JOLISAA Structure

The strategy of the JOLISAA project relies on five interlinked thematic Work Packages (Fig. 1, Table 1.2a):

• WP1  and WP2  deal with an inventory and critical assessment of literature and experiences, the development of an operational, conceptually well-rooted approach to assessing innovation experiences, and a comparative analysis of carefully selected and diverse case studies;
• WP3  deals with strengthening the capacities of diverse stakeholders in assessing their own experiences and in facilitating multistakeholder innovation processes;
• WP4  deals with dissemination and wider learning through sharing, exchange and networking at local, national and international level;
• These four WPs feed into WP 5 , which focuses on delivering recommendations to the European Commission (EC) and to the African and international community at large for future research, practice and policy, by synthesising and validating lessons learnt in the other four WPs.

Figure 1: Global interactions among thematic WPs

Notes : WP titles are simplified (see complete title in Table 1.2.a); Double-arrows indicate an iterative process, whereas simple arrows indicate an output. The feedback from WP5 to WP4 indicates that WP5 products will be duly shared & disseminated. WP6 (Management & Coordination) has not been drawn, it interacts with all thematic WPs

Interdependent WPs reflect the fact that real-life multistakeholder innovation processes are highly iterative. Concretely, this means that the outputs of a task developed in one WP will frequently be used as inputs for a task in another WP, and vice versa. It also means that key events and activities conducted during the project lifetime will be multipurpose by design, i.e. they will contribute to achieving simultaneously objectives, milestones and/or deliverables of several WPs (Figure 2). The effectiveness of this structure will derive from the fact that key individuals in the different partner institutions will contribute to several WPs, ensuring backward and forward linkages between activities.