s:2382:"%T Local innovation in NRM: beyond technologies to institutional arrangements in Lake Kivu Pilot Learning Site 
%A Tukahirwa, J.M.B. 
%A Tenwya, M.M. 
%A Fungo, B.J.M. 
%A Kuule, M. 
%A Kamugisha, R.N. 
%X Past Agricultural Research and development reductionist approaches have hardly paid attention to indigenous knowledge resulting in limited impacts. The IAR4D approach  values the various bodies of knowledge in the Sub Sahara Africa and harnessing local innovations as desirable in enriching the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. Within IAR4D contexts local innovation in Natural Resources Management (NRM) presents context specific home-grown copping mechanisms for smaller holder farmers amidst threatening erratic shocks and uncertainties associated with land degradation. Local innovations have potential to transform lives and landscapes. The rationale is local innovation in NRM offers potential contexts for value addition from science for more effective performance of secure livelihoods for the impoverished marginalized rural farming communities for lesson learning and replication.  In the Lake Kivu Pilot Learning Site there are several promising local innovations in NRM including adaptation technologies and institutional arrangements.  However most of these require thorough scrutiny to isolate pillars of their success as well as opportunities for improvement. Lessons learnt under Phase1 of SSA-CP provide insights to four fundamental questions: What catalyzed the innovation? What ingredients made innovation successful and how can these be built upon? What are the critical gaps and bottlenecks? The paper examines how smallholder farmers capitalize on opportunities within their means to innovate giving special attention to articulate the role of triggers capacity building and local level multistakeholder platforms.   Champions collective action facilitation fostered learning enabling policy environment and strong institutions emerge as critical ingredient of success. Gaps include capacity in building partnerships and negotiating support and private sector participation and NR governance including bye law formulation review and enforcement. The insights gained through analysis of  case studies  make it possible to capitalize on  gaps to  draw  lessons for innovation platform formation and functioning in Lake Kivu Pilot Learning Site. 
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