PBA Foundation
The PBA Foundation is a
non-profit and non-governmental organization that seeks to improve the standards of living, increase the quality of life and overcome the poverty conditions of small rural producers. To achieve this, it promotes and accompanies participatory innovation processes -in areas such as the technological, organizational, business, and empowerment- that tend towards the pacific and sustainable development of rural territories and the conservation of the environment. PBA’s work is based on the participation and leadership of the members of rural communities, considering that they are the ones that can and must achieve the economic and social development of their territories.
Methodology
From the learning obtained during all these years, the PBA Foundation has built, systematized and developed a methodological approach, named as Participatory Rural Innovation (IRP for its acronyms in Spanish). It seeks the empowerment and development of social, technical, productive and business capacities of small family producers. It consists of three stages and four specific methods for the same number of rural dimensions:
Stage I: Communities building their innovation route.
Stage II: Communities in consolidation and growth.
Stage III: Communities influencing territorial development.
Likewise, in Stage III the PBA Foundation has developed methodologies and manuals to work in Programs of Integral Rural Development with Territorial Approach (PDRIET, for its acronyms in Spanish) and in Territorial Systems of Innovation (STI, its acronyms in Spanish).
Methods:
Organizational Development for Innovation (DOI, for its acronyms in Spanish)
Empowerment of Small Rural Producers (EPPR, for its acronyms in Spanish)
Participatory Technological Improvement (MTP, for its acronyms in Spanish)
Participatory Rural Entrepreneurship (EPR, for its acronyms in Spanish)