🧩  In this reflection, Klaas Grimmelmann, co-speaker of the Policy for Rural Development Working Group within SNRD Africa, shares his perspective on what it takes to turn ideas into practice.

He explains why:

🧩 Partnerships must reach beyond like-minded actors
🧩 Communities themselves need to define what resilience means for them
🧩 Policies should grow from what already works on the ground rather than from ideal governance models.

Klaas reminds us that resilience is built through learning, sharing knowledge, and grounding policy in lived experience — not by drafting perfect plans in isolation.

🎙️ Recorded at the SNRD Africa Conference 2025

YouTube chapters in the video:

00:00 Introduction: Broader partnerships for resilience
00:35 Developing a shared long-term vision
01:20 How communities define their own goals
02:05 Learning from past knowledge and sharing it
02:40 What policymakers can learn from the ground
03:25 Working with reality and political economy

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