Using the methods designers use as aids to thinking the case of public-private partnerships in sustainable agricultural value chain development

In this paper, we share our experience of developing and executing a user centered design workshop for an interdisciplinary team of policy makers, planners, funders and implementers of public private partnerships (PPPs) for programs on sustainable agricultural value chain development. For an audience who will neither practice the design profession nor tend to apply the user centered design process in their day to day work, what can we offer as the essential takeaways from a day spent immersed in the human centered design experience?