Wageningen International - Programme for Capacity Development and Institutional Change (CD&IC) has become part of a new Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation. The Centre is located within the Social Sciences Group of Wageningen University and Research Centre.
In October 2009, the staff and project portfolio of CD&IC merged into the new Centre and are now operating as the Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation (CDI). The official launch of the Centre will take place at the end of January 2010, when its new web site will also come on line.
The Director of the new Centre is Jim Woodhill and the Deputy Director is Wouter Leen Hijweege.
Wageningen International Front Office will continue separately as Wageningen International. It will maintain its function of enabling international partners and clients to gain easy access to all the research, education and capacity development activities of Wageningen UR and Van Hall Larenstein.
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Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation
- Creating Capacities for Change -
Wageningen UR’s Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) works to create capacities for change. It facilitates innovation, brokers knowledge and develops capacities with a focus on food systems, rural development, agri-business and natural resource management. The Centre links Wageningen UR’s knowledge and expertise with processes of society-wide learning and innovation.
In the search for solutions to poverty, hunger, climate change and environmental degradation, ‘business as usual’ is not an option. A sustainable and equitable future demands markets with a triple bottom line that balance the needs of People, Planet and Profit. Linking technological and institutional innovation becomes critical. Such innovation calls for citizens, governments, businesses, NGOs and the scientific community to work together in new ways. In an increasingly complex world, ‘development innovation’ means being strategic and creative in tackling these challenges of development.
The Centre for Development Innovation operates with a core staff of 50 and in close collaboration with researchers across Wageningen UR. This expertise is applied to a diverse portfolio of over 200 projects annually, involving partners and clients in more than 60 countries. Building on Wageningen UR’s long history of international work, the Centre engages actively in global networks of organisations and professionals working on sustainable development. |
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