post.
Could you tell us a bit more about the participatory methodology that your project uses?
Thank you for you reflection and your question to the forum participants.
Can you share with us the link to the study you are refering to? It sounds interesting!
Thank you for sharing this interesting success story with us. I quote from the page :
"To facilitate community participation communities are organised around Radio Listening Clubs(RLCs) and equipped with radio sets, voice recorders and mobile phones. Through RLCs, communities listen to radio programmes,record their perspectives and text or phone in to live radio programmes of agricultural interest. Communities can suggest, using mobile phones, topics for discussion on the radio station . RLCs can also access, using a text messaging facility, the Zambia National Farmers’ Uunion trade information/agro market platform on commodity prices."
Have you been ivolved in the implementation of this project? If so could you tell us a bit more about how these RLCs function? And do you have some concrete examples on how these discussions helped the farmers in their daily activities?
Interesting point Marina. Simultaneous to this forum, in the framework of its ARDYIS project, the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), in collaboration with the African Youth Foundation (AYF) is organising an e-debate on “Youth sustaining family farming through ICTs”. We will try to share some of the findings of this forum throughout our discussions here.
Welcome to everyone who will be joining us over the next two weeks to share experiences, challenges, sollutions and insights on communication for development, community media and ICTs for family farming and rural development.
Welcome to our panel of subject matter experts, who will guide us through the discussion and also share their experiences with us.
My name is Alice and I will be facilitating this forum. You can reach me by private message, e-mail ([email protected]) or phone: +39 06 5705 4012.
If you have technical questions about the forum (how to log-in, how to post comments,...) please write us at [email protected] and we will help you!