Post-Harvest Innovation Learning Alliance (PHILA)

Information briefs

Post-Harvest Innovation Learning Alliance (PHILA) flyer for Tanzania. PDF-478 KB

Post-Harvest Innovation Learning Alliance (PHILA) flyer for Zimbabwe. PDF-451KB

Doing things differently: Technical and institutional options for Post-Harvest Innovation. Poster presented at the DFID/CPHP workshop, Knowledge is the Key to the Future: Improving the productivity of Smallholder Farmers in Southern Africa. Held in Harare, 27-29 September, 2005. PDF-1417 KB

Workshop Reports

Report of the PHILA inception workshop held from the 15th to the 17th March 2005, at Sokoine Agricultural University, Morogoro, Tanzania. PDF-1581 KB

Report of the PHILA inception workshop held from the 10th to the 12th May 2005, at the Institute of Agricultural Engineering Training Centre, Hatcliffe, Harare, Zimbabwe. PDF-830 KB

Report of the PHILA review workshop held from the 23rd to the 25th November 2005, at the Muslim University of Morogoro, Morogoro, Tanzania. PDF-968 KB

Report of the PHILA review workshop held on the 13th and 14th December, 2005, at the Mandel Training Centre, Marlborough, Harare, Zimbabwe. PDF-1024 KB

Innovation Africa Symposium, Uganda, November 2006

MVUMI B. M., MORRIS M. J., STATHERS T. E., and RIWA W. H. (2006) Doing things differently: Post-Harvest Innovation Learning Alliances in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Presentation format as given at the Innovation Africa Symposium, Kampala, Uganda, 20-23 November, 2006, available here: MS-PPT 137KB. A copy of the associated paper, which is still under development, is accessible to PHILA members, here.

Learning Alliance Symposium Paper, Netherlands, June 2005

MORRIS M. J., MVUMI B. M., RIWA W. H. and STATHERS T. E. (2005) Post-harvest innovation to improve food security in Tanzania and Zimbabwe: Learning alliance lessons, p69-78 In Smits, S., Fonseca, C. and Pels, J. (eds.) Proceedings of Symposium on Learning Alliances for scaling up innovative approaches in the water and sanitation sector. Delft, the Netherlands. 7-9 June 2005. IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. MS-Word 143 KB. Also published on the IRC website: www.irc.nl/la

Annexes to the paper, Post-harvest innovation to improve food security in Tanzania and Zimbabwe: Learning alliance lessons: Annex 1. Timeline of key events associated with DE Laerning Alliance; Annex 2. Original project partners, their roles and changes. MS-Word 110 KB

'Project' Reports

PHILA was originally conceived as a vehicle to explore the institutional learning and change components of the project, Post-harvest innovation: enhancing performance at the interface of supply and utilisation. The Project Final Report, as submitted to the Crop Post Harvest Programme of the Department for International Development, 31st January 2006, is available here: MS-Word 2071 KB