KariaNet: Knowledge Access for Rural Interconnected People: A Regional Knowledge Network for the Near East and North Africa was founded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in 2005 to enhance the effectiveness of development projects and programs that serve the rural poor. KariaNet is in its second phase, with a primary focus on sharing knowledge and innovation to enable rural and agricultural development practitioners to improve the performance of projects across the region. Central to phase two is planning for the longer term sustainability of KariaNet. The “KariaNet Devolution Study” has had as its starting premises that
a) KariaNet would no longer be hosted throughthe MENA regional office of IDRC after2013, and
b) that financial support from the founding partners would no longer be provided. The Study was therefore designed to:
Secure evidence and consent for the future of KariaNet among the key stakeholders and participants in
KariaNet, and Ensure that the knowledge and capacities that have been fostered by KariaNet have mechanisms for continuing to be developed in future, regardless of whether KariaNet itself,as currently constituted, continues.
