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PARM is set up to facilitate access to and exchange of knowledge, as well as its generation, in the domain of agricultural risk management (ARM).
PARM’s mandate is to strengthen agricultural risk management through knowledge sharing and capacity-building activities to improve the human capital of all the stakeholders that can contribute to a better agricultural risk management system, in particular, vulnerable rural households.
In order to achieve the objective of mainstreaming agricultural risk management into policy frameworks and private sector practices, the PARM Secretariat collaborates with different partners to implement the four phases of the PARM process.
- Assessing and prioritizing agricultural risks across value chains
- Identifying the most appropriate ARM tools and designing investment programmes/projects for implementation
- Learning on ARM
- Sharing knowledge and experiences
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PARM provides technical support to its partners by systematically and holistically assessing and prioritizing agricultural risks. This gender-responsive approach involves quantifying and measuring the impact of various risks simultaneously, and identifying the most appropriate tools to manage the prioritized risks. This methodology can be applied to the agricultural sector as a whole or to specific value chains.
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PARM works in close collaboration with its partners to identify the necessary and appropriate tools to address the most pressing risks prioritized during the assessment phase. These tools are then translated into bankable, gender-transformative investment projects with PARM’s support. Additionally, PARM provides resource mobilization and implementation support.
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PARM facilitates joint gender-responsive learning cycles targeting key stakeholders to strengthen local expertise and enhance institutional capacities to manage agricultural risks. PARM’s capacity development process is built around 3 phases:
- A participatory learning session to build capacity and raise awareness about agricultural risk management (Capacity Development 1)
- A training of trainers on risks, risk assessment, and ARM tools and strategies (Capacity Development 2)
- The institutionalization of ARM into university curricula and private sector practices (Capacity Development 3)
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PARM plays a unique role as a knowledge broker among the global and local communities of practice by facilitating the generation, access, exchange of knowledge and stimulating partnerships on ARM.
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The pillars of PARM process
Technical clusters
The PARM process is built on technical, capacity development, knowledge management, partnership, and gender-sensitive components. The PARM team renders technical support in the form of risk assessment studies and feasibility studies. The risk assessment studies draw on a holistic methodology to assess risk within the agricultural sector or across a specific value chain context. The holistic approach is particularly important to allow the partner countries to understand and deal with risk in an interconnected manner. With the analytics generated from the risk assessment studies and feasibility studies, PARM provides support to government in the design of projects and programmes on ARM.
As a knowledge broker and facilitator on ARM, PARM has a strong Knowledge Management (KM) component focusing on the generation of relevant knowledge products and dissemination of findings from technical studies. PARM also facilitate learning and experience sharing between and among partners at the county, regional, and global level. It uses Capacity Development (CD) activities to complements KM activities to empower farmers, governments, and stakeholders to manage agricultural risks and develop effective strategies and tools. For each country, capacity development actions are implemented at every phase of the PARM process, in accordance with local needs.
Partnership
Strengthening partnerships with key stakeholders is crucial to trickle down ARM knowledge and capacity from governments and other partners to the grassroots farmer level. In all its operations, PARM establishes collaborative partnerships with universities, research centers, specialized consulting institutions, donors, government agencies, and private sector entities at country, regional, and global levels to ensure the application of highly specialized technical services and cross-capitalization of knowledge on ARM.
Gender
PARM’s technical support to partner countries fosters the integration of gender into ARM approaches to move away from a culture of disproportionate impacts of risks on women to a focus on building resilience and strengthening women’s active role in ARM. PARM consciously examines the commitments, capacities, and efforts partners make towards advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment to identify allies for achieving gender-responsive ARM at each phase and components of the PARM process – risk assessment studies, knowledge activities, capacity development, and partnership building. Where gaps are identified, PARM can offer support to enhance comprehension of gender and suggest routes for strengthening its integration.
